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Importation of Canadian Cattle. 



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(3) The iiriimals are to be landed at specified landing places 

 and there thoroughly examined by the Ministry's veterinary 

 officers. Movement from the landing place is to be controlled 

 by licence in the same manner as the movement of imported 

 Irish cattle is at present controlled. This secm'es detention of 

 the animals on some farm or o!"her premises for six days, 

 though they may pass to such premises through one market. 

 The agreement makes provision to secure that the vessels used 

 shall not be capable of infecting the cargo and also provides for 

 effective action if disease should be found in a cargo. 



The landing of Canadian cattle capable of breeding will require 

 the authority of a General Order which will be made by the 

 Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and laid in draft before 

 both Houses of Parliament for thirty days, and if either House 

 before the expiration of that period presents an address to His 

 Majesty against the draft or any part thereof, no further proceed- 

 ings shall be taken thereon. It is an essential part of any such 

 order that the animals must be accompanied by a certificate by 

 the authorised officer of the Dominion stating that the animals 

 have within one month before shipment been tested effectively 

 for tuberculosis and found free from that disease, and the 

 Minister is given the fullest discretion as to the precautions to 

 he enforced against the introduction of other diseases by these 

 minima Is. 



The Minister is to retain the power to suspend importation of 

 store and breeding animals if cattle plague, pleuro-pneumonia, or 

 ioot-and-mouth disease should appear in Canada. 



A fee not exceeding sixpence per animal is to be imposed on 

 all imported animals, and compensation is not payable in case 

 'Of slaughter at the place of landing in consequence of disease 

 being discovered. For administrative purposes imported animals 

 are to be tagged or otherwise marked. 



The Canadian Ministers at the Conference undertook that as 

 soon as the necessary Order authorising importation of Canadian 

 breeding stock is in force, the Canadian Government will modify 

 their conditions of importation of British animals so as to make 

 the Canadian and British conditions reciprocal. 



The Conference assented to the view that legislation on this 

 subject cannot be limited to Canada but must be capable of adap- 

 tation to the requirements of other parts of the British Empire. 

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