§ 13. All bulls, cows or heifers exceeding the 
age of nine months brought into the State of Illi- 
nois by any person, persons, firm, company or 
corporation, or by any railroad or other transpor- 
tation company, (unless said bulls, cows or heif- 
ers are consigned to and delivered by the trans- 
portation company within the confines of the 
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, the National Stock 
Yards, East St. Louis, or the Union Stock Yards, 
Peoria), or any other like public stock yard, shall 
be accompanied by a certificate of health, includ- 
ing the tuberculin test, administered in accord- 
ance with the regulations of the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry within thirty days 
previous to said cattle being brought into the 
State of Illinois. 
§ 13a. The foregoing provisions, however, 
shall not apply to the importation of bulls, cows 
or heifers from herds which are officially regis- 
tered by the Live Stock Sanitary authorities of 
the state of origin as being free from tuberculosis 
and other contagious and infectious diseases. 
Reciprocal exchange of cattle from " State Ac- 
credited Herds" shall be permitted under regula- 
tions prescribed by the State Board of Live Stock 
Commissioners. 
§ 13b. All certificates of health shall be issued 
in duplicate form by veterinarians in good stand- 
ing and shall be approved by the State Veteri- 
narian or official in charge of live stock sanitary 
control in the state in which the shipment has 
its origin, or by an inspector of the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry. Before accepting 
consignments of bulls, cows, or heifers for im- 
portation into the State of Illinois, transportation 
companies shall require that the original of said 
certificate of health be delivered to them to be 
attached to the way bill and accompanying the 
shipment to its destination. When such bulls, 
cows, or heifers are driven into the State of Illi- 
nois said certificate of health must be carried by 
the person in charge of said cattle. A duplicate of 
each certificate of health under which bulls, cows 
or heifers are brought into the State of Illinois, 
for breeding or dairy purposes as in this Act re- 
quired, shall be mailed to the State Veterinarian, 
Springfield, Illinois, on or before the date of 
bringing such cattle into the State. Furthermore, 
the agent of any transportation company deliver- 
ing cattle covered by a certificate of health within 
the State of Illinois shall immediately detach 
from said way bill said certificate of health and 
