Foreign Cattle Trade. 
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" Privy Council OflSce, Veterinary Department, 
" Princes Street, Westminster, S.W., 
"22nd July, 1871. 
" Sir, — I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your 
letter of the 20th instant, inquiring whether there is any objec- 
tion to the publication of the notes of the principal provisions 
■with respect to foreign animals contained in ' The Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act, '1809,' and Orders issued thereunder; 
•which has been submitted to the Lords of the Council. 
" In reply, I am directed to state that their Lordships do not 
object to the publication of the whole of the correspondence on 
the subject. 
*' I have, &c., 
" The Secretary, " ALEXANDER WiLLIAMS, 
Boyal AgrtcuUurcd Society of England, " Secretary. 
'• Hanover Sqiiare, IF." 
" Veterinary Department, 7th July, 1871. 
Notes of the Principal Provisions with respect to Foreign Animals 
contained in ''The Contagious Diseases (^Aiiimals) Act, 1869/ and 
Orders issued thereunder. 
N.B. — These notes are iutended to supply a means of reference to the Acts 
find Orders ; but it must be distinctly understood that the Acts and Orders 
themselves are alone authoritative. — A. W. 
Section I. — Cattle from Scheduled Countries. 
O. C. 258, Schedule, and O. C. 325. — Cattle coming from 
Russia, the Austrian-Hungarian dominions, North Germany, the 
dominions of the Sultan, Italy, the Papal States, Belgium, and 
Greece, can only be landed at the following ports : — 
Bristol. North Shields. Portsmouth 
London. Shoreham. Grimsby 
Dover. Southampton. Dartmouth. 
Hartlepool. Granton. Littlehampton. 
Hull. Leith. Sunderland. 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Glasgow. Goole. 
Plymouth. Middlesbrough. Liverpool. 
These cattle must be landed at parts of these ports defined by 
the Privy Council as landing-places for slaughter, and are subject 
to the regulations contained in the fourth schedule to the Act. 
O. C. 258, Art. 5. — All such cattle must be slaughtered within 
ten days after being landed, exclusive of the day of landing. 
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