LAW RELATING TO EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
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§ 42. The police shall order the destruction of suspected ani¬ 
mals : 
When the eruption of glanders or farcy shall have been declared 
pfobable by the official veterinarian, according to the symp¬ 
toms he had observed; 
When the case is such that the propagation of the disease 
cannot be efficiently prevented by other measures in accor¬ 
dance with the prescriptions of the present law; 
When the owner of the animal asks that it be killed, and 
that it is in the public interest that the disease be removed as 
soon as possible. 
§ 43. The cadavers of animals dead or killed must be immedi¬ 
ately removed, so that no further danger may remain. 
It is forbidden to remove the skin of those animals. 
§ 44. The police authority is required to give information im¬ 
mediately, in writing, of the cause of suspicion and of each first 
eruption of the diesase in a locality, as well as the course followed 
by the disease, and its disappearance, to the Chief Commanding 
General of the Corps d’Armee, in the circumscription of the lo¬ 
cality where he is situated. If in said locality there is a garrison, 
the governor or commanding officer will receive said infor¬ 
mation. 
(d) . Peripneumonia of bovines. 
§ 45. Upon the opinion of the official veterinarian, the police 
authority shall order that the animals affected with pleuro-pneu- 
monia shall be killed ; it may also order # the death of suspected 
animals. 
(e) Small-pox in sheep. 
§ 46. After its presence in a flock has been ascertained, the 
inoculation of the sheep which have not yet been affected with 
the disease, shall be ordered. 
At the request of the owner or his agent, a delay may be 
granted to have the operation performed, if, according the opinion 
of the veterinarian, there is no necessity for proceeding at once. 
At the request of the owner or his agent, the inoculation may 
be dispensed with, in a case where the measures taken shall be of 
sufficient warranty that the other animals, still healthy, shall be 
