§ COLONEL LEIGHasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether power may be given to commanding officers of cavalry regiments to order, on their own responsibility, the immediate sale of dangerously vicious troop horses; or, should that not be considered advisable, to give directions to inspecting officers to cast every horse reported to them as dangerously vicious?
§ MR. STANLEY, in reply, said, it was held to be unnecessary to give to commanding officers power on their own responsibility to order the immediate sale of dangerously vicious horses. Under the Queens Regulations commanding officers could apply to the War Office on the subject through the proper channel, and, on the approval of the Secretary of State, such horses could be sold. It was not thought expedient to alter the existing system.