The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-05-02
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.
Commissioner Coleman Beginning Vigor.
Ously to Eradicate 1t.

WASHINGTON, April 22.-The FirstComp-
troller having decided that the Commits
sioner of Agriculture can, legally use the
pleuro- o-pneumonia appropriation, to pay
for such animals as it may be found neces-
sary to kill in order to stamp out an infec.
tlon, Commissioner Colman has prepared
set of rules to govern the action of the
department in this regard, and has tee-
graphed copy of them to Governor Mar
maduke, of Missouri, asking him to advise
by telegraph of his acceptance of the plans
and methods prescribed therein. The rules
will be submitted to the Executives of
other States for acceptance. They are as
follows:
whenever the Chief of the Bureau of Ami
nal Industry shall be satisfied and shall re-
port to the Commissioner of Agriculture that
contagious peuro' pneumonia or other dan
gerous infectious or communicable disease
exist in any State or Territory, and is liable
TO spread from such State or Territory into
any other state or Territory, the Commits
sioner of Agriculture will designate one or
more officers or employees OF said bureau.
m@s1istsy wh0se dH,y it shall be ooa, to proceed
such infectious or communicable disease
is reported to exist, and to there establish
quarantine regulations to prevent the spread
or said disease, or to assess the value of any
animal or animals which it may be found
necessary to destroy in order to extirpate
said disease and to employ both measures,
If necessary, for the extinction of the same.
1t shall be the duty of such officers or en-
ployes detailed for the purposes aforesaid,
TO report to the Commissioner of Agriculture
the number of cattle they have found it
necessary TO destroy, with names of their
owners and the assessed value of said cattle;
and said officers or employees shall de-
liver to said owner or owners certifi-
Gates 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 employees
and the assessments made by them, he may
order the payment of the amount so assessed
to the respective owners of the cattle de-
stroyed, and if he shall disapprove the
amount so assessed he may order payment
TO such owners of such cattle as he may
deem just and reasonable compensation for
said cattle.
"It shall also be the duty of the said officers
or employees to cause the carcasses of ami
mails found necessary to be destroyed to be
burned, buried or otherwise disposed of: and
the cost of such disposition of said carcasses
shall also be reported by them to the Com
If approved, will be paid out of the fund ap-
propriated for such purposes. If, in
the opinion of said officer or employees
so detailed the spread of such infec-
uOns or communicable disease can be pre-
vented by the quarantine of the animals in
the locality where such disease is reported
10 exist, then quarantine shall be effected,
the cost of the same also to be reported to
the Commissioner of Agriculture, and, if ap.
proved by him. the same to be paid out Of
tle fund hereinbefore named. Rules govern,
ing the details of slaughter and quarantine
will be prepared Immediately"