SANITARY LEGISLATION. 
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tlie provisions of this act which may have contracted or been ex¬ 
posed to such disease or diseases in a foreign country or on the 
i high seas ; nor shall compensation be allowed to any owner who 
in person or by agent, knowingly and willfully conceals the ex¬ 
istence of any such disease or diseases, or the fact of exposure 
t lereto, in animals of which the person making such concealment, 
by himself or his agent, is in whole or in part the owner. 
§ 3. That the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and 
required to make, record and publish rules and regulations pro¬ 
viding for and regulating the agencies, methods and manner of 
conducting and making the investigations aforesaid regarding the 
existence of said contagious diseases; for ascertaining, entering 
and searching places where such diseased animals are supposed to 
exist; for ascertaining what animals are so diseased or have been 
exposed to such contagious diseases; for making, reporting and 
recording descriptions of the said animals so diseased or exposed 
and destroyed, and for appraising the same, and for making pay¬ 
ment therefor; and to make all other needful rules and regula¬ 
tions which may, in the judgment of the Commissioners, be 
Jeemed requisite to the full and due execution of the provisions 
J t iis act. All such rules and regulations, before they shall be- 
iome operative, shall be approved by the President of (he United 
states, and thereafter published in such manner as may be pro¬ 
vided for in such regulations; and after such publication said 
ules and regulations shall have the force and effect of law, so 
ar as the same are not inconsistent with this act and the other 
aws of the United States. 
! § 4. That any person or persons who shall knowingly and 
yilfully refuse permission to the said Commissioners, or to either 
f them, or to any duly authorized and accredited agent of said 
Commissioners, to make, or who knowingly and wilfully ob- 
Tucts said Commissioners or agents, or either of them, in mak- 
iig all necessary examinations of and as to animals supposed by 
f, nd Commissioners or agents to be diseased as aforesaid, or in 
astroying the same, or who knowingly and wilfully attempts to 
re vent said Commissioners or agents, or either of them, from 
iteiing upon the premises and other places hereinbefore speci- 
