DR. FARQUHARSONI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture who, under the Pleuro-pneumonia Bill, will be responsible for making and issuing regulations for the movement of cattle throughout the Kingdom; and whether the various Local Authorities will undertake this duty, as formerly, or whether the Board of Agriculture will issue and enforce General Rules to be applied to all parts of the country?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. CHAPLIN, Lincolnshire, SleafordThe ultimate responsibility for making and issuing regulations for the movement of cattle will rest with the Board of Agriculture, as it formerly did with the Privy Council before the -Board was established. How that responsibility will be exercised in all cases it is at the present time impossible to say. It will depend to a great extent upon the prevalence of the disease in the different districts; but I may say that it will always be the object of the Board to act in harmony with, and with the co-operation of, the Local Authorities throughout Great Britain, who will, no doubt, usually carry out the regulations as heretofore.