the samples and specimens, models and other representations of appliances used in their preparation and preservation for food as well as for purposes of use and ornament, such as dried, smoked, and canned fish, &c., oils, fertilizers, manufactured shells, corals, sponges, &c.; also a full series of articles, or models thereof, showing the economic condition of our fishermen, such as clothing and other personal outfit, models of dwelling houses, &c.; a collection of documents showing the present condition of fishery legislation; also specimens, models, and illustrations of the apparatus used in the artificial hatching and breeding of fish, oys ters, &c.; models of hatcheries, ponds, fish-ways, transportation cars, vessels, &c.; statistical maps showing the range, abundance, &c., of our fishes, &c.; also such other facts, apparatus, models, specimens, &c., as may be needed to convey a correct idea of this branch of the nation's industries. SEC. 2. And be it further resolved that, with the approval of the director of the National Museum, any cognate portion of the collections thereof may be used in the preparation of the exhibit herein provided for, permission to remove the same from the National Museum being hereby granted. And the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby authorized to obtain by exchange, or otherwise, such procurable objects from other exhibits in London as may tend to perfect the permanent fishery exhibit of the United States National Museum. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries to present to Congress a detailed report of the present condition of the European fisheries, with information as to any methods by which those of the United States can be modified or improved, as well as any suggestions he may deem pertinent in regard to increasing the exportation of fishery products from the United States to foreign countries. SEC. 4. The United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries is hereby authorized to represent the United States at the exhibition in question, either in person or by a deputy to be appointed by the Presi dent of the United States; together with such assistants as he may recommend as useful in carrying out the proposed participation of the United States at the Exhibition. SEC. 5. In order to defray the expenses of the collection, preparation. and packing of the exhibit authorized, its transfer from and to the United States, its installation and supervision in London, and such other incidental expenses as may of necessity arise, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be required, to be immediately available, and to be expended by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries under the direction and regulations of the Department of State. In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, a report from the Secretary of State, touching the existing restrictions on the importation of American neat cattle into Great Britain. APRIL 25, 1882.-Referred to the Committee on Agriculture and ordered to be printed. To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, presented in compliance with the request of the House of Representatives in a res olution of the 10th instant, asking for information touching the exist ing restrictions on the importation of American neat cattle into Great Britain. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 25, 1882. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. To the President: The Secretary of State has had the honor to receive from the House of Representatives a resolution in the following terms: CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Whereas the English Government, with a view of guarding against the introduction and spread of pleuro-pneumonia among the cattle in England and Ireland, has established quarantine rules and prescribed and enforced regulations requiring that cattle imported into England from the United States shall be slaughtered at the port of entry, which, said rules and regulations, in their operation, have tended to greatly injure our export trade in neat cattle; and Whereas careful investigation has disclosed the fact that no cattle infected with pleuro-pneumonia, or that are liable to said infection, are imported into England or Ireland from the United States; and Whereas it is deemed that it would be mutually advantageous to the people of the United States and England to encourage the commerce between the two nations of the character mentioned, and to that end there should be such modifications of the rules and regulations before mentioned as are consistent with the interests of both nations: Therefore Be it resolved, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, required to inform this House touching the present condition of the export trade of the United States with England in neat cattle, and to report, also, what hinderances thereto exist, and what steps, if any, have been taken by our government to modify or remove them; and further, if any additional legislation is needful to adequately encourage said export trade and protect its interests. EDWD. MCPHERSON, Clerk. Attest: In compliance with the foregoing resolution, the Secretary of State has the honor to lay before the President the following report. The resolution calls for information on three points: 1st. The present condition of the export trade of the United States with England in neat cattle; 2d. The hinderances which exist to such trade, and the steps, if any, which have been taken toward their removal or modification; and 3d. The legislation, if any be needful, which would encourage such export trade and protect its interests. Upon the first of these points the Secretary of State has the honor to suggest that later and fuller information can be furnished by the Treasury Department than by the Department of State. The statistics collected by the agents of the Treasury Department are understood to show the export trade in cattle from all our ports to all foreign countries, while the