BILL FOR STAMPING OUT PLKURO-FNFUMONIA. 
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sumo us that of other chiefs of divisions in said department. The 
Commissioner is also authorized to appoint a clerk of said 
bureau, at a salary of $1,500 per annum. 
Sec. 2. The Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to 
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appoint three competent agents, who shall be practical stock raisers 
or experienced business men familiar with business pertaining to 
commercial transactions in live stock, and whose duty it shall be, 
under the instructions of the Commissioner of Agriculture, to re¬ 
port the best methods of treating, transporting, and caring for 
animals, the means to be adopted for the suppression and extinc¬ 
tion of pleuro-pneumonia, and provide against the spread of other 
contagious diseases. The compensation of the agents shall be 
$10 per diem, and all necessary expenses while engaged in the 
performance of duty under the act. 
Sec. 3. In order to promote the exportation of live stock 
from the United States, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall 
make a special investigation as to the existence of contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia, or any contagious communicable disease, along 
the dividing line between the United States and foreign countries, 
and along the lines of transportation of all parts of the United 
States, to ports from which live stock are exported, and make a 
report of the results of the investigation to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, who shall establish such regulations concerning the ex¬ 
portation and transportation of live stock as the results of said in¬ 
vestigation shall require. 
Sec. 4. That to prevent the exportation from any port of 
the United States to any port of a foreign country, of live stock 
affected by any infectious or contagious disease, especially pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized to 
adopt such measures not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
act as he may deem necessary. 
Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of 
Agriculture to prepare such rules and regulations as he may 
deem necessary for the speedy and effectual suppression and ex¬ 
tirpation of contagions pleuro-pneumonia, and certify such rules 
and regulations to the executive authority of each State and Ter¬ 
ritory, and invite said authority to co-operate in the enforcement 
