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to call on Sheriffs, Constables, and peace officers to assist them in the discharge of their 

 duties in carrying out the provisions of the Act of Congress approved May twenty-ninth, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry; and it is 

 hereby made the duty of Sheriffs, Constables, and peace officers to assist said Inspectors 

 when SO requested; and said Inspectors shall have the same powers and protection as 

 peace officers while engaged in the discharge of their duties. 



-r . :; All expenses of quarantine, condemnation of animals exposed to disease, and 

 the expenses of any and all measures that may be used to suppress and extirpate pleuro- 

 pneumonia, shall be paid by the United Btates, and in no case shall this State he liable for 

 any damage- or expenses o! any kind under the provisions of this Act. 



BBC. 4. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



("B.") An Act to Cooperate with the United States in the Suppression and Ex- 

 tirpation of Pleuro-Pneumonia. 



1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the 

 Governor is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the State the rules and regulations 

 prepared by the Commissioner of Agriculture, under and in pursuance of section three 

 of an Act of Congress approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, 

 entitled " An Act for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the 

 importation of diseased cattle, and to provide for the suppression and extirpation of 

 pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals," and to co- 

 operate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of 

 the said Act. 



2. And be it enacted, That the Inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the 

 United States shall have the right of inspection, quarantine, and condemnation of ani- 

 mals affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, or suspected to 

 be affected, or that have been exposed to any such disease, and for these purposes are 

 hereby empowered to enter upon any ground or premises. Said Inspectors shall have 

 the power to call upon Sheriffs, Constables, and peace officers to assist them in the dis- 

 charge of their duties in carrying out the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved 

 May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, and of this Act, and it is hereby made the duty of Sheriffs, Constables, and 

 peace officers to assist said Inspectors when so requested; and said Inspectors shall have 

 the same power and protection as peace officers when in the discharge of their duties. 



3. And be it enacted, That whenever animals have been condemned by an Inspector of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry as being diseased, or as having been exposed to disease, they 

 shall be appraised in the manner provided by section three, of chapter two hundred and 

 twenty-five of the laws of New Jersey of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and slaugh- 

 tered.' The amount so appraised shall be limited to the sum of one hundred and sixty 

 dollars for registered thoroughbred animals, and fifty dollars for all others; one half of 

 the appraised value of diseased animals, and the full appraised value of exposed animals, 

 is to be paid to the owners by the Department of Agriculture of the United States upon 

 the approval of the certificate of appraisement by the State Board of Health. 



4. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful to sell for food the carcass of any animal con- 

 demned and slaughtered by the Bureau of Animal Industry, provided that the Inspector 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry making the post-mortem examination on such animals 

 shall certify the same not to have been diseased. 



5. A nd be it enacted, That whenever the Inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry find 

 that contagious pleuro-pneumonia exists among cattle in any city, township, or county of 

 this State, and the Commissioner of Agriculture of the United States believes there is 

 danger of the spread of said 'disease to other districts, he is hereby authorized, with the 

 approval of the Governor of the State, to place said city, township, or county in quarantine. 

 Notice of said quarantining shall be published once a week during the continuance of the 

 quarantine in a newspaper published in the district quarantined, and thereafter it shall be 

 lawful for the Bureau of Animal Industry to cause all neat cattle in such district to be 

 numbered, tagged, and registered; and all persons are hereby prohibited, after notice given 

 as aforesaid, from moving any cattle from one herd or premises to another within said 

 district, and from allowing any cattle to be upon any highway or upon any uninclosed land 

 within said district, and from moving an y cattle out of or into said district without a permit 

 signed by an Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry; and from and after notice 

 given as aforesaid all persons keeping cattle in any such district are hereby required to give 

 immediate notice to an Inspector of the said bureau of the sickness or death of any cattle 

 belonging to them or in their possession; and from and after notice given as aforesaid all 

 persons intending to slaughter animals must give notice to an Inspector of said bureau, 

 and all animals must be slaughtered in the presence of an Inspector of said bureau, who 

 will make a post-mortem examination on the animals slaughtered, and if on such post- 

 mortem examination said animals are found free of disease they may be used for purposes 

 of food, but should said animals or any of them be found diseased, the animals so found 

 diseased shall be buried or sent to a rendering establishment. 



6. And be it enacted, That any person or persons, moving or allowing to be moved, or to 

 stray, any neat cattle from premises placed in quarantine by an Inspector of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, or placing on said premises so quarantined, or among animals so 

 quarantined, any bovine animals, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined therefor to 

 an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



