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abattoir, who will see that the carcasses of the same are 
tanked by the owners of the abattoir. In case the owners 
of the abattoir refuse to tank such carcasses then the inspector 
will tag said animals with tags for condemned meat, which 
will be furnished by this department. 
Owners of abattoirs are warned against removing the 
tags so attached to condemned carcasses, and are notified that 
they will be prosecuted under section 4 of the Act of Congress 
of March 3d, 1891, for any such attempt to tamper with 
the device for marking condemned animals as prescribed by 
this regulation. 
Accompanying and forming part of this order are direc¬ 
tions to inspectors, designating the diseases and conditions 
which render animals unfit for human food, and for which 
they shall be condemned by the inspector. 
J. Stirling Morton, Secretary. 
Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
has issued the following to inspectors of the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry in charge of the inspection of animals slaugh¬ 
tered at abattoirs throughout the United States : 
Supplementary to the order of the Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture of this date, directing the ante and post-mortem examin¬ 
ation of all swine slaughtered at the abattoirs where the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture is carding on inspection, the fol¬ 
lowing instructions are issued as a guide to inspectors in the 
condemnation of cattle, sheep and swine and their carcasses. 
All animals found on either ante or post-mortem examin¬ 
ation to be affected as follows are' to be condemned and the 
carcasses thereof stamped with the “condemnation” stamp 
supplied by the department, and inspectors will see that said 
carcasses are placed in the rendering tanks of the abattoirs : 
(1) Hog cholera. (2) Swine plague. (3) Charbon or anthrax. 
(4) Malignant epizootic catarrh. (5) Pyasmia and septicemia. 
(6) Mange or scab in advanced stages. (7) Advanced stages 
of actinomycosis or lumpy jaw. (8) Inflammation of the 
lungs or of the intestines. (9) Texas fever. (10) Extensive 
