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with the malady, also their manner of handling cattle, (the 

 Western term for buying, feeding, and selling cattle.) Among 

 them was Mr. Eaton, superintendent of Mr. J. T. Alexander's 

 Broadlands farm, who handles about five thousand (5,000) head 

 per year. He gave a distinct statement of the dates when dif- 

 ferent lots of cattle were purchased, where they were pastured, 

 the outbreak of the disease, and the mortality. His remarks 

 were instructive, and were listened to with great attention, as 

 also were those of Mr. McCoy of Alibone, Kan., who described 

 the different modes of collecting and driving Texas cattle to 

 market, and stated that those herds which were carefully se- 

 lected, properly fed and watered, not overdriven, and generally 

 treated with humanity on the route, imparted no disease. 



Dr. Morris, a member of the Metropolitan Board of Health of 

 New York, read a paper, giving the results of a scientific in- 

 vestigation of the malady as it existed in New York. He was 

 followed by Dr. Ranch, a member of the Sanitary Commission 

 of Chicago, who gave a history of the disease in that city. 



The committee appointed to draft a series of resolutions 

 relating to a law, made a report, through their chairman, 

 which, after discussion, was amended and adopted. 



The recommendations to the legislatures of the States repre- 

 sented in the convention were as follows : — 



The Convention of American Cattle Commissioners, assembled 

 at Springfield, 111., respectfully recommend to the legislatures 

 of the several States represented therein to give effect by legal 

 enactment to the following general propositions, which are 

 believed to embody principles of the greatest importance, not 

 only for the welfare of the cattle interests, but for the security 

 of the people themselves. 



Sect. 1. First. Three commissioners, or such other number 

 as the legislatures deem proper, shall be appointed by some 

 competent authority, to hold office for five years, and shall 

 report annually to the legislature. 



Second. Such commissioners shall watch over the general 

 welfare of the animals within the State for which they were 

 appointed, and particularly preventing the spread of dangerous 

 diseases among them, and of protecting the people of the States 

 against the dangers arising from the consumption of diseased meat. 



