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strictly guarded, and cattle, hides, carcases, and tallow from any 

 infected counties were carefully excluded. 



have received much attention in the House of Commons. Papers upon the subject, 

 and a return of tlie sums paid for compensation, were presented, and referred to a 

 select committee, who reported certain causes of spreading the distemper, and made 

 recommendations, having come to 1 6 resolutions on the subject. 



' These are given in cxtcnso, as showing the opinion of the House of Commons 

 after eight years of the distemper. 



' I. The lodging of cattle driven for sale in places where infected cattle are or 

 have lately been, may be one cause of spreading the distemper. 



' 2. The mixing together different herds of cattle not fit for immediate slaughter 

 in fairs, markets, and other places for sale has been one other cause. 



' 3- The mixing of infected cattle with sound on commons and common grounds 

 has been one other cause. 



'4. Great difficulties and inconveniences have arisen and may hereafter arise 

 from the want of proper powers to order the lodging cattle stopped by virtue of 

 his Majesty's Orders in Council of March 22, 1747-8. 



' 5. The laws, rules, orders, and regulations for the killing of infected cattle 

 upon their first being seized have not in general been punctually complied with. 



'6. Certificates for cattle to be driven beyond the distance of five miles, with- 

 out a limitation of time beyond which such certificates shall cease to be of force, are 

 subject to abuse, and may have been one other cause. 



' 7. All contracts and bargains between the buyers and sellers of cattle, condi- 

 tional upon such cattle, or any number of them, surviving a certain time, tend to 

 the continumg and further spreading of the distemper. 



' 8. The laws, rules, orders, and regulations now in being should be reduced 

 into one Act of Parliament, subject to such alterations and regulations as his 

 Majesty, by the advice of his Privy Council, shall from 'time to time think pro^Der 

 to order. 



' 9. The notices ordered to be given of the breaking out and arising in particu- 

 lar places of the distemper by his Majesty's Order in Council of the 22nd day of 

 March, 1747-8, should be published in the London Gazette. 



' 10. No horned cattle should be driven or admitted into any pasture, close, or 

 field where the distemper has been for two calendar months after such distemper 

 has ceased, nor for six calendar months where such pastures, closes, or fields have 

 not been cleared of all litter, dung, stones, or hay, and where such pastures, &c., 

 have not been rolled, mowed, or fed bare with horses, hogs, geese, or sheep. 



'11. No certificates for cattle to be driven beyond the distance of five miles, 

 conformable to his Majesty's Order in Council, should be of force for any longer 

 term than ten days from the date of such certificate. 



' 12. No two or more herds of cattle, consisting together of above 20 beasts, 

 intended for immediate sale, and not fit for Immediate slaughter, should be driven 

 or admitted at the same time in the same pasture, close, field, fair, market-place, 

 or other place of sale whatsoever, unless such pasture, &c., be so separated and 

 divided as to preserve the cattle of such different herds from immediate contact. 



' 13. No horned cattle should be driven to pasture in common or common 

 grounds unless such cattle have been in the possession of their owners and free 

 from the distemper 40 days at the least before such driving. 



' 14. Proper powers should be granted for the lodging [disposition] such cattle 



