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SANITARY LEGISLATION - 
§ 2. That it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners to 
cause investigation to be made as to the existence of contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, and rinderpest; and 
such Commissioners are hereby authorized to enter, either in per¬ 
son or by their duly authorized and accredited agents, any prem¬ 
ises or places, including stock yards, cars, and vessels, within any 
State of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Ter¬ 
ritories of the United States, in or at which they have reason to 
believe, and do believe, there exist any of such diseases, and to 
make search, investigation and inquiry in regard to the existence 
theieof. Upon the discovery of the existence of an} 7 of the said 
diseases, the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to give 
notice, by publication, of the existence of such disease or dis¬ 
eases, and the locality thereof, in such newspapers as they may 
select, and to notify, in writing, the officials or agents of any 
railroad, steamboat, or other transportation company doing busi¬ 
ness in or through such infected locality, of the existence of such 
disease or diseases ; and are hereby authorized and required to 
establish and maintain such quarantine of animals, places, prem¬ 
ises or localities as they may deem necessary to prevent the 
spread of any such disease or diseases, and also to cause the ap¬ 
praisal of the animal or animals affected with or that have been 
exposed to the said diseases, or either of them, in accordance with 
such rules and regulations as shall be established by them, as 
hereinafter authorized and provided, and also to cause the same ! 
to be destroyed, except as hereinafter provided, and to pay, in 
case of diseased animals, the owner or owners thereof three- 
fourths of their value, as determined upon the basis of health be¬ 
fore infection, and the full appraised value in case of animals 1 
exposed to either of such diseases but not themselves actually dis- 1 
eased, out of any moneys appropriated by Congress for that pur¬ 
pose : Provided , however , That they shall not pay more than one 
hundred and sixty dollars for an animal with pedigree recorded i 
or recordable in the recognized herd-books of the breed to which i 
the animal destroyed may belong, nor more than sixty dollars for I 
an animal not pedigreed: Provided further , That in no case i 
shall compensation be allowed for any animal destroyed under 