information which this department could give would be based only on the importation returns at the ports where consular of ficers of the United States are stationed. On the second point, the Secretary of State may observe that for some years past the Department of State has been in consultation with the Treasury Department touching the conditions which are set by British legislation upon the importation of living cattle from foreign countries, and the especial effect of those conditions upon the cattle trade between the United States and Great Britain and Canada. In the course of correspondence with the British Government, either through our legation in London or the British legation in this country, the Department of State has communicated the views of the Treasury Department in the premises, and has received and communicated to that department in reply the views of Her Majesty's Government. This corre spondence has shown that the hinderances imposed are in accordance with the provisions of the British statute, while their removal, it has been intimated, was a question of the institution of a complete and ef fective system of domestic legislation to check and extirpate cattle diseases in the United States, joined to an adequate and trustworthy inspection of imported cattle, from the breeding grounds to the sea, with certification of their freedom from disease or contagious influences.. In like manner, the free exchange of cattle between Canada and the United States, and transit of herds from the West to the seaboard across Canadian territory, have been impeded by colonial legislation and regulations analogous to those of the mother country; and these, too, have had the attentive consideration of the Treasury Department. While the Secretary of State would take pleasure in laying before the President for transmission to the House of Representatives the full correspondence of the State Department with the British Government on the general subject for some years past (although the resolution does not specifically call for the production of that correspondence), yet he deems it better to suggest that the Treasury Department be intrusted with the preparation of this much of the reply to the wish of the House of Representatives. The Treasury Department not only possesses in copy most, if not all, of the diplomatic correspondence on the subject, but it also has its own correspondence in relation thereto. The Secretary of State would, however, if deemed desirable, willingly co-operate with the Treasury Department in responding to the resolution by furnishing copies of the diplomatic correspondence here on file, as showing the efforts made to induce the British Government to relax the rigidity of the rule by which the slaughter of cattle on landing is made compulsory. at the farms, in transit, and before shipment, which would admit of asAs to the third point, the Secretary of State begs leave to say that he feels it to be the especial province of the Secretary of the Treasury or the Commissioner of Agriculture to recommend the form of legislation necessary to establish an adequate scheme of cattle inspection certaining and authoritatively certifying the absence of contagious disease and infectious influences among exported animals. In conclusion, the Secretary of State has the honor to annex a copy of the British statute controlling the importation of cattle into the United Kingdom (Contagious Diseases [animals] Act, 1878), as especially necessary to an understanding of the requirements of British legislation, and as suggesting the legislation by which those requirements may best be met, so as to insure the entry of American neat cattle into Great Britain in a living state. 4. Repeal of enactments in schedule, with savings and other pro visions. 5. Interpretation and construction. PART II.-ENGLAND. 6. Extent of part II. 7. Definition of county and other districts. Privy council. 8. Powers of privy council. Local authorities. 9. Local authorities described in schedule. A. D. 1878. 10. Declaration of infected place in cattle plague by inspector. 13. Alteration of infected place or area in cattle plague. 14. Declaration of freedom from cattle plague. 15. Slaughter by privy council in cattle plague, and compensation out of public money. Pleuro-pneumonia. 16. Declaration of infected place in pleuro-pneumonia by local authority. 17. Declaration or extension of infected place in pleuro-pneumonia by privy council. 18. Declaration of infected area in pleuro-pneumonia by privy council. 19. Rules for pleuro-pneumonia. 20. Declaration of freedom from pleuro-pneumonia. 21. Slaughter by local authority in pleuro-pneumonia, and compensa tion out of local rates. Foot-and-mouth disease. 22. Declaration of infected place in foot-and-mouth disease by local authority. 23. Declaration or extension in infected place in foot-and-mouth disease by privy council. 24. Declaration of infected area in foot-and-mouth disease by privy council. 25. Rules for foot-and-mouth disease. 26. Declaration of freedom from foot-and-mouth disease. Exceptional powers for transit and other cases. 27. Privy council to provide for pleuro-pneumonia and foot-and-mouth disease during transit, and in other cases. Infected places and areas, generally. 28. General provisions respecting declaration of infected places and areas. Slaughter in disease, and compensation, generally. 29. Power for privy council to provide for slaughter in other diseases 30. General provisions relative to slaughter and compensation. Notice of disease to police. 31. Separation of diseased animals, and notice to constable, Disease and movement, generally. 32. Power for privy council to make orders for prevention or checking of disease, and other purposes. 33. Provision of water and food at railway stations. Dairies, cow-sheds, and milk-shops. 34. Power for privy council to make orders relative to dairies, cowsheds, and milk-shops. Foreign animals. 35. Prohibition of importation; slaughter or quarantine. 36. Regulation of ports. |