198 DKPAimiKNT OF AGRICULTURE. 



and the orders of this board supersede those of selectmen of towns and mayors and alder 

 men of cities. The law provides that cattle diseased or suspected of disease can neither 

 be removed to another State, nor killed, except by permission. Owners of animals killed 

 on account of disease are indemnified. Town authorities may brand infected animals, and 

 for selling animals so branded a fine of $500 may be imposed, or imprisonment for one year. 



The law of Rhode Island punishes the offence of bringing diseased cattle into the 

 State with a fine of $100 to 500. 



Township committees in New Jersey, upon notice of a cattle disease supposed to be 

 contagious, are required to cause the separation of animals presenting symptoms of such 

 disease, five hundred feet from any highway or the premises of neighbors. Penalties are 

 inflicted for storing the hide or any other part of a diseased animal, and for permitting 

 the admixture of convalescent with healthy animals without permission of the committee. 

 These committees are empowered to prohibit the passage of cattle through their townships, 

 and their authority is enforced by a fine of $100 for each animal driven in disregard of the 

 prohibition. The State agricultural society is also authorized to take active measures for 

 preventing the introduction of disease. 



A fine of $500, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, are penalties in Pennsyl 

 vania for selling infected animals ; and cattle and sheep are prohibited from running at 

 large in sections where contagious diseases prevail. 



Only healthy animals are allowed to be driven through the States of Virginia and 

 North Carolina In Virginia, when diseased cattle are found at large, or driven in viola- 

 lation of law, a justice may require the owners to impound them, and upon failure thus to 

 restrain them, the animals are killed by order of the justice and buried at the depth of 

 four feet. 



The owner of &quot;distempered&quot; cattle in Kentucky is liable to a fine of ten dollars 

 each for such animals driven or permitted to run at large through the State; and a penalty 

 of five dollars each punishes a neglect of burial of cattle dying of disease. 



Laws bearing more directly upon the Texas cattle disease are in operation in some of 

 the States west of the Mississippi. 



In Missouri the county court of each county may appoint three competent and 

 discreet persons to act as a board for the inspection of cattle supposed to be infected 

 with the Texas cattle disease. This board is empowered to stop any drove, and 

 to order the removal of the suspected cattle from the county, and by the same route of 

 entry if practicable. Owners complying with such order are not further liable ; in case of 

 refusal or neglect to comply, the president of the board may direct the sheriff to drive the 

 cattle out by the route upon which they came, or to kill them if the slaughter shall be 

 deemed necessary to prevent the spread of the disease. The owners arc liable for all costs 

 of examination, removal, or killing. The act to prevent the introduction of diseased cattle 

 into tiie State provides that no Texas, Mexican, or Indian cattle shall be driven or other 

 wise conveyed into any county in the State between the 1st day of March and the 1st 

 day of December in each year, but this does not apply to any cattle which have been kept 

 the entire previous winter in the State. Cattle may be carried through the State by rail 

 road or steamboat, provided they are not unloaded, but the railroad company or owners of 

 the steamboat are responsible for all damages which may result from the Texas fever, 

 should the same occur along the line of transportation ; and the existence of such disease 



