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resides or carries on its business ; and it shall be the duty of all United 

 States marshals, their deputies and subordinates, to prosecute all viola- 

 tions which come to their notice or knowledge 



If the humane federal law requiring cattle to be unloaded at the 

 end of each twenty-eight hours' confinement for feeding and water- 

 ing is to be carried out, then many quarantine cattle must be 

 unloaded at Albany. In this connection the shipment of quaran- 

 tine cattle for slaughter to Albany and other points in New York 

 and Massachusetts, where no federal office is located, must be 

 considered. These cattle, of which in different years there are 

 varying numbers, are delivered at any station and then driven to 

 slaughter houses without supervision. Many cars are taken to 

 other points, to be used without, so far as can be learned, any 

 attempt or pretence at disinfection. These conditions continually 

 expose the native cattle of these States, and, I may add, of other 

 States, to attacks of Texas fever. The responsibility for the 

 spread of disease by carloads of quarantine cattle which go to 

 places where there are no pens set apart to receive them, and no 

 provisions to adequately disinfect cars according to the regulations, 

 or for attending to the enforcement of these regulations, lies with 

 the oflflcers of the Bureau of Animal Industry, who are charged 

 with the enforcement of the law. The States are not responsible 

 for the spread of disease until the cattle leave those places set 

 apart for them to go to slaughter. 



The Bureau authorities are aware that, when cattle are released 

 from Chicago or Buffalo, consigned to Brighton or New York, or 

 to a place in Massachusetts where there is no quarantine yard, 

 these cattle may be unloaded at Albany, and that most of them in 

 accordance with the twenty-eight-hour unloading law must be 

 unloaded there, or they will be unloaded at some other place where 

 there are no quarantine regulations or pretence at any. They have 

 hitherto read their instructions as concerning the larger stock 

 yards for the protection of the foreign and domestic cattle trade, 

 and trusted to the exclusion of quarantine cattle for pasturage 

 purposes to prevent disease in our own country. They have 

 regarded their duties as ended when cattle were properly entered 

 and released from the yards where their agents are stationed. 

 They have overlooked the fact that cattle have been released to 

 points where conclusive evidence was easily obtainable that their 

 laws were not, and could not be, complied with as regai'ds the 

 released shipments. They have apparently made no effort to 

 ascertain the fact whether quarantine cattle were being handled 

 properly at such an important point as Albany, where quarantine 



