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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. (BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.) 



mals of the United States, their protection and use, 

 and also inquire into and report the causes of con- 

 tagious and communicable diseases among them, and 

 the means for the prevention and cure of the same, 

 and to collect such information on these subjects as 

 shall be valuable to the agricultural and commercial 

 interests of the country ; and the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ a force 

 sufficient for this purpose. The salary of the chief of 

 said bureau shall be $3,000 per annum ; and -the Com- 

 missioner shall appoint a clerk for said bureau, with a 

 salary of $1,500 per annum. 



SECTION 2. That the Commissioner of Agriculture is 

 authorized to appoint two competent agents, who shall 

 be practical stock - raisers or experienced business 

 men, familiar with questions pertaining to commercial 

 transactions in live-stock, whose duty it shall be, 

 under the instructions of the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, to examine and report upon the best methods 

 of treating, transporting, and caring for animals, and 

 the means to be adopted for the suppression and ex- 

 tirpation of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, and to pro- 

 vide against the spread of other contagious diseases. 

 The compensation of said agents shall be at the rate 

 of $10 per diem, with all necessary expenses, while 

 engaged in the actual performance of their duties 

 under this act. 



SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture to prepare such rules and regu- 

 lations as he may deem necessary for the speedy and 

 effectual suppression and extirpation of said diseases, 

 and to certify such rules and regulations to the ex- 

 ecutive authority of each State and Territory, and in- 

 vite said authorities to co-operate in the execution and 

 enforcement of this act. Whenever the plans and 

 methods of the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be 

 accepted by any State or Territory in which pleuro- 

 pneumonia or other infectious or contagious disease is 

 declared to exist, and whenever the Governor of a 

 State or other properly constituted authorities signify 

 their readiness _ to co-operate for the extinction of any 

 contagious or infectious disease in conformity witn 

 the provisions of this act, the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture is hereby authorized to expend so much of 

 the money appropriated by this act as may be neces- 

 sary in such investigations, in paying for the animals 

 it is deemed necessary to slaughter, and in such disin- 

 fection and other means as may be necessary to extir- 

 pate the disease: Provided, That the authorities of 

 said State or Territory shall assume and pay one half 

 of the expense of the valuation of the animals it is 

 deemed necessary to slaughter, and one half the cost 

 of disinfection and necessary police regulations in the 

 quarantine and care of infected herds of cattle. 



SEC. 4. That whenever a State or Territory in any 

 section of which a contagious or infectious disease 

 exists which the Commissioner of Agriculture has de- 

 clared to be dangerous to the animal industries of the 

 nation, fails to make provisions for its extirpation, or 

 to co-operate with the plans of the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture for the extirpation of such disease, the 

 President of the United States, on the presentation 

 of the facts by the Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 shall be authorized to declare in quarantine the said 

 State or Territory, or such part of said State or Ter- 

 ritory as he may deem dangerous to the animal in- 

 dustries of the country, and to regulate or prohibit 

 the transportation of cattle out of said State, Terri- 

 tory, or district 



SEC. 5. That in order to promote the exportation of 

 live-stock from the United States the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture shall make special investigation as to 

 the existence of pleuro-pneumonia, or any contagious 

 or communicable disease, along the dividing lines be- 

 tween the United States and foreign countries, and 

 along the lines of transportation from all parts of the 

 United States to ports from which live-stock are ex- 

 ported, and make report of the results of such in- 

 vestigation to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall 

 from time to time establish such regulations concern- 



ing the exportation and transportation of live-stock as 

 the results of said investigations may require. 



SEC. 6. That to prevent the exportation from any 

 port of the Unitea States to any port in a foreign 

 country of live-stock affected wich any infectious or 

 contagious disease, and especially pleuro-pneumonia, 

 the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby 

 authorized to take such steps and adopt such meas- 

 ures, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, 

 as he may deem necessary. 



SEC. 7. That no railroad company within the United 

 States whose road forms any part of a line of road 

 from one State or Territory to another, or from a State 

 into the District of Columbia, or the owners or mas- 

 ters of any steam or sailing or other vessel or boat, 

 shall receive for transportation or transport from one 

 State or Territory to another, or from any State into 

 the District of Columbia, any live-stock affected with 

 any contagious or infectious disease, and especially 

 the disease known as pleuro-pneumonia; nor shall 

 any person^ company, or corporation deliver for such 

 transportation to any railroad company, or master or 

 owner of any boat or vessel, any live-stock, knowing 

 them to be affected with any contagious or infectious 

 disease ; nor shall any person, company, or corpora- 

 tion drive on foot or transport in private conveyance 

 from one State or Territory to another, or from any 

 State into the District of Columbia, any live-stock, 

 knowing them to be affected with any contagious or 

 infectious disease, and especially the disease known 

 as pleuro-pneumonia. 



SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture to notify, in writing, the proper 

 officials or agents of any railroad, steamboat, or otner 

 transportation company doing business in or through 

 any infected locality, and by publication in such news- 

 papers as he may select, of the existence of said con- 

 tagion ; and any person or persons operating any such 

 railroad, or master or owner of any boat or vessel, or 

 owner or custodian of, or person having control over, 

 such cattle or other live-stock within such infected 

 district who shall knowingly violate the provisions of 

 section 7 of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of 

 not less than $100 nor more than $5,000, or by im- 

 prisonment for not more than one year, or by both 

 such fine and imprisonment. 



SEC. 9. That whenever any infectious or contagious 

 disease affecting domestic animals, and especially the 

 disease known as pleuro-pneumonia, shall be brought 

 into or shall brealc out in the District of Columbia, it 

 shall be the duty of the Commissioners of said Dis- 

 trict to take measures to suppress the same promptly 

 and to prevent the same from spreading ; and for this 

 purpose the said Commissioners are hereby empow- 

 ered to order and require that any premises, farm, or 

 farms where such disease exists, or has existed, be put 

 in quarantine ; to order all or any animals coming into 

 the District to be detained at any place or places for 

 the purpose of inspection and examination ; to pre- 

 scribe regulations for and to require the destruction 

 of animafs affected with infectious or contagious dis- 

 ease, and for the proper disposition of their hides and 

 carcasses ; to prescribe regulations for disinfection, 

 and such other regulations as they may deem neces- 

 sary to prevent infection or contagion being commu- 

 nicated, and shall report to the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture whatever they may do in pursuance of the 

 provisions of this section. 



SEC. 10. That it shall be the duty of the several 

 United States district attorneys to prosecute all viola- 

 tions of this act which shall be brought to their notice 

 or knowledge by any person making the complaint ; 

 and the same shall be heard before any district or 

 circuit court of the United States or Territorial court 

 holden within the district in which the violation of 

 this act has been committed, or the person or corpora- 

 tion resides or carries on or has his or its place of 

 business. 



SEC. 11. That the sum of $250,000, to be immedi- 



