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through said State. All animals of the kind quarantined against in said 

 State will be deemed as animals "affected with contagious disease;" and 

 any person moving or transporting any of said animals to any other State 

 or Territory, or delivering any of such animals to any transportation com- 

 pany to be so transported, will be prosecuted under Sections 6 and 7 of 

 the Act of Congress approved May 29, 1884; provided, however, that any 

 animal of the kind quarantined against that has been examined by an 

 Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and by a certificate in writ- 

 ing signed by such Inspector, declared to be free from pleuro-pneumonia, 

 may be exported to any other State or Territory; and provided further, 

 that said animal shall be exported within forty-eight hours after such 

 examination and signing of said certificate, so that said animal may not 

 be exposed to disease before leaving said State. 



13. Before giving the certificate provided for by Rule 12 the Inspector 

 must be furnished with an affidavit, made by two reputable and disinter- 

 ested persons, stating that they have known the animals to be examined 

 for a period of six months immediately prior to the date of examination, 

 and that during that time the animals have not been exposed to pleuro- 

 pneumonia; that they have not been in any of the buildings, or on any of 

 the premises, or among any of the herds known to be affected with pleuro- 

 pneumonia, or suspected to be so affected. The Inspector may also 

 require further proof as to whether said animals to be examined have 

 been exposed to pleuro-pneumonia. 



14. All rules and regulations heretofore made are hereby revoked, and 

 these rules and regulations will be imfull force and effect on and after the 

 fifteenth day of April, 1887. 



NORMAX J. COLMAX, 



Commissioner of Agriculture. 



[Public— No. 41.] 



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

 of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro- 

 pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture shall organize in his Department a Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 and shall appoint a chief thereof, who shall be a competent veterinary sur- 

 geon, and whose duty it shall be to investigate and report upon the condi- 

 tion of domestic animals of the United States, their protection and use, and 

 also inquire into and report the causes of contagious, infectious, and com- 

 municable diseases among them, and the means for the prevention and 

 cure of the same, and to collect such information on these subjects as shall 

 be valuable to the agricultural and commercial interests of the country; 

 and the Commissioner of Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ a force 

 sufficient for this purpose, not to exceed twenty persons at any one time. 

 The salary of the Chief of said Bureau shall be three thousand dollars per 

 annum; and the Commissioner shall appoint a clerk for said Bureau, with 

 a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. 



Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to appoint 

 two competent agents, who shall be practical stock raisers or experienced 

 business men familiar with questions pertaining to commercial transac- 

 tions in live stock, and whose duty it shall be, under the instructions of the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, to examine and report upon the best meth- 

 ods of treating, transporting, and caring for animals, and the means to 



