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prohibited from moving or transporting any cattle from said county of Cook, State of 

 Illinois, 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 for a period of six months immediately prior to the examination, 

 and that during that time said cattle have riot 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 tp 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, 

 Commissioner 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 Cook, 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 any other 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 

 period of six months just prior tp the examination, and that such cattle have not 

 been exposed to pleuro-pneumonia ; that they have not been in any of the build- 

 ings, or on any of the premises, or among any of the herds that have been specially 

 quarantined in said district. The inspector may require other proof that the cattle 

 have not been exposed to pleuro-pneumonia, which must be furnished before he 

 gives the certificate. 



Provided, however, until further notice, that cattle offered for shipment from the 

 Union Stock Yards at the city of Chicago, Cook County, 111. , may be received and 

 transported without examination and without the certificate above prescribed. 

 Nothing, however, in this proviso to exempt parties making such shipment from 

 the penalty for shipping or offering for shipment cattle affected with pleuro-pneu- 

 monia, or cattle from said Cook County, 111. 



Your attention is directed to sections 6 and 7 of the act of Congress approved May 

 29, 1884, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, which sections make it a mis- 

 demeanor, 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 imprisonment, 

 for any railroad company to receive for transportation, or to transport from one 

 State or Territory to another, any live stock affected with any contagious, infectious, 

 or communicable disease, and especially with the disease commonly known as 



