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Live Stock Import Regulations [april, 



to the eradication of disease, and for the cleansing of vessels, vehicles, 

 and premises. Under Section 29, the Governor in Council may make 

 regulations for subjecting animals to quarantine, or for causing them 

 to be destroyed upon their arrival in Canada, or for destroying any 

 hay, straw, fodder, or other article which might convey infection. 



Finland. — With reference to the note in this Journal, May, 1908, to 

 the effect that the importation of ruminants, pigs, and animal products 

 from Scotland into Finland had been prohibited, the Board are now 

 informed that the prohibition has been withdrawn. 



United States. — The regulation for the importation duty free of 

 pedigree live stock was summarised in this Journal, September, 1906, 

 p. 365. The following amendment has now been made to Section 7 

 of the Order of the Bureau of Animal Industry No. 136, which 

 contains a list of American Associations not affiliated with foreign 

 associations, whose certificate of registration is accepted for free 

 entry: — "However, associations, companies, and clubs in the follow- 

 ing list shall accept no imported animals for registration in order to 

 obtain free entry, unless such animals are eligible to such registration 

 under the rules of entry prescribed for American-bred animals." A 

 copy of the list referred to can be seen at the Offices of the Board. 



Cape Colony. — The Cape of Good Hope Gazette for February 23rd 

 contains a Proclamation (No. 88 of 1909), providing, with effect from 

 that date, for the prohibition of the importation of any live stock into 

 Cape Colony from any State or Territory oversea, unless such live 

 stock are accompanied by a certificate signed by the officer in command 

 or master of the vessel on board of which such animals are imported, 

 to the effect that such stock — the number and general description of 

 which must be specified — have not been shipped, landed, or transhipped 

 at any port on the West African Coast, north of Walfish Bay. 



Any live stock introduced into the Colony in contravention of the 

 above Proclamation will be liable to be summarily destroyed, and the 

 master of the vessel will for every animal permitted to be landed, be 

 liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding £100, or in default of 

 payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, unless 

 such fine be sooner paid. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have made an Order, 

 under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1903, revoking their 

 Orders of November 28th last, which (a) pro- 

 Admission of Live hibited the landing in Great Britain of live 

 Stock into Great animals brought from the States of Maryland 

 Britain from the and Delaware ; and (b) made special provision 

 United States. for the examination, prior to landing, of all 



animals brought from the United States of 

 Ame.ica. 



The Order of November 20th last, which prohibited the landing in 

 Great Britain of live animals brought from the States of New jersey 

 and New York, in the United States of America, has also been revoked. 



Animals brought from the States of Maryland, Delaware, New 

 Jersey, and New York may now be landed at any Foreign Animals 



