In order to partially protect -wine owners in the purchase of serum 

 Congress passed an act making it unlawful to ship serum interstate 

 unless the maker is in possession of a government license. The law 

 also provides that the license number shall appear on the bottle label. 

 If any Tennessee -wine owner should chance to get serum without 

 license number being printed on the label he owes it to himself and 

 others to send this bottle when empty, with label intact, to the State 

 Veterinarian at Nashville, who will promptly refer the matter to the 

 proper federal authorities for prosecution. 



Virus Law. 



In order to protect the swine industry from the indiscriminate use 

 of virus the following Act was passed by the Fifty-eighth General 

 Assembly : 



CHAPTER 6, ACTS I913. 



AN ACT to regulate the distribution, sale and use of virulent blood 



from cholera-infected hogs, or "virus," and to prescribe penalties 



for violation of same. 



Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 

 Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora- 

 tion to distribute, sell or use in the State of Tennessee, virulent blood 

 from hog-cholera-infected hogs, or "virus," unless and until they 

 have obtained written permission from the State Veterinarian for such 

 distribution, sale or use. 



Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That any person, firm or corpora- 

 tion guilty of violating the provisions of this Act, or failing or refus- 

 ing to comply with the requirements hereof, shall be fined not less 

 than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and 

 may be imprisoned, in the discretion of the court, not less than ten nor 

 more than thirty days, and shall be liable to any person injured on 

 account of such violation to the full amount of the damages and all 

 costs. 



Sec. 3. Be it further enacted. That this Act take effect from and 

 after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. 



How to Secure Virus Permits. 



It will be observed by reading the above Act that all who distribute 

 or use virus in Tennessee without first securing a permit from this 

 department are violating the law. It is our policy to require thai per- 

 son- who visit the plant -hall receive the necessarj special instruction 

 before- issuing virus permit. All interested persons are cordially in- 

 vited to visit this plant at _' p. m. each day, Sunda\ excepted. I Mu' 



hour at the plant will be all the time necessar) for proper instruction, 

 and no charge for same will be made. Instruction is free to all resi- 

 dents of Tennessee. 



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