This resolution wa,s approved by the governor March 27, 1879. At the same time, an act pre viously adopted by the committee was intro duced, which, after amendment, passed both branches of the legislature. The law of New York, approved by Gov. Hoyt, May 1, 1879, and entitled, an act to prevent the spread of conta gious or infectious pleuro-pneumonia among the cattle in this State, is as follows: Sec. I. Be it enacted, etc., That whenever it shall be brought to the notice of the governor of taia State that the diaeaae known as contagious or infectious pleura pneumonia exists among the cattle in any of the counties ID this State, it shall be his duty to take measures to promptly suppress the disease and prevent it from spread ing.
Sec. 2. That for such purpose the governor shall have power, and he is hereby anthorized, to issue his proclama tion, stating that the said infectious or contagioua disease exists in any county or counties of the State, and warning all pers me to seclude all animals in their posseasion that are affected with such disease, or have been exposed to the infection or contagion thereof, and ordering all persons to take such precautions against the spreading of such disease as the nature thereof may, in hie judgment, render necessary or expedient; to order that any premises, farm, or farms where such disease exists or haa exiated be pnt in quarantine, so that no domestic animal be removed from said places so quarantined, and to prescribe such regulations as he may judge neceasnry or expedient to prevent infection or contagion being communicated in any way from the places so quarantined; to call upon all sheriffs and deputy aheriffa to carry out and enforce the provisions of such proclamations, orders, and regulations, and it shall be the duty of all the sheriffs and deputy eheriffs to obey and observe all orders and inatructions which they may receive from the governor in the premieea; to employ snch and so many medical and veterinary practitioners and such other peraone as he may, from time to time, deem necessary to assist him in performing his duty as set forth in the first section of this act, and to fix their compensation; to order all or any animals coming into the State to be detained at any place or places for the purpose of inspection and examination; to prescribe regulations for the destruction of animals affected with the said infectious or contagious disease, and for the proper disposition of their hides and carcases, and of all objects which might convey infection or contagion (pro vided that no animala shall be destroyed unlesa &at examined by a medical or veterinary practitioner in the employ of the governor aforesaid); to prescribe regula tions for the diainfection of all premisee, buildings, and railway-cars, and of objects from or by which infec tion or contagion may take place or be conveyed; to alter and modify, from time to time, aa he may deem expedient, the terms of all such proclamations, orders and regula tions, and to cancel or withdraw the same at any time. Sec. 3. That all the necessary expenses incurred under the direction, or by authority, of the governor in carrying out the provisions of Ulla act shall be paid by the treaaurer, upon the warrant of the auditor-general, on being certified as correct by the governor: Provided, that animala coming from a neighboring State that have passed a veterinary examination in said State, and have been quarantined and discharged, shall not be subject to the provisions of thin act.
Under authority of the act before quoted, and based upon the report of the commission, his excellency Governor Hoyt appointed a special agent to take charge of the matter, under a special commission, as follows: It having been ascertained that an infectious and contagious disease of neat cattle, known as pleuro-pneu MOIlia, has been brought into and exists in certain counties of this State, I hereby appoint you as my assistant to early out the provisions of the acts of 1866 and 1879, for the prevention of the spread of this disease. As such assistant you are hereby authorized—To prohibit the rnovement of cattle within the infected districts, except on license from yourself, after skilled veterinary examination under your direction. To order all owners of cattle, their agents, employ4s, or servants, and all veterinary sur geons, to report forthwith to you all cases of disease by them suspected to be contagious; and when such notification is received you are directed to have the case examined, and to cause such animals as are found to be infected with said disease to be quarantined, as also all cattle which have been exposed to the infection or contagion of said disease, or are located in any infected district, but you may, in your discre tion, permit such animals to be slaughtered on the premises and the carcases to be disposed of as meat if, upon examination, they shall be found fit for such use. You may prohibit and prevent all persons not employed in the care of cattle therein kept from entering any infected premises.
