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BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 45 



Annual appropriations for carrying out the provisions of this act are 

 contained in the ajj;riculturai :ii)propriation acts for tlie fiscal years 188G 

 and thereafter. The provision in tlie act for the iiscal year 11)13 is set 

 forth on p. 72, post. 



ACT AUGUST 10. 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Sale or exchange of breeding animals or animal products produced or purchased 

 under appropriations by Congress; deposit in Treasury of moneys received 

 from sales. 



And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell in 

 the open market or to exchange for other breeding animals or animal 

 products to the best advantage, without the usual condemnation 

 proceedings and public auction, such animals or animal prpducts 

 produced or purchased under the appropriations made by Congress 

 for the use of the Bureau of Animal Industry as may not be needed 

 in the work of that bureau : Provided, That all moneys received from 

 the sale of such animals or animal products, or as a bonus in the 

 exchange of the same, shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscel- 

 laneous receipts. 



Act August 10. 1912, c. 2M. 37 St, it. 271. 



This is a provision of the agricultur.!) aiipropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



ACT FEBRUARY 2, 1903, c. 349. Au act to cual)le the Secretary of Agriculture 

 to more effectually suppress and prevent tlie spread of contagious and 

 infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes. (32 Stat. 791.) 



Regulation of the exportation and transportation of infected live stock by 

 Secretary of Agriculture; shipments after inspection; fees; siipervision of 

 Bureau o/ Animal Industry. 



That in order to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to effectually 

 suppress and extirpate contagious pleuropneumonia, foot and mouth 

 disease, and other dangerous contagious, infectious, and communi- 

 cable diseases in cattle and other live stock, and to prevent the spread 

 of such diseases, the powers conferred on the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury by sections four and five of an Act entitled "An Act for the 

 establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the ex- 

 portation of diseased cattle, and to provide moans for the suppres- 

 sion and extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other contagious 

 diseases among domestic animals," approved ^lay twenty-ninth, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-four (twenty-third United States Stat- 

 utes, thirty-one), are hereby conferred on the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, to be exercised exclusively by him. Tie is hereby authorized and 

 directed, from time to time, to establish 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 diseases may exist into and through any State or Territory, 

 including the Indian Territory, and into atul through the District of 

 Columbia and to foreign coimtries, as he may deem necessary, and all 

 such rides 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 shij^ped, driven, or 

 transported from such locality to another, as above stated, and had 

 found them free from Texas or splenetic fever infection, pleuropneu- 

 monia, foot and mouth disease, or any other infectious, contagious, 

 or communicable disease, such animals,'.so insi>ected and certified, may 



