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and are acquainted with the laws of their propagation and devel¬ 
opment. 
Resolved , That we, the undersigned, members of a committee 
of the United States Veterinary Medical Association, appointed 
for that purpose, do hereby respectfully petition that the Honor¬ 
able the Congress of the United States shall establish a Veter¬ 
inary Sanitary Bureau, whose duty it shall be to advise Congress 
as to what measures shall he necessary to control, restrict, or 
eradicate any contagious or infectious disease affecting the domes¬ 
ticated animals; and, 
Resolved , That in view of the urgent necessity for the eradi¬ 
cation of the Lang Plague of cattle from the United States, the 
restriction of “ Texas Fever” of cattle to those Southern States 
in which it is already domiciled, and the protection of our flocks 
and herds against pestilences that may be imported with foreign 
stock, Congress is further respectfully requested to appropriate 
a sufficient sum of money to enable the Veterinary Sanitary 
organization to deal at once and effectually with these important 
matters. 
It may not become us to say whether this petition will be of 
any avail, or if any notice will be taken of it by our honorable 
members of Congress, but at any rate it will show to the country 
at large and to our friends of the Record that there is unity 
amongst the members of the veterinary profession; and that, if 
the names attached to the petition are of any value, there is 
amongst the veterinarians of America sufficient power to organize 
a Veterinary Sanitary Bureau competent to deal with the conta¬ 
gious diseases of our domestic animals, from which the immense 
revenue and wealth of the country have to sustain Such enormous 
yearly losses. 
This petition will be printed and distributed all over the 
country, and we feel no hesitancy in saying that, coming from all 
the States of the Union, it will not fail to be recognized as the 
expression on the part of a large number of our countrymen of 
an important need, which we can no longer afford to overlook, 
notwithstanding the pretended difficulties which are said to be in 
the wav. 
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