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luoaday, Alov. 2. ... 9h. 57m. 10h. 17ra.A Fink ok~£325.— At the Swords Petty Sessions, held on Satuulay, before Messrs. Richard Mandcrs, Francis Cusack, and John H. Byrne, a dairymau from Dublin, named James Brennan, appeared in answer to a summons issued at the suit of the constabulary, charging him with having, on the 20th ult, removed 65 head of cattle from a farm at Cioghran which had been declared by the local sanitary, authority to lie infected with pleuro pneumonia without a licence, contrary to an Order in Council made under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act. Constable James Johnson deposed that in consequence of the disease breaking out on the farm on the 27th ult., it was declared an infected place, and subsequently several animals, the property of the defendant, whicli were grazing there, were taken ill, and liad to be slaughtered. Witness believed that the defendant committed the offcnuo through ignorance of the law. The accused who committed the offence, in reply to the Bench, said that no fresh case of the disease had appeared in his stock since ho removed them from the infected farm. The Chairman (Mr. Mandcrs) to the defendant- You are liable to lie fined in £325, which would Is* £6 for each animal removed, hut as the Bcuch think that would lie too heavy they will reduce it to £2. The Defendant
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Belfast Morning News
Belfast, Ulster, GB
Tue, Nov 02, 1880
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