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LAW RELATING- TO EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
4th. Foot and month diseases of bovine, sheep, goats and 
swine. 
5th. Plenro-pneumonia of bovine. 
6th. Small-pox in sheep. 
7th. Maladie of coit (donrine) of horses and the coital ex¬ 
anthems of horses and bovines. 
8th. Scabies of horses, donkeys, mules and sheep. 
The Chancellor of the Empire is authorized to make also for 
other epizootic diseases the declarations transitorily obligatory. 
§11. For the districts where anthrax exists permanently, the 
governments of the different States of the Confederation are 
authorized to take it off the obligatory declaration (§9) as long as 
the disease appears only on isolated cases. In this case the 
measures of prevention must be prescribed in a general manner 
and in accordance with the law and the extinction relating to 
its executions. 
(b) Measures to take to ascertain the existence of epizootic 
diseases. 
§12. When the declaration (§§ 9-10) has been made or that in 
any other manner, the existence, real or supposed, of a disease is 
known to the police authority, this will request the official veter* 
inary surgeon to make the necessary inquiries to ascertain the 
existence of the disease. He will ascertain the nature, condition 
and causes of the disease, and will give his opinion as to whether 
it exists or the supposition of its presence is correct. 
In urgent cases the veterinarian may, already before the ac¬ 
tion of the police, prescribe the sequestration and temporary 
quarantine of the sick and suspected animals, and if there is need, 
their inspection. The prescribed temporary measure will be made 
known to the owner of the animals, or his agent, either by a ver¬ 
bal or official written report, and which will immediately be given 
to the police. 
At the request of the veterinarian the mayor (Yorsteher) of 
the place will organize the temporary infection of the diseased 
animals. 
§ 13. When, from the opinion of the veterinary surgeon, it is 
possible to ascertain positively the existence of an epizootic disease 
