:j94 INSPECTIOX, GOVERNMENT AND STATE. 



of meats for exportation, prohibiting- the. importation of adulterated 

 articles of food or drink, and authorizing the President to make proc- 

 lamation in certain cases, and for other purposes": 



1. The Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry is hereby directed 

 to cause careful veterinary inspection to be made of all neat cattle and 

 sheep to be exported from the United States to Great Britain and Ire- 

 land and the Continent of Europe. 



2. This inspection will be made at any of the followinff named 

 stock yards:— Kansas City, Mo.; Chicago, 111.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Pitts- 

 burg, Pa.; and at the following ports of export, viz: — Portland, Jle.: 

 Baltimore, ild.; Boston and Charlestown, ilass.; New York, N. Y.; 

 Philadelphia, Pa., and Norfolk and Newport News, Ya. All cattle 

 shipped from any of the aforesaid yards must be tagged before being 

 shipped to the ports of export. Cattle arriving at ports of export from 

 other parts of the United States will be tagged at said ports. 



3. After inspection at the aforesaid stock yards, all cattle found 

 free from disease and shown not to have been exposed to the contagion 

 of any disease, shall be tagged under the direction of the inspector in 

 charge of the yards. After tagging, the cattle will be loaded into 

 cleaned and disinfected cars, and shipped through from said yards, in 

 said cars, to the port of export. 



4. All animals shall be reinspected at the port of export. All rail- 

 road companies will be required to furnish clean and disinfected cars 

 for the transportation of cattle and sheep for export, and the various 

 stock yards located at the ports of export shall keep separate, clean, 

 and disinfected yards for the reception of export animals only. 



5. Shippers shall notify the inspectors in charge of the j'ards of in- 

 tended shipments of cattle, and shall give to the said inspector the 

 locality from which said animals have been brought, and the name of 

 the feeder of said animals, and such other informatioij as maj^ be prac- 

 ticable for the identification of the place from which said animals 

 have come. ' 



6. The inspector, after passing and tagging- said cattle, shall 

 notify the inspector in charge of the port of export of the inspection 

 of said animals, giving him the tag numbers and the number and des- 

 ignation of the cars in which said animals are shipped. 



7. Export animals, whenever possible, shall be unloaded at the 

 port of export from the cars in which they have been transported di- 

 rectly to the wharves from which they are to be shipped. They shall 

 not be unnecessarily passed over any highway, or removed to cars or 

 boats which are nsed for conveying other animals. Boats transporting 

 said animals to the ocean steamer must be first cleansed and disin- 



