The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-11-30
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SHEEP! Of UTAH
GENERAL ORDER NUMBER Q.

GENERAL ORDER NUMBER O..
At a meeting of the State Board
of Sheep Commissioners, held on the
second day of November, 1909, the
following resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t appearing to the
Board that the disease of Lip and
Leg liberation (Necrobacillosis) of
sheep, is prevalent among the sheep
in the State of Utah, and that sheep
from hat State are being brought
into and pastured and grazed in the
State of Nevada,
IT is THEREFORE, ORDERER
by the State Board of Sheep Com
missioners hat all sheep from the
State of Utah be quarantined and
forbidden to enter the State of Ne
vada until they are first inspected
by the Inspectors of the State Board
of Sheep Commissioners, or upon the
production of certificates from the
Inspectors of the United States Bu-
reau of Animal Industry, certifying
that said sheep are free from said
disease, In case said sheep be found
suffering from said diseases, they
shall be prohibited from entering
this State until said disease, and all
uoh6Oi ehO oohlO, OO ely
eradicated, and they be found free
from the m
1T is THEREFORE ORDERED
all Inspectors of the State Board of
Sheep Commissioners arrest any and
all persons violating this order.
Dated this second day of Novem-
Der, A. D., 1909.
O.. w. WARD,
President.
Attest: j. OTIS JACOBS,
Secretary.
STATE OF NEVADA.
A Proclamation by the Governor.
WHEREAS, 1t is known that a
certain infectious disease described
as necrobacillous (mouth and leg
ulceration) is now prevalent among
sheep in certain localities in the
State of Utah and adjoining States,
and the United States Department of
Agriculture and other competent au-
thorities admonish the public as to
the highly infectious and dangerous
character of said disease, and, If I'M
checked, of it's likelihood of destroy
ing the sheep industry of this and
other Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, The State Board of
Sheep Commissioners of Nevada has
quarantined all sheep sought to be
brought into this State from the
State of Utah, unless properly in
spected and certified; and
WHEREAS, In order to preserve
one of the chief industries of the
State of Nevada it is necessary hat
said disease be stamped out and pre-
vented from encroacning upon our
flocks:
NOW, THEREFORE, /, D. S. Dick
erson, Lieutenant and Acting Gov
ernor, do hereby urge upon all Off
GERS whose duty it is or may become
to enforce the said quarantine, and
all persons engaged in the raising
of sheep, or who are interested there
in, to bend every effort toward the
eradication of the disease of NEGRO
bacillosis, and to rigidly uphold and
enforce the quarantine regulations
now in effect against sheep from the
State of Utah, to the end that in
protecting a great industry within
our W State we may also lend to
our sister State of Utah a helping
hand in c%onquering a treacherous
and devastating disease.
OlVeu uHuSI lily manu- dHu IhO
Great Seal of the State of Nevada,
at the Capitol, in Carson City, this
nineteenth day of November, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and nine.
d. S. DICKERSON,
Lieutenant and Acting Governor.
By the Governor:
w. G.. DOUGLASS,
Secretary of State.