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cattle into the island. Under the same Act his Ex- 

 cellency has power to subject all cattle imported into 

 the island to a five days' quarantine. 



NOTE K. 



Tracing, as we have done, the sale of infected stock 

 from abroad as far back as the 19th of June, we find 

 that each week that the disease has been amongst us 

 a fresh county has been contaminated ; and more than 

 that when we consider that Scotland has not escaped. 



NOTE L. 



SCOTLAND. The cattle plague has travelled North 

 to Aberdeenshire, and has killed a number of animals 

 almost simultaneously on three farms at many miles 

 distance from one another. The owners of stock in 

 one of the districts, and the Royal Northern Agri- 

 cultural Association, are taking, or resolving to take, 

 sharp and prompt steps to stay the progress of the 

 disease. The committee of the association having 

 met on Friday, appointed a committee of inspection, 

 arranged for a public meeting of persons interested, 

 and favourably entertained the notion of forming a 

 fund for mutual insurance against the sacrifices and 

 losses which the extension of the disease might occa- 

 sion. A meeting of the General Central Union was 

 also held at Stirling on Friday, and a committee was 

 appointed to confer on the subject with the directors 

 of the Highland Society, and report to another meeting 

 to be held next Friday. Scotsman. 



