1348 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 25, 1907.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 702.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
19th September, 1907.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of an Order made by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries who are initiating measures for securing the eradication from Great Britain of the disease of glanders in horses.
2. I have to call your attention to Article 2 of the Order, which prohibits as from the 1st of January next, the landing in Great Britain of any horse, ass, or mule from any other country except Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, unless accompanied by a Certificate of a Veterinary Surgeon that the animal shows no symptoms of glanders or farcy. This provision is designed to guard against the introduction of the disease into Great Britain through the agency of horses or other animals imported from abroad.
3. The Board think it important that the requirement of this article should be made widely known to all concerned, and with a view to facilitate its publication they have pre- pared a Notice, copies of which are enclosed, calling particular attention to it.
4. I have accordingly to request that you will give such publicity to the Örder and Notice as may be desirable.
The Officer Administering the Government of
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HONGKONG.
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DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, 1894 to 1903.
NOTICE.
IMPORTATION OF HORSES, ASSES, AND MULES INTO GREAT BRITAIN.
The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries desire to call the attention of all concerned to the following provision contained in Article 2 of the Glanders or Farcy Order of 1907, which comes into force on the 1st January, 1908 :-
No horse, ass, or mule, brought to Great Britain from any other country, except Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, shall be landed in Great Britain unless it is accompanied by a certificate of a veterinary surgeon to the effect that he examined the animal immediately before it was embarked or whilst it was on board the vessel, as the case may be, and that he found that the animal did not show symptoms of glanders or farey.
The Order further enacts that if any horse, ass, or mule is landed in contravention of the Order, the owner thereof, and the owner and the lessee and the occupier of the place of landing where such animal is landed, and also the owner and the charterer and the master of the vessel from which the same is landed, shall, each according to and in respect of his own acts and defaults, be deemed guilty of an offence against the Act of 1894, and renders him- self liable to a penalty of £20.
T. H. ELLIOTT, Secretary.
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES,
4, WHITEHALL PLACE,
LONDON, S.W.
2nd September, 1907.
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