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Cransportation of Sheep Hffccted with Scabies. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Office of the Secretary, 

 Washington, D. C, June 18, 1897. 

 To the Managers and Agents of Railroads and Transportation Compa- 

 nies of the United States, Stockmen and Others: 



In accordance with Section 7 of the act of Congress approved May 

 29, 1884, entitled "An act for the establishment of a Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to 

 provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneu- 

 monia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals," and 

 of the act of Congress approved April 23, 1897, making appropria- 

 tion for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1898, you are hfereby notified that the contagious disease 

 known as sheep scab, or scabies of sheep, exists among sheep in the 

 United States, and that it is a violation of the law to receive for 

 transportation, or transport any stock affected with said disease from 

 one State or Territory to another, or from any State into the 

 District of Columbia, or from the District into any State. It is also a 

 violation of the law for any person, company or corporation to deliver 

 for such transportation to any railroad company, or master or owner 

 of any boat or vessel, any sheep, knowing them to be affected with 

 said disease; and it is also unlawful for any person, company or cor- 

 poration to drive on foot or transport in private conveyance from one 

 State or Territory to another, or from any State into the District 

 of Columbia, or from the District into any State, any sheep, knowing 

 them to be affected with said disease. All transportation companies 

 and individuals shipping, driving or transporting sheep are requested 

 to co-operate with this Department in enfcfrcing the law for prevent- 

 ing the spread of the said disease. Inspectors of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry are directed to report all violations of this act which 

 come to their attention. 



In order to more effectually accomplish the object of the above 

 mentioned laws, it is hereby ordered that any railroad cars, boats or 

 other vehicles, which have been used in the transportation of sheep 

 affected with said disease, shall be immediately cleaned and disin- 

 fected by the owners or by the transportation companies in whose 

 possession said cars or vehicles may be at any time the animals are 

 unloaded by first removing all litter and manure which they con- 



