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This point is regarded as of great importance, 

 as the most effectual and economical means of 

 utterly stamping out the plague. Power is also 

 demanded for prohibiting pasturage or exposure 

 inunfenced lots where different herds are likely 

 to mingle together, or stray animals to enter 

 among others. Finally, it is recommended that 

 the task of stamping out the lung-plague be 

 confided to national agents, with power to 

 take all necessary measures and means to carry 

 them out, including payment for slaughtered 

 herds. In summing up their conclusions and 

 recommendations, the commissioners say : 



For the extinction of the lung- pi ague in infected 

 districts, we consider it necessary that the authority 

 Federal or State intrusted with the work should 

 be clothed with the following power : 



a. To abolish or regulate markets for store-cattle in 

 the infected districts. 



b. To require the slaughter at the fat-markets, in 

 infected districts, of all cattle entering these markets. 

 Fat cattle, for slaughter elsewhere, can be obtained at 

 the bonded market. 



c. To prohibit all movement of cattle in infected 

 districts, except under special license. 



d. To inspect all cattle in suspected districts. 



e. To slaughter all infected cattle, and in exceptional 

 cases those that have been exposed to infection. 



/. To have the condemned animals appraised, and 

 the owners liberally indemnified. 



g. To prohibit all exposure of cattle on highways, 

 or on unf enced or insecurely-fenced places in infected 

 districts, or of suspected cattle on a lot adjoining one 

 occupied by healthy cattle, or bordering on a high- 

 way. 



ti. To prohibit all pasturage of more than one herd 

 on one pasture in infected districts, unless under 

 special license. 



*. To disinfect all premises, fodder, and other ar- 

 ticles that have been presumably exposed to inspection. 



j. To institute and enforce such minor rules as shall 

 be demanded by the peculiar conditions of particular 

 districts. 



k. To provide and enforce suitable penalties for in- 

 fringement of orders. 



In order to carry out these suggestions, we recom- 

 mend a liberal appropriation by Congress, to be dis- 

 bursed by some designated Federal officer. In case 

 the work be delegated to the different States, we ad- 

 vise that a liberal appropriation be made from the 

 Federal exchequer, sufficient to cover the greater part 

 of the outlay ; and that this be paid over to the Ex- 

 ecutive of the infected State, on the approval of the 

 plan and execution of the work in the particular States 

 by a veterinary sanitary organization designated for 

 the purpose by the Federal Government. 



This report of the Cattle Commission, which 

 consisted of James Law, E. F. Thayer, and J. 

 H. Sanders, was submitted to the Senate on 

 the 13th of February, 1882, and referred to 

 the Committee on Agriculture ; but no action, 

 based on its recommendations, has yet been 

 taken by Congress. 



LUTHERANS. The Evangelical Lutheran 

 Church in North America comprises four dis- 

 tinct general bodies, between which consider- 

 able differences of views respecting doctrine 

 and ritual prevail, and twelve independent syn- 

 ods. Its statistical reports are very imperfect. 

 The " Church Almanac " of the Lutheran Book- 

 store, _ Philadelphia (General Council), gives 

 statistics of the several general bodies and syn- 

 ods, of which the following are summaries : 



The Synodical Conference is composed of 

 five ordinary synods and the Joint Synod of 

 Missouri, a union of twelve smaller synods 

 containing 774 ministers, 1,012 congregations, 

 and 172,079 souls. The Joint Synod of Ohio, 

 consisting of six smaller synods, with 195 

 ministers, 300 congregations, and 50,494 com- 

 municants, which separated from the Synod- 

 ical Conference in 1881, is now counted among 

 the independent synods. 



"Der Lutherische Kalender" (Brobst, Diehl 

 & Co., Allentown, Pa.) gives : 



According to the computations of the "Ka- 

 lender," the Church gained during the year, 

 net, 130 pastors, 265 congregations, and 47,- 

 485 communicants. 



Of eighteen theological seminaries and de- 

 partments, four are classified as affiliated with 

 the General Council, four with the General 

 Synod, North, four with the Synodical Con- 

 ference, and one each with six single synods. 

 The literary institutions consist of seventeen 

 colleges, thirteen classical schools, and nine 

 seminaries for young women. The periodicals 

 include eighteen weekly, eleven semi-monthly, 

 thirty-eight monthly, two bi-monthly, three 

 quarterly, and six annual publications, in the 

 English, German, Swedish, and Norwegian 

 languages. 



The General Synod, South, was formed dur- 

 ing the civil war by the united action of the 

 synods in the Southern States which had sepa- 

 rated from the General Synod, North, in con- 

 sequence of the urgency of the political crisis. 

 It holds fellowship with both the General 

 Council and the Northern General Synod. In 

 its organization, however, it is now like the 

 General Synod, North, having adopted the 

 constitution of that body, with a few modifica- 

 tions, at its formation. Its doctrinal basis is 

 analogous to that of the General Synod ; the 

 services of the Church books of the two bodies 

 are the same as to their principal parts; its 

 ecclesiastical usages, church government and 

 life, are of a similar type ; and it practices pul- 

 pit and altar fellowship with the General Syn- 

 od, and, as a matter of privilege in exceptional 

 cases, with other evangelical Protestant de- 



