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sued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry, nor until pernnssion shall have been obtained 

 in advance of the movement from the proper official 

 of the State or Territory into v^-hich the cattle are 

 to be shipped. 



Exception 11 — Open Season. During the months 

 of January, November, and December of each year 

 cattle of the modified quarantined area of any State 

 or Territory shall not be moved interstate therefrom 

 for purposes other than immediate slaujihter into the 

 States of Missouri and Kansas, the Territories of 

 Arizona and New Mexico, and those portions of Cali- 

 fornia, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia not included 

 in the modified quarantined area until the said cattle 

 shall have been inspected and found free of infection 

 and a written permit for the movement issued by 

 an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry or by 

 a duly authorized inspector of the State or Territory 

 to which the cattle are destined, nor until permission 

 shall have been obtained from the proper official of 

 the said State or Territory. During the months of 

 January and February, the first fifteen days of 

 March, and the last sixteen days of December in each 

 year cattle of the modified quarantined area of any 

 State or Territory may be moved interstate under 

 the above-mentioned restrictions into those portions 

 of the States of Virginia and North Carolina not in- 

 cluded in the modified quarantined area. During the 

 months of January and December in each year cattle 

 of the modified quarantined area of any State or 

 Territory may be moved interstate under the above- 

 mentioned restrictions into that portion of Oklahoma 

 not included in the modified quarantined area. 



Cattle of the modified quarantined area that have 

 been shipped interstate to a point in any State or Ter- 

 ritory outside of the modified quarantined area, other 

 than those States and Territories and portions thereof 

 set out in this exception, shall not be moved into any 

 of the States or Territories or portions thereof here- 

 inbefore set out in this exception within three months 

 of the date of the movement from the modified quar- 

 antined area. 



Cattle which are moved interstate from the modified 

 quarantined area of any St.-ite or Territory into those 



