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event all lines agree to the proposed regulations, the commissioner will fix a date 

 the instructions shall be put in effect by the several companies." 



In receiving shipments of cattle originating east of the Mississippi River, and 

 destined for points within the State of Texas, the agents of these companies will be 

 governed by the following rules : 



The attention of shippers will be directed to the sixth and seventh sections of the 

 act of Congress of March 29, 1884, 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, 'reading as follows: 



" That no railroad company within the United States, or the owners or masters 

 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 Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, or from the District into any State, any live-stock affected with 

 any contagious, infectious, or communicable 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, infec- 

 tious, or communicable disease; nor shall any person, company, or corporation drive 

 on foot, or transport in private conveyance from one State or Territory to another, 

 or from any State into the District of Columbia, or from the District into any State, 

 any live-stock, knowing them to be affected with any contagious, infectious, or 

 communicable disease, and especially the disease known as pleuro-pneumonia; pro- 

 vided, that the so-called splenetic or Texas fever shall not be considered a conta- 

 gious, infectious, or communicable disease within the meaning of sections 4, 5, 6, 

 and 7 of this act, as to cattle being transported by rail to market for slaughter, when 

 the same are unloaded only to be fed and watered in lots on the way thereto. 



" That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to notify, in writ- 

 ing, the proper officials or agents of any railroad, steam-boat, or other transportation 

 company doing business in or through any infected locality, and by publication in 

 such newspapers as he may select, of the existence of said contagion; and any per- 

 son or persons operating any such railroad, or master or owner of any boat or ves- 

 sel, 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 six of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, 

 shall be punished by fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five 

 thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year or by both such 

 fine and imprisonment." 



And to that portion of the circular letter of United States Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture Norman J. Colman, under date of Washington, D. C., May 31, 1887, reading 

 as follows: 



" To the Managers of all Railroad and Transportation Companies in the United 

 States: 



u Your attention is called to the fact that contagious pleuro-pneumonia exists among 

 cattle in Cook County, Illinois, and in the States of Maryland and New York, and 

 that the infected districts in said States have been duly quarantined by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in the manner provided by the act of Congress of March 29, 

 1884, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



" Transportation companies, having connections with infected districts, should 

 require parties offering cattle for shipment to present, at points of loading, affidavits 

 of the owner and two disinterested persons, stating that the cattle to be shipped 

 have been known to affiants for at least six months next preceding, and that said 

 cattle have not been in any of said districts, and have not come in contact with any 

 cattle from said districts. Said affidavits should be attached to and accompany the 

 way-bill to point of destination." 



The owners or custodians in charge should be requested to show the affidavits as 

 described above, that the origin and condition of the cattle may be known. 



Cattle known to be from infected districts, as described in the Commissioner's cir- 

 cular above referred to, or from districts hereafter designated by the Commissioner 

 as infected, must not be received for transportation, but such may be offered from 

 other territory east of the Mississippi River, not accompanied by the aforesaid affi- 

 davits, may be received and forwarded, provided the agent receiving the same is 

 without knowledge that the cattle are diseased, or are from an infected district; 

 and, provided further, that the transportation of said cattle does not violate any 

 Texas quarantine regulations. But on receiving cattle coming from territory east 

 of the Mississippi River, and not accompanied by the aforesaid affidavits, the agent 

 receiving and forwarding same should at once furnish the general freight office in- 

 formation of such shipments, specifying number and kind of cattle, names of con- 



