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GLANDERS IN ILLINOIS, 
Section 258, of the first division of the Criminal Code (Chap. 
38, .Revised Statutes of Illinois, 1880), provides that any person 
who shall knowingly and willfully bring, or cause to be brought, 
into this State any sheep or other domestic animal infected with 
contagious disease, or who shall knowingly and willfully suffer 
or permit sheep or other domestic animals infected with conta¬ 
gious disease to run at large, shall be fined in any sum not ex¬ 
ceeding $100, and shall be liable in a civil action for all damages 
occasioned thereby. 
An act of the 32d General Assembly, approved May 31,1881, 
creates the office of .State Yeterinarian, whose duty it is to inves¬ 
tigate any and all cases of contagious or infectious disease among 
domestic animals of the bovine species in this State. It provides 
for the quarantine and slaughter of animals in case of an epi¬ 
demic—Sec. 2; for the appraisement of slaughtered animals— 
Sec. 3; for the prohibition of the importation of cattle from in¬ 
fected localities—Sec. 4; for penalties for neglecting to report 
contagious diseases—Sec. 5; for official reports by the State 
Yeterinarian—Sec. 6; for payment of claims for slaughtered 
animals—Sec. 7; for the compensation of the State Yeterinarian 
and for the appraisers’ and physicians’ fees—Sec. 8 ; and appro¬ 
priates $8,000 as a contingent fund for the purposes of the Act. 
From the prominence given to pleuro-pneumonia ( pleuro-pnen - 
monic contagieuse de la bete bovine), in the text of the Act, this is 
generally known as the “ Pleuro-Pneumonia Act,” but as you 
will see from the copy which I have requested State Yeterinarian 
Paaren to send you, all contagious or infectious diseases among 
animals of the bovine species come within its purview. 
In addition to these two, which are still in force, the ravages 
of that form of anthrax known as the Texas, or Spanish, or 
splenic fever, led to the passage, in 1867, of an act to prevent the 
introduction of Texas or Cherokee cattle into Illinois. This, be¬ 
ing found imperfect, was amended in 1869, but, after the consti¬ 
tutionality of the amended act had been twice affirmed in the 
State courts (Yeazel v. Alexander, 58 Ill., 854, and Stevens v. 
Brown, 58, Ill., 289), the United States Supreme Court held that 
a similar law of Missouri was repugnant to the Federal Constitu- 
