14 REPORT OF THE BUKEAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and Virginia, in the 

 following form: 



AN ACT to co-operate with the United States in the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia. 



The people of the State of New York, represented in senate and assembly, do enact 

 as follows : SECTION 1. The governor is hereby authorized to accept, on behalf of the 

 State, the rules and regulations prepared by the Commissioner of Agriculture, under 

 and in pursuance of section three of an act of Congress approved May twenty-nine, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-four, 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, and to co-operate with the authorities of the 

 United States in the enforcement of the provisions of said act. 



SEC. 2. The inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States 

 shall have the right of inspection, quarantine, and condemnation of animals affected 

 with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, or suspected to be so af- 

 fected, or that have been exposed to any such disease, and for these purposes are 

 hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon any ground or premises. Said in- 

 spectors shall have the power to call on sheriffs, constables, and peace officers to 

 assist them in the discharge of their duties in carrying out the provisions of the act 

 of Congress approved May twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, estab- 

 lishing the Bureau of Animal Industry; and it is hereby made the duty of sheriffs, 

 constables, and peace officers to assist said inspectors when so requested; and said 

 inspectors shall have the same powers and protection as peace officers while engaged 

 in the discharge of then* duties. 



SEC. 3. All expenses of quarantine, condemnation of animals exposed to disease, 

 and the expenses of any and all measures that may be used to suppress and extir- 

 pate pleuro-pneumonia shall be paid by the United States, and in no case shall this 

 State be liable for any damages or expenses-of any kind under the provisions of this 

 act. 



SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 



This act was also passed by the legislature of Illinois with the fol- 

 lowing penalty clause : 



SEC. 4. Any person violating any order of quarantine made under this act, or any 

 regulation prescribed by the Commissioner of Agriculture for the suppression of 

 pleuro-pneumonia, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be 

 punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or by imprisonment 

 for not more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment. 



In Maryland this work had been going on very harmoniously and 

 successfully for about eight months under the rules and regulations 

 of August 2, 1886, and the State authorities objected to any material 

 change in the status of co-operation, on the ground that they knew 

 the old rules to be successful in that State, while the new ones might 

 be regarded as more or less of an experiment. Some amendments, 

 which appeared desirable to both parties, were consequently made to 

 the old rules, and these, in the amended form, were then accepted by 

 the governor and live-stock sanitary board on behalf of the State of 

 Maryland, and by the Commissioner of Agriculture on the part of 

 the United States. The following is the text of the amended rules 

 and regulations : 



Rules and regulations for co-operation between the United States Department of 

 Agriculture and the authorities of the State of Maryland for the suppression and 

 extirpation of contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, 



INSPECTION. 



(1) The necessary inspectors will be furnished by the Bureau of Animal Industry 

 of the Department of Agriculture. 



(2) The properly -constituted inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry who 

 are assigned to this State are to be authorized by proper State authorities to make 

 inspections of cattle under the laws of the State. They are to receive such protec- 

 tion and assistance as would be given to State officers engaged in similar work, and 



