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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
ceal such fact, or knowing of the existence of such disease, shall 
sell the animal or animals so diseased, or any exposed animal, or 
knowing the same, shall remove such diseased or infected animals 
from his premises to the premises of another, or knowing of the 
existence of such disease, or exposure, shall drive, or lead, or ship 
the same by any car or steamboat to any other place in or out of 
this State, and any person or persons who shall bring any such 
diseased, or knowingly, shall bring any such exposed animal or 
animals in this State from another State ; and any person or per¬ 
sons who shall knowingly buy, receive, sell, convey or engage in 
the traffic of such diseased or exposed stock, and any person who 
shall violate any quarantine regulations established under the pro¬ 
visions of this act, shall, for each, either, any, aud all acts above 
mentioned in this section, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on 
conviction thereof, or of any one of said acts, shall be fined in 
any sum not less than $25 nor more than $200, and imprisoned 
in the county jail until the fine and costs are paid, and shall for¬ 
feit all right to the compensation for any animal or property de¬ 
stroyed under the provisions of this act. 
The Commissioners have issued the following: 
Whereas, Actinomycosis, or “ lumpy-jaw,” and tuberculosis, 
are dangerously infectious diseases: 
Therefore, be it known that all persons detected in violating 
the act of which the above is an extract, by buying, selling, ship¬ 
ping, or in any wise moving such cattle so diseased, will be pros¬ 
ecuted, and quarantine enforced against such animals. 
[Signed,] John M. Pearson, 
H. MoChesney, 
E. S. Wilson, 
Live-Stock Commissioners, Illinois. 
Cattle Disease in California. —From information received, 
cattle in the Golden State are suffering with a number of dis¬ 
eases, which are likely to play sad havoc amongst them. Texas 
fever, aotinomycosis, tuberculosis and anthrax have been recog¬ 
nized by Dr. T. Bowhill in a recent official investigation that he 
made by the direction of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 
