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preserve a full record of all rules and regulations promulgated under 
the provisions of this act, of all payments and expenses hereunder 
incurred, and all other transactions performed by said Commis¬ 
sioners in the discharge of their duties as herein provided ; and 
the said Commissioners shall, on or before the first Monday in 
November of each year, during their continuance in service, and 
at such other times as they may deem conclusive to the public 
interests, or as they may be required so to do by the President of 
the United States, report to him full and accurate accounts of 
their expenditures and other proceedings under the provisions of 
this act, and of the conditions of said diseases throughout the 
United States, to be by him communicated to Congress. When¬ 
ever the functions of said Commission shall be suspended or 
terminated, it shall turn over to the Commissioner of Agriculture 
all its books, papers, records, and other effects, taking his receipt 
therefor, and he shall remain the custodian of the same until 
such time as the functions of said Commission may be restored. 
§ 10. That the said Commissioners shall hare power, and are 
hereby authorized, to employ skilled veterinarians, and such other 
agents and employees as they may deem necessary to carry into 
effect the provisions of this act, and to fix the compensation of 
the person or persons so employed, and to terminate such employ¬ 
ment at their discretion; and they are authorized, out of the 
moneys by this act appropriated, to make such expenditures as 
may be needed for the actual and necessary traveling expenses of 
themselves and their said employees, payment of such employees, 
office expenses, stationery, expenses of disinfecting premises, cars, 
vessels, and other places, destroying diseased and exposed ani¬ 
mals and paying for the same, and such other expenses and ex¬ 
penditures as they may find to be actually necessary to properly 
carry into effect the provisions of this act. 
§ 11. That the moneys appropriated by this act shall be paid 
over to the secretary of said Commission, from time to time as 
the same may be found to be needed, upon requisition made by 
the said Commissioners, and shall be disbursed by the said sec¬ 
retary of said Commission only upon vouchers approved by said 
Commissioners or by a majority of them. The said secretary 
