The record-union., 1898-12-28
ENTIRE STATE GUARANTEED
NEW CATTLE ORDER ISSUED
BY SECRETARY WILSON.
Instructions Issued to Managers
and Agents Of Railroad and
transportation Companies.

United states inspector Blemef, WHO
has been since last spring on the Coast
for the purpose of inspecting cattle in
fected with splenetic fever and anthrax,
and to investigate the matter of chang
ing the cattle quarantine line in this
State when it was desired last spring
to change it and let cattle cross the
| line into Nevada, has received the fol-
lowing order from Washington from
the United States Department of Agri-
culture
The article, which is of interest to the
people Of California, speaks for itself
and is as follows
REGULATIONS CONCERNING CAT
TIE TRANSPORTATION
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Of
flee of the Secretary, Washington, D.
| c., December 10, 1898.
To Managers and Agents of Rail
roads and Transportation Companies of
the United States. Stockmen, and
others. In accordance with Section {
of the Act of Congress approved May
%, 1884, entitled ''An Act for the estab-
| lishment of a Bureau of Animal In
dustry, to prevent the expectation OF
diseased cattle, and to provide means
for the suppression and extirpat1on or
and other contagious
diseases among domestic animals" and
of the Act Of Congress approved Marcn
-, 1898, making appropriation for the
| Department of Agriculture for the f1s-
cal year ending June 30 1899, you are
hereby notified that a contagious and
| infectious disease known as splentic,
| or Southern, fever exists among cattle
! in the following described area:
!. All that country lying south, or
! below, line beginning at the north
west corner of the State of California;
| thence east, SOUTH and southeasterly
along the boundary line of said State OF
California to the southeastern corner
| of said State; thence southerly along
the western boundary line Of Arizona
| to the southwest corner Of Arizona
thence along the southern boundary
| lines of Arizona and New Mexico TO
| the southeastern corner of New Mex
| leo; thence northerly along the eastern
| boundary of New Mexico to the south
ern line of the State of Colorado;
| thence along the southern boundary
| lines of Colorado and Kansas to the
southeastern corner of Kansas; thence
southerly along the western boundary
| line of Missouri TO the southwestern
corner of Missouri; thence easterly
along the southern boundary line OF
Missouri to the western boundary line
of Dunklin County; thence southerly
along the said western boundary to the
southwestern corner of Dunlxlin Coun-
ty; thence easterly along the southern
boundary line of Missouri to the Mis-
| along
the Mississippi River to the northern
boundary line Of Tennessee at the
northwest corner of Lake County;
thence easterly along said boundary line
to the northeast corner of Henry Coun-
| ty; thence in a northerly direction
along the boundary of Tennessee to the
northwest corner Of Stewart County;
thence IN an easterly direction along
the northern boundary Of Tennessee to
| the southwestern corner Of Virginia;
thence northeasterly along the western
boundary line of Virginia to the north
ernmost point of Virginia.; thence
southerly along the eastern boundary
| line of Virginia to the northeast corner
| Of Virginia where it joins the south
| eastern corner Of Maryland, at the At
| lantic Ocean.
| >. Whenever any State or Territory
| located above or below said quaran-
| tine line. as above designated, shall
| duly establish different quarantine
| line, and obtain the necessary legisla-
| ton to enforce said aforementioned line
strictly and completely within the
boundaries of said State or Territory,
and said last mentioned line and
the measures taken to enforce it are
satisfactory to the Secretary of Agri-
culture, he may, by a special order,
temporarily adopt said State or Terri
torial line.
Said adoption will apply only to that
portion of said line specified and may
cease at any time the Secretary may
deem it best for the interest involved,
and in no instance shall said modi-
| fcation exist longer than the. period
specified in said special order; and at
the expiration of such time said quar-
antine line shall revert without further
order to the line first above described.
Whenever any State or Territory
shall establish a quarantine line for
above purposes, differently located
from the described line, and
shall obtain by legislation the necessary
and strictly, and shall desire a modi-
| fcation of the Federal quarantine line
| to agree with such State or Territorial
| line, the proper authorities of such
State or Territory shall forward to the
Secretary of Agriculture true map or
| description of such line and a copy of
the laws for enforcement of same, duly
authenticated and certified.
| 3. From the 1st day of January,
/ 1899, no cattle are to be transported
| from said area south or below said
Federal quarantine line above describ-
ed to any portion of the United States
above, north. east, or west of the
above-described line, except as herein
after provided.
| 4. Cattle from said area may be
| transported, by rail or boat. for i'm
mediate slaughter, and when so trans
ported the following regulations must
! be observed:
| (a) When any cattle in course of
| transportation from said area are un-
! loaded aboves north, east, or west of
this line to be fed or watered, the
| places where said cattle are to be fed
or watered shall be set apart, and no
other cattle shall be admitted thereto.
tb) On unloading said cattle at their
points Of destination, pens, sufficiently
isolated, shall be set apart to receive
them, and no other cattle shall be ad-
mitted to said pens;- and the regula-
tions relating to the movement of cat
| tie from said area, prescribed by the
cattle sanitary officers of the State
where unloaded. shall be carefully OBJ
served. The cars or boats that have
carried said stock shall be cleansed
and disinfected as soon as possible
after unloading and before they are
| gain used to ira r,s mort store or Shel-