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Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act of this year; so that from a 
country like Prance, for example, they would be able to send 
animals for exhibition under these conditions, subject to such 
quarantine regulations as might be issued by the Privy Council; 
and he thought the foreign exhibitors ought to know the exact 
regulations not only that had been made but which might be made. 
It was quite obvious that the regulations which he might make 
would depend upon the state of matters at the time, but he 
thought it should also be shown to the foreigner that a country 
which was called a non-prohibited country to-day might be a 
prohibited country to-morrow; and if a foreigner got up his 
animals with the intention of exhibiting in London next year, it 
might be necessary between this time and next June to declare 
his country a prohibited country. Therefore the foreign agri¬ 
culturist ought to know the exact condition in which he might 
find himself. Before consenting to admit foreign animals, very 
stringent regulations would be imposed by the Privy Council. 
Of course the Boyal Agricultural Society would know that when 
he passed orders for quaaantine they would be solid and bona 
fide, and that he was bound (o carry out under the Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Act, and by these Orders in Council, a real 
and bona fide quarantine. What he intended to do was to have 
such a quarantine as should, if possible, prevent us getting any 
foot-and-mouth disease into the show-yard at Kilburn. By 
some means or other, whether by the regulations which have 
been in operation, or by the more thorough inspection of trucks 
and railway stations, there has not been for some years so little 
foot-and-mouth disease in the country as there is at present; and 
therefore he should be extremely sorry if, by a too lavish hospi¬ 
tality to foreigners we should bring over those diseases which 
foreign cattle were somewhat prone to. He would beg and urge 
upon the Council that before the prize-sheet was issued to the 
foreigner there should be a clear notice as to what he would 
undertake by entering his animals to be shown at Kilburn; and 
that it was quite possible that, though he might enter his ani¬ 
mals within the time specified, circumstances might arise before 
the exhibition took place which would entirely prevent his ani¬ 
mals from coming to this side of the water. He understood that 
the Society were going to provide a quarantine station, but he 
apprehended that would be done under the Orders in Council, 
and that some quarantine station might be provided nearer to 
London than Southampton. In any Orders in Council issued in 
accordance with the Act he should only make such regulations 
as he deemed necessary to prevent the introduction of diseases 
into the country. 
Mr. Jacob Wilson was sure that the very best thanks of the 
