r.AW RELATING TO EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
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by its nature or from the degree of its development, was incurable 
and necessarily fatal, with the exception of glanders and pleuro¬ 
pneumonia. 
2d. For animals for slaughter which have been in great 
markets of animals for butchery or in public abattoirs, and which 
have been killed or destroyed by police order. 
3d. For dogs and cats which have been killed because of 
rabies: 
§ 63. The right to an indemnity shall not exist: 
1st. When the owner of animals or the agent of the establish¬ 
ment to which such animals belong, shall have knowingly or neg¬ 
ligently omitted ; or when the person having charge of the ani¬ 
mals, or the owner of the farm, stable or pasture, shall have in 
relation to the animals placed under his care, omitted knowingly, 
contrary to prescriptions of sections 9 and 10, to make the declara¬ 
tion of eruption, or of the suspicion of the disease, or shall have 
delayed more than 24 hours since he has had knowledge of it. 
2d. When the owner has bought, or obtained from other cir¬ 
cumstances, one of the animals which were affected with the 
epizootic disease, and that at the time of this acquisition he knew 
that the animal was diseased. 
3d. In the case of section 25 or when it has been ascertained 
that the owner or his agent has not observed the measures of 
prevention against the epizootic as prescribed by the police au¬ 
thority or that he has violated them. 
§ 64. When to furnish funds for the payment of the indem¬ 
nities, collections shall be made in proportion to the number of 
horses or bovines which are in the locality, those collections can¬ 
not be claimed for animals belonging to the Empire, special 
States or horses which are the property of the sovereign, and in 
the case of section 62, No. 2, for animals of butchery which are 
in large markets of such animals and public abattoirs. 
III. 
PENALTIES. 
§ 65. The penalties for violation of these regulations shall be 
a tine not exceeding 150 m. or imprisonment for not less than 
