LAW RELATING TO EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
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Restrictions relative to the importation and circulation of 
animals will be, without delay, made public. 
(b) Census of animals. 
§ 8. When the extension of epizooty in a neighboring country 
becomes threatening, a census may be ordered for the frontier 
zones, of animals which are there, as well as a regular control of 
the diminution or increase in the number of animals threatened 
with the epizooty. 
II. 
SUPPRESSION OF EPIZOOTIES IN THE INTERIOR OF THE COUNTRY. 
1. General Precautions. 
(a) Obligatory declaration. 
§ 9. The owner of domestic animals is obliged to make im- 
mediately to the police authority the declaration of the eruptions 
amongst his stock, of one of the epizootic diseases named in §10, 
as well as of the suspicious signs making him fear the existence 
of such disease, and to keep the animal away from the places 
where there is danger from other animals to be contaminated. 
These same obligations exist for the agent of said owner, and 
also in relation to the animals in transportation to those who have 
them in charge, and in relation to animals given in keep 
to other parties, to the owner of respective farms, stables, pas¬ 
tures, &c. 
Are also obliged to make the same declaration the veterinary 
surgeons and all persons which professionally exercise veterinary 
medicine; as well as the inspectors of slaughter houses, as well 
as those whose profession is to remove, sell or work on animal 
cadavers or substances when, before the police have taken 
measures, they have knowledge of the eruption amongst animals 
of one of the following epizootic diseases or the apparition of sus¬ 
picious signs. 
§10. The epizootic diseases to which the obligatory declara¬ 
tion is applied are: 
1st. Anthrax. 
2d. Hydrophobia. 
3d. Glanders and farcy of horses, donkeys, mules. 
