i A Cook County was placed in quarantine May 24 by the publication 
“in the newspapers and by sending a notice to the officers of the rail- 
road and transportation companies. These notices were as follows: 
S UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE, 
Washington, D. C., May 24, 1887. 
To. the managers and agents of all railroad and other transportation companies 
i throughout the United States, and other persons: 
- Notice is hereby given by publication, in pursuance of section 7 of an act of Con- 
gress approved May 29, 1884, entitled ‘‘An act for the establishment of a Bureau of 
Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means 
for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases 
among domestic animals,” that a contagious, infectious, and communicable disease, 
known as pleuro-pneumonia, exists among cattle in the county of Cook, State of 
Illinois ; that all cattle in said infected district are hereby quarantined until further 
notice, and deemed cattle ‘‘affected with a contagious disease,” and all persons are 
prohibited from moving or transporting any cattle from said county of Cook, State of 
Tiinois, to any other State or Territory of the United States, under penalty of sec- 
-tions 6 and 7 of the above entitled act: Provided, however, That any cattle that have 
been examined by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and by said in- 
spector are certified to in writing as being free of pleuro-pneumonia, may be trans- 
ported to any other State or Territory from said infected district within forty-eight 
hours after being so certified to: And provided further, That said inspector is fur- 
nished with an affidavit made by two disinterested persons, stating that they have 
_ known said cattle fora period of six months immediately prior to to the examination, 
- and that during that time said cattle have not been exposed to pleuro-pneumonia. 
Said inspector may require further evidence that the cattle have not been exposed, 
and such proof as he requires must be given him. 
The attention of all persons is called to sections 6 and 7 of the act of Congress ap- 
proved May 29, 1884, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, which sections 
make it a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $5,000, 
or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and impris- 
onment, for any transportation company or person to receive for transportation, or to 
transport, or to drive, from one State or Territory to another any live stock affected 
with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and especially pleuro- 
pneumonia ; or for any person or persons to deliver such affected live stock to any 
transportation company. : . 
A reward of $100 will be paid to any person giving information to the Chief of 
the Bureau of Animal Industry that results in the conviction of any person for a 
violation of sections 6 and 7 of the act of Congress of May 29, 1884. ~ 
NORMAN J. COLMAN, 
Conmissioner of Agriculture. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, 
Washington, D. C., May 24, 1887. 
To the agents of 
You will take notice that, in pursuance of section 7 of an act of Congress ap- 
proved May 29, 1884, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, you are hereby 
notified that a contagious disease, known as pleuro-pneumonia, exists among cat- 
tle in the county of Cock, State of Illinois, in and through which infected district 
. your company is doing business. Said district is hereby declared in quarantine un- 
_ til further notice, and you are hereby directed not to receive for transportation, nor 
to transport, any cattle from said county, in said State, to anyother State or Ter- 
ritory, unless such cattle have first been examined and inspected by an inspector 
of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, and said inspector gives a certifi- 
cate in writing that the cattle examined are free from the contagious disease 
known as pleuro-pneumonia, and have not been exposed to such disease, in which 
case said cattle so certified to may be transported from said district within forty- 
eight hours from the time of examination, and not otherwise. Before examining 
cattle to certify for transportation the inspector must be furnished with an affidavit, 
made by two disinterested persons, stating that they have known the cattle for a 
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