HC Deb 15 March 1866 vol 182 cc283-4
ADMIRAL DUNCOMBE

said, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he proposes to introduce a clause into the Cattle Plague Bill, enabling lean cattle to be sold and removed from farms on or about Lady Day, especially when there is a change of tenancy?

SIR GEORGE GREY

said, it was quite necessary that the Privy Council in making new Orders should include in them provisions applicable to this subject. But when the hon. and gallant Member spoke of the next quarter day, he doubted whether it would be possible to issue Orders for the whole country in time for so early a day. Until the existing Orders were superseded by a general Order the Courts of Quarter Sessions might make provisions for changes of tenancy.