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making the complaint, the other half into the county treasury of 
the county in which said fine is imposed. 
Section 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act 
are hereby repealed. 
Section 6. This Act shall take effect in one month after its 
passage. 
(From the Baltimore American, Juno 1st, 1882.) 
“ NO PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. 
“In view of false reports circulating in some of the western 
papers, the Governor desires it to be known that there is not a 
single case of pleuro-pneumonia in the State. Dr. Lemay is at 
the call of the State authorities, and examines every suspicions 
case He has reported to the Governor that for the last six 
State ’ jS therG haS n0t been a CaSe ° f this disease an J w here in this 
' Delphey’s Hotel, Baltimore, Md., June 6th, 1882. 
Editor American Veterinary Jdeview ; 
It is with great reluctance that I forward to you such heroic 
decisions, signed by the veterinarian who has control of the 
State. 
I am obliged to contradict this statement; not for the sake of 
notoriety! but for the welfare of our country. We have the 
disease in this State, arid within the past six weeks I have found 
cases, principally in the farming districts. 
Veterinarians who mako a specialty of examining infected 
herds should watch with avidity the incipient stage of this disease. 
We all know it is very insidious in its character, for we cannot 
specify any time prior to its development. .Regarding his exam¬ 
inations of suspicions cases: I claim that every head of cattle in 
an infected district should be so classed, so long as the State 
authorities will not quarantine a herd while the disease is spread¬ 
ing among them. Old infected stables are never entirely free 
fi om its ravages; it is true they may escape for a time, but I find 
it possible for one or more animals to assume the chronic form of 
the disease, while their lacteal secretions will sometimes remain 
unaltered; the temperature of the body, too, is often but slightly 
