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Department the nation has no legal authority to 

 directly enforce ; but what it cannot do directly it 

 may do indirectly. If a single county be quaran- 

 tined in a state, and the state supervision and en- 

 forcement of regulations is so lax that a cow is 

 permitted to go outside of the quarantined area, 

 it becomes the duty of the Secretary to so extend 

 the area under federal quarantine that danger 

 would be eliminated. In the place of a single 

 county he might quarantine the whole state. 



131. Protection of Inspectors. A shipment of 

 cattle from the far southwest was about to be 

 made. The cattlemen were impatient to be re- 

 lieved of their responsibility, and to have a good 

 time. The inspection was almost finished when 

 the comparatively young tenderfoot, called offi- 

 cially an inspector, found one of the ticks. He 

 ordered the entire bunch held for dipping. The 

 result may be imagined, though fortunately no 

 serious harm resulted. The inspector held firm. 

 Realizing the necessity for special precautions 

 Congress inserted the following paragraph into 

 the act of 1905. 



*'Sec. 5. That every person who forcibly as- 

 saults, resists, opposes, prevents, impedes, or inter- 

 feres with any officer or employee of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in the execution of his duties, 

 or on account of the execution of his duties, shall 

 be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more 

 than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not 

 less than one month or more than one year, or by 

 both the fine and imprisonment ; and every person 

 who discharges any deadly weapon at any officer 



