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immediately to cause the said animal or animals to be slaughtered, and their 

 remains boxed with a sufficient quantity of quick lime, sulphate of iron or other 

 disinfectant, and with sufficient weights placed in said box to prevent the same 

 from floating, and to be cast into the waters of the said port. It shall also be his 

 duty to cleanse and disinfect by suitable agencies, the berth or section of the ship 

 in which said animal or animals were lying or slaughtered, and also to cause the 

 clothing and persons of all taking care of the same or engaged in such slaughter 

 and burial, to be cleansed and disinfected. 



§ 8. William Kelly, of Dutchess county, Marsena R. Patrick, of Ontario county, 

 and Lewis F. Allen, of Erie county, are hereby appointed as commissioners under 

 this act, and with powers and duties as hereinafter enumerated. 



§ 4, In the event of any such disease as the rinderpest or any infectious disease 

 of cattle or sheep breaking out or being suspected to exist in any locality in this 

 State, it shall be the duty of all persons owning or having any interest whatever 

 in the said cattle, immediately to notify the said commissioners or any one of 

 them of the existence of such disease ; whereupon the said commissioners shall 

 establish a sanitary cordon around such locality. And thereupon it shall be the 

 duty of the said commissioners to appoint an assistant commissioner for such dis. 

 trict, with all powers conferred by this act on the said commissioners or their 

 agents or appointees, which said assistant commissioner shall immediately proceed 

 to the place or places where such disease is reported to exist, and cause the said 

 animal or animals to be separated from all connection or proximity with or to all 

 other animals of the ruminant order, and take such other precautionary measures 

 as shall be deemed necessary ; and if, in his opinion, the said disease shall be 

 incurable or threaten to spread, to cause the animals aforesaid immediately to 

 be slaughtered, their remains to be deeply buried, and all places in which the said 

 animals have been confined or kept, to be cleansed and disinfected by any of the 

 agencies above mentioned ; and also to cause the same to be carefully locked or 

 barred so as to prevent all access to the same by any animals of a like kind for a 

 period of at least one month. Any animal thus slaughtered shall be appraised 

 under the supervision of said commissioners, and one-half of the value of said 

 animal shall be paid by the State to the owner thereof. 



§ 5. It shall be the duty of the said assistant commissioner, immediately on his 

 being notified of his appointment, or at any time thereafter, of the breaking out 

 of the said disease in any place contiguous to the same and within the county in 

 which he resides, to give public notice of the same, in at least one newspaper printed 

 or published in the said county, and to cause notices to be posted up in at least five 

 conspicuous places in said neighborhood ; and it shall be his duty to enjoin, in said 

 notice and otherwise, all persons concerned in the care or supervision of neat cattle 

 or sheep, not to come within one hundred feet of the said locality without the 

 special permission of the said assistant commissioner. 



% 6. It shall be the duty of the commissioners appointed under this act, whenever 

 they are advised that any such disease has made its appearance within the limits 

 of the State, to publish in the State paper and in at least one paper published in 



