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from foreign countries, or into any State or Territory, any animal 
affected with a communicative, infectious or contagious disease, 
except in accordance with the rules and regulations adopt¬ 
ed by the National Board of Health, or those of any State 
or Territory made in pursuance of the bill. It prohibits the 
sale of domestic animals affected with contagious diseases, such 
as lung plague, pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, splenic or Texas cat¬ 
tle fever, foot and mouth disease, hog cholera, etc., in violation 
of the provisions of the bill; directs the National Board of Health 
or its Executive Committee to report to the President whenever 
any place in the United States is considered to be dangerously in¬ 
fected with an infectious disease of domestic animals, and upon 
public notice of such fact being given by the President the remo¬ 
val of such animals from such infected district is made unlawful, 
unless carried on in accordance with rules and regulations made 
by the National Board of Health. 
The bill also authorizes the National Board of Health to in¬ 
vestigate and report on diseases of animals prevailing in the United 
States or in countries from which the United States may import 
domestic animals for breeding or other purposes, and also to draft 
rules and regulations deemed necessary to arrest or prevent the 
spread of infectious diseases among domestic animals. It authorizes 
the National Board of Health to appoint veterinary surgeons, who 
shall be ex-officio members of the Board, together with other vet¬ 
erinary surgeons to act as inspectors. 
To meet the expenses to be incurred in carrying out the pro¬ 
visions of the bill the sum of $1,000,000 is appropriated, to be 
dispensed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury on 
estimates made by the National Board of Health.— Farmer’s 
Magazine. 
PROVISIONS OF THE BILL ESTABLISHING A BUREAU OF ANIMAL 
INDUSTRY. 
Washington, Jan. 28. —The bill reported to-day by Senator 
Johnston, from the select Committee on Contagious Diseases of 
Domestic Animals, provides that the Commissioner of Agriculture 
