PLEURO-PNEUMON1A IN AUSTRALIA, 
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1. Duly qualified commissioners should be appointed in 
order to direct constables or inspectors how properly to dis¬ 
charge their duties. 2. The said commissioners should be 
empowered to enter amongst all herds of cattle which may or 
may not be smitten with pleuro-pneumonia; and if any 
exhibit symptoms of said disease, they should have power to 
cause such animals immediately to be destroyed, or such 
measures to be taken as hereafter provided. 3. In order to 
avoid the possibility of contagion extending itself, it will be 
the duty of every colonist to give all information and assist¬ 
ance to the commissioners in order that they may take the 
necessary steps where required. 4. The commissioners may 
declare any run or district unclean, and have the powers to 
proclaim a sanitary boundary, which they may again remove 
from time to time, should the malady unfortunately make 
progress. 5. Should the epidemic prevail to a wide extent, 
a general assessment should be levied on colonial cattle, in 
order to compensate stock-owners who had the misfortune to 
have their cattle diseased and destroyed. 6. The executive 
should be requested to advance limited sums on the recom¬ 
mendation of the commissioners, until an Assessment Act is 
passed in parliament, when reimbursements will be made from 
the proceeds. 7. All dead bodies should be burnt or buried 
by the late owners, if known, or by the orders of com¬ 
missioners and inspectors. 8. All straying cattle are to be 
looked on with great suspicion, and, perhaps, for better 
security, may be shot down, and all travelling bullock-teams 
from suspected places should be stopped. 9. It should be 
penal for settlers who have had the disease on their stations 
to remove any cattle therefrom until after-months, or 
after a qualified person has declared the cattle and the run to 
be clean. 10. Let all travelling cattle be strictly examined, 
as those are more liable than beasts locally bred, to receive the 
rudiments of anv disease, on account of the lassitude at- 
tendant upon travelling. It has been so found in Scotland, 
Ireland, France, and Germany. 11. Should the malady 
break out with intensity, a result to be anticipated, it would 
be beneficial for those having cattle in good condition to 
erect Bouilliant establishments, which establishments are to 
be publicly notified, so that they may be avoided by all 
healthy stock. 12. In order to get rid of the vexations 
attendant on appraising stock, a fixed rate for all sexes and 
ages should be at once determined. By this method, number 
alone would be w r anted for certification, and a fair remune¬ 
ration would, in most cases, be aw arded to the sufferers; but 
the rate should rule in such a way as would prevent imposi¬ 
tions, and serve to stimulate the exertions of stock-owners in 
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