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animals, and for these purposes it is hereby authorized aud empow 

 ered to establish, maintain, enforce and regulate such quarantine 

 and oilier measures relating to the movements and care of animals 

 and their products, the disinfection of suspected localities and arti- 

 cles, ;iml the destruction of animals, as it may deem necessary, and 

 to adopt from time to time all such regulations as may be necessary 

 and proper for carrying out the purposes of this act: Provided, how- 

 ever, In the case of any slowly contagious diseases, only suspected 

 or diseased animals shall be quarantined," be and the same is hereby 

 amended to read as follows: 



Section 2. That it shall be the duty of the State Live Stock Sani- 

 tary Board to protect the health of the domestic animals of the 

 State; to determine and employ the most efficient and practical 

 means for the prevention, suppression, control, or eradication of 

 dangerous, contagious or infectious diseases among the domestic 

 animals; and for these purposes it is hereby authorized and empow- 

 ered to conduct scientific investigations in relation to the causes, 

 nature, and prevention of diseases of animals; to establish, main- 

 tain, enforce and regulate such quarantine and other measures 

 relating to the movements and care of animals and their products, 

 the disinfection of suspected localities and articles, and the destruc 

 tion of animals, as it may deem necessary; and to adopt, from time 

 to time, all such regulations as may be necessary and proper for 

 carrying out the purposes of this act: Provided, however, In case 

 of any slowly contagious diseases, only suspected or diseased ani- 

 mals shall be quarantined. 



Approved. — The first dav of April, A. D. 1905. 



SAML. W. PENNY PACKER. 



No. 76. 

 AN ACT 



To amend the fourth section of an act, entitled "An act to protect the health of 

 the domestic animals of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," approved the 

 twenty-sixth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 

 ninety-seven, by prescribing penalties and methods of procedure for the en- 

 forcement of the provisions of said act. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, &c, That section four of the act, entitled 

 "An act to protect the health of the domestic animals of the Com- 

 monwealth of Pennsylvania," approved the tw T enty-sixth day of May, 

 Anno Domino one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, which 

 said section now reads as follows, to wit: 



"Section 4. That any person, firm or corporate body violating the 

 provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction shall, in the proper court of the county in which 

 such cattle are sold, offered for sale, delivered to a purchaser, or 

 in which such cattle may be detained in transit, for each offense, 

 forfeit and pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than 

 one hundred dollars, or be punished by imprisonment for not less 

 than ten days nor exceeding thirty days, either or both, at the dis- 

 cretion of the court. Such person, firm or corporate body shall be 

 liable for the full amount of damages that may result from viola- 



