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admittance to the premises and compelled to retreat, and upon 
returning accompanied by a Sheriff, were a second time repulsed. 
The indictment of the rebellious farmer followed, involving the 
usual legal combat, and matters proceeded far enough to reach, 
at length, a decision by the trial Judge, who announced his ap¬ 
proval of the resistance offered by the owner of the cattle. Such 
a conclusion, of course, seriously involved the whole matter, and 
greatly interfered with the process of stamping out contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia in the State of New York. 
We were apprehensive, while this case continued in abeyance, 
that it might prove to be a source of serious annoyance to those 
who are interested in the cause of preventive sanitation, and there 
seemed to be reason to fear that evil consequences might follow, 
of which one could not easily define the limit or anticipate the form 
and nature, but which could not possibly be other than exceed¬ 
ingly disastrous and deplorable. The danger consisted not alone 
in the fact that a deliberate “ defiance of the Inspectors,” had been 
sanctioned by an inferior tribunal of ‘‘justice,” for such an act 
was appealable and reversible, and a higher authority could easily 
overrule the error, but if that remedy should fail—and this was 
possible—who could guess the unknown trouble yet beyond ? 
But any danger that might have existed of this nature is now 
happily -obviated by the interposition of the executive authority, 
in the form of a proclamation by the Governor, by which certain 
specified counties are placed in quarantine, and the Bureau is ern 
dowed with all the power they need to authorize them to carry 
into effect the measures necessary to the accomplishment of the 
purpose of their appointment. An active unity between the Fed- 
eral and State Legislatures furnishes the only possible guarantee 
that the stamping out of pleuro-pneumonia can be effected with 
satisfaction and certainty. The following is the text of the Gov¬ 
ernor’s proclamation : 
Whereas, By chapter 134 of the Laws of 1878 and the acts amendatory there¬ 
of ,it is made the duty of the Governor to suppress any infectious or contagious 
diseases affecting domestic animals and to prevent the same from spreading ; and 
Whereas, It has been certified to me by James Law of Ithaca, acting as my 
agent, that contagious pleuro-pneumonia or lung plague of the cattle exists in 
this State in the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond, and such 
part of the county of Westchester $s lies southerly of the northerly boundaries 
