pefmit from the State Board of Live Stock Com- 
missioners, wherein it is agreed that such react- 
ing cattle shall be kept separate and apart from 
all non-reacting cattle, and shall be maintained 
under strict quarantine until released therefrom 
for sale or slaughter under State or Federal in- 
spection by permit issued by the State Board of 
Live Stock Commissioners. 
§ 16. The State Board of Live Stock Commis- 
sioners is hereby charged with the enforcement 
of the provisions of this Act. 
§ 17. No bulls, cows or heifers, now forming 
a part of the domestic herds of this State or here- 
after born and raised in this State, shall be sub- 
jected to the tuberculin test by the State Veteri- 
narian or his assistants, without the consent of 
the owner thereof. 
§ 18. Any railroad company, stock yards com- 
pany, corporation, person or persons violating 
any provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not ex- 
ceeding one thousand (1,000) dollars. 
§ 19. In all cases where the transportation 
company is obliged under the provisions of this 
law to withhold or refuse delivery of cattle, the 
duty to feed and care for such cattle shall be 
upon the owner or consignor, or in case of his 
default in so doing then by the transportation 
company at the expense of the owner or con- 
signor, and such transportation company shall in 
such case have a lien upon such animals for food, 
care or custody furnished, and such transporta- 
tion company shall not be liable for any detention 
to such cattle to enable compliance with the 
provisions of this Act. 
§ 20. For the purposes of this Act stock yards 
at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, the National 
Stock Yards, East St. Louis, or the Union Stock 
Yards, Peoria, or any other like public stock 
yards, shall be placed in quarantine. 
Schnepp & Barnes, State Printers 
Springfield, III. 
1915 
