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of cattle, stray store stock, and teams of working* bullocks, leaves 
little doubt of its having been brought by some of these means. 
5. That it has been discovered throughout that portion of the colony 
extending from the Dora Dora station on the Hume River to 
Cocketgedong* on the Billy Bong Creek, in one direction, and 
from Albury to The Levels, in the Lachlan district, in another, 
which includes about 130 miles square, and about 100,000 cattle. 
6. That there is every reason to believe that it has extended even 
much further. 
7- That it is impracticable to maintain a strict quarantine effectually. 
8. That it is inexpedient to slaughter whole herds or mobs of cattle. 
We would recommend-— 
1. That inspectors should be appointed to ascertain the extent of 
infected country, with power to carry out the law. 
2. That diseased country, as inspected, be proclaimed in Gazette and 
local newspapers. 
3. That no cattle should be removed from infected runs, nor from 
any land within ten miles thereof, without being first examined 
by an inspector, who would grant certificate of such inspection, 
to be produced when required. 
4. That, cattle from infected runs should not pass through country not 
declared to be infected. 
5. That no impounding should be carried on from or in infected 
country, nor from lands within ten miles thereof. 
6. That when small lots of cattle within enclosures become diseased 
in the midst of a sound country, it may be expedient to destroy 
them. 
7. That as working bullocks have been the chief instruments in 
spreading the disease, their use should be disallowed in diseased 
country, or within fifty miles thereof, except on the runs or 
farms to which they belong. 
8. That inspectors should have power to order the destruction of 
diseased cattle driven over, or negligently allowed to stray on, 
land not declared infected, as well as the destruction of all cattle 
moved in contravention of these suggestions. 
9. That solemn declaration should be made of number, brands, and 
state of disease of cattle so destroyed. 
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10. That stockowners should make themselves acquainted with the 
disease, and should, as much as possible, prevent intercourse 
between infected and sound cattle, by destroying the former, or 
confining them to a paddock. 
11. That stockowners ought, by frequently assembling together, and 
by combined action, to devise means to meet every emergency 
of the disease as it arises, and to give every assistance in carry¬ 
ing out the law. 
12. That boiling-down establishments ought to be erected at once, 
at Albury and Wagga Wagga, where they would lie within reach 
of water-carriage, and at other plaees as occasion required. 
And with a view to the speedy accomplishment of this desirable 
end, the Government should offer inducement to private enter¬ 
prise, either by grants or leases of land. 
13. That for cattle already slaughtered for purposes of ‘The Cattle 
Disease Prevention Act,’ compensation should be paid at the 
rates already fixed by Government; and for all cattle destroyed 
