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aforesaid inspection, there may be made in all cases where the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture may deem necessary or expedient, under rules and 

 regulations to be by him prescribed, a post mortum examination of the 

 carcasses of all cattle, sheep and hogs about to be prepared for human 

 consumption at any slaughter-house, canning, salting, packing or 

 rendering establishment in any State or Territory, or the District of 

 Columbia which are the subjects of interstate commerce. 



Act March 3, 1891, c. 555, s. 3, 2G Stat. 1090. 



Regulations for 'examination of carcasses and products of cattle, slieep, and 

 swine; Identification marks; forgery, etc., of marks, etc.; penalty. 



Sec. 4. That said examination shall be made in the manner pro- 

 vided by rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, and after said examination the carcasses and products 

 of all cattle, sheep, and swine found to be free of disease and whole- 

 some, sound, and fit for human food shall be marked, stamped, or 

 labeled for identification as may be provided by said rules and regu- 

 lations of the Secretary of Agriculture. Any person who shall forge, 

 counterfeit, simulate, imitate, falsely represent, or use without au- 

 thority, or knowingly and wrongfully alter, deface, or destro}' any of 

 the marks stamps, or other devices provided for in the regulations of 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, of any such carcasses or their products, 

 or who shall forge, counterfeit, simulate, imitate, falsely represent, 

 or use without authority, or knowingly and wrongfully alter, deface, 

 or destroy any certificate or stamp provided in said regulations, shall 

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

 be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or im- 

 prisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in 

 the discretion of the court. 



Act March 3, 1891, c. 555, s. 4, 26 Stat. 1090, as ameuded by act March 

 2, 1895, c. 169, 28 Stat. 732. 



This section is nniended, to read as set forth above, by act March 2, 

 1895, c. 169, cited, by inserting, after the words " foige, counterfeit." 

 where they occur in this section, the words " simulate, imitate, falsely 

 represent, or use without authority." 



Interstate transportation of unsound carcasses and food products thereof pro- 

 hibited; penalty. 



Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful for any person to transport from 

 one State or Territory or the District of Columbia into any other 

 State or Territory or tlie District of Columbia, or for any person to 

 deliver to another for transportation from one State or Territory or 

 the District of Columbia into another State or Territory or the 

 District of Columbia the carcasses of any cattle, slieep, or swine, or 

 the food products thereof, which have been examined in accordance 

 with tlie provisions of sections three and four of this act, and which 

 on said examination have been declared by the inspector making the 

 same to be unsound or diseased. Any persons violating the pro- 

 visions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 

 punished for each offense as provided in section four of this act. 



Act March 3. 1891, c. .^^55. s. H, 20 Stat. 1090. 



Regulations to prevent tlie transportation interstate or to foreign 

 countries of condennicd carcasses of cattle, sheep, and swine, are author- 

 ized by i)rovlsions of a<'t March 2, 1S95, c. 169. set forth below. 



