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not stop to take up cattle, or fresh mi manufactured products of cattle, 

 such as hides, horns, hoofs, unrendered tallow, entrails, or manure, 

 within the infected State. Thus the New York Central may carry western 

 cattle and transfer them to New England by the Boston and Albany or 

 Hoosac Tunnel roads. 



PROVIDE BONDED MARKETS FOR EXPORT AND STORE CATTLE AT 



PORTS OF EXPORT. 



To further protect cattle for export and those intended for store pur- 

 poses at home, it will be necessary to construct, or otherwise secure, at 

 the ports of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, stock-yards suf- 

 ficiently near the termini of the railways to allow of the access of cattle 

 to them without risk of contagion. If possible, lines of rail should be 

 constructed to the yards, so that cattle trains may unload into chutes 

 within or alongside them. In case they must be conveyed from the ter- 

 minus by road it should be by one designated road, where there is no 

 possible opportunity for their coming into contact with, or into close 

 proximity to, other cattle, or fresh products of cattle. When they have 

 to be conveyed by water, it must be by one designated boat only, the 

 manager and owner of which are under bond to carry no other cattle or 

 fresh products of cattle. 



The yards should be in charge of a responsible person, or persons, who 

 should see to the rigid execution of all rules in force. To such person, or 

 persons, before any load of cattle is unshipped, should be delivered a way- 

 bill, signed by the railway agent at the point of shipment, giving place 

 of departure, date, number and description of cattle, owner and consignee. 

 The conductor should also furnish a certificate showing that they have 

 come by a through train, and that they have not been unloaded anywhere 

 on the route, nor left standing in the vicinity of common cattle-yards, 

 and that no cattle, nor unmanufactured products of cattle, have been 

 taken upon the train within the limits of the infected State or States. 



For the conveyance of these cattle to the bonded markets all railroads 

 (and connecting lines) shall be eligible which connect with the bonded 

 market, and can run through trains from uninfected States according to 

 the rules prescribed. 



RULES FOR THE REMOVAL OF CATTLE FROM BONDED MARKETS. 



Cattle for export should be shipped from the market on the steamer 

 direct, or, if they must be conveyed on any intermediate boat, it should 

 be on one especially reserved for the cattle going to and from the bonded 

 market, and prohibited from carrying any other cattle or fresh or unman- 

 ufactured products of cattle in the intervals of such use. To guard 

 against imposition, and to furnish evidence abroad that the certificate 

 of health pertains to particular cattle, these may be furnished, before 

 leaving the yards, with ear- tags, bearing letter and number, which, with 

 the date, name of vessel, shipper, consignee, &c., may be specified in the 

 certificate, and registered in a book kept at the bonded yards. 



In the case of store cattle, not intended for export, the bonded yards 

 will enable local authorities to permit the distribution of sound cattle 

 only, and to insure that they shall be sent to their destination direct, 

 under a permit giving date, number, and description of animals, owner, 

 route, destination, and time of expiry of the permit. While this pertains 

 to the process of stamping out the disease, which may be delegated to 

 States rather than undertaken by the Federal Government, yet these 



