LAW RELATING TO EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
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establishments, the existence of a contagious epizootic is ascer¬ 
tained, or symptoms have been observed which, according to the 
opinion of the veterinarian, are of such nature as to justify a sus¬ 
picion of the presence of the eruption of such epizootic, all the 
diseased or suspected animals shall be immediately sequestrated 
by the police, and no contact with other animals allowed. 
§ 55. The owner of animals for slaughter, diseased or suspec¬ 
ted, or his agent, may, so long as the nature of the disease allows, 
be obliged to have such animals immediately destroyed under the 
survey of the official veterinarian, and in special places selected 
for the purpose. 
This measure may be extended, if necessary, to all other beasts 
of butchery, which are in the respective localities, and which may 
be in danger of contracting the disease. 
§ 56. The eruption of the epizootic being ascertained, the 
great markets of animals for slaughter, and public abattoirs, may 
be closed to prevent the exit of animals susceptible of being af¬ 
fected, so long as such danger may exist. 
More severe measures of isolatioa can be taken, in urgent 
cases. 
(4). Indemnity for destroyed animals. 
§ 57. Except the cases specified in the present law, an indem¬ 
nity must be given for animals destroyed by police order, or that 
have died since that measure has been taken. 
§ 58. It is left to the different States of the Confederation to 
decide: 
1st. By whom the indemnity shall be granted and from what 
funds. 
2d. How, in each peculiar case, the indemnity shall be fixed. 
Nothing is referred to in these regulations contained in the 
prescriptions already existing in those States. So long as these 
prescriptions are not contrary to the same, the governments of 
the different states are authorized to decide what the indemnity 
for destroyed horses and bovines shall be, until other regulations 
according to the constitution of the country may be established, 
by cotisations made by owners of horses and bovines, the division 
