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LAW RELATING TO EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
the measures taken be applied to the territories of several States 
of the Confederation, the Chancellor of the Empire, or an imperial 
commissioner named by him, will see that there is uniformity in 
the measures taken or to be taken by the authorities of the res¬ 
pective countries; he shall prescribe what is necessary to those 
effects, and shall give directly, if need be, to the authorities of 
the interested States, the instructions demanded by the circum¬ 
stances. 
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§ 5. The authorities of the States of the Confederation are 
bound to lend each other mutual assistance in the execution of 
the measures having for object the prevention and suppression of 
epizootics. 
I. 
PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST THE IMPORTATION OF EPIZO- 
OTIES FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
(a) Restriction to the importation and circulation of animals. 
§ 6. The importation of animals affected with a contagious 
epizootic disease is prohibited. 
§ 7. When in a foreign country a contagious epizooty exists 
or declares itself among domestic animals to an extent threaten¬ 
ing for the animals of the interior: 
1. The importation of living or dead animals of the foreign 
country where the epizooty exists, can be prohibited in a general 
way, either for some parts of the frontier, or it may be submitted 
to restrictions which stop or diminish the danger of the importa¬ 
tion. 
2. The circulation of animals in the zone of the frontier may 
be submitted to prescription likely to prevent the extension of a 
disease which might be imported. 
The restrictions relating to the importation and circulation of 
animals shall, in the measure of need, also extend to the impor¬ 
tation of animal matters, and of all other objects of contagion. 
Communication shall be given immediately to the Chancellor 
of the Empire of all prescription, abrogation or modification of 
the restrictions placed on the importation and circulation of 
animals. 
