[H. J. Res. 247.]

Joint Resolution Making an additional appropriation for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal years 1924 and 1925.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of $1,500,000 is appropriated, cut of any money in the Treasury not otherwise. appropriated, for personal services and other expenditures in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in connection with the arrest and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infectious disease of animals, including the payment of claims growing out of past and future purchases 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, and including necessary investigations to determine whether such diseases have been completely eradicated in districts where they previously existed; such sum to be expended by the Secretary of Agriculture when, in his judgment, an emergency exists which threatens the livestock industry of the country, and to remain available until June 30, 1925: Provided, That the payment for animals hereafter purchased may be made on an appraisement based on the meat, dairy, or breeding value, but in case of appraisement based on breeding value no appraisement of any animal shall exceed three times its meat or dairy value, and, except in case of an extraordinary emergency, to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, the payment by the United States Government for any animal shall not exceed one-half of any such appraisement.

Approved, April 26, 1924.

[S. J. Res. 159]

Joint Resolution Providing for the control and eradication of the European fowl pest and similar diseases in poultry

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That not to exceed $100,000 of the appropriation of $3,500,000, contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, for the eradication of the foot-and-mouth disease and other contagious or infectious diseases of animals, is hereby made available. to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to provide means to control and eradicate the European fowl pest and similar diseases in poultry: Provided, That the sum herein granted shall remain available for the purposes of this Act until June 30, 1926: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used for the payment of indemnities for condemned poultry.

Approved, December 24, 1924.

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An act to provide for the safe transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign countries, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to examine all vessels which are to carry export cattle from the ports of the United States to foreign countries, and to prescribe by rules and regulations or orders the accommodations which said vessels shall provide for export cattle, as to space, ventilation, fittings, food and water supply and such other requirements as he may decide to be necessary for the safe and proper transportation and humane treatment of such animals.

SEC. 2. That whenever the owner, owners, or master of any vessel carrying export cattle shall wilfully violate or cause or permit to be violated any rule, regulation or order made pursuant to the foregoing section the vessel in respect of which such violation shall occur may be prohibited from again carrying cattle from any port of the United States for such length of time, not exceeding one year, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, and such vessel shall be refused clearance from any port of the United States accordingly.

Approved, March 3, 1891.

[H. J. Res. 140]

Joint Resolution To amend sections 1 and 2 of the Act of March 3, 1891.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 1 and 2 of the Act of March 3, 1891 (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 833), be amended by adding, after the word "cattle," as it occurs in lines 4 and 6 of section 1 and in lines 2 and 5 of section 2, a comma followed by the words "horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine,” so that said sections as hereby amended shall read as follows:

"That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to examine all vessels which are to carry export cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine from the ports of the United States to foreign countries, and to prescribe by rules and regulations or orders the accommodations which said vessels shall provide for export cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine as to space, ventilation, fittings, food and water supply, and such other requirements as he may decide to be necessary for the safe and proper transportation and humane treatment of such animals.

"SEC. 2. That whenever the owner, owners, or master of any vessel carrying export cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine shall willfully violate or cause or permit to be violated any rule, regulation, or order made pursuant to the foregoing section the vessel in respect of which such violation shall occur may be prohibited from again carrying cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, or swine from any port of the United States for such length of time, not exceeding one year, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, and such vessel shall be refused clearance from any port of the United States accordingly."

Approved, May 28, 1928.

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[S. 2164.]

An Act To repeal that part of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912," approved March 4, 1911, relating to the admission of tickinfested cattle from Mexico into Texas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That that part of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912," approved March 4, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, at page 1240), which amended the Act of August 30, 1890, so as to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture under joint regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the admission of tick-infested cattle from Mexico into that part of Texas below the southern quarantine line, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Approved, April 15, 1924.

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