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Each Gov^ernraent ought to publish in its official organs a sanitary 

 bulletin upon the sanitary states, the progress of epizootics, the meas- 

 ures enforced, tlie interdictions of imports, the changes made in these 

 prohibitions, and of the suppression of the plague when that has been 

 eft'ected. Tiiis bulletin should be sent to editors of official journals of 

 states that request it or that have signed the agreement. 



b. The authorities of frontier districts ought to notify directly the 

 authorities of neighboring districts whenever rinderpest or aphthous 

 fever has been detected within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of the frontier, 

 or wheu lung plague, sheep-pox, glanders, or rabies has appeared within 

 50 kilometers (31 miles) of the frontier. In rinderpest, sheep-pox, and 

 rabies the notification should be made by telegraph. 



c. Every state should so organize its veterinary service as to be able 

 to rai)idly stamp out rinderpest or other contagious maladies. 



d. Every state should provide that the laws of sanitary police .should 

 be rigorously enforced. 



e. By previous arrangement the laws of sanitary police in different 

 states should be almost identical in measures of isolation, veterinary 

 surveillance, sequestration, removal and burial of carcasses, and in dis- 

 infection of all persons and animals, of objects, clothing, and harness, 

 stables, and of railway cars that have carried animals or animal prod- 

 ucts. 



/. For nil animals attacked or suspected of one of the contagious mala- 

 dies above mentioned, and killed by police order, an indemnity should 

 be paid, which each government may fix by special law, but which 

 should in no case be less than half the value of the animal if it had 

 been sound. 



g. A previous arrangement should prescribe the principles which 

 ought to coutrol the international relations, the roads and means of 

 transport to be taken, the conditions of movement of stock, and, above 

 all, that which refers to certificates of health and origin, which ought as 

 much as possible to be uniform in the different countries, and for the 

 imi)ortant assignments vised by the consuls of the respective countries. 



h. The laws of sanitary police should order the transporting agent to 

 make instant declaration of diseases that may supervene in transit, and 

 should prescribe the measures of sanitary police applicable to them. 



i. There should be published an international sanitary bulletin at in- 

 tervals of fifteen days, and giving the sanitary condition of each country 

 according to the special bulletin, which by international agreement each 

 government should publish. The international guarantee should be 

 based on government morality, on a s[)irit of justice, on practical nnisoii; 

 thus connncrce will accpure tiiat freedom and integrity which are essen- 

 tial to it. It should prescribe the movement of all stock coming from 

 a country, the sanitary condition of which is unknown. The great pub 

 licity given to the official reports, olteii sent by telegraph ami dilfused 

 through the most rapid channels, would give a guarantee of their 



