320 KEPOKT OF THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL im)USTEY. 



State of Texas called the Panhandle, to wit, all that part of the State situated north 

 and west of a line drawn from the northwest corner of Wilbarger County to the 

 southeast corner of Presidio County, are free and clear of splenic or Texas fever, 

 and are not liable to convey this disease; 



And whereas many of the cattlemen of this Territory have petitioned me to so 

 modify said quarantine proclamation as to exempt cattle raised in, or that have been 

 within said Panhandle for ninety days, from the operation thereof; 



And whereas four of the nine stock commissioners for the Territory of Montana 

 recommend that it be done, one refuses to give his voice for it or against it, says his 

 county is not a cattle county, and the other four are opposed to it; 



And whereas I have learned from the governors and veterinary surgeons of the 

 State of Colorado and Territory of Wyoming, through "whose jurisdiction lies the 

 pathway of travel from the Panhandle part of Texas to the Territory of Montana, 

 that the laws and quarantine regulations of that State and Territory allow cattle to 

 be imported and brought from said Panhandle district into said State and Territory, 

 and that no harm to the stock of their citizens has come of it; and the veterinary 

 surgeon for this Territory has filed with me a full report of his views on the ques- 

 tion, from which I quote the following, to wit: 



" From all information which I have on this subject I have no reason to believe 

 that cattle from the north or west of the above line are liable to convey this disease. 

 Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, who has on behalf of 

 the United States Government made the subject of Texas fever a special study for 

 many years, in reply to a telegram which I addressed to him on the 1st instant, re- 

 plied as follows: ' Do not consider cattle from Panhandle of Texas liable to convey 

 splenic fever.' 



"Further, I have no reason whatever to believe that cattle originally from points 

 south and east of this line, but which have been ninety days or more north or west 

 of said line, are liable to convey splenic fever; therefore I do not consider that the 

 herds of Montana would be jeopardized by allowing bona fide Panhandle cattle, or 

 cattle which have been ninety days or more north or west of the before-mentioned 

 line, free entry into the Territory." 



It is therefore deemed most reasonably certain that the said quarantine procla- 

 mations heretofore issued from this office may without danger of bringing into this 

 Territory any contagious or infectious disease to domestic animals be modified. 



Wherefore I, Preston H. Leslie, governor of the Territory of Montana, do by virtue 

 of the power vested in me by law, hereby modify and change said proclamations 

 so that the same shall not apply to that part of the State of Texas called and known 

 as " The Panhandle," and which is the territory that lies and is north and west of a 

 straight line drawn from the northwest corner of Wilbarger County to the southeast 

 corner of Presidio County, in said State of Texas. And it is hereby declared that 

 any cattle that have been and remained for all the time of ninety days or more 

 within the said Panhandle part of the State of Texas, north and west of the line 

 aforesaid, may be brought from there and admitted into the Territory of Montana 

 without regard to said proclamation: Provided, however, Before they or any of them 

 shall be brought into the Territory of Montana the owner and the person in charge 

 of them must file with the veterinary surgeon their own written or printed affi- 

 davits, subscribed and sworn to before a notary public of Montana, and such other 

 evidences arid proofs as shall, with the said affidavits of the owner and person in 

 charge, show and satisfy him that such cattle were within said Panhandle as before 

 described for ninety days or more, immediately preceding their start from therefor 

 Montana, and have been or are being brought directly from that locality to Mon- 

 tana, and also that they have been subjected to the quarantine regulations of the 

 State of Colorado and Territory of Wyoming on the way of their transportation. 



In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of 

 the Territory of Montana to be attached this May the llth, 1888. 



[SEAL.] PRESTON H. LESLIE. 



By the governor: 

 WM. B. WEBB, 



Secretary of Montana Territory. 



BISMARCK, DAK., MarcJi 31, 1888. 

 To H. M. TAYLOR, Denver, Colo. : 

 Texas cattle can not enter Dakota unless driven all the way. 



E. J. ALLOW AY, 

 Territorial Veterinarian. 



