owner for any expense, loss, or damage which
he can prove to have sustained in consequence
of such unlawful act or omission; provided
that such sum shall not in any case exceed the
sum of £50. Provided always that nothing in
this Ordinance shall be construed to limit or
deprive any person suffering any such loss or
damage, of any remedy which he might have
had at law or otherwise for recovering the
same if this Ordinance had not been passed.

23. Every sheep and lamb on board any ship,
    boat, or other vessel, in which there shall be
    one sheep or lamb infected with the disease
    called "Scab," shall be deemed to be infected
    within the meaning of this Ordinance. And
    every sheep and lamb on board any ship, boat,
    or other vessel, in which there shall have been
    at any time within three months previously one
    sheep or lamb infected with the disease called
    "Catarrh," shall be deemed to be infected
    within the meaning of this Ordinance.

24. All fines, penalties, and damages imposed
    or awarded under the authority of this Ordinance, shall be recoverable in a summary way,
    at the suit of any private interested party, or at
    the instance of the Public Prosecutor for the
    Province of Otago, and shall be paid into the
    Public Treasury of the Province, except when
    damages are awarded for any injury done to
    any private party, in which case the damages
    awarded shall be paid to such private party.

25. In the interpretation of this Ordinance,
    the words "owner of any sheep or lambs,"
    shall be taken to be the person having the
    charge, control, or management of such sheep
    or lambs, whether or not such person be the
    owner of said flocks.

W. CARGILL, Superintendent.

Passed the Provincial Council this
twenty-fourth, and assented to
by His Honor the Superintendent
this twenty-fifth, days of April, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Clerk of Council.

SCHEDULE A.

| Name of Owner | Name of | No. of | Sheep | Date | No. Dip-
| or Manager | Station | Sheep be- | belonging | of | ped or
| of Flock. | or Run. | longing to | to Run or | Shear- | Dressed.
| | | Run. | Dipped. | ing. |

We certify that this is a true return; and we fur-
ther certify that the flock is (clean or is infected
with Scab.)

(Signed) { A. B., Shepherd to C. D.
G. H., Owner or Manager.

(Date of Returns.)

SCHEDULE B.

LIST of RETURNS made to Superintendent of Flocks
Dipped or Dressed, in terms of the Ordinance.

| Name of Station | Name of Owner | State of Flock.
| or Run. | or Manager of |
| | Flock. |

| Tata | J. D. | Clean.
| Toto | C. M. | Infected.

... Superintendent.

SCHEDULE C.

WARRANT FOR INSPECTING SHEEP.

Province of Otago, }
New Zealand. } To .................. and all
others whom it may concern.

Whereas it appears to me A. B., one of the Justices
of the Peace for the said Province, by the information
upon oath of ........................................
in the said Province,
that certain sheep or lambs are (depastured upon
land situated ..............................................
in the occupation of ..........................................
in the said Province),
(on board of the vessel ....................................
, Commander, now lying in ................
.................., in the said Province,) and that the said
hath cause to suspect, and doth suspect: that the said
sheep or lambs, or some of them, are infected with the
disease called .............................. These are, therefore, in
pursuance of the provisions of an Ordinance passed by
the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the said
Province, Session I., No. 11, 1854, entitled "An Ordinance
to prevent the spread of the diseases called the Scab and
Catarrh in Sheep or Lambs;" to authorise and require
you to enter upon the said land or vessel and carefully
to inspect the said sheep or lambs; and that you do
immediately upon such inspection report in writing to
me whether the said sheep or lambs or any of them are
infected with the said disease; and also (whether there
be any danger lest such sheep or lambs being suffered
to run at large should cause damage to the owners of
any sheep or lambs depastured in the neighbourhood
thereof) where such sheep and lambs can most conveniently
be landed without danger of infection to or from other
flocks, and also that precautions should be taken thereagainst.)
And I hereby require all persons having or being concerned
in the charge, control, or management of the said suspected
sheep or lambs, to aid and assist you in making such
inspection according to the provisions of the above recited
Ordinance in that behalf made.

Given under my hand at .................... in the
said Province this ........... day of ........... 185_.

SCHEDULE D.

REPORT BY INSPECTOR.

Province of Otago, } To ................................ and
New Zealand. } all others whom it may concern.

Having at the desire of ....................................
(master, owner, or supercargo) of the vessel called
.................................., now lying in .....................
carefully inspected the sheep, or lambs, ..................
number, on board of the said ..................................
I, A. B., Inspector duly authorised, do
hereby in pursuance of the Ordinance passed
(&c., as in preceding examples), certify and report
that said sheep and lambs are infected with the
disease called ........................; that .................
is the most convenient and proper place for landing
the said sheep or lambs; that the route by which they
should proceed thereto, so as to avoid the risk of
infecting other flocks, is (here describe); and that
(here state any precautions that should be taken, or
any circumstances which it is proper the Magistrate
should know before granting warrant to land the
sheep.)

Given under my hand at .................... in the
said Province, this ........... day of .............
185_.

SCHEDULE E.

WARRANT FOR REMOVING SHEEP.

Province of Otago, }
New Zealand. } To .................................. and all
others whom it may concern.

Whereas we, A. B. and C. D., Justices of the
Peace for the said Province, have this day convicted
E. F. (or G. H., shepherd of E. F.,) of having conducted
(driven, depastured, or permitted to stray,
or as the case may be) certain sheep (or lambs)
infected with the disease called .................., contrary
to the provisions of the Ordinance passed (&c., as in schedule
B.) And whereas it has been made to appear to our satisfaction
that it is necessary to remove the said
sheep (or lambs) to .....................................
in the district of ........................ in the said Province,