The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-23
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Commissioner Colmans Rules for Extirpat-
ing the Disease.

Commissioners Colman's Rules for Extirpat-
ing the Disease.
WASHINGTON. April 22.-The First Comptrol-
Ter having decided that the Commissioner of Agri
culture can legally use the pleuro pneumonia
appropriation to pay for such animals as it may
be found necessary to kill in order to stamp out
an infection, Commissioner Colman has prepared
set of rules to govern the Department in this
regard, and has telegraphed a copy of them to
Governor Marmaduke. of Missouri, asking him
to advise by telegraph of his acceptance of his
plans and methods. The rules will be submitted
to the executives of other States for acceptance.
They are as follows:
whenever the chief of the Bureau of Animal
Industry shall be satisfied, and shall report to
tho Commissioner of Agriculture, that conta-
glous pieuro- pneumonia, or other dangerous in
fictitious or communicable diseases exist in any
State or Territory, and are liable to spread from
such State or Territory into any other State or
Territory, the Commissioner of Agriculture will
designate one or more officers or employees of
said bureau. VIII ose duty shall be to proceed i'm
medately TO the locality where such infectious
disease is reported to exist, and there establish
quarantine regulations to prevent the spread of
said disease, or to assess the value of the animal
destroy in order to extirpate said
disease, and to employ both meas
urcs, if necessary for the extinction
of the same. It shall be the duty of such officers
or employees, detailed for the purposes aforesaid,
TO report to the Commissioner of Agriculture
tho number of animals they have found it nee
essary to destroy, with the names of their own
ers and the assessed value of said cattle; and the
said officers or employees shall deliver to said
owner or owners certificates of the number of
cattle so killed, and the assessed value thereof
Upon receiving said report the Commissioner of
Agriculture shall examine the same, and, if he
approves the proceedings of said officers or en-
ployes, and the assessments made by them, he
may order the payment of the amount so as
sessed to the respective owners of the cattle de-
stroyed, and il ne shall disapprove the amount
50 assessed, he may order payment to such own
ers OF such animals as he may deem a just and
reasonable compensation for said cattle.
1T shall also be the duty of said officers or EN-
necessary to be destroyed, to be burned, buried
or otherwise disposed Of; and the cost of such
disposition of said carcasses shall also be re-
ported by them to the Commissioner of Agricul-
ture; and the amount, if approved, will be paid
out of the fund appropriated for such purposes
Ii. in the opinion Of said officers, employees so
detailed, the spread of such infection or COM
municable disease can be prevented by the quar-
antine of the animals In the locality where such
disease is reported to exist then q quarantine
shall be effected, the cost of the same also to be
reported to the Commissioner Of Agriculture,
and if approved by him, the same to be paid out
Of the fund hereinbefore named"
Rules governing the details Of slaughter and
quarantine will be prepared Immediately