Letter

FRENCH, Acting Secretary to the foot-and-mouth disease, August 4, 1883

Author

FRENCH, Acting Secretary

Recipient

the foot-and-mouth disease

Date

August 4, 1883

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 4 in No. 675.—Circular.]

Report of United States Treasury Cattle Commission relative to the foot-and-mouth disease.

Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., August 4, 1883.

[1883.—Department. No. 106, Secretary’s Office.]

To collectors of customs and others:

A resolution having been adopted by the British House of Commons opposing the importation into Great Britain of cattle from any country in which the foot-and-mouth disease prevails, and charges having been made in Parliament that such disease prevails in this country, an investigation has been made by the United States Treasury Cattle Commissioners, who find that there is no evidence that American herds are now suffering from the disease. The report of the Commissioners is hereto appended.

Should you at any time learn of the existence of such disease in this country, you will please inform this Department of the particulars without delay.

H. F. FRENCH,
Acting Secretary.

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19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

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