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poi'taLiuii of soulheiii cuttle. Not many years ago, Texas fever was 

 an annual visitor and always caused losses amounting to mauy 

 thousand dollars. 



Rabies. — Outbreaks of rabies have occurred in the following coun- 

 ties: Allegheny, Armstrong, Heaver, Bedford, Berks, Bucks Carbon, 

 Centre, Chester, Clarion, Clinton, Crawford, Erie, Greene, Indiana, 

 Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lawrence, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mer- 

 cer, Montgomery, Montour, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, Tioga, Venango, 

 Warren, Wayne, \A'asliington and Westmoreland. Before this dis- 

 ease can be eiTectively checked it is necessary that there shall be more 

 authority to quarantine dogs in infested districts. It is important 

 that the authority shall be conferred upon the State Live Stock 

 Sanitary Board to destroy dogs running at large in violation of 

 a quarantine established to prevent the spread of this disease. A 

 bill to grant this authority will be presented to the next Legislature, 

 the text of which follows: 



An act to prevent the spread of the disease known as rabies or hydro- 

 phobia, and to authorize the quarantine, restraint, confinement or 

 muzzling of dogs during outbreaks of this disease and to empower 

 the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to enforce the provisions of 

 this act. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., Tliat whenever the disease known as 

 rabies or hydrophobia shall occur among the dogs or other animals 

 in any locality in Pennsylvania and it is adjudged by the State Live 

 Stock Sanitary Board that the disease is spreading or is liable to be 

 spread by dogs that have been exposed, the said board may order the 

 quarantine, restraint, confinement or muzzling of any or all dogs 

 within the limits of the locality in which the danger of infection is 

 deemed to exist. The autdiority hereb^y conferred is not to annul 

 or restrict the authority now possessed by cities or boroughs to quar- 

 antine, reistrain, confine or muzzle dogs within the limits of their 

 respective jurisdictions. 



Section 2. A quarantine or order to restrain, confine or muzzle 

 dogs shall be operative when it is approved by a majority of the mem- 

 bers of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board and when a copy of it 

 bas been left at the usual place of residence of the owner of fhe 

 dog that is believed to have been exposed to rabies or hydropihobia 

 or when the notice or order to quarantine, restrain, confine, or muz- 

 zle dogs has been jniblished in each of two papers in each of the 

 counties within which the regulation is established and when printed 

 notices giving the text of the regulation or order have been posted 

 in public places in tihe locality in which the regulation or order ap- 

 plies. 



