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provided; and these are to be kept in proper places, and not used for 
any other purpose. Persons attending upon the sick cattle, or coming in 
contact with them or with the dead, are not to go near healthy animals, and 
are to take care that all tools or utensils they may have used are properly 
cleaned. 
“ 9. That no manure or fodder is to be sold from off the infected farm. 
“ 10. That no animal, however slightly affected, is to be killed for food. 
Great vigilance must be used in respect to this order. 
“11. That, after the disappearance of the disease from a commune or 
farm for a period of eight weeks, it is to be considered as being free from 
the malady; but that for four weeks longer the proprietor is not to sell any 
cattle or other forbidden things from off the place.” 
It does not appear that any law is in operation to prevent 
the importation into the territory from Russia or other coun- 
tries, of skins, horns, hoofs, or tallow ; but we were informed 
by M. Tollhausen, the French Consul, and who was acting 
also pro tern, as British Vice-Consul, that the official returns 
show 7 that from 6000 to 8000 only of dry hides annually 
enter the port of Liibeck from Russia, for transit inland ; 
while from Mecklenburg and the surrounding countries 
80,000 skins are received. These are mostly either salted or 
fresh, and as such are too heavy for transit to a distance, 
besides being otherwise unfitted for such a purpose : they 
are, therefore, further prepared and dried in Liibeck, and 
then sent onwards to Belgium, Rhenish Prussia, &c., and up 
the Rhine even as far as Switzerland. 
No exports of cattle take place from Liibeck by means of 
the shipping, nor are any imported in this manner from the 
Baltic or elsewhere, the supply wffiich is needed by the town 
and territory being sent over the frontier from the surrounding 
Duchies. Besides this, we could not ascertain that any cattle 
have ever been shipped for England from any of the Baltic 
ports. The difficulties attending such a voyage, and the time 
it would occupy, are sufficient barriers against a trade of 
this description being carried on, even if no facilities existed 
for the transit of cattle inland. 
Young stock, however, to the amount, it is said, of 50,000 
a year, pass through the territory of Liibeck, from Holstein 
into Mecklenburg, for the supply of the dairies and farms. 
These facts cannot fail to be of importance for legislation, 
if hereafter it should unfortunately be the case that the rin- 
derpest should extend thus far westward, and in a direction 
from which foreign cattle are shipped for England. 
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