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after 24th December, 1861, by one fourth less than their value 
arrived at by arbitration, provided the latter be killed subject 
to the instruction of the Minister for Lands. 
14. That the Government should, without delay, instruct properly 
qualified persons to conduct experiments in inoculation, and 
otherwise to prosecute researches into the nature and pecu¬ 
liarities of this disease. 
We would also observe that the incompleteness of the pro¬ 
visions of 4 The Cattle D isease Prevention Act of 186l J does 
not admit of our proposing further measures for restraining 
the disease, which we would otherwise recommend. 
We have the honour to be, sir, 
Your most obedient servants, 
Jas. Garland, 
Alex. Bruce, 
George Day, 
S. A. Meyer. 
Albury, 4 th January, 1862. 
P.S.—Since closing the above report, we have been in¬ 
formed, on reliable authority, that on the station on the Mitta 
Mitta River, from which Messrs. M f Laurin brought their 
cattle, pleuro-pneumonia is now raging with much severity 
among the cattle that were left behind, and that a good many 
of them have been slaughtered, and died in consequence. It 
is also stated that Mi*. Patton, the present occupant of the 
station, has been contending with the disease for the last 
two months. 
The circumstance does not lead us to assume that the 
M essrs. M‘Laurin knew that their cattle were diseased 
before they removed them, but it tends to confirm the sus¬ 
picion that the disease was imported to Yarra Yarra from 
that quarter, where we learn it now prevails to a consider¬ 
able extent. 
J. G. 
G. D. 
S. A. M. 
Albury, 4 th January, 1862. 
The Hon. the Secretary for Lands, Sydney. 
Albury, 3rd January, 1862. 
Sir,—I have the honour to add a further and fuller report of my 
professional investigations respecting pleuro-pneumonia epizootica, as 
follows: 
INTRODUCTION OF DISEASE. 
Pleuro-pneumonia epizootica was first noticed and first made known 
