Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-27
Animal Industry.

The bill amendatory of the act to es-
tsblish a bureau of animal industry
was favorably reported from the COM
mittee on agriculture. The amend.
ment provides for the suppression Of
contagious diseases and is as follows:
THAT it shall be the duty Of tho COM
missioner of agriculture to prepare
such rules and regulations as he may
deem necessary for the effectual sup
preston and extirpation Of said dis
eases, said rules and regulations to be
the executive authority Of each state
and territory and invite the authorities
to cooperate in the execution of this
act. Whereupon the plans and meth.
DDS of the commissioner of agriculture
shall be adopted by any state or terri
tory in which pleuro-pneumonla or
other contagious OF communicable dis.
ease is declared to exist, and whenever
the governor of a state or other prop.
erly constituted authorities signify
their readiness to cooperate for the
extinction of any contagious or COM
municable disease, in conformity with
the provisions of tho act, the com
missioner of agriculture Is authorized
to expend SO much Of the money ap-
propriated as may be necessary to pay
for animals it is deemed necessary to
slaughter as hereinafter provided, and
such disinfection and other means of
protection as may BIO necessary; pro-
vided that the commissioner shall
cause special Investigations 10 be made
as TO the existence OK pleuro-
pneumonia, foot and mouth disease,
where he may reasonably suspect their
existence, and upon the discovery OF
any of these diseases the commits
siuner, with the consent or co-Opera-
ton Of the governor or other properly
constituted person Of the state, shall
cause the apprisal of the animals al
fected with or that have been G. exposed,
and under the laws Of the state pro-
viding for condemning private property
for public use shall cause the same to
DO destroyed, and pay the owner not
to exceed three-fourths of such amount
out of any moneys appropriated for
this purpose; provided, that he shall
not pay more than $3.50 for any ami
NAL which pedigree is recorded in rec
Ognized herd books of breeding to
which it may belong, or more than $50
for any animal not pedigreed; pro-
vided, further, that whenever a state
in a section of which contagious dis
eases exists, which the commissioner
Of agriculture had declared to be dan
gerous to the animal industries Of the
nation, fails to make provisions for its
extirpetion. to cooperate with the
plans of the commissioner of agrical-
ture for the extirpation of such disease,
the President of the United States, on
presentation of the facts by the COM
missioner, shall be authorized to de-
clare in quarantine said state, or such
part of said state as he may deem dan
gerous to the animal industries of the
country, and to regulate the transpor-
tation of cattle out of said state. The
act is amended so as TO transfer the
duty of guarding these diseases in the
District OF Columbia from the district
commissioners TO the commissioner of
agriculture. 1t is further amended so
as to allow daytime inspection of
places where cattle are kept in the Dis
trict OF Columbia. and to punish by
fine any person vino endeavors 10 avoid
such inspection. and a similar penalty
is fixed for any person who conceals
the existence Of any such disease. The
bill makes " appropriation of $250,000
to carry its provisions out"