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$10,000 to meet instant expenses in currying; unt the provisions 
of Chapter 134 Laws of 1878, for stamping out this pestilence. 
The Governor, acting on Prof. Law’s report, issued an order to 
Sheriff Rush more, of Queens Co., to quarantine the cow stables 
of Gaff, Fleischmann & Co., at Blissville. 
On the 12th of February, Governor Robinson appointed Gen. 
M. R. Patrick to take charge of the work, and Prof. Law as his 
veterinary adviser; and on the 13th operations were commenced 
in Brooklyn. A veterinary staff was organized, and the slaughter 
of diseased and infected cows began in the Blissville stables, 
879 cows, of whom 64 had the disease and were killed on the 
premises, and sent to the offal dock, and the balance—815—were 
sent to the butcher. 
This prompt action of the State caused much excitement, not 
only among cattle men, but in the public mind generally, which 
was fanned by the wild and extravagant reports of newspaper 
men. 
To prevent cattle from Brooklyn and adjoining infected towns 
being removed to the eastern end of Long Island, hitherto free 
from disease, Mr. J. Howard Rushmore, Secretary of the Queens 
Co. Agricultural Society, was placed in charge of the three east¬ 
ern towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay, and 
Mr. Benj. Albertson in charge of the three adjoining towns of 
Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown, with orders to allow no move¬ 
ment of cattle from the western part of the Island toward the 
east. 
On the 31st of March work began in New York, arrangements 
having been made to inspect all arrivals of store cattle at the 
Union Stock Yards and steamboat piers. Inspections of the cow 
sheds of New York and Brooklyn were commenced, as well as in 
the towns of Kings and Queens Counties. All railroads termi¬ 
nating in the cities of New York and Brooklyn were prohibited 
from unloading any cattle, except at certain designated places, 
from which no milch cow, calves, or store cattle could be 
removed without a permit, showing inspection and bearing the 
autograph of M. R. Patrick, given by the Inspector detailed for 
that duty. 
