384 INSPECTION, GOVEENMEN'T AND STATE. 



of an act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for 

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

 1897," the following regulations, to take effect from and after Feb- 

 ruary 1, 1897, are hereby prescribed for the inspection and quaran- 

 tine of animals imported from Canada into the United States, and 

 all, orders and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with these 

 regulations are hereby revoked in so far as applies to inspection and 

 quarantine of animals imported from Canada: 



1. With the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the follow- 

 ing-named ports along the border or boundary line between the 

 United States and- Canada have been designated as quarantine sta- 

 tions, and all animals imported from Canada into the United States 

 for which inspection is required by these regulations must be entered 

 through these ports, viz: Vanceboro and Houlton, Maine; Beechers 

 Falls, Island Pond, Newport, Kichford, and St. Albans, Vermont; 

 Rouses Point, Ogdensburg, Charlotte, Suspension Bridge, and Buf- 

 falo, New York; Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan; Duluth and St. 

 Vincent, Minnesota; and Port Townsend, Washington. 



2. The word "animals" when used in these regulations refers to 

 and, includes all or any of the following kinds: Horses, neat cattle, 

 sheep, and other ruminants, and swine. The term "contagious dis- 

 eases" when used in these regulations includes and applies to all or 

 any of the following diseases: Glanders and farcy, maladie du coit, 

 anthrax, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, Texas or splenetic fever, tu- 

 berculosis, actinomycosis, foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, sheep 

 pox, foot-rot, sheep scab, hog cholera, swine plague, and erysipelas. 

 Animals found affected with any one of these contagious diseases must 

 be returned to Canada or killed without compensation. 



3. All animals imported into the United States from Canada must 

 be accompanied by an affidavit made by the owner or importer, declar- 

 ing clearly the purpose for which said animals are imported, viz: 

 whether for breeding purposes, for milk production, for work animals, 

 for grazing, feeding, or slaughter, or whether they form part of 

 settlers' effects, or whether they are horses entered for temporary stay, 

 as provided in section 7 of these regulations. Said affidavit must be 

 presented to the collector of customs at the port of entry, who will 

 decide whether the animals are entitled to enter under these regula- 

 tions, and who will notify the inspector of the Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry in all cases where these regulations require an inspection to 

 be made. 



4. All animals imported into the United States fov breeding pur- 

 poses, for milk production, for grazing or feeding, horses for work, 



