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Sec. 6. The Territorial Veterinarian shall make a report at 
the end of every year to the Governor, of all matters connected 
with his work, and the Governor shall transmit to the several 
boards of County Commissioners such parts of said reports as may 
lie of general interest to the breeders of live stock. The Governor 
shall also give information in writing as rapidly as he 'obtains it 
to the various boards of County Commissioners, of each cause of 
suspicion or first eruption of disease in each locality, its course 
and the measures adopted to check it. 
Sec. 7. Whenever the Governor of the Territory shall have 
good reason to believe that any disease covered by this act has 
become epidemic in certain localities in another State or Territory, 
or that conditions exist which render domestic animals liable to 
convey disease, he shall thereupon, by proclamation, schedule 
such localities and prohibit the inportation from them of any 
live stock of the kind diseased into this Territory except under 
such restrictions as he may deem proper. Any corporation or any 
person or persons, who, after the publishing of such proclamation, 
shall knowingly receive in charge any such animal or animals from 
any one of said prohibited districts, and transport or convey the 
same i\ ithin the limits of this Territory, shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdeameanor, and upon conviction, fined not less than $100 nor 
more than $10,000 for each and every offense, and shall further 
become liable for any and all damages and loss that may be sus¬ 
tained by any person or persons by reason of the importation or 
transportation of such prohibited animals. 
Sec. 8 . It shall be the duty of any person or persons who 
shall have or suspect that there is upon his or their premises, any 
case of contagious or infectious disease among domestic animals, 
to immediately report the same to the Territorial Veterinarian ; 
and a failure so to do, or any attempt to conceal the existence of 
such disease, or to wilfully or maliciously obstruct or resist the 
said Veterinarian in the discharge of his duty as hereinbefore set 
forth, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and any person or persons 
who shall be convicted of any of the above acts or omissions shall 
be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500 for each and every 
such offense, shall forfeit all claims to indemnity for loss from 
