130 THE LUNG PLAGUE OF CATTLE. 



RHODE ISLAND. 



Public statutes (revised 1881). 



CHAPTER 84. Of contagious disease among cattle. 



SECTION 1. Every person bringing into the State neat cattle or oilier animals which 

 he knows to be infected with any infectious or contagious disease, or who shall ex- 

 pose such cattle or other animals, known to him to be so infected, to other cattle and 

 animals not infected with such disease, shall be fined not less than one hundred dol- 

 lars, nor more than five hundred dollars. 



SEC. 2. The town councils of the several towns may pass such ordinances as they 

 may think proper, to prevent the spread of infectious or contagious diseases among^ 

 cattle and other animals within their respective towns, and may prescribe penalties 

 for the violation thereof, not exceeding twenty dollars for any one offence. 



SEC. 3. The' State board of health may prohibit the introduction of any cattle or 

 other domestic animals into that State. Every person who shall bring, transport, or 

 introduce any cattle or other domestic animals into the State, after said board or any 

 one of them shall have published for five successive days in such newspapers pub- 

 lished in this State as the said board may direct, an order forbidding such introduc- 

 tion, shall be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars for every such offence ; and 

 every officer or agent of any company or other person who shall violate such order 

 shall be subject to the fine aforesaid. In case of the introduction into the State of 

 cattle or other domestic animals, contrary to the order of said board, the introduc- 

 tion of each animal shall be deemed a separate and distinct offence. 



SEC. 4. Said board shall endeavor to obtain full information in relation to any con- 

 tagious disease which may prevail among cattle or other domestic animals near the 

 border of the State, and shall publish and circulate such information in their discre- 

 tion ; and should any such disease break out, or should there be reasonable suspicion 

 of its existence among cattle or other domestic animals in any town in the State r 

 they shall examine the cases, and publish the result of their examination, for the 

 benefit of the public. 



SEC. 5. Said board may appoint suitable and discreet persons, on or near the sev- 

 eral highways, turnpike-roads, railroads, and thoroughfares in the State, who shall 

 inquire into all violations of this chapter, and report the same to said board. 



SEC. 6. Every person who shall sell, or offer to sell, any milk from any such cat- 

 tle or other domestic animals, shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or 

 to be imprisoned not exceeding two years, either or both, in the discretion of the 

 court. 



SEC. 7. Said board may make all necessary regulations for the prevention, treat- 

 ment, cure, and extirpation of such disease ; and the value of all cattle or other do- 

 mestic animals killed on the written order of said board shall be appraised by three 

 disinterested persons to be appointed by said board, such appraisal to be made im- 

 mediately before the cattle or other domestic animals are killed, and the amount of 

 such appraisal shall be paid by the State to the owner of such cattle or other domes- 

 tic animals ; and every person who shall fail to comply with any regulation so made 

 shall be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding 

 one year. 



SEC. 8. Whenever said board shall make and publish any regulations concerning 

 the extirpation, cure, or treatment of cattle or other domestic animals infected with 

 or which have been exposed to any contagious disease, such regulations shall super- 

 sede the regulations made by the authorities of the several towns and cities upon 

 the same subject ; and the operation of such* regulations made by said authorities 

 shall be suspended during the time those made by said board shall be in force. 



SEC. 10. All prosecutions for offenses against the provisions of this chapter shall 

 be commenced within thirty days after the same shall have been committed, and not 

 afterwards. 



In force on and after February 1, 1882. 



VERMONT. 



(Revised laws, 1880.) 



SECTION 4013. A person who drives or brings neat cattle into a town in this State 

 from another State, or is accessory thereto, knowing that any of 'them have the dis- 

 ease or have been exposed to the disease known as pleuro-pneumonia shall forfeit to 

 the town not more than $500, or be imprisoned not more than twelve months and not 

 less than one month, in the discretion of the court. 



SECTION 4014. A town, at a meeting held for that purpose, may establish regula- 

 tions, appoint officers or agents, and raise and appropriate money to prevent and 



