46 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



be shipped, driven, or transported from such place into and through 

 any State or Teiritory, 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 Tndus- 

 trj'^ of the Agricultural Department for the purposes of such inspec- 

 tion. 



Act February 2. 1903, (•.•34f). s. 1. 32 Stat. 791. 



Act .May 29. 1884, c. GO. lucntionecl in tbis section, is set forth above. 



Subsfqueut provisions for the establishment of quarantine of any 

 State or Torritoi-y or the District of Columbia, or any portion of any of 

 them, when cattle or other live stock therein are affected with any 

 conta,s?iou.s, etc., disease, and the making and promulgation of regula- 

 tion.s in regard thereto, and prohibiting the interstate movement of cat- 

 tle from .such quarantined areas except under such regulations, are con- 

 tained in act March 3, 1905. c. 1490, set forth below. 



Regulations and measures to prevent contagious, etc., diseases. 



Sec. 2. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall have authority to 

 make such regulations and take such measures as he may deem proper 

 to prevent the introduction or dissemination of the contagion of any 

 contagious, infectious, or communicable disease of animals from a 

 foreign country into the United States or from one State or Territory 

 of the United States or the District of Columbia to another, and to 

 beize, quarantine, and dispose of any liay. straw, forage, or similar 

 material, or any meats, hides, or other animal products coming from 

 an infected foreign country to the United States, or from one State 

 or Territory or the District of Columbia in transit to another State 

 or Territory or the District of Columbia whenever in his judgment 

 sucli action is advisable in order to crnard against the introduction or 

 spread of such contagion. 



Act February 2, 1903, c. 349. s. 2, 32 Stat. 792, 

 See notes under section 1 of this v.cx. 



Violatiuns of act; penalty. 



v^EC. 'i. That any person, company, or corporation knowingly violat- 

 ing the provisions of this Act or the orders or regulations made in 

 pursuance thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 

 shall be j)unished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor 

 more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than 

 one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 



Act February 2, 1903, c. 349, s. 3, 32 Stat. 792. 



See notes under section 1 ("f this act. 



Appropriations for carrying out the j^rovisions of this act are contained 

 III the .-iniuial agricultural aiiiiropriation acts, beginning with the act for 

 the fiscal year 1905. The approprinti< n hi the act for the tiscal year 1913 

 is set forth on p. 72, post. 



ACT MARCi; 3. 1905, c. 1496. An act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to 

 e.si.iblish .iiid maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the 

 movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, and for other purposes. 

 (Xi Stat. 12(^4.) 



Uuarantine of State or Territory, etc., or portions thereof, where cattle or other 

 live stock are affected with contagious, etc., disease; notice of quarantine. 



That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to 

 quarantine any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or any 



