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of animals is owned by more than one person a release will be issued 
to each owner or agent covering the animals which belong to him. 
DISPOSAL OF DISEASED ANIMALS. 
Regulation 16. — Whenever any animal on arrival at the port of 
entry or in the quarantine station is found to be affected with a 
contagious disease or to have been exposed to such disease, said 
animal and all animals that have been in contact with or exposed to 
said animal shall either be refused landing or placed in special 
quarantine. All such animals found to be so diseased or exposed, 
either on arrival at port of entry or after being placed in quarantine, 
shall be at once reported by the inspector to the Chief of the Bureau 
of Animal Industry, who will direct whether or not said animal or 
animals shall be landed and quarantined, and as to whether or not 
said animal or animals shall be appraised and slaughtered, as pro- 
vided by section 8 of the act approved August 30, 1890. If the Chief 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry directs that such animal or ani- 
mals shall be slaughtered, the slaughtering shall be done only under 
the supervision of an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
and such animal or animals shall remain in quarantine until slaugh- 
tered in accordance with this regulation. 
DISINFECTION OF VESSELS. 
Regulation 17 — If a shipment of imported animals shall prove to be 
infected with or to have been exposed to the infection of disease, 
such portions of the cargo or the vessel on which they arrive as have 
been exposed to those animals or their emanations shall be subjected, 
under the direction of the inspector of the Bureau of Animal Indus- 
try, to disinfection in such manner as may be considered necessary by 
said inspector before the shipment can be landed. In all cases the 
parts of the vessel that have been occupied by imported animals 
shall be cleaned and disinfected as directed by and under the super- 
vision of the inspector. 
ARTICLES ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS. 
Regulation 18. — No litter, fodder, or other aliment, nor any ropes, 
straps, chains, girths, blankets, poles, buckets, or other things used 
for or about the animals, and no manure shall be landed from any 
vessel excepting under such regulations as the inspector shall 
prescribe. 
MOVEMENT FROM VESSEL TO QUARANTINE STATION. 
Regulation 19. — On moving animals from the ocean steamer to the 
quarantine grounds they shall not be unnecessarily moved over any 
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