Scab in Sheep Act 1854 (SA)

No. 17.

An Act to enlarge the time within which Sheep infected with the &ab

may be destroyed. &*M h- da

[Assented to, December 15, 1854.1

HEREAS, by an Act passed in the sixteenth year of the Reign "mble

'VV of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act to prevent the extension

of the Scab in Sheep in South Australia, and to make provision for

the destruction of Sheep infected with that disorder," it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Inspedtor, after the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, to enter upon any land, and to seize and cause to be destroyed sheep found there infected with the disease called the scab, and the said time hath been subsequently enlarged until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive: Andwhereas it is expedient to make provision for enabling persons whc map b e the owners of sheep infected with the disease called the scafi, and who may have failed to clean the same before _c

such last-mentioneLday, to obtain turther 'time for cleaning 8%

s h e p upon the terms and-conditions hereinafter set forth-EX€

thzTore Enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia,

with the advice and conxent of the Legislative Council of the same,

as follows:

1. I t shall be lawful for any person possessed of shcep infccted Per8omh~v%scabb sheep rna have two

with the said disease called the scab to give notice, on or before the periob Jaix

said first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and to UPOR clean giving the same, notice

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also on orb* the first day of September, one thousand eight hun-

and par'g 9 d and

dred and fifty-five, to any Inspector appointed under the said Act, of 6d. Per edgd.

the number and description of such sheep, and of his intention to

clean the same within six calendar months from either of such days

respectively, and, at the same time, to pay to the said Inspector a sum

a2 equal

equal to Ninepence for each and every one of the sheep described in euch notice, if the game shall be depastured or running upon any Waste Commonable '1,ands within any Hundred, and the sum of Six- pence for each and every of such sheep running or depastured upon any other lands; and, upon receiving such notice and payment, it shpll not be lawful for any Inspector as aforesaid to seize and cause to be destroyed any sheep described in any such notice, and in respect of which such payment shall have been made for the period

of six calendar m o n t h s e r s u c h first day of ~ a r c h, a i % t - f l a ~

of Sepzmber, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive, as the case

may be.

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W d e: Printed by authority, by W. C. Cox, Government Printer, Viotorir-~q-