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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 109-MAY 5,1945 Compensation of cattle owners, re- strictions. Limitation on amount of payment. 26 Stat. 416. 37 Stat. 832 48 Stat. 38. 7U.S.C.t612; Supp. IV, 8 612 note. 49 Stat. 781 . Payment of claims Basis of appraise ment. money hereby appropriated shall be used in compensating owners of cattle except in cooperation with and supplementary to payments to be made by State, Territory, county, or municipality where condemna- tion of cattle shall take place, nor shall any payment be made here- under as compensation for or on account of any such animal if at the time of inspection or test, or at the time of condemnation thereof, it shall belong to or be upon the premises of any person, firm, or corpora- tion to which it has been sold, shipped, or delivered for the purpose of being slaughtered: Providedfurther, That out of the money hereby appropriated no payment as compensation for any cattle condemned for slaughter shall exceed one-third of the difference between the appraised value of such cattle and the value of the salvage thereof; that no payment hereunder shall exceed the amount paid or to be paid by the State, Territory, county, and municipality where the animal shall be condemned; and that in no case shall any payment hereunder be more than $25 for any grade animal or more than $50 for any pure- bred animal. Inspection and quarantine: For inspection and quarantine work, including the control and eradication of hog cholera and related swine diseases, southern cattle ticks, scabies in sheep and cattle and dourine in horses, the supervision of the transportation of livestock, the inspec- tion of vessels, the execution of the twenty-eight-hour law, the inspec- tion and quarantine of imported animals in accordance with the Act of August 30, 1890 (21 U. S. C. 102), and the inspection work relative to the existence of contagious diseases, $999,600. Meat inspection: For carrying out the provisions of laws relating to Federal inspection of meat and meat food products, $7,800,000. Virus Serum Toxin Act: 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 product manufactured in the United States and the importation of such products intended for use in the treatment of domestic animals, $243,400. Marketing agreements, hog cholera virus and serum: The sum of $31,940 of the appropriation made by section 12 (a) of the Agricul- tural Adjustment Act, approved May 12, 1933, is hereby made avail- able during the fiscal year for which appropriations are herein made to carry into effect sections 56 to 60, inclusive of the Act approved August 24, 1935 (7 U. S . C . 851-855), entitled "An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes", including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. ERADICATION OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH AND OTHER CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF ANIMALS In case of an emergency arising out of the existence of foot-and- mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious diseases of animals, which, in the opinion of the Secretary, threatens the livestock industry of the country, he may expend in the city of Washington or elsewhere any unexpended bal- ances of appropriations heretofore made for this purpose, not to exceed $305,000, in the arrest and eradication of any such disease, including the payment of claims growing out of past and future pur- chases and destruction, in cooperation with the States, of animals affected by or exposed to, or of materials contaminated by or exposed to, any such disease, wherever found and irrespective of ownership, under like or substantially similar circumstances, when such owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations: Provided, That the payment for animals hereafter purchased may be made on 144 [59 STAT.

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