84 The Lung Plague of Cattle. 



(A) Make it Incumbent on all Cognizant of the same to lie- 

 port to a Designated Official all Gases of Disease in Cattle 

 Svpposed or Suspected to be Contagious. 



This is, of course, especially incumbent on the owners, 

 but should be made to embrace all attendants, veterina- 

 rians, visitors and all good citizens. The reasons for 

 this are obvious, but they will be set forth more fully 

 under the head of Indemnity. 



(i) Make it the Duty of Some Designated Local Authority 

 to Receive this Report and to Order an Examination by a 

 State Veterinary Inspector. 



Such local authority ought to be a Justice of the Peace, 

 Police Magistrate or other Judge of the District, who can 

 not only administer the law but promptly punish offend- 

 ers. The judges in question will then make themselves 

 acquainted with the law and will mete out more rigid 

 justice to parties brought before them than if they had 

 no such direct duty in the matter. They come to the 

 subject already clothed with the dignity and authority of 

 the law, and the moral influence is far better than if a 

 State official, outside the judicial bench, had to apply the 

 law and appear to prosecute the offenders. Besides, if a 

 magistrate is not directly interested in the matter and 

 specially acquainted with it, he will often decide a case 

 in favor of the offender and to the serious detriment oi 

 the sanitary work. 



(/) Indemnity. If the Inspector Ascertains the Existence 

 of Lung Plague, he shall Estimate the Value of the Sick, or 

 have it done by Disinterested Appraisers, and Report the 

 same to the Local Authority as the Basis of Indemnity. 



The principle of allowing indemnity for animals slaugh- 

 tered is fundamental to success, and according to the 

 liberality of the award, is usually the success of the 

 work of extermination. Withhold indemnity and owners 

 withhold reports of sickness, hide away or slaughter the 

 diseased and throw th,e remainder of the infected herd 



