§ MR. GRAYasked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Whether, under Clauses 27 and 32 of the "Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878," the Privy Council have power to make regulations with regard to animals "while in transit or in course of being moved by land or by water," which will secure uniformity, and prevent the prohibition of the sale in public markets of fat animals from healthy areas, by local authorities, for the purpose of enhancing the price of meat in their districts?
§ MR. DODSON, in reply, said, the Privy Council had made Orders for regulating the treatment of animals in transit under certain sections of the Contagious Diseases Act. These Orders secured uniform action. Local Authorities had no power to prohibit the sale of fat or store animals, except within five miles of an infected place.