522 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide 

 means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and 

 other contagious diseases among domestic animals," and of the act of 

 Congress which became a law April 24, 1896, making a^jpropriation for 

 the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, 

 you are hereby notified that a contagious and infectious disease, known 

 as splenetic or southern fever, exists among cattle in the following- 

 described area : — 



All that counti'y lying south, or below, a line beginning at the north- 

 west corner of the State of California; thence east, south and south- 

 easterly along the boundary line of said State of California to the 

 south-eastern corner of said State ; thence southerly along the westex'n 

 boundary line of Arizona to the south-west corner of Arizona ; thence 

 along the southern boundary lines of Arizona and Xew Mexico to the 

 south-eastern corner of New Mexico ; thence northerly along the east- 

 ern boundary of New Mexico to the southern line of the State of Col- 

 orado; thence along the southern boundary lines of Colorado and 

 Kansas to the south-western corner of Kansas ; thence southerly along 

 the western boundary line of Missouri to the south-western corner of 

 Missouri ; thence easterly along the southern boundaiy line of Missouri 

 to the Mississippi River ; thence northerly along the Mississippi River 

 to the northern boundary line of Tennessee at the north-west corner of 

 Lake County ; thence easterly along said northern boundary line to the 

 north-east corner of Henry County ; thence in a northerly direction 

 along the boundary of the Tennessee River to the north-west corner of 

 Stewart County; thence in an easterly direction along the northern 

 boundary of Tennessee to the south-western corner of Virginia ; thence 

 north-easterly along the western boundaiy line of Virginia to the 

 northernmost point of Virginia ; thence southerly along said boundary 

 line to the north-east corner of Virginia, where it joins the south-eastern 

 corner of Maryland at the Atlantic Ocean. 



Whenever any State or Territory located above or below said quaran- 

 tine line, as above designated, shall duly establish a diflerent quarantine 

 line, and obtain the necessary legislation to enforce said last-mentioned 

 line strictly and completely within the boundaries of said State or Ter- 

 ritory, and said last above-mentioned line and the measures taken to 

 enforce it are satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture, he may, by a 

 special order, temporarily adopt said State or Territorial line. 



Said adoption will applj^ only to that portion of said line specified, 

 and may cease at any time the Secretary may deem it best for the inter- 

 est involved, and in no instance shall said modification exist longer than 

 the period specified in said special order; and at the expiration of such 

 time said quarantine line shall revert without further order to the line 

 first above described. 



Whenever any State or Territory shall establish a quarantine line for 

 above purposes, differently located from the above-described line, and 

 shall obtain by legislation the necessary laws to enforce same completely 

 and strictly, and shall desire a modification of the Federal quarantine 

 line to agree with such State or Territorial line, the proper authorities 



