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necessary to maintain such quarantine, and provide for the 
execution of the other provisions of this act. 
§ 8. That the importation of all animals described in this 
act into any port in the United States, except such as may be 
designated by the Secretary of Agriculture, with the 
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, as quarantine * 
stations, is hereby prohibited ; and the Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture may cause to be slaughtered such of the animals named 
in this act as may be, under regulations prescribed by him, 
adjudged to be infected with any contagious disease, or to 
have been exposed to infection so as to be dangerous to other 
animals ; and that the value of animals so slaughtered as being 
so exposed to infection but not infected may be ascertained 
by the agreement of the Secretary of Agriculture and owners 
thereof, if practicable; otherwise bj 7 the appraisal by two 
persons familiar with the character and value of such prop¬ 
erty, to be appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, whose 
decision, if they agree, shall be final; otherwise the Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture shall decide between them, and Ids decis¬ 
ion shall be final; and the amount of the value thus ascer¬ 
tained shall be paid to the owner thereof out of the money 
in the Treasury appropriated for the use of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry ; but no payment shall be made for any ani¬ 
mal imported in violation of the provisions of this act. if 
any animal subject to quarantine according to the provisions 
of this act are brought into any port of the United States 
where no quarantine station is established the Collector of 
such port shall require the same to be conveyed by the ves¬ 
sel on which they are imported or are found to the nearest 
quarantine station, at the expense of the owner. 
§ 9. That whenever, in the opinion of the President, it 
shall be necessary for the protection of animals in the United 
States against infectious or contagious diseases, he may, by 
proclamation, suspend the importation of all or any class of 
animals for a limited time, and may change, modify, revoke, 
or renew such proclamation, as the public good may require ; 
and during the time of such suspension the importation of 
any such animals shall be unlawful. 
§ 10. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause care- 
