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ized statement of all expenditures under this act, and full 

 particulars of means adopted and carried into effect for the 

 suppression of contagious, infectious, or communicable dis- 

 eases among domestic animals. 

 Approved. May L'".\ 1S84. 



[Public — Xo. 49.1 



.\n Act To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effect- 

 ually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and 

 infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes. 



lie it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the United States of America in Congress assernhJed, That 

 in order to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to effectually 

 suppress and extirpate contagious pleuro-pneumonia, foot- 

 and-mouth disease, and other dangerous, contagious, Infec- 

 tious, and communicable diseases in cattle and other live 

 stock, and to prevent the spread of such diseases, the powers 

 conferred on the Secretary of the Treasury by sections four 

 and five of an act entitled "An act for the establishment of a 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of 

 diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and 

 extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious dis- 

 eases among domestic animals," approved May twenty-ninth, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-four, twenty-third United States 

 Statutes, thirty-one), are hereby conferred on the Secretary 

 of Agriculture, to be exercised exclusivelj'^ by him. He is 

 hereby authorized and directed, from time to time, to estab- 

 lish such rules and regulations concerning the exportation 

 and transportation of live stock from any place within the 

 United States where he may have reason to believe such dis- 

 eases may exist into and through any State or Territory, in- 

 cluding the Indian Territory, and into and through the District 

 of Columbia and to foreign countries, as he may deem neces- 

 sary, and all such rules and regulations shall have the force 

 of law. Whenever any inspector or assistant inspector of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry shall issue a certificate showing 

 that such officer had inspected any cattle or other live stock 

 which were about to be shipped, driven, or transported from 

 such locality to another, as above stated, and had found them 

 free from Texas, or splenetic, fever infection, pleuro-pneu- 

 monia, foot-and-mouth disease, or any other infectious, con- 

 tagious, or communicable disease, such animals so inspected 

 and certified may be shipped, driven, or transported from such 

 place into and through any State or Territory, including the 

 Indian Territory, and into and through the District of 

 Columbia, or they may be exported from the United States 

 without further inspection or the exaction of fees of any 

 kind, except such as may at any time be ordered or exacted 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture ; and all such animals shall 

 at all times be under the control and supervision of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry of the Agricultural Department 

 for the purposes of such inspection. 



