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Schwerin, which respectively are in or border upon the 
Gulf of Finland, or any other part of the Baltic Sea between 
the Gulf of Finland and the territories of the Free City of 
Lubeck, or which shall come from or shall have been at any 
place within the territories of the Free City of Lubeck ; and 
also that, from and after the date hereof, no cattle and no 
horns, hoofs, or raw or wet hides or skins of cattle, shall be 
imported or introduced into the united kingdom which shall 
be, or shall have been, on board any vessel at the same time 
with any cattle or horns, hoofs, or raw or w T et hides or skins 
of cattle, which shall have come from or shall have been at 
any such place as aforesaid. 
And Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy 
Council, doth hereby further order, that all cattle, and all 
horns, hoofs, and raw or w r et hides or skins of cattle, the 
importation or introduction whereof is _ so hereby prohibited 
as aforesaid, and also all hay, straws, fodder, litter, or manure, 
being or having been in or on board any vessels at the same 
time with any such cattle, or horns, hoofs, or raw or w r et 
hides or skins of cattle as aforesaid, shall, upon their arrival 
in this country, be destroyed, or otherw ise disposed of, as the 
Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Customs may direct. 
And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Treasury are to give the necessary directions 
herein accordingly. 
C. C. Greville. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
At a Monthly Meeting, held on Wednesday, the 1st of 
April, the Earl of Clarendon favoured the Council with the 
following communications on the Cattle Murrain : 
Foreign Office ; February 28, 1857. 
“Sir, — With reference to Mr. Hammond’s letter of the 12th of June 
last, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid 
before the President and Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, the 
accompanying copy of a despatch from the British Vice-Consul at Lubeck, 
stating that the murrain having again broken out a Mecklenburgh, the 
Lubeck authorities had prohibited the introduction of horned cattle from 
that state, unless provided with a certificate declaring them to be free from 
the disease. 
I am, sir, your most obedient, humble servant, 
“ Shelburne. 
“James Hudson, Esq.” 
