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Industry, showing freedom from disease or from ex- 

 posure thereto, shall not be diverted eu route to feed 

 lots or to other States for feeding, stocking, or breed- 

 ing purposes unless first inspected and certified by an 

 inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



REGULATIONS TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF 

 SPLENETIC FEVER OF CATTLE. 



Effective April 13, 1901. 



Regulation 11. Whenever any State or Territory 

 located within an area quarantined by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever 

 shall duly establish a State or Territorial quaran- 

 tined area different from the quarantined area estab- 

 lished by the Secretary of Agriculture, and shall ob- 

 tain the legislation requisite to enforce said State or 

 Territorial quarantine strictly and completely within 

 the boundaries of said State or Territory, the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture will, if the said State or Terri- 

 torial quarantine be satisfactory, adopt by a rule 

 said State or Territorial quarantine, and the State or 

 Territorial quarantine thus adopted shall define the 

 limits of that portion of the Federal quarantined area, 

 which shall thereafter be knowu as the modified quar- 

 antined area. The expiration of the time fixed in 

 the rule, the revocation of the rule, or a failure upon 

 the part of the State officers to enforce the adopted 

 quarantine shall restore the quarantined area to the 

 territory quarantined by the Secretary of Agriculture 

 before the adoption of the State or Territorial quar- 

 antine. 



Regulation 12. Whenever any State or Territory 

 under authority of law shall establish a State or 

 Territorial quarantine for splenetic fever which dif- 

 fers from the quarantine established by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture for the said disease, and shall desire 

 a modification of the area quarantined by the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, the proper officer of the said 

 State or Territory shall forward to the Seci'etary of 

 Agriculture a true map or description of such State 

 or Territorial quarantine and a duly authenticated 

 copy of the laws and regulations relating to the es- 

 tablishment and enforcement of the (piarantine. 



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