632 LEGAL DEPARTMENT. 



Animal Contagious Disease Act." The provisions of this act apply, of 

 course, to the whole Dominion. It enacts as follows : — 



Every cattle or farm stock owner, and every breeder of or dealer in 

 cattle or other animals in Canada, shall, on perceiving the appearance of 

 infection or contagious diseases among the cattle or other animals owned 

 by him, or under his special care, give immediate notice to the Minister 

 of Agriculture at Ottawa of the facts discovered by him as aforesaid. 



Every person who neglects to comply with the provisions of the pre- 

 ceding section shall forfeit his claim to compensation for any cattle or other 

 animals slaughtered in accordance with the provisions of this act, and 

 every person maliciously or fraudulently concealing the existence of 

 infectious or contagious diseases among cattle or other animals shall 

 incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars. 



Every person who turns out, keeps, or grazes, any animal, knowing 

 such animal to be infected with or laboring under any infectious or con- 

 tagious diseases, or to have been exposed to infection or contagion in or 

 upon any forest, wood, moor, beach, marsh, common, open field, waste 

 land, roadside, or other undivided or uninclosed land, shall, for every 

 such offense, incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars. 



Every person who brings . or attempts to bring into any market, 

 fair, or other place any animal known by him to be infected vrith any 

 infectious or contagious disease shall incur a penalty not exceeding two 

 hundred dollars. 



Every person who sells, disposes, or passes ofT or offers or attempts 

 to sell any animal known by him to be diseased as aforesaid, or the meat, 

 skin, hide, horns, hoofs, or other parts of such an animal, shall incur a 

 penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars, whether such person selling 

 or offering for sale as aforesaid is the owner or not. 



Every person throwing or suffering to be thrown into any river, 

 stream, canal, navigable or other water, or in the sea, within ten miles 

 of the shore, the carcass of an animal which has died with disease or 

 which has been slaughtered as diseased, shall for every such offense incur 

 a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars. 



The Governor in Council may from time to time cause such animals 

 as aforesaid to be slaughtered in accordance with the provisions of this 

 act, the value of the animal to be determined by the Minister of Agri- 

 culture or by some person appointed by him. Compensation may be 

 withheld in whole or in part whenever, in the opinion of the Minister of 



