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VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
OFFICIAL OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 
State of Illinois. > 
Attorney General’s Office. ) 
Springfield, July 16, 1883. 
N. H. Paaren, M. D., State Veterinarian, 
Sir: —Your communication of the 13th inst. received, in 
which you ask my official opinion as follows: “ The horse of 
George Grove, of Sterling, Illinois, has been exposed to glanders, 
aDd upon examination shows evidences of the disease to such an 
extent that I have deemed it my duty to order the horse appraised 
and killed to prevent the disease from spreading in the vicinity. 
Whiteside County has had many cases of this disease, and two 
men have died from glanders, having taken it from communica¬ 
tion with horses thus diseased. It is claimed that I cannot order 
killed or quarantined any horses until the disease has become epi¬ 
demic, and the Governor has issued his proclamation under Sec. 
2 of the Act of 1881.” 
Under this state of facts, you ask me if you are required to 
wait until the disease has become epidemic and the Gover¬ 
nor has issued his proclamation of the fact, before you 
can take any measures to restrain or stop the disease, or 
can you, when you find a horse with the glanders, have it ap¬ 
praised and killed, or order a quarantine, without waiting until 
the disease has spread over the country to such an extent that it 
may be called epidemic? 
I may say. in the beginning, that your duties and powers are 
confined and circumscribed by the terms of the statute authoriz¬ 
ing your appointment. The act was passed May 31, 1881, and 
was amended June 13, 1883. 
You have no power or authority, as State Yeterinarian, ex¬ 
cept that expressly given by these acts, and such as may be neces¬ 
sary to carry out the powers therein expressly given. The act of 
1881 applies only to pleuro-pneumonia among cattle. The act of 
1883 extends the authority of the State Yeterinarian to cases of 
glanders among horses, and declares, that all officers named in 
the act concerning pleuro-pneumonia among cattle, “ shall have 
all the authority to, and shall be required to enforce all laws laid 
