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tagion, and the premises in or on which they are, 
or which may have been recently occupied by 
them, to be strictly quarantined; and they shall 
have power to order any premises and farms 
where the disease exists, or has recently existed, 
as well as exposed premises and farms, to be 
put in quarantine so that no domestic animal 
which has been or is so diseased, or has been 
exposed to such communicable disease, be re- 
moved from the premises so quarantined, nor 
allow any animal susceptible to such disease to 
be brought therein or thereon, except under such 
rules and regulations as said Board of Live 
Stock Commissioners may prescribe, which quar- 
antine, and every quarantine established under 
the provisions of this Act, shall remain in force 
and effect until removed by order of said Board; 
and said board shall prescribe such regulations 
as they may deem necessary to prevent any such 
disease from being communicated from any such 
diseased animal or exposed animal or from the 
infected premises or through any other means of — 
communication. In all such cases the said Board 
of Live Stock Commissioners, or in case the 
number of animals shall not exceed five, any 
member thereof, shall have power to order the 
slaughter of any or all of such diseased or ex- 
posed animals. The said board shall also have 
power to cause to be destroyed all barns, stables, 
premises, fixtures, furniture and personal prop- 
erty infected with any such communicable disease 
so far as in their judgment may be necessary to 
prevent the spread of such disease and where 
the same cannot be properly disinfected; and 
to order the disinfection of all cars, boats or 
other vehicles used in transporting animals af- 
fected with any such communicable disease, or 
that have been exposed to the contagion thereof, 
and the disinfection of all yards, pens and chutes 
that may have been used in handling such dis- 
eased or exposed animals. 
When the said board, upon the written report 
of the State Veterinarian, or any of his assistants, 
determines that any animal is affected with, or 
has been exposed to any dangerously contagious 
or infectious disease, the board or any member 
thereof or any of its duty authorized agents, may 
agree with the owner upon the value of such 
animal or of any property that it may be found 
necessary to destroy, and in case such an agree- 
ment cannot be made, said animals or property 
