Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the Year ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896
 

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Page 107 - SEC. 7. That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to notify, in writing, the proper officials or agents of any railroad, steamboat, or other transportation company doing business in or through any infected locality, and by publication in such newspapers as he may select, of the existence of said contagion; and any person or persons operating any such railroad, or master or owner of any boat or vessel, or owner or custodian of or person having control over such cattle or other...
Page 117 - ... within such county or district, that are of a kind susceptible to contract such disease, and ordering all persons to take such precautions against the spreading of the disease, as the nature thereof may in his judgment render necessary 'or expedient, and which he may specify in such notice.
Page 104 - He may alter or modify, from time to time, as he may deem expedient, the terms of all notices, orders and regulations issued or made by him, and may at any time cancel or withdraw the same.
Page 109 - ... or other place in which such carcasses or articles are stored, kept or exposed for sale. If, on such inspection, it is found that such carcasses or articles are tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed, unwholesome or, from any cause, unfit for food, the board of health shall seize the same and cause it or them to be" destroyed forthwith or disposed of otherwise than for food.
Page 124 - ... shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both...
Page 9 - An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals/' and to co-operate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of such act.
Page 105 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and npon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars...
Page 117 - He may prescribe regulations for the destruction of animals affected with infectious or contagious disease, and for the proper disposal of their hides and carcasses, and of all objects which might carry infection and contagion.
Page 122 - ... and no domestic animal liable to become infected with the disease or capable of communicating the same shall be permitted to enter or leave the district, premises, or grounds so quarantined, except by the authority of the commission.
Page 122 - State live stock sanitary commissioners to examine such stock, or shall hinder or obstruct the said commissioners in any examination of, or in any attempt to examine, such stock, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

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