Every keeper of a hospital-pound, or person thereto

authorized by the Magistrate of the district

3[or in the cities

of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, the Commissioner of Municipal Corporation] shall have power, within his range, to cause to be cleansed and disinfected, in any manner which he may think proper, any premises in which any animal labouring under any contagious or infectious disease has been or may be, and to cause to be disinfected, and, if necessary destroyed, any fodder, manure or refuse-matter which he may deem likely to propagate the said disease.