I4-5.75-/ iron&L r». it I.S. DEPOSITORY Ipsuod Mnroh 20. 19ns. (B. A. I. Order 151.) United States Department of Agriculture, BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. RILE 1, REVISION 3.— TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF SPLENETIC FEVER IN CATTLE. Effective on and after April 1, 1908. United States Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary. The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and notice is hereby given, that a contagious and infectious disease known as splenetic, southern, or Texas fever exists among cattle in the following-named States and Territories, to wit: California, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Now, therefore, I, James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, under authority conferred by section 1 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1264), do hereby quarantine the area here- inafter described and do order by this Rule 1, Revision 3, under the authority and discretion conferred on the Secretary of Agriculture by section 3 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1265), that the interstate movement of cattle of the area herein quar- antined to any point not located in the said quarantined area shall be made only in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture designated as B. A. I. Order No. 143, promulgated March 22, 1907, and effective April 15, 1907, and amendments thereto, subject only to the exceptions hereinafter contained. The following areas are quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever in cattle: CALIFORNIA. The counties of San Diego, Imperial, Orange, Riverside, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, that portion of San Bernardino County west of the one hundred and sixteenth meridian west longi- tude, Santa Barbara County with the exception of the island of Santa Rosa, and that portion of Fresno County west of the right of way of the main line of the Southern Pacific Company are quarantined. [34431] During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of the counties of Riverside, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara (except the island of Santa Rosa), that portion of San Bernardino County west of the one hundred and sixteenth meridian west longi- tude, or that portion of Fresno County west of the right of way of the main line of the Southern Pacific Company shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for immediate slaughter, to any point in the United States not in the -State of California which is located in an area not quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever unless and until the said cattle shall have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the movement issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the movement from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be shipped. From the other counties in California which are quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever, cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for immediate slaughter. TEXAS. The entire State of Texas is quarantined, with the exception of the counties of Dallam, Sherman, Hansford, Ochiltree, Lipscomb, Hart- ley, Moore, Hutchinson, Roberts, Hemphill, Oldham, Potter, Carson, Gray, Wheeler, Deaf Smith, Randall, Armstrong, Donley, Collings- worth, Parmer, Castro, Swisher, Briscoe, Hall, Childress, Bailey, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Motley, Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosby, Dickens, Yoakum, Terry, Lynn, Garza, Kent, Gaines, Dawson, Andrews, Martin, El Paso, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Brewster, Reeves, Loving, Winkler, Ector, Midland, and Ward. During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of the coun- ties of Cottle, Hardeman, Foard, Wilbarger, King, Knox, Baylor, Stonewall, Haskell, Borden, Scurry, Fisher, Jones, Howard, Mitchell, Glasscock, Sterling, Crane, Upton, Reagan, Irion, those portions of the counties of Pecos and Terrell north and west of a line beginning at a point on the western boundary of Pecos County where said oound- ary is intersected by the roadbed of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad Company; thence in an easterly direction with the center of said roadbed to a point on section No. 36, block A2, Galves- ton, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad Company; thence north with the pasture fence, running in a northerly direction through the eastern part of sections Nos. 13 and 12 of said block A2 and across section 1, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company; thence continuing north with said pasture fence through the eastern parts of sections Nos. 16, 17, 46, 47, 76, 77, 106, 107, 136, 137, 142, 143, and 194, block D, Missouri, Kansas and Texas Extension Railway Com- pany; thence continuing in a northerly direction to a point on the northern boundary of section No. 6, block 160, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company, same being corner of pasture fence; thence east along the northern boundary of sections Nos. 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, block 160, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Com- pany, to the northeast corner of said section No. 16, the same being corner of pasture fence; thence in a northerly direction with the eastern boundary of sections Nos. 22, 21, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, [Mttlj 30, 31, and 32, block 1, Corpus Christ i, San Diego and Rip Grande Narrow Gau^c Railway Company, to the northeast corner of said section No. 32; thence wesi with the northern boundary of Nos. 32 and 33, same block, to the northwest corner or section No. 33, block 1, Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railway Company, corner of fence; thence north with the ea-tern boundary of sections Nos. 1, 12, 13, 24, 25, 36, 37 60, 61, and 72, block 2, Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railway Company, to the nortl corner of said section No. 72; thence in an easterly direction with the pasture fence to the southeast corner of section No. 9, patented to James E. Evans; thence north along the eastern boundary of section No. 9 to the northwest corner of section No. 100, block A2, Texas Central Railway Company; thence east with the northern boundary of sections Nos. 100 and 89, same block, to the northeast corner or said section No. 89, block A2, Texas Central Railway Com- pany; thence north along the eastern boundary of sections Nos. 90, 91, 92, and 93 to the southeast corner of section No. 94, block A2, Texas Central Railway Company; thence northwest diagonally across section No. 94 to the northwest corner of said section ; thence continuing in a northwesterly direction diagonally across sections Nos. 14, 18, and 28 to the northeast corner of section