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office. Landing places for milch cows will be designated and made 
known as soon as the proper arrangements therefor can be made. 
Whenever notification is received at this office that any cattle 
are sick with a contagions disease, an inspection will be immedi¬ 
ately made, and all proper steps will at once be taken to arrest 
and prevent the spread of said disease. Inasmuch as these diseases 
may be conveyed by persons from the sick to healthy cattle, all 
persons employed in the care of cattle that are well, are forbidden 
to go in stables or upon premises that are infected, or where cat¬ 
tle that are sick with a contagious disease are kept; and likewise 
persons employed in an infected stable are not permitted to go 
among well cattle, or upon any premises where well cattle are kept. 
Where cattle have been exposed to infection, their owners will 
be allowed, under proper restrictions, to have them either slaugh¬ 
tered or quarantined. If slaughtered, their meat will be examined, 
and if proper for human food, may be disposed of as such. When 
quarantined, it must be done entirely under the direction and con¬ 
trol of this office. 
When diseased animals are reported to this office, as above re¬ 
quired, and are thereafter ordered to be slaughtered, a certificate 
of their value will be made for transmission to the Governor, and 
a duplicate thereof given, if required, to the owner. No such 
certificate will be given, however, in the case of any diseased cat¬ 
tle that may be found not having been reported to this office as 
required. 
Attention is called to the fact, that any violation of or refusal 
to comply with any of the provisions of the said act, or of the 
rules, regulations and orders made under it, is made a misdemea¬ 
nor, and subjects the offender to a fine of $250 and imprisonment 
for one year. 
It is to the interest of all slaughterers of cattle, cattle dealers 
and dairymen, that the contagious disease now known to exist 
among the cattle of this locality, shall be eradicated as soon as 
possible, and therefore the earnest co-operation of all such parties 
is confidently asked, that the unrestricted traffic in this most 
important part of the Commonwealth’s commerce may be re-es¬ 
tablished at an early date. 
