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killed within ten days from that of the authentication of the erup¬ 
tion of the disease. 
§ 47. If the disease assumes extensive proportions, or if from 
local circumstances, it is not impossible for the disease to be 
propagated among surrounding flocks, the inoculation of the 
flocks threatened, and that of all sheep in the locality, may be 
ordered by police authority. 
§ 48. Inoculated sheep must be treated in respect to preven¬ 
tive measures, to be taken by the police authority, like other 
affected animals. 
§ 49. An inoculation cannot be proceeded with unless author¬ 
ized by the police authority. 
(f) Diseases of Coit ( Dourine ) of horses , and Coital exanthema 
of horses and bovines. 
§ 50. Horses affected with dourine and horses and bovines 
with coital exanthema of the genital parts cannot be admitted 
by their owner to copulation, until the official veterinarian has as¬ 
certained that they are entirely cured and are not even sus- 
§ 51. When the disease exists extensively in a district, it may 
be established in a general way, and so long as danger exists, a 
horse shall not be admitted to copulation until he has been in¬ 
spected by the veterinarian. 
(g) Scabies of horses , mxdes and sheep. 
§ 52. When scabies has been ascertained to prevail amongst 
horses, donkeys, mules, (scabies by sarcoptes by dermatocoptes) or 
in sheep (scabies by dermatocoptes), the owner may be requested, 
unless he prefers to have the diseased animals destroyed, to sub¬ 
mit them immediately to treatment by an approved veterinarian. 
(3) Special prescriptions for large markets of animals for 
SLAUGHTER AND PUBLIC ABATTOIRS. 
§ 53. The above regulations apply to great markets of ani¬ 
mals for slaughter and public abattoirs, under the police veteri¬ 
nary control, and to the beasts for slaughter which may be there, 
with the exceptions established by the following regulations. 
$ 54. When amongst beasts for slaughter which are in these 
