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Page 124 - Gulf coast, are affected with a latent or an apparent form of the disease. 2. That they become affected in consequence of the nature of the soil and vegetation on which they are fed, and the water which they drink. 3. That their systems are charged with poisonous principles which accumulate in the bodies of acclimatized animals that enjoy an immunity. 4. That southern cattle may be driven so as to improve in condition ; and yet for some weeks, and probably not less than...
Page 156 - District to be detained at any place or places for the purpose of inspection and examination; to prescribe regulations for...
Page 156 - ... on being certified as correct by the governor : Provided^ That animals coming from a neighboring State that have passed a veterinary examination in said State, and have been quarantined and discharged, shall not be subject to the provisions of this act.
Page 2 - Report number twenty-two of the Commissioner of Agriculture, containing the reports of the Veterinary Surgeons appointed to investigate diseases of swine, and infectious and contagious diseases incident to other classes of domesticated animals...
Page 156 - ... 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...
Page 156 - ... 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...
Page 155 - Commissioners are hereby empowered to order and require that any premises, farm, or farms where such disease exists, or has existed, be put in quarantine; to order all or any animals coming into the District to be detained at any place or places for the purpose of inspection and examination; to prescribe...
Page 156 - ... of objects from or by which infection or contagion may take place or be conveyed ; to alter and modify, from time to time, as...
Page 156 - 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 99 - Mease, before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, that the cattle from a certain district in South Carolina so certainly disease all others with which they mix in their progress to the North that they are prohibited by the people of Virginia from passing through the State...