[PUBLIC No. 229.] 



AN ACT To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine district 

 to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, aua for ot 

 purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in _ 

 assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to quarantine any Stat 

 Territory or the District of Columbia, or any portion of any State or Territory or the District of Coll 

 bia, when he shall determine the fact that cattle or other live stock in such State or Territory or ] 

 trict of Columbia are affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease; and 

 Secretary of Agriculture is directed to give written or printed notice of the establishment of quai_ 

 tine to the proper officers of railroad, steamboat, or other transportation companies doing business 

 or through any quarantined State or Territory or the District of Columbia, and to publish in >u( 

 newspapers in the quarantined State or Territory or the District of Columbia, as the Secretary 

 Agriculture may select, notice of the establishment of quarantine. 



SEC. 2. That no railroad company or the owners or masters of any steam or sailing or other vessel 



as hereinafter provided ; nor shall any person, company, or corporation deliver for such transportatiol 

 to any railroad company or to the master or owner of any boat or vessel any cattle or other live stocl 

 except as hereinafter provided; nor shall any person, company, or corporation drive on foot, or cam 

 to be driven on foot, or transport in private conveyance or cause to be transported in private convej 

 ance, from a quarantined State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or from the quarantined poif 

 ti9n of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, into any other State or Territory or thf 

 District of Columbia, any cattle or oth'er live stock, except as hereinafter provided. 



SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture, and he is hereby authorized ai 

 directed, when the public safety will permit, to make and promulgate rules and regulations whi( 

 shall permit and govern the inspection, disinfection, certification, treatment, handling, and methc 

 and manner of delivery and shipment of cattle or other live stock from a quarantined State or Terri 

 tory or the District of Columbia, and irom the quarantined portion of any State or Territory or the Du 

 trict of Columbia, into any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia; and the Secretary 

 Agriculture shall give notice of such rules and regulations in the manner provided in section two 

 this act for notice of establishment of quarantine. 



SEC. 4. That cattle or other live stock may be moved from a quarantined State or Territory or 

 District of Columbia, or from the quarantined portion of any State or Territory or the District of Colu 

 bia, into any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, under and in compliance with thJ 

 rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, made and promulgated in pursuance of the prd 

 visions of section three of this act; but it shall be unlawful to move, or to allow to be moved, any cattlJ 

 or other live stock from any quarantined State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or from thl 

 quarantined portion of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, into any other State oj 

 Territory or the District of Columbia, in manner or method or under conditions other than thos<J 

 prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. 



SEC. 5. That every person who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, prevents, impedes, or interfe 

 with any officer or employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department 

 Agriculture in the execution of his duties, or on account of the execution of his duties, shall be fin< 

 not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not less th 

 one month nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and every person wl 

 discharges any deadly weapon at any officer or employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry of tl 

 United States Department of Agriculture, or uses any dangerous or deadly weapon in resisting ht 

 in the execution of his duties, with intent to commit a bodily injury upon him or to deter or prevent} 

 him from discharging his duties, or on account of the performance of his duties, shall, upon convicj 

 tion, be imprisoned at hard labor for a term not more than five years or fined not to exceed " 

 thousand dollars. 



SEC. 6. That any person, company, or corporation violating the provisions of sections two or four 

 this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished r-y a fine of not It 

 than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more 

 one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 



Approved, March 3, 1906. 



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