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country is not in a condition to guarantee that its frontiers 
will be passed only by healthy animals, free from Cattle Plague 
contamination. 
b. That, consequently, there was reason that the importa¬ 
tion of cattle should be submitted to the conditions determined 
by the conference. 
The minority of the assembly were in favour of the absolute 
interdiction of cattle, as well as of raw animal produce, from 
Russia. 
The delegates were also agreed as to the principles which 
should control the transport of these cattle and products, as 
well as on essential measures to be adopted if the malady 
broke out beyond Russia. 
With regard to the Roumanian Principalities, the assembly 
was of opinion that the veterinary service being organized in 
a satisfactory manner in that country, and police measures 
properly enforced, there was no occasion to have recourse to 
exceptional measures there; though it was not the same with 
Turkey and Servia. 
After having decided the official questions, the assembly 
was occupied with some propositions which, at the request of 
several delegates, had been discussed at one of the committees. 
Two of these propositions had reference to the precautionary 
measures to be adopted with regard to burying places for 
diseased cattle, as well as to what was to be done with hay, 
straw, and unthrashed corn or wheat, rendered suspicious 
in consequence of being impregnated with the emanations of 
an infected cow-shed; a third was relative to the official 
communications by which the government of any country 
should announce to the authorities of other countries every 
outbreak of Cattle Plague within the frontiers, and to keep 
these authorities duly informed of the progress of the disease, 
as well as the measures prescribed to prevent its propagation. 
On the occasion of a fourth supplementary proposition 
the conference declared that, in its opinion, no government 
should bestow an indemnity for the slaughter of a drove in 
which the malady had appeared, unless the drove had been 
at least ten days in the country, or unless it was proved that 
it had been contaminated in the country. 
The proposition to include the Cattle Plague in the list of 
unsoundness for which the vendor is responsible up to a cer¬ 
tain time after sale, was rejected by the majority of the 
assembly. 
The conference terminated its labours by discussing the 
whole of the principles which should form a basis for inter¬ 
national regulations against the malady, but as only a brief 