You may likewise prevent all persons so em ployed in the care of animals from going into stables, yards, or premises where cattle are kept, other than those in which they- are employed. You may cause all clothing of persons engaged in the care, slaughtering, or rendering of diseased or expoaed animals or in any employment which brings them in contact with such diseased animals, to be disinfected before they leave the premises where such animals are kept. You may prevent the manure, forage, and litter upon infected premises from being removed there from; and you may cause such disposition to be made thereof as will, in your judgment, best prevent the spread of the disease. You may cause the buildings, yards, and premises in which the disease exists, or has existed, to be thoroughly disinfected. You are further direc ted, whenever the slaughter of diseased animals is found necessary, to certify the value of the animal or animals so slaughtered, at the time of slaughter, taking into account their condition and circumstances, and to deliver to their owner or owners, when requested, a duplicate of such certificate. Whenever any owner of such cattle, or his agent or servant, has willfully or know ingly withheld, or allowed to be withheld, notice of the existence of said disease upon his premises, or among his cattle, you will not make such certificate. You are also directed to take such measures as you may deem necessary to disinfect all cars or vehicles or movable articles by which contagion is likely to be transmitted. You will also take such measures as shall insure the registry of cattle introduced into any pre raises on which said disease has existed, and to keep such cattle under supervision for a period of three months after the removal of the diseased animal and the subsequent disinfection of said premises. You are further authorized and empowered to incur such expenses in carrying out the provisions of the foregoing orders as may, in your judgment, appear necessary, and see to it that all bills for such expenses be trans mitted to this department only through yourself, -after you have approved the same in writing. [The editor considers it proper to state, in this -connection, that the importance of repressive measures for the stamping out of the disease .(and the impossibility of doing this, once it is dis tributed in the West), has caused him to collate largely on the subject of Pleuro-pneumonia]. In relation to preventive treatment, and for dis infection, Dr. Law, in his Veterinary Adviser, recommends the following, as instructions for the stables, etc. For stables instructions may 'embrace what follows: 1. Remove all litter, manure, feed and fodder, from the stables; scrape the walls and floor; wash them if necessary, remove all rotten wood.-2. For buildings take chloride of lime one-half lb., crude carbolic acid four oz., and water one gallon ; add freshly burned quicklime till thick enough to make a good whitewash; whitewash with this the whole roof, walls, floors, posts, mangers, drains, and other fixtures in the cow stables.-3. Wash so as to thoroughly cleanse all pails, buckets, stools, forks, shovels, brooms, and other movable arti cles used in the buildings, then wet tbem all over with a solution of carbolic acid one-half lb., water one gallon.-4. When the empty building has been cleansed and disinfected as above, close the doors and windows, place in the center of the building a metallic dish holding one lb flowers •of sulphur; set fire to this and let the cow shed stand closed and filled with the fumes for at least two hours. The above should suffice for a close .stable capable of holding twelve cows. For larger or very open buildings more will be required.— -5. The manure from a stable where sick cattle have been kept must be turned over and mixed vvith quicklime, two bushels to every load; then hauled by horses to fields to which no cattle have access, and at once plowed under by horses.-6. The pits, where the manure has been, must be cleansed and washed with the disinfectant fluid as for buildings, (see 2).-7. The surviving herd _should be shut up in a close building for half an hour once or twice a day, and made to breathe the fumes of burning sulphur. Close doors and windows, place a piece of paper on a clean shovel, lay a few pinches of flowers of sulphur upon it, and set it on fire, adding more sulphur, pinch by pinch, as long as the cattle can stand it without coughing. Continue for a month.-8. Give two drachms powdered copperas, green vit riol, daily to each cow in meal or grains; or, • divide one pound copperas into fifty powders, and give one daily to each adult animal.-9, Do not use for the surviving cattle any feed, fodder nor litter that has been in the same stable with the sick. They may safely be used for horses and sheep. In certain cases further measures are needed, as removal of the flooring and soil be neath, or even the burning of the entire struc ture. Drains must also be cleansed.