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BILL FOR STAMPING OUT PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
of the provisions of this act. Whenever the plans and methods 
of the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be accepted by any 
State in which pleuro-pneumonia or other infectious or contagious 
diseases are declared to exist, and whenever the Governor of the 
State, or the other properly constituted authorities, signify a readi¬ 
ness to co-operate for the extinction of any contagious or infec¬ 
tious disease, the Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to 
expend so much of the appropriation as is necessary in the inves¬ 
tigation of the facts as to the disease, in paying for animals 
deemed necessary to slaughter, and in such disinfection and other 
means necessary to stamp out the disease ; and whenever a State, 
in any section of which contagious or infectious disease exists, 
which the Commissioner of Agriculture has declared dangerous 
to the animal industries of the nation, fails to make provision for 
its extinction, or co-operate with the plans of the Commissioner of 
Agriculture for the extinction of the disease, the President of the 
United States, on presentation of the facts by the Commissioner 
of Agriculture, shall be authorized to declare said State, or such 
part of said State as is dangerous to the animal interest of the 
country, in quarantine, and prohibit the exportation of cattle out 
of said State or district. 
Sec. 6. Provides for the effectual stamping out of the dis¬ 
ease in the District of Columbia. 
Sec. 7. That no railroad company within the United States • 
whose road forms any part of a line of road from one State or 
Territory to another, or the owners or masters of any steam, sail¬ 
ing or other vessel shall receive for transportation or transport 
from one State or Territory to another any live cattle affected by 
any contagious or infectious disease, and especially the disease 
known as contagious pleuro-pneumonia, or lung plague ; nor shall 
any person, company, or corporation deliver, for such transporta¬ 
tion to any railroad company or master or owner of any vessel, 
any live cattle knowing them to be affected by any contagious or 
infectious disease; or any person, company, or corporation drive 
on foot or transport by private conveyance from one State or Ter¬ 
ritory to another any live cattle, knowing them to be affected by 
any contagious or infectious disease, especially contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia or lung plague. 
