Report, Volume 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 - Veterinary medicine
 

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Page 472 - 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 live stock...
Page 297 - The commissioner or an assistant commissioner, shall order any premises, farm or farms where such disease exists, or recently existed, to be put in quarantine, so that no domestic animal be removed from or brought to the premises or places quarantined, and shall prescribe such regulations as he may judge necessary or expedient to prevent the communication of the disease by infection or contagion, in any way from the places so quarantined.
Page 472 - ... nor shall any person, company, or corporation drive on foot or transport in private conveyance from one...
Page 297 - To prescribe regulations for the destruction of animals affected with infectious or contagious disease, and for the proper disposition of their hides and carcasses, and of all objects which might convey infection or contagion; provided that no animal shall be destroyed unless first examined by a medical or veterinary practitioner in the employ of the governor as aforesaid.
Page 449 - District to be detained at any place or places for the purpose of inspection and examination; to prescribe regulations for...
Page 297 - ... that any premises, farm or farms, where such disease exists, or has existed, be put in quarantine...
Page 449 - 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 472 - That whenever any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease affecting domestic animals, and especially the disease known as pleuro-pneumonia, shall be brought into or shall break out in the District of Columbia, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of said District to take measures to suppress the same promptly and to prevent the same from spreading ; and for this purpose the said Commissioners are VOL.
Page 297 - ... and deputy sheriffs to obey and observe all orders and instructions which they may receive from the governor in the premises. To employ such and so many medical and veterinary practitioners and such other persons as he may from time to time deem necessary to assist him in performing his duty as set forth in the first section of this act and to fix their compensation.
Page 472 - That it shall be the duty of the several county attorneys to prosecute all violations of this act, which shall be brought to their notice or knowledge by any person making...

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