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fittings, pens, utensils, etc., used about such animal unless by the 

 permission of the Board, and only then if the same has been disinfected 

 by being scoured with water and sprinkled* with a solution of carbolic 

 acid lime-wash. 



Anything landed in contravention of this article is to be seized by 

 the Customs Authorities, and the facts reported. 



The conditions regarding the landing of animals are very clear. 

 The vessels carrying the animals must not within twenty-eight days 

 before taking them on board, have had on board any animal from a 

 prohibited country ; further the vessel itself must not within twenty- 

 one days of receiving her cargo of animals, or at any time since taking 

 them on board, have entered or been in any port of a prohibited 

 country, and the animals imported must not while on board have been 

 in contact with any animal exported from any port or place in a pro- 

 hibited country. 



Before the animals are landed, the master of the vessel must deUver 

 to the Customs Authorities a signed declaration that all the animals 

 imported are properly imported in accordance with the provisions just 

 stated. 



The landmg is effected at the Foreign Animals Wharf,t and from 

 that time the animals are under the Inspector of the Board of 

 Agriculture ; they are driven by lairage men to the nearest available 

 reception lair, and there examined by the above officer. If found free 

 from disease the animals may be moved into other lairs of the Foreign 

 Animals Wharf, as the Inspector shall direct or permit. 



The only authorized persons permitted to be present during the 

 landing operations, and to enter upon the landing stage or any part of 

 the wharf used as a reception lair, are the Inspector of the Board, the 

 officers of the Customs, the Superintendent of the wharf, and the 

 lairage men ; all others require the authority of the Inspector in 

 writing. 



Overall clothing and leggings must be warn by all during the landing 

 of animals, and on leaving the wharf or reception lair the overall 

 clothing is to be removed, the hands washed with soap and water, and 

 the boots disinfected. The overall clothing is not removed from the 

 wharf untU disinfected. 



A notice may be affixed to the entrance of any building or wharf, 

 forbidding persons to enter without permission ; to enter without 



* ' Sprinkled ' is the term employed in the Act. For the purpose of 

 disinfection sprinkling is of no use. 



t Foreign Animals Wharfs are situated at the following Ports : 



Bristol. HuU. Manchester. 



Cardiff. Liverpool. Newoastle-on-Tyne. 



Glasgow. London. Southampton. 



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