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separate from those used for English stock. That all such animals 

 should be branded or marked on landing, and not allowed to be 

 removed alive from the place of debarkation. 



"2. That proper quarantine grounds should be provided by 

 Government for foreign store stock arriving from k unscheduled ' 

 countries, which stock should not be removed therefrom until 

 seven clear days have elapsed. In the event of contagious diseases 

 breaking out among any lot thus placed in quarantine, the whole 

 should be slaughtered with the least possible delay. Cattle 

 arriving at an English port from any country where Pleuro- 

 pneumonia exists, should either be slaughtered upon arrival, 

 or be immediately inoculated for the disease and then subjected 

 to a quarantine of not less than twenty-eight days. 



" 3. That in respect of animals from Ireland or other of the 

 British Isles, so long as such islands are actually free from con- 

 tagious disease, no restrictions should be imposed upon exporta- 

 tion or importation ; animals coming therefrom should, in all 

 respects, be treated as English, Welsh, or Scotch cattle, or animals 

 arriving coastwise at one British port from another ; but in the 

 event of contagious disease existing in either of these islands, no 

 animal should leave such island until the owner has produced a 

 certificate from the local authority of the district that no con- 

 tagious disease existed upon the farm or premises, or adjoining 

 farm or premises, from which the animals come. Should the 

 animals be unsound, or the owner fail to produce a satisfactory 

 certificate, such animals not to be embarked until they have been 

 subjected to such quarantine as the inspector may order, or in 

 accordance with the rules to be issued by the Privy Council. 



" 4. That all vessels used for the importation of animals be 

 certified by the Board of Trade as to space, ventilation, conveni- 

 ence, &c.; and that regulations for the efficient cleansing and dis- 

 infecting of such vessels be issued and rigorously enforced. 



" 5. That, in order to avoid the present diversity of action, 

 all Orders in Council or legislative enactments bearing upon the 

 trade in disease in animals should be imperative, and not per- 

 missive ; further, that their application should extend throughout 

 the United Kingdom. 



" 6. That a universal system of local officers be established, 

 such officers (farmers or veterinary surgeons) to be armed with 

 powers to enter at all reasonable times upon farms and premises ; 

 to order isolation of diseased animals, as well as those in contact 

 with them ; also to give orders as to the treatment of infected 

 places ; the owners of cattle or occupiers of premises to possess 

 the right of refusing admittance to such officers until they have 

 undergone the process of disinfection. 



"7. That provision be made to secure the pr'actice of inspec- 

 tion throughout the three kingdoms being more thorough ; to 

 this end a sufficient number of qualified men should be appointed 

 by Government to act as itinerant inspectors, who should be 



