OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



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ACTS REGULATING THE INTERSTATE MOVEMENT OF LIVE STOCK 

 FROM QUARANTINED DISTRICTS, PROHIBITING THE INTERSTATE 

 MOVEMENT OF DISEASED LIVE STOCK, AND PROHIBITING THE 

 IMPORTATION OF DISEASED LIVE STOCK. 



[23 Stat, 31 ; 26 Stat., 414 ; 32 Stat., 791 ; 33 Stat., 1264.] 



Three cases involving violations of the act of May 29, 1884 (23 

 Stat., 31), were reported to the Attorney General. All of these were 

 pending at the close of the year. 



No cases were reported to the Attorney General under the act of 

 August 30, 1890 (26 Stat., 414). In one case pending at the clo.se of 

 the fiscal year 1917 the defendant could not be located, and the case 

 was nolle prossed. 



One hundred and one cases were reported to the Attorney General 

 under the act of February 2, 1903 (32 Stat., 791). At the close of the 

 fiscal year 1917, 16 cases were pending, and sentence stood suspended 

 in 1. Ten cases reported during the year and 5 pending at the close 

 of the fiscal year 1917, in all 15, were terminated. Eleven re.sulted in 

 convictions upon which fines aggregating $1,100 were imposed; in 

 three cases grand juries failed to indict, and one case was dismissed; 

 102 cases were pending at the close of the year. 



Two hundred and eighty-one violations of the act of March 3, 1905 

 (33 Stat.. 1264) , were reported to the Attorney General. At the close 

 of the fiscal year 1917. 170 cases were pending. Sixty-seven cases 

 pending at the end of the fiscal year 1917, and 49 cases reported dur- 

 ing 1918, in all 116, were terminated. One hundred and thirteen 

 ca.ses were terminated by conviction, upon which fines aggregating 

 $11,650 were imposed ; 2 were dismissed ; and in 1 the defendant could 

 not be located, and the case was nolle prossed; 335 cases were pend- 

 ing at the close of the year. 



In each of the cases reported to the Attorney General under the acts 

 of February 2, 1903. and March 3, 1905, a suggested form of indict- 

 ment or criminal information was prepared and submitted therewith 

 for use by the United States attorney in the prosecution. 



The fines imposed in cases under the animal quarantine laws were : 



Fines imposed under the animal quarantine Inws. 



THE VIRUS ACT. 



[37 Stat., 832.] 



Three apparent violations of the act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., 

 832), governing the preparation, shipment, and importation of 

 viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products intended for use in 

 the treatment of domestic animals were reported to the Attorney 

 General. These cases were pending at the close of the fiscal year. 



