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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 253 -JUNE 30, 1939 Salaries and ex- penses. 23 Stat. 31 . 7U.S.C. §391;21 U. S. C. §§ 112-119, 130. 26 Stat. 833. 45U. S. C. I575, 76. 26 Stat. 414. 21 U. S. C. §§101- 105. Contagiousdiseases, etc. 32 Stat. 791. 21 U. S. C. §9111- 113, 120-122 . Cattle quarantine. 33 Stat. 1264. 21U. S.C. S123- 128. Twenty-eight hour law. 34 Stat. 607. 45 U. S.C. §i 71- 74. Meat inspection. 34 Stat. 674, 1260; 41 Stat. 241 . 21 U.S.C. 995,71- 94,96;Supp. IV, § 91. 48 Stat. 1225 . 31U. S. C. §725a. 52 Stat. 1235 . 21 U. S. C., Snpp. IV, 191. Animal viruses, etc. 37 Stat. 832 . 21U.S.C. 1151-158. Inspections at other than headquarters. Credit of fees to ap- propriate fund. Collection and dis- semination of infor- mation. Personal services. Tuberculin, serums. etc., purchase of samples. Purchase and de- struction of diseased, etc., animals, includ- ing poultry. General administra- tive expenses. Animal husbandry. Feeding, breeding, etc., experiments. BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May 29, 1884 (7 U. S. C. 391; 21 U. S. C. 112-119, 130), establishing a Bureau of Animal Industry, and the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1891 (45 U. S . C . 75, 76), providing for the safe transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign countries, and for other purposes; the Act approved August 30, 1890 (21 U. S. C . 101-105), providing for the importation of animals into the United States, and for other purposes; and the provisions of the Act approved February 2, 1903 (21 U. S. C. 111-113, 120-122), to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of livestock and for other purposes; and also the provisions of the Act approved March 3, 1905 (21 U. S . C. 123-128), to enable the Secretary of Agri- culture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other livestock therefrom, and for other purposes; and for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 29, 1906 (45 U. S. C . 71-74) entitled "An Act to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transporta- tion"; and for carrying out the provisions of the Meat Inspection Act of June 30, 1906 (21 U. S. C. 95), as amended by the Act of March 4 1907 (21 U. S . C . 71-94) as extended to equine meat by the Act of July 24, 1919 (21 U. S. C. 96), as authorized by section 2 (a) of the Act of June 26, 1934 (31 U. S . C . 725a), and as further amended by the Act of June 29, 1938 (21 U. S . C. 91); and for carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March 4, 1913 (21 U. S . C . 151-158), 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 of domestic animals; and the Secretary of Agriculture, upon application of any exporter, importer, packer, owner, agent of, or dealer, in livestock, hides, skins, meat, or other animal products, may, in his discretion, make inspections and examinations at places other than the headquarters of inspectors for the convenience of said applicants and charge the applicants for the expenses of travel and subsistence incurred for such inspections and examinations, the funds derived from such charges to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the appropriation from which the expenses are paid; and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information concerning livestock and animal products; to prepare and disseminate reports on animal industry; to employ persons and means in the city of Washington or elsewhere; to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, 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 best; to purchase and destroy diseased or exposed animals, including poultry, or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment essential to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, tuberculosis, contagious poultry diseases, or other diseases of animals from one State to another, as follows: General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for gen- eral administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of bureau and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $170,120. Animal husbandry: For investigations and experiments in animal husbandry; for experiments in animal feeding and breeding, including 948 [53 STAT.

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