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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 572 . 1928 . 545 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY Animal Industry Bu- reau. Salaries and general SAL ARI ES AND GEN ER AL EXPENSES expenses. For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1884, Vol. 26, p. 833. establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and the provisions of the Act appr oved March 3, 1891, providing for the safe trans port and humane treatment of export cattle fr om the United States to vol .26, p. 414. foreign countries, and for other purposes ; the Act approved August 30, 1890, providing for the importation of animals into the United vol. 32, p .193. States, and for other purposes ; and the provi sions of the Act of May 9, 1902, extending the inspection of meats to process butter, and providing for the inspection of factories, marking of packages, and vol.32, p. 791. so forth ; and the provisions of the Act approved February 2, 1903, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress Contagious diseases. and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live- Vol.33,p. 1264. stock, and for other purposes ; and also the provisions of the Act Cattle quarantine . approved March 3, 1905, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other livestock therefrom, and for other Vol.34,p . 607. purposes ; and for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 29, Twenty-eight hour 1906, entitled "An Act to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit law . ol.37,p. 832. b y rail road or ot her me ans o f tra nsport ation "; and for carrying Animal viruses, etc• out the provisions of the Act approved March 4, 1913, regulating the preparation, sale, barter, exchange, or shipment of any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous products manufactured in the United States and the importation of such products intended for use in the treatment Vol .42,p. 1,9. of domestic animals ; and for carrying out the provisions of the Packers and Stock. Packers and Stockyards Act, approved August 15, 1921 ; and to yards Act. Collecting and dis- enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and disseminate infor- seminatin g inf orm a- mation concerning livestock, dairy, and other animal products ; to tion" prepare and disseminate reports on animal industry ; to employ and Pay of employees . pay from the appropriation herein made as many persons in the city Tuberculin, serums, of Was hi ngt on or elsewhere as he may d eem necessary ; to purchase etc., t ests . i n the open market samples of all t uberculi n, serums, antito xins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are so ld in th e United States, for the detecti on, prev ention, treatmen t, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to disseminate the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem P urcha se, dest ruc- best ; to purchase and destroy diseased or exposed animals, including tion, etc., of diseased poultry, or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment essential animals' to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, tuberculosis, contagious p oultry dise ases, or other diseases of anima ls fr om one Stat e to another, as follows : Chief of Bureau, and For nec essa ry e xpen ses for gene ral admi nist rat ive purp oses , office personnel. including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $1 61,3 15. Inspection and quar- For ins pect ion and quar anti ne w ork, inc ludi ng all nece ssar y antine work. exp enses for the er adication of sca bies in sheep an d cattle, the in spec- tion of southern cattle, the supervision of the transportation of live- stock, and the inspection of vessels, the execution of the twenty-eight hour law, the inspection and quarantine of imported animals, including the establishment and maintenance of quarantine stations and repairs, alterations, improvements, or additions to buildings thereon ; the inspection work relative to the existence of contagious U nexpe nded bal ance diseases, and the mallein testing of animals, $714 .600, together with a Vol.44, p. 982. $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1927.

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