No. 896.
Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Bayard.

No. 38.]

Sir: I have received the inclosed communications which I asked for under the instructions of your No. 24, of September 28, on the subject of the exclusion of hog products from the Netherlands. They consist of copies of the regulations adopted by the ministers of the interior and of finance in 1885, the general regulations adopted by the present minister of internal affairs, and the special exception as to ships in port. You will observe by the last line of No. 2 that the matter is by no means so serious as was at first supposed, the change being merely of form. Under these circumstances I have not pressed my request for a personal interview, believing that the ground of your dispatch was effectually covered, and I shall await your further instructions before doing so, as, from the tenor of all communications received by me, I judge that there is no unfriendliness among Netherlands officials towards the products of the American hog.

I am, etc.,

R. B. Roosevelt.
[Inclosure 1 in No. 38.—Translation.]

Regulations relative to the importation of cattle.

The ministers of the interior and finance taking into consideration the official information which has been received showing that epidemic diseases are observed among cattle of various neighboring empires, and in consequence of the favorable state of health of the Netherlands stock of cattle in the Netherlands, and in the interest of commerce [Page 1335] and industry, acting under articles 1 and 3 of the King’s resolution of December 8,1870 (Staatsblad No. 194), and of articles 1 and 2 of the King’s resolution of April 9, 1884 (Staatsblad No. 48), do hereby notify those whom it may concern:

(1)
That no dispensation of the prohibition of import and transit of meat-cattle, sheep, rams, goats, and hogs of foreign countries can be allowed, except by special exception and by approval of the minister of internal affairs.
(2)
That beginning with March 15 next, the King’s commissioners are authorized to allow dispensation of the prohibition of import and transit of fresh hides, fresh and salt meat, raw fat, manure, raw wool, hair, legs, horns, and all products of meat-cattle, sheep, rams, goats, on the following conditions of import and transit:
(a)
That on request there shall be furnished a description of the quality and the quantity of the article for import and transit and the places of origin and destination.
(b)
That on request a certificate shall be furnished which shows sufficiently that the articles for import and transit come out of a place not afflicted by epidemic disease.
(c)
That the goods are properly packed or covered, and during transport have not come in contact with other cattle, and are not placed in wagons or boats or separate inclosures not designated for the transport of cattle.
(d)
Reserving, however, the right to require such precautions of a particular nature in the interest of protection from epidemics for any special occasion and for local or other circumstances which the King’s commissioners may prescribe as to the transport and handling of the articles for import and transit as they shall think necessary.

  • W. S. Heemskirk,
    The Minister of Internal Affairs.
  • W. S. Grobbee,
    The Minister of Finance.
[Inclosure 2 in No. 38.—Translation.]

Regulations relative to the importation of hogs and hog products.

The minister of the interior, acting under the resolution of August 14,1888 (Staatsblad No. 142), which also refers to the royal resolution of April 9,1884 (Staatsblad No, 48), and forbids the import and transit of hogs, fresh and salt pork, lard, legs, manure-and other products of hogs from foreign countries, which resolution goes into operation the 26th instant, brings to the knowledge of whom it may concern that the King’s commissioners in the different provinces are authorized to allow exceptions from the prohibition of import and transit from foreign countries of fresh and salt pork, lard, legs, manure, and other products of hogs, under the conditions named in Sub. 2, a, b, c, and d in the regulations of the ministers of the interior and of finance of March 11, 1885 (Staatsblad of March 12, 1885), except that in the condition Sub. b, for “a place not afflicted by epidemic disease of cattle,” must be read a place not afflicted by epidemic disease of which hogs suffer.”

Mackay.
[Inclosure 3 in No. 38.—Translation.]

Circular of the minister of internal affairs.

The minister of internal affairs has addressed, under date of September 4, 1888, No. 3147, section medical police, the following circular to the King’s commissioners:

I have the honor to inform you that I have no objection that one or two hogs should be kept and fed on board of sea-going vessels, provided they are not to be unloaded, but killed on board, or exported again with the same vessel, or to the use of fresh, dried, and salted hog meat and pork as provision on board, without, however, exempting them from the prohibition in the King’s resolution of August 14, 1888 (Staatsblad No. 142), as to free import.

The inspectors of taxes in the different provinces are hereby notified of this regulation.

Mackay,
The Minister of Internal Affairs.