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proceeding had given imperfect results, no accident having been 
thus far attributed to it. 
He agreed with Mr. Bouley that it would be proper to estab¬ 
lish mutual insurance companies, and to indemnify owners. 
Without indemnity, one cannot be sufficiently severe ; diseased 
animals would be concealed, and there would be fraud in the 
dealing in tuberculous meats. 
Mr. Bouley requested leave to subject his proposition to the 
vote of the Congress, in order that the principle it involves, 
which in his view must be the most rigorous and absolute, should 
be presented; as to the administratiori, that is the business of 
•authorities. 
Mr. Kossignol presented an* amendment which reads as fol¬ 
lows : “ All animals slaughtered for sale, presenting the lesions 
of tuberculosis, must be seized as meat absolutely unfit for con¬ 
sumption. The cadavers of such animals ought to be submitted 
immediately to the effect of pyroginous agents and treated by 
sulphuric acid, or submitted to a long process of boiling.” 
Mr. Van Hertsen proposed to strike from paragraph F the 
words 4i that the lymphatic glands show themselves yet free from 
any morbid lesion of phthisis.” 
The first part was carried by twenty-five yeas, there being 
fourteen absentees. 
The second received fifteen in favor and fourteen against it,, 
nine being absent. In view of this vote, the amendment of 
Messrs. Wirtz and Van Hersten were withdrawn. Several mem¬ 
bers called for a vote on paragraph G. Mr. Kossignol did not wish 
to be as severe as Mr. Lydtin ; the milk of animals suspected of con¬ 
tamination ought not to be infected; consequently he would like 
to see paragraph G withdrawn. Mr. Bouley endorsed this prop¬ 
osition. 
Mr. Lydtin said that he only made a recommendation; his 
advice was to have the milk well boiled before using. He 
objected to the proposition of Mr. Kossignol. 
Paragraph five, thus modified, was unanimously adopted, less 
five voices. 
Mr. Bouley asked for a vote on paragraph ZZ, which he 
proposed to modify as follows : 
