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CORRESPONDENCE 
“ Sections 7 and 8 provide that the transportation from one 
State to another, of any live-stock affected by any contagious or 
infectious disease, and especially the disease known as pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or impris¬ 
onment.” 
The Committee “ deem it an essential condition in any at¬ 
tempt to prevent the spread of this disease, that the removal 
from one State to another of diseased animals should be declared 
a misdemeanor under the law, and punishable according to the 
aggravation of the offense. They have no doubt of its constitu¬ 
tionality, or of the propriety and present necessity of its enact¬ 
ment.” 
“ Section 9 confers upon the Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia ample power and authority to prevent the introduction 
or if found to exist within the limits thereof, to provide rules and 
regulations for its speedy and effectual extirpation.” 
Section 10 makes it the duty of the several United States 
District-Attorneys to prosecute all violations of this act which 
shall be brought to their notice or knowledge by any person mak- 
the complaint.” 
In speaking of the restrictions placed by the English, French 
and German Governments upon the importations coming from 
the United States of live-stock, they say : “ It is believed that if 
a veterinary divis^n could be established under some part of the 
Government, with power to restrict the transportation of diseased 
animals, and those comiugfrom and passing through infected dis¬ 
tricts, much might be done towards remedying the evil objected 
to.” 
The question of inoculation is not touched upon, except as they 
add to their own report, that of Dr. D. E. Salmon, Veterinary Sur¬ 
geon of the Department of Agriculture, who states : “ As about 
20 per cent, of all the animals exposed are able to resist the con¬ 
tagion indefinitely, a herd of comparatively unsusceptible cattle 
is in time acquired, and the time necessary for this is shortened 
both in Baltimore and Brooklyn by the practice of inoculation. 
But these stables and grounds remain infected, and a large pro¬ 
portion of the new cows brought into them contract the disease, 