No. 29, block C4, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company; thence west with the northern boundary of said section No. 29 to the northwest corner of said section; thence northwest diagonally across section No. 1, Texas Central Railway Company, section No. 97, block 194, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company, to the northeast corner of section No. 96; thence in a northerly direction across section No. 94 to a point on its northern boundary 600 varas west of its northeast corner; thence continuing north through sections Nos. 93, 90, 89, 86, 85, and 58, block 194, Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company, to a point on the northern boundary of said section No. 58; thence north- westerly with the pasture fence through section No. 59 to the north- east corner of section No. 82 and the southeast corner of section No. 81, same block; thence continuing northwesterly to section No. 17, Houston and Great Northern Railroad Company; thence north along the eastern boundary of said section No. 17 to the Pecos River; thence northwesterly along said Pecos River to the northwest corner of Crockett County, or that portion of Tom Green County west of a line extending due north from the northeast corner of Irion County to the southern boundary of Coke County, shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for immediate slaughter, to any point in the United States not in the State of Texas which is located in an area not quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever unless and until the said cattle shall have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the shipment issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the movement from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be shipped. From the other counties and portions of counties in that part of Texas which is quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever, cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for immediate slaughter. [34431] OKLAHOMA. The entire State of Oklahoma is quarantined except the counties of Cimarron, Texas, Beaver, Harper, Woods, Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Woodward, Major, Garfield, Ellis, Dewey, Kingfisher, Logan, Roger Mills, Custer, Beckham, Washita, Oklahoma, that portion of Blaine County north of the Canadian River, that portion of Canadian County north of the Canadian River, that portion of Cleveland County north of the Canadian River and west of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and that portion of Noble County west of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and north of the line between townships 23 and 24 north. During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of Greer County, that portion ot Cleveland County east of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and north of the line between town- ships 7 and 8 north, or that portion of Noble County east of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and south of the line between townships 21 and 22 north, or of the Kansas Nation or Osage Nation, shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for immediate slaughter, to any point in the United States not in the State of Oklahoma which is located in an area not quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever unless and until the said cattle shall have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the shipment issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the move- ment from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be shipped. From the other counties and portions of counties in that part of Oklahoma which is quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever, cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regula- tions for immediate slaughter. During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of the quar- antined area of any State or Territory other than the State of Oklahoma shall, except as hereinafter provided, be moved or allowed to move into the Kansas Nation or Osage Nation: Provided, That from October 1 of each year to May 15 of the following year cattle of the quarantined area of any other State or Territory may be moved mto the above-mentioned nations after having been satis- factorily dipped in Beaumont crude petroleum, or otherwise properly treated, under the supervision of an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry. MISSOURI. Ripley County, that portion of Oregon County south of the line between townships 22 and 23 north, that portion of Newton County west of the right of way of the Kansas City Southern Railway, and that portion of McDonald County west of the right of way of the Kansas City Southern Railway are quarantined. During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of the area hereinbefore described shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for immediate slaughter, to any point in the United States not in the State of Missouri which is located in an area not quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever unless and until [34431] the said cattle shall have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the shipment issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the movement from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be snipped. ARKANSAS. The entire State of Arkansas is quarantined except the counties of Carroll, Randolph, Clay, Greene, and Lawrence. During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of Benton County shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for immediate slaughter, to any point in the United States not in the State of Arkansas which is located in an area not quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever unless and until the said cattle snail have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the shipment issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the movement from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be shipped. From the other counties in that portion or the State of Arkansas which is quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever, cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for imme- diate slaughter. TENNESSEE. The following-mentioned counties and parts of counties are quar- antined: The counties of Shelby, Hardeman, McNairy, Chester, Hen- derson, Decatur, Hardin, Wayne, Lawrence, Marion, Hamilton, James, Bradley, Polk, Warren, Overton, Pickett; that portion of Madison County east and south of a line beginning at a point on the southern bounaary line of Madison County where the Illinois Central Railroad intersects said line; thence northerly along the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad to the corporate limits of the city of Jackson; thence westerly and northerly along the corporate limits of the city of Jack- son