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for months in dried buildings, and as the same thing 

 seems possible as regards dried hides and hair, it would 

 seem that to insure perfect safety it must be enacted that 

 no foreign hides should be carried in cars or other vehi- 

 cles to be afterwards used for the conveyance of cattle or 

 about places where cattle are found, and that cattle shall 

 be rigidly excluded from all tanneries where foreign hides 

 are received. 



That such precautions are necessary is shown by the 

 facts, that in the past year 3,039 cattle were attacked in 

 38 English counties ; 1,522 in 28 Scotch counties ; and 32 

 in 6 Welsh counties ; that 1,932 head are reported at- 

 tacked in Germany ; that 698 are reported in Holland ; 

 that in France the existence of the plague is reported 

 from the Department of the Rhine, La Bochelle, Ruen, 

 Eoubaix, Bourdeaux and Nantes ; and that Switzerland 

 and Belgium are infected. 



(6) Importation subject to a Quarantine which shall insure 

 Protection. 



Exeptional cases will arise when it seems of the high- 

 est importance that foreign cattle should be admitted. 

 This can only be done safely after a quarantine at the 

 port of landing under the eye of an expert. The length 

 of such quarantine must be determined by the time 

 that the seeds of the plague may lie in the system un- 

 recognized. We have seen that this cannot be safely 

 stated at less than three months, therefore, the quaran- 

 tine phould last for this length of time. The infection oi 

 Norway and Australia by cattle that had passed through 

 an incubation period of three months and of South 

 Africa after a period of three and a half nionths must set- 

 tle this period without appeal. 



This having been represented to the Treasury Depart- 

 ment an order was issued, July 19th, 1879, imposing a 

 quarantine of 90 days on all European cattle, "except 

 where State or municipal laws provide for the quaran- 



