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SANITARY LEGISLATION, 
A BILL TO EXTIRPATE CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA FOOT 
AND-MOUTH DISEASE, AND RINDERPEST AMONG CATTLE 
AND TO FACILITATE THE EXPORTATIOxN OF CATTIF 
THE PRODUCTS OF LIVE STOCK, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled : 
Tha for the purpose of better promoting the exportation of 
cattle and the products of live stock from the United States, and 
for the purpose of increasing, promoting and facilitating the com¬ 
merce m cattle and their products among the several States of 
1 11 s Union, and for the purpose of removing the obstructions to 
such commerce with foreign nations and among the States now 
occasioned by the existence of contagions, infectious, or commu¬ 
nicable diseases among cattle and other live stock, and especially 
contagious pleuro-pneumonia, the President of the United States 
is hereby authorized and required, immediately after the passage 
of this act, to appoint a Board of Cattle Commissioners, consist¬ 
ing of three persons of known executive ability, who shall be 
charged with the execution of the provisions of this act, and who 
shall be known and designated as the - United States Cattle 
: Commission,” and whose powers and duties shall be those pra- 
yided for in this act. The President may, when in his judgment 
the public interests will permit, suspend the functions and pay of 
said Commissioners, and, when in his judgment the public inter¬ 
est may require, he shall restore such functions and pay, of which 
suspension and restoration he shall make public proclamation. 
The salaries of said Commissioners respectively shall be at the 
•ate of five thousand dollars per annum for and during the period 
ljof time in which they shall be engaged in the discharge of their 
luties as such Commissioners. The said Commissioners shall 
espectively take an oath to faithfully discharge the duties of 
heir office, and shall immediately organize as such Commission 
y the election of one of their number as president thereof, and 
roceed forthwith to the discharge of the duties imposed upon 
hem by the provisions of this act. 
