Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture to the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture : communicating information on the subject of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle.

  • William Gates LeDuc
Date:
[1879?]
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Credit: Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture to the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture : communicating information on the subject of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wealth east of the Connecticut River to any part west of said river before the first daj of April next, without consent of the commissioners] shall be punished by tint' not ex- ceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. Sec. 9. Whoever shall drive or transport any cattle from any portion of the com- monwealth into any other State before the first (lay of April next, without the consent of the commissioners, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the comity jail not exceeding one year. Sec. 1. If any person fails to comply with any regulation made, or with any order given, by the commissioners, he shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year. Sec 11. Prosecutions under the two preceding sections may be prosecuted in any county in this commonwealth. Sec. 12. All appraisals made under this act shall be in writing and signed by the appraisers and certified by the commissioners, and shall be by them transmitted to the governor and council, and to the treasurers of the several cities and towns wherein the cattle appraised were kept. Sec. 13. The provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the acts of one thousand eight hundred and sixty [except so far as they authorize the appointment of commissioners] are hereby repealed, but this repeal shall not affect the validity of The proceedings heretofore lawfully Jiad under the provisions of said chapter. Sec. 14. The commissioners and examiners shall keep a full record of their doings, and make report of the same to the next legislature, on or before the tenth day of Jan- nary next, unless sooner required by the governor ; and the said record, or an abstract of the same, shall by printed in the annual volume of Transactions of the State Board of Agriculture. Sec. 15. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall have power to terminate the commission and board of examiners whenever, in his judgment, the public safety may permit. STATE OF NEW YORK. AX ACT to prevent the introduction and spread of the disease known as rinderpest, and for the pro- tection of the doc ks and herds of sheep and cattle in tin- State of New York from this and other in- fectious and contagious diseases. Passed April 20, 18(iti. Be it enacted by the Senate and Assembly of New York: Section 1. It shall be the duty of the health officer of the port of New York, in addition to the duties now imposed on him by existing law. to examine and inquire whether any animals are brought in any vessels arriving at said port in violation of any regulation of law passed by the Congress of The United States prohibiting the im- portation of such animals. 2. Whenever any animal brought as a ship's cow, with no intention of landing the same or of violating any such law or regulation of Congress its aforesaid, the same shall be carefully examined and kept in quarantine for the space of at least twenty- one days, and if any symptoms of the infection or incubation of the disease commonly known as the rinderpest or any other infectious or contagious disease shall present themselves, it shall be the duty of the said health officer immediately to cause the said animal or animals to be slaughtered, and their remains boxed with a sufficient quantity of quick-lime, sulphate of iron, or other disinfectant, and with sufficient weights placed in said box to prevent the same from floating, and to be east into the waters of the said port. It shall also be his duty to cleanse and disinfect by suitable agencies the berth or section of the ship in which said animal or animals were lying or slaughtered, and also'to cause the clothing and persons of all taking care of the same or engaged in slaughter and burial to be cleansed and disinfected. 3. William Kelley, of Dutchess County, Marsena R. Patrick, of Ontario County, and Lewis F. Allen, of Erie County, are hereby appointed as commissioners under this act, and with powers and duties as hereinafter enumerated. 4. In the event of any such disease as the rinderpest or infectious disease of cattle or slice]) breaking out or being suspected to exist in any locality in this State, it shall be the duty of all persons owning or having any interest whatever in the said cattle, immediately to notify the said commissioners or any one of them of the existence of such disease; whereupon the said commissioners shall establish a sanitary cordon around such locality. And thereupon it shall lie the duty of the said commissioners to appoint an assistant commissioner for such district with all powers conferred by this act on the said commissioners or their agents or appointees, which said assistant commissioner shall immediately proceed to the place or places where such disease is reported to exist, and cause the said animal or animals to he separated from all con- nection or proximity with or to all other animals of The ruminant order, and take