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SCOTTISH CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. 
Pleuro-Pneumonia Inquiry^ in Connection with 
Cattle Traffic and Transit. 
REMIT. 
Aberdeen, July 1868. 
^^That, without committing itself to an opinion as to slaugh¬ 
tering all animals affected with pleuro-pneumonia^ the 
Chamber appoint the directors a committee to consider 
the whole question of legislation for the exclusion and 
limitation of contagious diseases, and to report to the 
next meeting of the Chamber.^^ 
In prosecution of the above remit to them, tlie directors 
prepared questions for the opinions of leading veterinary 
surgeons in the United Kingdom as to the origin and nature 
of the disease, and sent these to Professors Simonds and 
Finlay Dun, veterinary surgeons for England; Professor 
Ferguson, for Ireland; Mr. Edwards, for Wales; Professors 
Williams and MUall, for Scotland, and received full and 
anxiously prepared opinions in answer, and submitted a 
report thereon to the annual meeting of the Chamber in 
November last. At that meeting an amendment on this 
report was proposed by Messrs. Goodlet and Barclay, and 
the matter was recommitted to the directors for further 
consideration. 
Since then various meetings and discussions have taken 
place on the subject; and at a meeting of the counties 
committee on the 3rd February last, other amendments 
were proposed and remitted to the directors for consi¬ 
deration, and they have now agreed to adopt the following as 
their 
final report. 
That a Consolidated Cattle Diseases, Traffic, and Transit 
Act of Parliament would, by providing increased security and 
protection from disease, and thereby decreasing the cost of 
producing meat, be of the greatest advantage, not only to the 
agricultural interest, but to the whole community. 
That such Act of Parliament should contain the following 
requirements : 
1. That cattle conveyed in any railway, truck, ship, or boat, 
for a period exceeding twelve hours, be provided with a supply 
of water before the expiry of that period, and at least once 
in every period of twelve hours thereafter, the period being 
reckoned from the time at which the cattle are delivered for 
