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from previous treatment, they may be shipped 

 interstate for any purpose, under regulations. 

 Cattle located in areas where tick eradication is 

 being conducted by the bureau in cooperation with 

 the state authorities, and which are on premises 

 known by the inspectors to be free from ticks, 

 may, upon inspection and certification at a suit- 

 able season be moved interstate for any puipose, 

 without dipping, provided that they can be moved 

 to the transportation line, or free area without 

 exposure to infection. 



Horses, mules or asses which are infested with 

 the ticks must receive the same treatment as is 

 provided for the cattle. 



Before accepting a shipment of cattle from a 

 quarantined area to an unquarantined point in 

 another state, the transportation company must 

 obtain from the shipper a signed statement show- 

 ing the purpose for which the cattle are shipped. 



The dipping of cattle by a railroad company 

 transporting them, under quarantine regulations 

 prescribed by laAv, is so intimately connected witli 

 the matter of transportation, that the charges may 

 be fixed at a reasonable sum to be paid by the 

 shippers; and the matter of fixing the charges may 

 properly be made by the Corporation Commission, 

 in Oklahoma.2^ 



Cattle must not be transported, driven, nor 

 allowed to drift, from a quarantined area to an- 

 other portion of the same state outside of the 

 quarantined area. This important rule of the 



20 Midland Valley E. E. Co. 

 V. State, 35 Okla. 672, 130 Pae. 

 803. 



