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No bags or similar containers which have been previously 

 used shall be received in Virginia from quarantined States or 

 from the District of Columbia. 



All modifications of the original quarantine against the said 

 live stock of the States above mentioned are hereby revoked, and 

 absolute quarantine is hereby declared against all such live stock, 

 either for immediate slaughter or otherwise, coming through or 

 from the States named in this proclamation, and from the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, including also live poultry of all kinds. 



(liven under my hand, and under the Lesser Seal of the Com- 

 monwealth, at Richmond, this the tenth day of March, in the year 

 of our Lord, "one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and of the 

 Commonwealth, the one hundred and thirty-ninth. 



il. C. STUAKT, 



Govt rnor. 

 By the Governor: 



B. O. JAMES. 



Secretary of flu C ommonwealth. 



COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 



Governor's Office, 



Richmond. 



QUARANTINE PROCLAMATION. 



Against States Where Contagious Foot and Mouth Disease kxists 



in Cattle, Sheep, Other Ruminants and Swine, and 



Against the District of Columbia. 



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Whereas, it has been determined by the United States Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, and notice has been duly given to the State 

 Veterinarian of Virginia, that the contagious, communicable dis- 

 ease known as the Foot and Mouth Distase exists in live stock 

 in the States of Connecticut. Delaware. Illinois, Indiana. Iowa- 

 Kansas. Kentucky. .Maryland. Massachusetts. Michigan. Montana, 



New Hampshire, New .Jersey. New York. Ohio, Pennsylvania, 



Rhode Island, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, and the District of 

 ( Vlunihia ; and 



Whereas, in pursuance of authority conferred by the statutes 



