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4th. Those that transgress the law, and especially in the matter of 

 smuggling, can be seized and punished anywhere by Federal authority, 

 but not by State authority should they have escaped over the State line. 



5th. Federal authority can follow smuggled cattle into any State or 

 Territory and confiscate them or quarantine; State authority cannot. 



rth. ft the Federal Government cannot interfere within a State, such 

 .State may neglect this disease indefinitely and render it permanent, to 

 the peril of ail the others. 



7th. The British Government, declines to accept the assurances of the 

 individual States, and will only accept the guarantee of the Federal 

 Government that any infectious disease has been thorougly stamped out, 

 or its extension beyond the infected regions effectually provided against. 

 To secure this directly and without possible objection, the Federal Gov- 

 ernment must so connect itself with this work as to be able to attest the 

 results. 



REASON FOB STATE ACTION. 



One great advantage of suppressive measures by State governments 

 is that the latter can command the active co-operation of municipal au- 

 thorities and police, and thus without any extra outlay can thoroughly 

 control all movement of cattle and insure a speedy extinction of the 

 disease. It is sincerely to be hoped that in case the matter is placed 

 entirely in the hands of Federal authorities such invaluable help will be 

 freely accorded them by order of the mayors of the cities or governors 

 of the States. Any co-operation of this kind, however, must be hearty 

 and thorough in order to be of any material advantage to the work. 



POWER TO ABOLISH OR REGULATE MARKETS. 



Whether State or National, the power intrusted with the stamping out 

 of this plague must be authorized to put a stop to all local markets when 

 they can be shown to endanger the propagation of the plague, or to place 

 such markets under such regulations as shall obviate all risk of the 

 spread of infection through them. 



While markets generally in infected districts apart from bonded 

 and fat markets already referred to should be stopped, other marts in 

 non-infected districts of the same State should be put under certain reg- 

 ulations which would exclude the possibility of infection entering. 



Thus free markets near the port of New York in New Jersey, Eastern 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, and Northern Virginia 

 would be necessarily abolished, while they could continue under certain 

 restrictions as to entry at Pittsburgh, Pa., and Buffalo and Albany, N. 

 Y. This would provide for the transit of cattle through New York to 

 New England and through Western Pennsylvania to other points with- 

 out any unnecessary interference with trade. It does not seem neces- 

 sary to specify such points, but merely to provide that the authority in- 

 trusted with this matter shall have power to impose such restrictions on 

 public sales, when necessary, and to make exceptions when it can be 

 safely done. 



FAT CATTLE MARKETS AND ABATTOIRS. 



To provide for the supply of beef from outside sources to the large 

 cities New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, &c. 

 it will be necessary to establish markets for fat cattle coming from all 

 sources, healthy and otherwise ; but one condition of the entry of cattle 

 into such yards ought to be that they should not be taken away alive, 



