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Steamboats, barges, and all other means of conveyance were 
prohibited from receiving on board, or landing cattle within any 
of the infected counties. All ferries between New York and New 
Jersey were prohibited from carrying milch cows or store cattle, 
except by special permit,—arrangements having been perfected 
between Gen. Patrick and the State Agent of New Jersey, Gen. 
Win. H. Sterling, for the inspection and transfer of such family 
cows as, in the opinion of experts, could be done without danger. 
Our work was most heartily endorsed by the Board of Health 
of each city, and the police were efficient in carrying out the 
quarantine orders. In New York, the authorities enforced our 
rules and regulations for controlling the traffic and movements of 
cattle, as well as the prohibition against pasturing on the com¬ 
mons. In Brooklyn, those in authority released the cows from 
the pound, and by a resolution of the Board of Aldermen the 
pound was abolished. The police magistrates declined to recog¬ 
nize the law, although instructed by the District Attorney as to 
its validity and requirements. A resolution of the Board of Al¬ 
dermen gave permission to the people to graze their cattle on the 
commons, and the Mayor of Brooklyn, when called upon by Gen. 
Patrick with copies of the law and the “ pasturage order,” with 
a request that he would examine and report upon them, remarked 
that, as the resolution of the Aldermen was in opposition to the 
requirements of the State Law , it must be inoperative ; but, al¬ 
though he did not approve the resolution, he did not veto it, and 
it became an ordinance. Permits were also given by some of the 
Aldermen for the moving of cattle upon the streets, in direct oppo¬ 
sition to both the letter and the spirit of the law. Notices were 
served upon them by Gen. Patrick, and actions were commenced 
before the police magistrates for violation of the State law, but 
the excitement of a political canvass and coming election seemed 
to nullify all efforts to obtain decisions, and the work in Brooklyn 
has been greatly obstructed ever since. The police, under such 
circumstances, were powerless to render the aid which they had 
hitherto been prompt to give. 
Through the summer months of 1879, the work of inspection 
of cow sheds and dairy farms of New York and suburbs, and the 
