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 FORTYEIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cris. 60, 62. 1884. 33 or owner or custodian of or person having control over such cattle or other live stock within such infected district, who shall knowingly violate the provisions of section six of this act, shall be guilty of a misderneanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a Hue of not less Penalty- than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such iine and imprisonment. ’ Sec. 8. That whenever any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease affecting domestic animals, and especially the disease known as pleuro-pneumonia, shall be brought into or shall break out in the Dis- P,°um_pmmm0_ irict of Columbia, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of said Dis- ui., in District of trict to take measures to suppress the same promptly and to prevent Columbia. the same from spreading; and for this purpose the said Commissioners P‘!*”°° °f fcgi"" are hereby empowered to order and require that any premises, farm, or E}:2"§°€0l3mb,1;: farms where such disease exists, or has existed, be put in quarantine; to order all or- any animals coming into the District to be detained at any place or places for the purpose of inspection and examination; to prescribe regulations for and to require the destruction of animals aiiected with contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and for the proper disposition of their hides and carcasses; to prescribe regulations for disinfection, and such other regulations as they may deem necessary to prevent infection or contagion being communicated, and shall report to the Commissioner of Agriculture whatever they may do in pursuance of the provisions of this section. Sue. 9. That it shall be the duty of the several United States dis- Duty of district trict attorneys to prosecute all violations of this act which shall be °F*i°:,¤°Y°f“¤‘;°' brought to their notice or knowledge by any person making the com- v'° ° °°° ° M ' plaint under oath; and the same shall be heard before any district or circuit court of the United State or Territorial court holden within the district in which the violation of this act has been committed. Sec. 10. That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to Appropriation. be immediately available, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise , appropriated to carry into eifect the provisions of this act. Sec. 11. That the Commissioner of Agriculture shall report annually Commissioner to Congress, at the commencement of each session, a list of the names °f Aggm z of all persons employed, an itemized statement of all expenditures un- gffgmu y der thisact, and fullparticulars of the means adopted and carried into effect for the suppression of contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases among domestic animals. Approved, May 29, 1884. CHAP. 62.-An act to extend the duration of the Court of Commissioners ofA1a· June 3, 1884. bama Claims, and for other purposes. ”"‘Y‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represmntativeo of the United States of Anwrioa in Congress assembled, That the existence of the Court mggiun °* {0:]*** of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, re-established by the act entitled b,,ma_°g§’£,:._ " "An act re-establishing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, 22 Sm, 98 and for the distribution of the unappropriated moneys of the Geneva " ' award ", approved June fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, continued and extended to the thirty-ilrst day of E¥i¤;t•;¤;%g December, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, with the D°°°°“’_°3‘f BQ; same efect, and no other, as if said last-named day had been named in ’ the said act for the termination of the powers of said court; and said aca »s hereby continued in force during the period of extension hereby 8uih01*iZ0d. Sec. 2. That the powers of the clerk of said court are hereby extended C1or·k;powmot, for an additional period, not to exceed four mouths from and after the •¤>· termination of the existence of said court, for the purpose of closing up xxm---3