138 Importation of Plants into Algeria. [may, 



relating to the sanitary condition of animals. A grant of ^210 

 annually will be made to each Department by the Government towards 

 the salary of this cfficer. 



Holland. — The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have received, 

 through the Foreign Office, a translation of a Decree issued by the 

 Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, and dated March 19th last, providing 

 that animals of the equine species imported at Rotterdam from the 

 United Kingdom may, on certain conditions, be conveyed to Amsterdam 

 for slaughter. It is provided that the animals must be examined 

 by the district veterinary surgeon at Rotterdam and a certificate issued 

 stating that they were not suffering from glanders, lung disease, 

 influenza, or epizootic lymphangitis, and that the existence of these 

 diseases was not suspected; and also that they were not suffering 

 from a violent skin disease, and were free from serious wounds or 

 painful bodily defects, and were fit for conveyance by rail. These 

 certificates are to be issued free of charge. Other sections of the 

 Decree provide for the conveyance of the animals under supervision. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have made an Order, under 

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

 November 18 last which prohibited the landing in 

 Great Britain of live animals brought from 

 the State of Pennsylvania. Animals brought 

 from that State may now be landed at any 

 Foreign Animals Wharf in Great Britain for 

 the purpose of slaughter thereat. 



All Orders prohibiting the landing of live 

 animals from certain States which were issued in consequence of the 

 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United States of America 

 have now been revoked, but the Orders prohibiting the landing of hay 

 or straw from the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, 

 Maryland, and Delaware still remain in force. 



Admission of Live 

 Stock into Great 

 Britain from the 

 United States. 



A law dated January 25th, 1909, and published in the French Journal 

 Ofjiciel of March 24th last, requires plants of a fibrous nature (other than 

 vines and resinous plants), and palms rooted 

 Importation of or otherwise, without earth, coming from 

 Plants into Algeria, abroad and from certain French departments 

 for importation into Algeria, to enter through 

 specified ports. On their arrival, these products are to be disinfected 

 with hydrocyanic acid gas, at the expense of the importer, by an officer 

 appointed by the Government. 



The law, dated March 10th, 1894, relating to the importation into 

 Algeria of trees, shrubs, and plants of all kinds (other than vines) still 

 remains in force. This law provides that such products must be accom- 

 panied, as required by the Phylloxera Convention, by a declaration by 

 the consignor and a certificate issued by the competent authority of the 

 country of origin, to the effect (1) that they come from a plantation 

 separated by a . distance of at least 20 metres (22 yards) from any vine 

 or by an obstacle to the roots (such as a ditch or a wall) which is con- 



