No. 7. DEPAE<TMENT OF A(5RIC[JLTURE. fil 



AN ACT FOR THE PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF DIS 

 EASE FROM THE CARCASSES OF ANIMALS. 



AN ACT 



To provide for the prevention of the spread of disease from the car- 

 casses of animals that die of dangerous or virulent disease, or are 

 killed while afllicted with such disease; to provide for the safe 

 disposal or destruction of such carcasses; to authorize the State 

 Live Stock Sanitary Board to make regulations for the enforce- 

 ment of this act; and to provide penalties for the violations of 

 this act and of the regulations that may be made under it by the 

 State Live Stock Sanitary Board. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That when any domestic animal may 

 die of, or be killed while afflicted with, an infectious, contagious, 

 germ or parasitic disease, adjudged by the State Live Stock Sanitary 

 Board to be of a dangerous or virulent character, and in particular 

 when any domestic animal may die or be killed while it is afflicted 

 with any one of the diseases known as anthrax, black quarter, hog 

 cholera, swine plague, rabies or glanders, the owner or owners of 

 such animal shall at once destroy or dispose of the carcass of such 

 animal by one of the methods herein provided. 



Section 2. The methods of destruction or disposal shall be of a 

 kind that will completely destroy or securely sequestor the poison, 

 germ, parasite or infective agent of the disease with which the ani- 

 mal was afflicted at the time of death. The following methods of 

 destruction or disposal shall be allowed: One. Complete burning or 

 cremation of the carcass, and of all of its parts and products. Two. 

 Boiling the carcass and all of its parts and products in water, or 

 heating the same with steam, at the temperature of boiling water, 

 for at least two hours. Three. Burying the carcass and all of its 

 parts and products in a place that is not subject to overflow from 

 ponds or streams, that is distant not less than one hundred feet from 

 any water-course, well, spring, public highway or building used as 

 a house or stable, and in the following manner to wit: The grave 

 shall be of such a depth that when the carcass and the parts and pro- 

 ducts thereof are placed in it, and the grave is filled with earth and 

 the top is smoothed to the level of the surrounding surface, the up- 

 permost part of the carcass and of its parts and products shall be 

 completely covered; and, further, the grave shall be so protected 

 that the carcass cannot be dug out or exposed by dogs or other ani- 



