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tion and disinfection provided for in this section to be borne by the 

 owners of the vessels on which such animals are exported. 



Act August 30, 1S90. c. 839, s. 10, 26 Stat. 417. 



Section 1 of this act, lelatiiif: to the iu.spection and ceitification of 

 salted pork and bacon for exportation, is set forth on p. 53, pout. 



Sections 2-5 of this act relate to the importation' of adulterated food, 

 drugs, and liquors, and are set forth on p. 184, post, under " Rureau of 

 Chemistry." 



This act is amende<i by a provision of act March 4. 1011. c. 238, set 

 forth below, to permit admission of tick-infested cattle from Mexico, 

 within the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture and under Joint 

 regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Treasury. 



Appropriations for carrying out the provisions of this act "providing 

 for an inspection of meats and animals." were made in the agricultural 

 ai>propriation acts for the fiscal years 1892 to 1906, inclusive. No appro- 

 priations for the enforcement of the act were made in the similar acts 

 for the subsequent fiscal years 1907 to 1909. inclusive, but in the acts for 

 the Gscal year 1910 and each year thereafter api)ropriations are contained 

 for carrying out the provisions of the act "' providing for the importation 

 of animals into the United States." The appropriation in the agricul- 

 tural act for the fiscal year 1913 is set forth on p. 72, post. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1911. c. 238. (36 Stat. 1235.) 



Amendment of act August 30. 1890. c. 839; admission of tick-infested cattle 

 from Mexico into part of Texas. 



The Act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, is hereby 

 amended so as to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture, within his 

 discretion, and under such joint regulations as may be prescribed by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Treasury, to 

 permit the admission of tick-infested cattle from Mexico into that 

 part of Texas below the southern cattle quarantine line; * * * 



Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1240. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1912, cited above. 



The provisions of act August 30, 1890. c. 839, mentioned in and amended 

 by this provision, are set forth above. 



ACT AUGUST 5, 1909, c. 6. (36 Stat. 11.) 



Importation of neat cattle and hides thereof proliibited; suspension of pro- 

 hibition. 



Sec. 12. That the importation of neat cattle and the hides of neat 

 cattle from any foreign country into the United States is prohibited : 

 Provided, That the operation of this section shall be suspended as to 

 any foreign country or countries, or any parts of such coimtry or 

 countries, whenever the Secretary of the Treasury shall officially de- 

 termine, and give public notice" thereof that such importation will 

 not tend to the introduction or spread of contagious or infectious dis- 

 eases among the cattle of the United States; and the Secretary of the 

 Treasury is hereby authorized and empowered, and it shall be his 

 duty, to make all necessary orders and regulations to carry this sec- 

 tion into effect, or to suspend the same as herein provided, and to send 

 copies thereof to the proper officers in the United States and to such 

 officers or agents of the United States in foreign countries as he shall 

 judge necessary. 



Act August 5. 1909, c. 6. s. 12, 36 Stat. 86. 



This and the next following section are sections of the tariff act of 

 1909. Provisions in the same language, contained in the tariff act of 

 1897, act July 24, 1897, c. 11, ss. 25. 26, are superseded by these sections. 



