STAMPING OUT PLEURO-PNEUMONIA IN NEW JERSEY. 
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or infected animals is found necessary, to determine the value of 
the animal or animals so slaughtered at the time of slaughter, 
taking account of their condition and circumstances, and to furnish 
the owner or owners with vouchers necessary to enable them to 
draw the amount from the Treasurer. 
Whenever any owner of such cattle, or his agent or servant, 
has wilfully or knowingly withheld, or allowed to be withheld, 
notice of the existence of disease upon his premises, or among his 
cattle, or has interposed obstacles to the examination of suspected 
cases, you will not make such voucher. So, also, in all cases 
where the owner of infected cattle, or those suspected to lie in¬ 
fected, has wilfully failed to observe and maintain a quarantine 
regularly imposed under these instructions and the law to which 
they refer. You will in such cases make no voucher for the value 
of the cattle of such owner, should you find it necessary to cause 
them to be slaughtered. 
You are further directed to take such measures as you deem 
necessary to disinfect all cars, or vehicles, or movable articles by 
which contagion is liable to be transmitted. You are also to take 
such measures as will secure a registry of cattle introduced into 
any premises in which disease has existed, and to keep such cattle 
under supervision for the period of three mouths after the removal 
of the last diseased animal and the subsequent disinfection of 
such premises. 
You are also authorized and directed to take such measures 
as in your judgment may be necessary to prevent the indiscrimin¬ 
ate pasturing of cattle on public commons in localities where the 
aforesaid disease is known or suspected to exist. 
I have to request that you will use your best endeavors to im¬ 
press upon the owners of cattle, whether infected or not, that 
these instructions and the law known as the Pleuro-Pneumonia 
law, are in their interest, as well as that of the State in general, 
and that their hearty co-operation is asked and desired in carrying 
out the necessary measures. 
It is my wish that, while the provisions of the law are made 
most effective and its purposes promptly and fully accomplished, 
this should be done in such a manner as to cause the least possible 
