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an urgent appeal to the magistrate was subsequently
reduced to £50 and £3 3s. costs.
This man had also been cautioned by the
Inspector on a former occasion.
4. On the 24th April, a dealer in live and
dead cattle, residing at Coate, Devizes, Wiltshire,
was convicted at the Guildhall Justice
Room of sending four quarters of diseased beef
to the Central Markets, and sentenced to three
months' imprisonment with hard labour without
the option of a fine. Defendant had been
previously convicted.
5. On the 19th May, a castrator of Westward
Ho, Devonshire, was summoned at the
Guildhall Justice Room, for sending the carcase,
head, and pluck of a diseased sheep to
the Central Markets, and a previous conviction
for a similar offence having been proved, the
defendant was sentenced to three months'
imprisonment, with hard labour, without the
option of a fine.
6. On the 24th June, a general dealer, of
Bloxham, near Banbury, was summoned at the