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LAW RELATING TO EPIZOOTIC IN GERMANY. 
one week, unless by already existing laws more severe penalties 
are incurred. 
1st. Whoever shall import contrary to prescriptions of section 
6, animals affected with contagious epizootic disease. 
Beside the penalty, the tribunal shall pronounce the confisca¬ 
tion of animals imported contrary to this prohibition, whether 
these animals are the property of the offender or not. 
2d. Whoever shall violate sections 9 and 10, by neglecting 
the declaration of the eruption of the epizootic disease, or of the 
suspicious signs which excite apprehensions of the disease, or 
shall delay to make it more than 24 hours after he has knowledge 
of it, or shall not keep the suspected animals in a place distant 
from that where the danger of infecting other animals exists. 
3d. Whoever shall kill, contrary to sections 31 and 33, ani¬ 
mals affected with anthrax or suspected of that disease, or who 
shall perform bloody operations or remove the skin; or shall open 
their bodies contrary to prescriptions, or shall not remove them 
so as to prevent further danger. 
4th. Whoever shall violate the prescriptions of sections 34, 
35, 36 and 39 established against rabies or domestic animals. 
5th. Whoever shall remove, contrary to section 43, cadavers 
of animals dead or killed as affected with glanders, or shall not 
remove them in such a manner as shall be harmless. 
6th. Whoever shall inoculate a sheep except in the case where 
this operation shall be ordered by police authority. 
7th. Whoever shall admit to copulation, contrary to section 
50, horses affected with dourine, horses and bovines affected with 
coital exanthema. 
§ 66. Shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 150 m., or 
imprisonment unless by other existing laws a more severe 
penalty is incurred: 
1st. Whoever shall violate the restrictions applicable to the 
importation of animals according to section 7. 
Besides the penalty, the tribnnal shall proclaim the confisca¬ 
tion of animals or objects imported contrary to the prohibition, 
whether the same are the property of the offender or not. 
2d. Whoever shall violate the measures of control established 
by the police by section 8 of the law. 
