ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 
491 
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ct The above measures are to be more strictly observed if 
the murrain has broken out in the vicinity of the frontiers. 
If an infected place in a foreign country is only three miles 
or less from the frontier, then it is positively forbidden along 
a certain extent of frontier, to be marked out by the provincial 
authorities, and in any case along the extent that lies so near 
to the place infected, to admit — 
(a) Horned cattle, sheep, swine, goats, dogs, and poultry, 
fresh skins of bullocks and of other animals, horns, and 
unmelted tallow, beef, dung, winter fodder, and stable 
implements of any kind. 
(b) Also raw wool, dry hides, and the hair of animals (bris- 
tles excepted) are excluded, if there is reason to believe 
that they come from an infected place. 
(c) Only to allow such persons to pass without molestation 
who, according to their circumstances, cannot be sup- 
posed either to have been in any infected place at all, or, 
even if they have been there, in any way to have come 
in immediate contact with infected cattle. All persons, 
on the contrary, who, according to their circumstances, 
may be supposed to be occupied and to have intercourse 
with cattle, such as cattle and leather dealers, butchers, 
tanners, skinners, are refused admission ; or they must, 
when very cogent reasons are brought forward for their 
admission, previously submit to a careful purification, to 
take place under the superintendence of the police. The 
provincial authorities are moreover empowered to enforce 
the application of these measures, even when the infected 
places lie Jive miles beyond the frontiers. 
“ This must, in every case, happen when a brisk and accele- 
rated trade in the above-named articles takes place by means 
of turnpike roads or communication by w T ater between the 
infected places and the inland, or when the contagion in the 
interior of the foreign country has spread itself to a great ex- 
tent. In cases of this kind, and especially when the spreading 
of the contagion in the foreign country propagation makes 
rapid progress, or when other dangerous circumstances 
happen, then these measures are to be enforced, even when 
the disease prevails at a distance of more than five miles.” 
The Council expressed their deep sense of Lord Clarendon’s 
warm and effective interest in promoting the objects of the 
Society, and the welfare of the agricultural community. 
At a subsequent meeting of the Society it was favoured 
