§ MR. READsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the intention of the Government to continue, by Order in Council, the slaughtering Clauses of the Cattle Diseases Act of 1866 after the 12th of May, and whether any special exemptions from slaughter of diseased animals would be made for the purposes of testing the effect of chloroform, or any other supposed curative treatment?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, in reply, that it was the intention of the Government to issue an Order in Council extending the period during which those clauses were to remain in force beyond the 12th of May. With regard to the hon. Gentleman's second question, the decision of the Privy Council must await the Report of the Cattle Plague Commission. As the hon. Gentleman himself was a member of that Commission, he must know when the Report was likely to be sent in to the Government.