relates to the Province of Otago, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

2. Every flockowner or other person having the care and management of sheep, shall, once in every year, within two calendar months after shearing, properly dip or dress the whole flock of sheep belonging to him, or under his charge, in or with the proper ingredients commonly used for preventing the disease called the "Scab;" and every flock of sheep not so properly dipped or dressed within two calendar months after being shorn as aforesaid, shall be deemed and held to be an infected flock within the meaning of this Ordinance, until every sheep or lamb therein be dipped or dressed as manner aforesaid; and every such Flockowner or other person aforesaid, shall be liable in a penalty of one shilling for each sheep in his flock not so dipped or dressed within two calendar months after being shorn as aforesaid; and to a further penalty of five shillings for each sheep in his flock not so dipped or dressed within three calendar months after being shorn as aforesaid.

3. Every Flockowner, or person having the care and management of sheep, shall, once in every year, within three calendar months after their being shorn, make a Return to the Superintendent of the Province, signed by the chief shepherd, and by all other shepherds on the Run, and also by the owner or manager of the flock, in the form of Schedule A to this Ordinance annexed; and every person neglecting to make said return within the time above specified, and every person who makes or signs a false Return, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of not less than £5, nor more than £20; and the flock shall be held to be an infected flock till such Return be made as aforesaid.

4. The Superintendent shall, in the month of May each year, publish in the Government Gazette, a list of such Returns, in the form of Schedule B hereto annexed.

5. Every flock of sheep and lambs in which there is one sheep or lamb affected with "Scab" in every 100 sheep and lambs in the flock, shall be deemed and held to be an infected flock within the meaning of this Ordinance.

6. Every flock having one sheep or lamb therein infected with the disease called "Catarrh," shall be held to be an infected flock, and shall continue to be so held for three months after the disease shall have disappeared from the flock.

7. The owner or manager of every infected flock shall give, or cause to be given, to the owner or manager of every adjoining Run notice in writing of such infection; and where any public road or common thoroughfare shall pass through any Run, upon which sheep or lambs so infected are depastured, the owner or manager of such flock shall place, or cause to be placed, and shall maintain during the existence of such infection, a Notice thereof in legible characters, and in a conspicuous place, upon a piece of wood or metal raised upon a pole at least five feet from the ground, upon said public road or common thoroughfare at the two points where it enters the Run, under a penalty of not less than £10, nor more than £40, for each neglect of such notice or notices.

8. Every flock of sheep or lambs infected with either of the diseases called "Scab" or "Catarrh," shall be carefully herded, and not allowed to remove off the Run belonging to their owner, nor within four hundred yards of any public road or highway passing through such Run, under a penalty of not more than 5s. to be paid by the owner for every sheep or lamb, either themselves infected or belonging to an infected flock, so allowed to remove off the said run, or within four hundred yards of any road or highway as aforesaid. Every person on whose Run such sheep are found may prosecute for this penalty as well as the Public Prosecutor.

9. When any flock is thoroughly cleaned after having been infected with "Scab," the owner or manager thereof shall cause it to be inspected by one or more of the Inspectors hereinafter mentioned, or by three of the managers or chief shepherds of the adjoining Runs; and on a certificate being given by such Inspector or Inspectors, Managers, or Shepherds, as the case may be, of the flock being clean, a copy of such certificate shall be sent by the owner or manager of such flock to one of the shepherds on each of the adjoining Runs, and the Notice on the public roads shall be removed. Provided always that the flock of sheep and lambs to which any such certificate as aforesaid shall relate, shall be again inspected in like manner within not less than two, or later than four, calendar months after the date of the said certificate. And if upon such further inspection it be found that the flock is then infected with the said disease, the same Notices shall be repeated, and the same means taken to procure a certificate of the cleanliness of the flock, which, when obtained, shall be intimated as aforesaid. And every person committing a breach of any part of the aforesaid regulations shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of not less than £10, nor more than £20.

10. Every person about to remove any flock, or part of a flock of sheep, from one Run to another, shall have them inspected either by an Inspector or three indifferent persons skilled in the management of sheep, within six days of their removal; and if they are clean, a certificate to that effect shall be granted by the persons who shall have inspected the same; and sheep about to be removed for the purpose of being slaughtered must be certified by the shepherd under whose care they are that they are clean, and no sheep shall be removed till such certificates are granted, under a penalty of 5s. for each sheep so removed, except when a warrant of removal is obtained, in manner hereinafter mentioned. And he shall give notice in writing to every resident flockowner or manager, or to the chief shepherd on every Run through which he intends to pass with his flock, of the day on which he intends to pass through such Run; and unless he shall pass through such Run within three days after the time specified in such notice, the notice shall be renewed under a penalty of 1s. per head for every sheep or lamb which shall pass through a Run without due notice having been given as aforesaid. And the before-mentioned certificate of cleanliness of the flock shall be produced to every person requiring a sight thereof, under a penalty of £5. Every person granting a false certificate shall be liable in a penalty of £20.

11. Every person producing such certificate, and giving due notice as aforesaid, shall be entitled to pass through any Run with his flock, he always keeping as near as may be to the route prescribed by the lessee or chief shepherd of the Run through which he is passing; and any person in any way attempting to prevent the passage of such flock shall be liable to a penalty of not less than £10, or more than £50.

12. Every person conducting a flock through any Run shall be bound to pass over such Run