The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-08-28

| the parish OF ascension, "
regulate live stock sanitary
matters; to prevent the intro
duction and spread of Texas fe
yer, or any infectious or contagi
Gus diseases of live stock; tc
| clothe all live stock sanitary in
spectors appointed by the Louisi
ana Live Stock Sanitary Boarc
for this parish with full power
and authority to carry out the
provisions of this ordinance; te
prescribe penalties for the viola.
ton of this ordinance, and to re
peal all ordinances or resolutions
| Of this jury in conflict herewith
Sec. /. Be it ordained by the po-
lice jury of the parish of Ascension,
that this police jury does hereby ac-
cept from the Louisiana State Live
Stock Sanitary Board and the United
States government such financial and
other assistance as the said board and
the said United States government
may offer for the eradication Of cat
tie fever ticks and other infectious
and contagious diseases among cattle
and other live stock in this parish, and
to that end, all live stock sanitary in
spectors appointed by the Louisiana
State Live Stock Sanitary Board for
this parish are hereby clothed with
full power and authority to carry out
| the provisions of this ordinance in
this parish, provided that all inspect
ors thus appointed by said board for
| this parish shall not be paid any sal
airy or other compensation for their
services by the police jury of this par
ish unless it be out of funds especial
| ly contributed by said board to this
parish for the purpose of paying said
inspectors, in which event the said in
spectors shall be paid only such
amounts as may be designated
| by the Louisiana State Live Stock
Sanitary Board.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained,
ETC., that it shall be the duty of said
parish live stock sanitary inspectors
to carry out the provisions of this or
dinance relative to the compulsory
! disinfecting of cattle in the parish of
Ascension, and to the proper disin-
fecting of other live stock, as herein
after provided, and to do all other
things required Of them by the rules
and regulations of the Louisiana
State Live Stock Sanitary Board for
the eradication of cattle fever ticks
and other infectious or contagious di-
seases among cattle and other live
stock in the parish of Ascension.
The said parish live stock sanitary
inspectors shall serve during such pc
RODS of time as may be designated by
the chief executive officer of the Lou
isiana State Live Stock Sanitary
Board, and as aforesaid, receive their
compensation as above provided only
for the months in which they are ac-
tually occupied as inspectors under
this ordinance.
Sec. 8. Be it further ordained
ETC., that from and after the passage
of this ordinance, no cattle shall be
driven, allowed to drift, or moved by
rail, boat or other carrier into the par
ish of Ascension, Louisiana, from any
area in the United States that is quar-
antined by the United States secre-
tary of agriculture to prevent the
spread of splenetie or tick fever in
cattle, until they have been dipped in
an approved manner in the standard
arsenical solution or otherwise prop
erly disinfected under the supervision
of a duly authorized inspector of the
Louisiana State Live Stock Sanitary
Board, or a veterinary inspector of |
the United States bureau of animal
industry duly commissioned as an in
spector of the Louisiana State Live
Stock Sanitary Board.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained,
etc, that from and after the passage
of this ordinance, horses and mules
entering the parish of Ascension shall
be free from cattle fever ticks, (mar-
garopus annulatus). When any cat
tie, horses or mules are received at a |
railroad station in this parish from
any point in the United States that is
quarantined by the United States sec
rotary of agriculture to prevent the
spread of splenetic or tick fever in
cattle, it shall be the duty of the said
railroad agent to notify the nearest |
live stock sanitary inspector, and the
cattle, horses or mules must not be re-
moved from the station stock-pens UNI
til permission to do so has been re-
ceived from the live stock sanitary in
spector of this parish who may be
nearest to said railroad stock-pens, or
from duly authorized inspector of
the Louisiana State Live Stock SAM
tary Board.
Sec. 5. Be it further ordained.
etc., that from and after the passage
of this ordinance, all persons owning
or having in their charge as owners,
agents, or otherwise, cattle in the
parish of Ascension, Louisiana, that
are infested with, or exposed to cat
tie fever ticks, shall have all of such
cattle at a regular disinfecting sta
tion situated in the ward in which
said person may reside, or in which
ms cattle may be, at such times as
may be designated by the parish live
stock sanitary Inspector or inspectors,
Or by any of the inspectors appointed
by the Louisiana State Live Stock +
sanitary Board working in this par
sh, for the purpose of having said
,attle properly disinfected; provided
hat all such persons shall, when said
Inspectors intend to disinfect said
attic for the first time after the pas
age OF this ordinance, receive writ
en- notice from said inspector or in
pectors stating the day and date and
lace at which said cattle are to be
rought. and thereafter all of said
ersons shall be required, without
urther notice, to bring all of their j
AID cattle to the same station, (un-
'ss another station be designated by
ne inspector in writing), for the pur-
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