Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-13

celebrated .-Kingman Citizen Republi-
can.
The Animal Industry Bill.
The INDEX presents below the amend-
ed animal Industry or so-ealled Pleuro-
Pneumonia bill as-passed by both hous-
es of congress, and now only awaiting
the presidents signature to make it
law:
Section /. The commissioner of agri-
culture shall organize in his department
a bureau of animal industry, and shall
appoint chief thereof, who shall be d
competent veterinary surgeon, and
whose duty it shall be to investigate
aid report upon the condition of the
domestic animals of the United States.
their protection and use, and also in
quire into and report the causes of con-
tagious, infectious and communicable
diseases among them, and the means
for the prevention and cure of tie same.
and to collect such information on these
subjects as shall be valuable to the ag-
ricultural and commercial interests of
the country and the commissioner of
agriculture is hereby authorized to en-
ploy force sufficient for this purpose,
not to exceed twenty persons at any one
time. The salary of the chief of said
bureau shall be $4,000 per annum and
the commissioner shall appoint clerk
for said bureau, with a salary of 81 500
per annum.
Sec. 3. That the commissioner of az
riculture is authorized to appoint two
competent agents, who shall be compe-
tent stock raisers or experienced busi-
ness men, familiar with questions per-
tanning to commercial transactions in
livestock, whose duty it shall be, under
the instructions Of the commissioner of
agriculture, to examine and report up-
on the best methods of treating, trans
porting and caring for animals, and the
means to be adopted for the suppress
sion and extirpation Of contagious, in
fectlous and communicable diseases.
The compensation Of said agents shall
be at the rate of SO per diem, with all
necessary expenses while engaged in
the actual performance of their duties
under this act, when absent from their
usual place of business or residence as
such agent.
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of
The commissioner of agriculture to pre-
pare such rules and regulations as he
may deem necessary for the speedy and
enectual suppression and extirpation of
said diseases, and to certify such rules
and regulations to the executive author
lty OF each state and territory, and in.
vlte said authorities to cooperate in the
execution and enforcement of this act.
whenever the plans and methods of the
commissioner of agriculture shall be ac-
cepted by any state or territory in
which pleuro pneumonia or other con-
taglous, infectious, or communicable
disease is declared TO exist, or such
state or territory shall have adopted
plans and methods for the suppression
and extirpation of said diseases, and
such plans and methods shall be accept
ed by the commissioner of agriculture,
and whenever the governor of state
or other properly constituted authori-
ties signify their readiness to cooperate
for the extinction of any contarious.
infectious or communicable disease in
conformity with the provisions Of this
act, the commissioner of agriculture is
hereby authorized to expend so much of
the money appropriated by this act as
may be necessary in such investigations.
and in such disinfection and quarantine
measures as may be necessary to pre-
vent the spread of the disease from one
state or territory into another.
Sec. 4. That in order to promote the
expectation of livestock from the
United States the commissioner of agri-
culture shall make special Investigation
as to the existence of pleuro-pneumon.
la, or any contagious, infectious or com
municable disease, along the dividing
lines between the. United States and
foreign countries, and along the lines of
transportation from all parts of the
United States to ports for which live
stock are exported, and make report of
the results of such investigation to the
secretary of the treasury, who shan,
from time to time, establish such regu-
lations concerning the expectation and
transportation of livestock as the re-
suits Of said Investigations may re-
quire.
Sec. 5. That to prevent the expofta-
ton from any port of the United States
to any port in a foreign country of live
stock affected with any contagious, in
fectious, or communicable disease, and
especially pleuro- pneumonia, the secre-
tary Of the treasury be, and is hereby
authorized to take such steps and adopt
such measures, not inconsistent with
the provisions of this act, as he may
deem necessary.
Sec. 6. That no railroad company
within the United States, or the owners
or masters Of any steam or sailing or
other vessel or boat, shaH receive for
transportation or transport, from one
state or territory to another, or from
any state into the District of Columbia,
or from the district into airy state, any
livestock affected with any contagious,
infectious or communicable disease.
and especially the disease known as
pleuro-pneumonia ; nor shall any per-
son, company or corporation deliver for
such transportation TO any railroad