Protection Against Livestock and Poultry Diseases: Hearing Before a Subcommittee, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 864, a Bill to Provide Greater Protection Against Introduction and Dissemination of Diseases of Livestock and Poultry. May 21, 1959

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Page 3 - An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen", approved June 30, 1914 (38 Stat. 419), as amended (21 USC 128), is further amended by striking out the phrase "cattle or other livestock" and inserting in lieu thereof, the words "quarantined animals".
Page 2 - ... shall be a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both...
Page 3 - Federal banking agency may apply to the United States district court, or the United States court of any territory, within the jurisdiction of which the home office of the...
Page 3 - Congress for the protection, preservation, or restoration of game and other wild birds and animals, any employee of the Department of Agriculture designated by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out any law or regulation, or to perform any function in connection with any Federal or State program or any program of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin islands of the United States, or the District of Columbia, for the control or eradication or prevention of the introduction or dissemination of animal diseases...
Page 5 - Columbia are affected with any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease of livestock or poultry or that the contagion of any such disease exists or that vectors which may disseminate any such disease exist in such State or Territory or the District of Columbia...
Page 9 - ... apply to any railroad company or other common carrier, whose road or line forms any part of a route over which cattle or other live stock are transported in the course of shipment from any quarantined State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or from the quarantined portion of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, into any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia.
Page 2 - Division to determine whether they are carrying any animal, carcass, product or article regulated or subject to disposal under any law or regulation administered by the Secretary of Agriculture for prevention of the introduction or dissemination of any communicable animal disease (21 USC 134d).
Page 5 - ... the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, to be infected or to have been exposed to infection so as to be dangerous to other animals, they shall...
Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That as used in this Act, the term
Page 3 - Process in such cases, criminal or civil, may be served in any district wherein the defendant resides or transacts business or wherever the defendant may be found...

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