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try, five hundred thousand dollars: and the Commissioner of Agriculture 



is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary 



Or expedient, and in BUch a manner as he may think best, to prevent the 

 spread of pleuro-pneumonia, and for this inn-pose to employ as many per- 

 sons as he may deem necessary, and to expend any part of this sum in the 

 purchase and destruction of diseased or exposed animals, and the quaran- 

 tine of the same whenever in his judgment it is essential to prevenl the 

 spread of pleuro-pneumonia from one Stat.' into another: one hundred 

 thousand dollars of this sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to 

 be immediately available. 



Appropriation Act for Department of Agriculture, approved March 3, 

 lss;. 



