The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-03
LEGAL
Published in The Topeka State Journal
June g. 1901
LEGAL.
STATE OF KANSAS,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
PROCLAMATION
Governors Office, Jun


- Governors Office, June LIST, 1909
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
| whereas, The live stock sanitary COM
missioner Of the state of Kansas, after
fun consideration of the premises. has
determined that certain quarantine and
| other regulations are necessary to pre-
vent the spread among domestic animals
| of malignant, contagious and infectious
diseases among the live stock of this
state, and has prepared and submitted to
fh his rules and regulations pertaining
antine and other regulations-all of which
| rules, regulations and quarantine restric-
to-wit:
| RULES AND REGULATIONS
SANITARY Commissioned FOR THE
| ADMISSION OF SOUTHERN CATTLE
| INTO KANSAS
| Rule 1. All cattle which come directly,
now or may hereafter be quarantined by
| the Secretary of Agriculture of the United
States, as affected with, or exposed to,
Texas, or Splenetic fever, shall be desig-
mated as Southern Cattle and are pro-
hibited from entering the State of Kansas
\ for any purpose other than immediate
slaughter during the per1od of each year
During the months of January, Novem-
Der and December of each year, cattle
mitted into the state when accompanied
| by a certificate of health issued by an
agent of the Bureau of Animal Industry,
| showing that the cattle are free from
| fever ticks (Maragaropus annulatus). The
| certificate shall be attached to the way
1. D. Form 4sCC giving certificate number
| shall be mailed to the Live Stock Sanitary
| Commissioner at Topeka.
| Rule 2. All cattle coming from that part
| of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas desig-
mated as Special Quarantine District by
Order No. IS dated March ~ 1903 may
| be admitted into the State of Kansas after
Texas fever ticks and dipped under Gov
| eminent supervision in. an approved crude
Oil emulsion. or arsenical solution An L
at Topeka.
| Cattle from the Republic of Mexico,
which have been inspected by an Inspec-
\ tor of the U. S. Bureau of Animal Indus
try. and ACCOMPANIED acc by a certificate 9;
| into the United States as Free Cattle, "
may be permitted entrance into the State
of Kansas A copy of such certificate to
| be mailed to the Live Stock Sanitary Com
missioner at Topeka.
| Rule 3. All public stock-yards where
| Southern cattle are received, and all other
yards where such cattle received, for
| feed. water, rest or any other purpose,
shall maintain division to be known as
| the Quarantine Division" which shall be
either separate and apart from yards used
| from the pens used for other cattle by a
space of not less than ten feet wide, hav-
ing on each side a tight board fence Of
not less than five feet high, and have post
ed thereon a sign These pens for South
1
cattle in Kansas shall bear on both sides
printed manila placards not less than 51s
by inches in size, the letters Of which
in height, to be affixed by the railroad
company hauling the same, stating that
said cars contain Southern cattle, and
each of the waybills, conductors mani
tests and bills of lading of such shipments
by cars shall have a note plainly written
or stamped thereon with similar state
ment.
Rule g. Cars used to transport Southern
Of int Of n fir1.af i0T1
and before being again used be thorough
ly cleaned and disinfected; all litter and
to a place where no cattle shall come in
contact with it, or shall be treated in
such manner as is now or may hereafter
be approved by the Department. of Agri-
culture of the United States so as to des-
troy all means of infection.
II, for any cause, Southern cattle are
) unloaded into native pens within the State
of Kansas, the Live Stock Sanitary Com
missioner shall be notified. Immediately
!. of such unloading, the pens locked, and
cleaned and disinfected designated by
the Secretary of Agriculture of the United
States Department of Agriculture
| Rule 6. Where a pasture lies on both sides
of the line of dividing Oklahoma and Kan
saS from the Arkansas river east to the
eastern border of the state, shall be treat
ed as quarantined territory as per govern
ranges f where so fever ticks ar g opus
annulatus) are known to exist, and where
and in the Judgment of the Commissioner
said ticks, owing to favorable conditions,
are likely to live through the winter sea-
son, said pastures shall be placed in quar-
antine and no cattle allowed to run in
/ said pastures from the first day of April
until the first day of October. The pas
of other animals.
Rule 1. Any person desiring to avail
himself of the passage of cattle fol-
quarantine against Texas fever by the
Department of Agriculture of the United
the quarantine pens of the market they
!; may be destined to. But under con-
ditions shall they be unloaded in native
chutes or native pens OF Kansas unless
| they are accompanied with certificate OF
health as provided in rules one and two
Also cattle destined to points beyond the
limits of Kansas may unload for feed and
rest at any shipping yards on line of road
on which they are being shipped provided
each and every shipment is accompanied
: with certificate of health as provided in
, rules one and two.
Rule s. It shall be the duty of the
managers or persons in charge of sucf
stock-yards in Kansas to keep the sai6
. yards in proper sanitary condition for ths
entrusted to their care, and to cleanse an(
disinfect all yards, pens, chutes and alley:
at such times and in such manner as may
be deemed necessary by the Live Stool
Sanitary Commissioner or his authorized
agents.
. Rule 9. All railroads. live stock trans
portation and stock-yard companies ant
their employees are hereby forbidden tt
transport, drive or in any way handle cat
tie in Kansas except in compliance will
the foregoing rules under the pains anC
penaItleS OF the FOLLOWING law:
Extract from Section q of AN ACT Fol
the protection of domestic animals;" 'Anl
person or persons violating the provisions
of this section shall be deemed guilty O.
a miSdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine of no
: less than $50 nor more than 1000, or b!
> Imprisonment in the county Jail not les
than thirty days nor more than one year
or both such fine and imprisonment
RULES AND REGULATIONS
PRESCRIBED BY THE LIVE STOCF
ING TO THE MOVEMENT OF CAT
= TIE WITHIN THE STATE OF KANSA!
FROM THE AREA GUARANTEED
:. FOR CATTLE SCABIES, OR NANCE
Rule l. No cattle shall be admitted int
Kansas from any State or Territory o
= portion of any State or Territory unde
quarantine by the Secretary of Agricul
ture of the United States. on account O
= the disease known Scabies or mango
. unless accompanied with a certificate o
. inspection issued by an inspector or agen
of the Bureau of Animal Industry show