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poitation or transport frotn one State or Territory to another 
State or Territory or to any foreign country, or from any State 
01 Territory into the District of Columbia, or from the District 
of Columbia into any State or Territory or to any foreign 
countiy, any cattle affected with any of the diseases named in 
section two of this act, or that have been exposed to such dis¬ 
eases, especially the disease known as contagious pleuro-pneu- 
monia, knowing such cattle to be so affected or to have been so 
exposed; nor shall any person or persons, company or corpora¬ 
tion, deliver foi such transportation to any railroad company, or 
to the master or owner of any vessel, any cattle, knowing them 
to be affected with or to have been exposed to any of the said 
diseases; nor shall any person or persons, company or corpora¬ 
tion, drive on foot or transport in private conveyance from one 
State or Territory to another, or from any State or Territory into 
! the District of Columbia, or from said District into any State or 
Teiritory, any cattle, knowing the same to be affected with or to 
have been exposed to any of said diseases. Any person or per¬ 
sons violating the provisions of this section shall he deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished 
by fine not exceeding the sum of live thousand dollars or by im¬ 
prisonment not exceeding one year, or by both fine and imprison¬ 
ment. 
§ 8. That it shall be the duty of the several United States 
district attorneys to prosecute all violations of this act which shall 
be bi ought to their notice or knowledge by any person making 
the complaint under oath; and the same shall be heard in any 
district or circuit court of the United States or Territorial court 
of general jurisdiction holden within the district in which the 
violation of this act has been committed 
§ 9. That the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to 
appoint a secretary of the said Board, subject to the approval of 
the President of the United States, who shall receive a salary at 
the late of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum for his 
services during the time in which, under the provisions of this 
act, the services of the said Commissioners shall be required. 
The said Commissioners shall keep an office, and shall make and 
