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mals affected with, this disease without compensation, it did not ap- 

 pear proper that they should be purchased by "the General Gov- 

 ernment. The work of the Department was therefore confined to an 

 investigation of the extent of the disease and the maintenance of a 

 guard over the infected distillery stables and over one infected farm 

 upon which were found exposed about 250 head of cattle. 



The inspection made by the Department veterinarians soon showed 

 that the contagion had been disseminated quite extensively by dis- 

 eased cattle which had pastured upon the vacant lots and commons 

 about the city, and there mingled with many milch cows which had 

 been allowed to run at large. 



The appropriation act approved March 3, 1887, not only increased 

 the sum to be expended by the Bureau of Animal Industry from 

 $100,000 to $500,000, but gave authority to purchase both diseased and 

 exposed cattle, and made $100,000 immediately available. The Chief 

 of the Bureau was at once directed to proceed to Illinois and reach 

 some understanding, if possible, with the governor and live-stock 

 commission, by which the work in that State might be made efficient 

 and the disease eradicated without further delay. At a conference 

 between these gentlemen, held in Springfield, 111., it was decided 

 that the Department of Agriculture would pay for the diseased and 

 exposed animals that were slaughtered; a veterinarian, not pre- 

 viously stationed there, and having reputation and experience, would 

 be placed in charge of the Department work ; the force of the Depart- 

 ment would be increased as required for tne extermination or the 

 plague ; the separate offices previously maintained by the Depart- 

 ment and the State commission would be consolidated ; the State com- 

 mission would do everything in its power to secure the rigid enforce- 

 ment of the State law. 



It was evident from the amount of the appropriation for the cur- 

 rent year, and the authority accompanying it, that Congress intended 

 not only that measures should be adopted to prevent the spread of 

 pleurp-pneumonia from State to State, but also for the extirpation of 

 the disease wherever it might exist. The rules and regulations pre- 

 viously prepared under section 3 of the act approved May 29, 1884, 

 and already accepted by several States, were not entirely adapted to 

 the most efficient exercise of this enlarged power. Accordingly new 

 rules and regulations, as follows, were at once prepared and certified 

 to the governors of all the States and Territories of the Union : 



Rules and regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture for the sup- 

 pression and extirpation of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases 

 among the domestic animals of the United States. 



[Prepared by the Commissioner of Agriculture.] 



In pursuance of an act of Congress 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," approved the 29th day of May, 1884, 

 and of section 3 of said act, the following rules and regulations are hereby prepared 

 and adopted for the speedy and effectual suppression and extirpation of contagious, 

 infectious, and communicable diseases among the domestic animals of the United 

 States: 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



(1) Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the Chief of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry of the Department of Agriculture that there exists, or there is good 

 cause to believe there exists, any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease 



