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persons as he may from time to time deem necessary to assist liim in performing Ids 

 duty as set fortli in the first section of tliis act, and to fix their compensation. 



To order all or any animals coming into the State to be detained at any place or 

 placee for the pur])ose of insy)ectiou and examination. 



To xJrescrihe regulations for the destruction of animals affected with infectious or 

 contagious disease, and for the jiroper disposition of thfir hides and carcasses, and of 

 all objects which might convey infection or contagion, provided that no animal shall 

 be destroyed luiless itrst examined by a medical or veterinary practitioner in the em- 

 ploy of the governor, as aforesaid. 



To prescribe regulations for the disinfection of all premises, buildings, and railway 

 cars, and of all objects fi-om or by which infection or contagion may take place or be 

 conveyed. 



To alter and modify from time to time, as ho may deem exi:>edient, the terms of all 

 such proclamations, orders, and regiilations, and tb cancel or withilruw the same at 

 any time. 



$ 3. Any person transgressing the tenns of any proclamation, order or regulation 

 issued or prescribed by the governor under authority of this act shall be gtiilty of a 

 misdemeanor. 



§ 4. All expenses incurred by the governor in carrying out the provisions of this act 

 and in performing the duty hereby devolved upon him, shall be audited by the comp- 

 troller as extraordinary expenses of the executive department, and shall be paid out 

 of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



THE i:\rPORTATION OF CATTLE PEOHIEITED. 



The following is an official copy of the act passed by Congress to 

 prohibit the importation of cattle in 18G5 : 



AIT ACT to prevent the spread of foreign diseases among the cattle of the TJiiited States. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Bepreseniativcs of the United States of Aniei-ica 

 vi Congress assemhled, That the importation of cattle be, and hereby is, prohibited. 

 And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to make such regulations as 

 win give this law full and immediate effect, and to send copies of them to the proper 

 officers in this country and to all officers or agents of the United States in foreign 

 countries. 



Section 2. And he it further enacted, That when the President shall give thirty days' 

 notice by proclamation that no further danger is to be apprehended from the spread 

 of foreign infectious or contagious diseases among cattle, tliis law shall be of no force, 

 and cattle may be imported in the same way as before its passage. 



Passed the House of Representatives December 11, 18G5. 



Attest : 



EDAVARD McPKERSON, Clerl: 



THE BEITISH GOVEENIVIENT. 



The follov.'ing is an abstract of the rules and regulations adopted by 

 the British Government to prevent the spread of the rinderpest and 

 pleuro-pneumonia among cattle, and foot and mouth disease among 

 sheep in its Indian possessions: 



1. Wlicn cattle or sheep are purchased at a fair, they should always be treated aa 

 having been probably exposed to contagion. 



2. Wheu cattle or sheep are being removed from one locality to another, they should 

 not be allowed to mix with other cattle or sheep en route, aud should never V)o kejit 

 overnight in or near quai'tcrs previously occupied, as such quarters are often contami- 

 nated by having recently been occupied by diseased animals. 



:?. When cattle or sheep are purchased in |i> fair or elsewhere, they should, on being 

 brought to the purchaser's premises, bo kept by themselves, and not allov.-ed to mix 

 with the old cattle of the farm, at jiasture, or watering time, or any other time. 

 They should be kept l)y themselves in complete isolation for one month or six weeks, 

 in order to have proof afforded v/hether they are affected with a contagious disease or 

 not. 



4. When cattle are traveling, or are moved from one district to another, they are 



