LAW RELATING TO EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
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moil wells or troughs, as well as to put them in connection with 
diseased or suspected animals upon public or common roads or 
pastures. 
Interdiction to all dogs to run about. 
§ 22. 4. Isolation or sequestration of the stable, shed or other 
place where diseased or suspected animals are, that of the farm, 
locality, pasture or suburbs of the town relatively to the circula¬ 
tion of animals and with objects of contagion. 
Isolation of the farm, place, pasture or suburbs of the town, 
cannot be commanded unless the existence of the epizooty has 
been pronounced by the official veterinarians. 
Isolation of a place or suburbs of a town cannot take place 
unless the disease presents by its nature, an important and general 
danger and unless a certain number of animals are already affected. 
Isolation can be limited to certain streets or parts of a town or 
suburbs. Isolation, by police authority, of a stable, shed, or 
other place where animals are, of a farm or pasture, obliges the 
owner to take all precautions which are required for its efficacious 
execution. 
§ 23. 5. Inoculation of animals threatened by the epizooty, 
the veterinary attendance of diseased animals, as well as the re¬ 
strictions belonging to the right of experiments for recovery. 
Inoculation or veterinary attendance can not be ordered only 
in the cases indicated in the present law and according to its pre¬ 
scriptions of detail. 
Inoculation ordered by the police shall be made under the sur¬ 
vey of the official veterinarian or by himself. 
§ 24-6. Slaughter of diseased or suspected animals. 
Slaughter cannot be ordered except in cases expressly named 
in the present law. 
The prescription of immediate slaughter of the diseased or 
suspected animals is not, where it is mentioned in the present law, 
to be applied when the animals are sent to a superior school under 
State survey, to be used as means of instruction. 
§ 25. When animals, for the circulation and use of which 
restrictions exist or which are isolated, are used contrary to the 
interdiction or are found outside the place assigned to them or in 
