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Department the nation has no legal authority to 
directly enforce; but what it cannot do directly it 
may do indirectly. If a single county be quaran- 
tined in a state, and the state supervision and en- 
forcement of regulations is so lax that a cow is 
permitted to go outside of the quarantined area, 
it becomes the duty of the Secretary to so extend 
the area under federal quarantine that danger 
would be eliminated. In the place of a single 
county he might quarantine the whole state. 
131. Protection of Inspectors. A shipment of 
cattle from the far southwest was about to be 
made. The cattlemen were impatient to be re- 
lieved of their responsibility, and to have a good 
time. The inspection was almost finished when 
the comparatively young tenderfoot, called offi- 
cially an inspector, found one of the ticks. He 
ordered the entire bunch held for dipping. The 
result may be imagined, though fortunately no 
serious harm resulted. The inspector held firm. 
Realizing the necessity for special precautions 
Congress inserted the following paragraph into 
the act of 1905. 
“Sec. 5. That every person who forcibly as- 
saults, resists, opposes, prevents, impedes, or inter- 
feres with any officer or employee of the Bureau 
of Animal Industry of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture in the execution of his duties, 
or on account of the execution of his duties, shall 
be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more 
than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not 
less than one month or more than one year, or by 
both the fine and imprisonment; and every person 
who discharges any deadly weapon at any officer 
