GOVERNMENTAL INSPECTION 179 
from previous treatment, they may be shipped 
interstate for any purpose, under regulations. 
Cattle located in areas where tick eradication is 
being conducted by the bureau in codperation with 
the state authorities, and which are on premises 
known by the inspectors to be free from ticks, 
may, upon inspection and certification at a suit- 
able season be moved interstate for any purpose, 
without dipping, provided that they can be moved 
to the transportation line, or free area without 
exposure to infection. 
Horses, mules or asses which are infested with 
the ticks must receive the same treatment as is 
provided for the cattle. 
Before accepting a shipment of cattle from a 
quarantined area to an unquarantined point in 
another state, the transportation company must 
obtain from the shipper a signed statement show- 
ing the purpose for which the cattle are shipped. 
The dipping of cattle by a railroad company 
transporting them, under quarantine regulations 
prescribed by law, is so intimately connected with 
the matter of transportation, that the charges may 
be fixed at a reasonable sum to be paid by the 
shippers; and the matter of fixing the charges may 
properly be made by the Corporation Commission, 
in Oklahoma.”® 
Cattle must not be transported, driven, nor 
allowed to drift, from a quarantined area to an- 
other portion of the same state outside of the 
quarantined area. This important rule of the 
26 Midland Valley R. R. Co. 
v. State, 35 Okla. 672, 130 Pace. 
803. 
