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where there are a eonsiderable number of public animals, say 
four companies of cavalry, or the same number of other public 
animals. 
A room for the safe storage of veterinary instruments and 
medical stores and the compounding of medicines should be pro¬ 
vided, and the Veterinary Surgeons and Farriers should be en¬ 
couraged to make and preserve collections of specimens obtained 
from post mortem examinations, illustrating the anatomy and 
pathology of the horse in order to popularize and disseminate a 
knowledge of those important subjects in the Army. 
[To be continued .) 
SANITARY LEGISLATION. 
FRENCH LAW UPON THE SANITARY POLICE FOR ANIMALS. 
(Continued from page 245.) 
CHAPTER II. 
INDEMNITIES. 
Sec. 17. Owners of animals destroyed on account of typhus, 
by virtue of Section 7, shall receive an indemnity equal to three- 
quarters of the value of the animal before the disease. 
Owners of diseased animals, destroyed for the cause of con¬ 
tagious pleuro-pneumonia, or that have died from the inoculation, 
by virtue of Section 9, will receive an indemnity regulated as 
follows : 
Half of the value before the disease, if they are recognized as 
affected by it; 
Three-quarters, if they have only been contaminated; 
The total value if they have died from the inoculation of con¬ 
tagious pleuro-pneumonia. 
This indemnity allowed cannot exceed 400 francs for half of 
the value; GOO francs for the three-quarters; and 800 francs for 
the whole value. 
§ 18. No allowance will be granted to owners of animals 
imported from foreign countries, destroyed because of contagi¬ 
ous pleuro-pneumouia within three months following their land¬ 
ing in France. 
