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Note:— In the city of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nagoya the urban district 

 headmen shall perform the duty imposed upon the town headmen or village 

 ^headmen. This will be the same throughont the Regulations. 



Art. 4. Horse-owners or those who have the charge 

 of horses shall immediately report the death and slaugh- 

 ter of horses affected with infectious anemia to police 

 officers, mayors, town headmen or villageheadmen. 



Police officers, mayors, town headmen or village 

 headmen, who receive such report shall report to the 

 local governor. 



Art. 5. The police officers, mayors, town headmen 

 or village headmen in the same prevention districts shall 

 inform with one another the fact that they have received 

 such reports according to Arts. 3 and 4. 



Art. 6. When there are indications of the spread 

 of infectious anemia among horses in any prefecture, 

 the local governor shall give notice of the provisions 

 under Arts. 3 and 4 throughout the district under his 

 jurisdiction and at the same time give a report thereof 

 to both the Minister of Agriculture and" Commerce 

 and to the local governors of the neighbouring pre- 

 fectures. 



Art. 7. Local Governor shall station inspectors at 

 several places in the prevention district and make them 

 carry out physical examinations on all the horses. 



They shall appoint these inspectors from officers 

 belonging to them, city-, town-, and village- officials and 

 veterinarians. 



Art. 8. Physical examinations shall be carried on 

 at least once a week during the epizootic season and 

 once a month during the rest of the year. 



Local Governors may increase or decrease the number 

 of inspectors according to the condition of the out- 

 break. 



