| Description | Return of animals affected with pleuro-pneumonia and slaughtered under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878. Besides the name and address of the owner of the animal, the description of the animal and where it was slaughtered, it includes the value of the animal, the witness to the slaughtering, and the compensation paid. Includes the animals of:
- George Hagley of Long Street, Thirsk, owner of a bullock slaughtered at Cowton's Yard, Thirsk, on 1 November 1881. Hagley was convicted and fined for moving the animal to a sale yard whilst it was suffering from disease, and the Local Authority refused to grant compensation |