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removed, and authority given to expend money for all the purposes men- 

 tioned in the first section. 



Section six should he so amended that no person can move any bovine 

 animals from a district declared in quarantine by the Commissioner of 

 Viniculture to any other State or Territory, without a permit from an In- 

 spector of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



Section nine should be amended so that it shall be the duty of the sev- 

 eral United States District Attorneys to defend all officers of the bureau 

 sued for acts committed by them in the discharge of their official duties, 

 in addition to what the section now provides the District Attorneys shall do. 



A new section should be added to the Act, providing that the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture shall declare in quarantine all districts in which 

 pleuro-pneumonia is found to exist, and that notice thereof shall be pub- 

 lished in one or more newspapers. Also, upon the extirpation of the dis- 

 ease, he shall give notice in like manner of this fact, and of the removal 

 of the quarantine. 



Another section should be added, providing that whenever the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture ascertains that from any cause it is impossible to 

 enforce the methods adopted for the extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia in 

 . any State, and he believes that there is danger of its spreading to other 

 States and Territories, he shall, with the approval of the President of the 

 Tinted States, declare said State to be in quarantine, and thereafter it 

 shall be unlawful to move any bovine animal in or out of said State, and 

 any person so doing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by 

 fine or imprisonment, or both. Provided, that animals may be moved in 

 or out of said State upon a permit given by an Inspector of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, in accordance with such regulations as may be adopted 

 by the Commissioner of Agriculture, to any other State or Territory, with- 

 out a permit from an Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



Section nine should be amended so that it shall be the duty of the sev- 

 eral United States District Attorneys to defend all officers of the bureau 

 sued for acts committed by them in the discharge of their official duties, in 

 addition to what the section now provides the District Attorneys shall do. 



A new section should be added to the Act, providing that the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture shall declare in quarantine all districts in which 

 pleuro-pneumonia is found to exist, and that notice thereof shall be pub- 

 lished in one or more newspapers. Also, upon the extirpation of the disease, 

 he shall give notice in like manner of this fact and of the removal of the 

 'juarantine. 



Another section should be added, providing that whenever the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture ascertains that, from any cause, it is impossible to 

 enforce the methods adopted for the extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia in 

 any State, and he believes that there is danger of its spreading to other 

 States and Territories, he shall, with the approval of the President of the 

 United States, declare said State to be in quarantine, and thereafter it 

 shall be unlawful to move any bovine animal in or out of said State, and 

 any person so doing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by 

 fine or imprisonment, or both; provided, that animals may be moved in 

 or out of said State upon a permit given by an Inspector of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, in accordance with such regulations as may be adopted 

 by the Commissioner of Agriculture for the safety of the cattle interests of 

 other States. 



Another section might be added, providing that whenever in the judg- 

 ment of the Commissioner of Agriculture it is necessary to prevent the 

 introduction of a contagious disease into any State or Territory from any 



