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premises or places, including stock yards, cars and vessels within 

 any county or part of the State in or at which they have reason 

 to believe there exists any such diseases, and to make search, 

 investigation and inquiry in regard to the existence thereof. 

 Upon the discovery of the existence of any of the said diseases, 

 the said commissioners are hereby authorized to give notice, by 

 publication, of the existence of such disease, and the locality 

 thereof, in such newspapers as they may select, and to notify in 

 writing the officials or agents of any railroad, steamboat or other 

 transportation company, doing business in or through such 

 infected locality, of the existence of such disease ; and are hereby 

 authorized and required to establish and maintain such quaran- 

 tine of animals, places, premises or localities as they may deem 

 necessary to prevent the spread of any such disease, and also to 

 cause the appraisal of the animal or animals affected with the 

 said disease, in accordance with such rules and regulations by 

 them as hereinafter authorized and provided, and also to cause 

 the same to be destroyed, and to pay the owner or owners thereof 

 one-half of their value, as determined upon the basis of health 

 before infection out of any moneys appropriated by the legisla- 

 ture for that purpose ; provided, however, that no appraised value 

 shall be more than one hundred dollars for an animal with pedi- 

 gree recorded or recordable in the recognized herd-books of the 

 breed in which the animal destroyed may belong, nor more than 

 fifty dollars for an animal which has no recordable pedigree; 

 provided, further, that in no case shall compensation be allowed 

 for an animal destroyed under the provisions of this act, which 

 may have contracted or been exposed to such disease in a foreign 

 country, or on the high seas, or that may have been brought into 

 this State within three years previous to such animals showing 

 evidence of such disease, and the owner or owners shall furnish 

 satisfactory evidence as to the time such animal or animals shall 

 have been owned in the State ; nor shall compensation be allowed 

 to any owner who in person, or by agent, knowingly and wilfully 

 conceals the existence of such disease, or the fact of exposure 

 thereto in animals of which the person making such concealment, 

 by himself or agent, is in whole or part owner. 



SECT. 3. That the said commissioners are hereby authorized 

 and required to make record, and publish rules and regulations 