to the Jackson and Spring Creek public road; thence northerly along the Jackson and Spring Creek public road to its intersection with the southern boundary of Carroll County; that portion of Benton County south of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; those portions of the counties of Giles, Lincoln, and Franklin south of Elk River; that portion of Sequatchie County east of the western bluff or crest of Waldens Ridge; that portion of Dekalb County south and east of a line beginning at the intersection of the northeastern corner of Cannon Countv with the west prong of Dry Creek near the southeast corner of the third civil district of Dekalb County; thence northerly along said creek to its intersection with the southern boundary of the twentieth civil district of said county; thence easterly and northerly along the southern and eastern boundaries of said twentieth civil district to the southern boundary of the tenth civil district of said county near Cap- ling; thence southeasterly along the southern boundary of the tenth and twenty-second civil districts of said county to Big Hurricane (or Hurricane) Creek; thence northerly along said, creek to Caney Fork River; thence northwesterly along Caney Fork River to the eastern 34431—08 2 6 boundary of the eighteenth civil district of said Dekalb County; thence northerly along the eastern boundary of said eighteenth civil district to the southern boundary of Putnam County; that portion of Putnam County not included in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh civil districts ; that portion of Fentress County west of the East Fork Obey River, and that portion of White County north and west of a line beginning on the southern boundary of AMute County where the Calf Killer River empties into Caney Fork River; thence northerly along Caney Fork River to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Rail- way; thence northeasterly along the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway to the western bluff of Cumberland Mountain, near Bon Air; thence continuing northeasterly along the bluff of Cumber- land Mountain to the Putnam County line near Ravenscroft. During the continuance of tins quarantine no cattle of the counties of Warren, Overton, Pickett, or those portions of the counties of Dekalb, Putnam, Fentress, and White, above described, shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for immediate slaugh- ter, to any point in the United States not in the State of Tennessee which is located in an area not quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever unless and until the said cattle shall have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the shipment issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the movement from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be shipped. From the other counties and portions of counties in that part of the State of Tennessee which is quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever, cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move inter- state to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for immediate slaughter. GEORGIA. The entire State of Georgia is quarantined except the counties of Union, Towns, and Rabun. During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of the counties of Fannin, Murray, Gilmer, White, Habersham, Stephens, or Hall shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for imme- diate slaughter, to any point in the United States not in the State of Georgia which is located in an area not quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever unless and until the said cattle shall have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the shipment issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Indus- try, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the movement from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be shipped. From the other counties in that part of the State of Georgia which is quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever, cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for imme- diate slaughter. [34431] SOUTH CAROLINA. The entire State of South Carolina is quarantined. During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of the coun- ties of Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, or Anderson shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for immediate slaughtei any point in the United States not in the State of South Carolina which is located in an area not quarantined for splenetic, southern. or Texas fever unless and until the said cattle slia 11 have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the shipment issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the movement from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be shipped. From the other counties in the State of South Carolina cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for immediate slaughter. NORTH CAROLINA. The counties of Warren, Franklin, Wake, Chatham, Randolph, Stanley, Union, Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Harnett, Johnston, Wilson, Nash, Halifax, Northampton, Hertford, Bertie, Gates, Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck, Edgecombe, Martin, Washington, Tyrell, Dare, Hyde, Beaufort, Pitt, Wayne, Sampson, Cumberland, Richmond, Scotland, Robeson, Bladen, Greene, Lenoir, Craven, Pamlico, Carteret, Jones, Duplin, Onslow, Pender, Columbus, Brunswick, and New Hanover are quarantined. From the counties above mentioned cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for immediate slaughter. VIRGINIA. The counties of Fluvanna, Chesterfield, York, Pittsylvania, Meck- lenburg, Lunenburg, Brunswick, Greenesville, Sussex, Surry, South- ampton, Isle of Wight, and Nansemond are quarantined. During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of Fluvanna County shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for immediate slaughter, to any point in the United States not in the State of Virginia which is located in an area not quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever unless and until the said cattle shall have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the shipment issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the movement from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be shipped. From the other counties in that portion of the State of Virginia which is quarantined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever, cattle shall only De moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for imme- diate slaughter. [24431J LOUISIANA. The entire State of Louisiana is quarantined. During the continuance of this quarantine no cattle of the parishes of Lincoln and Claiborne shall be moved or allowed to move, except as provided for immediate slaughter, to any point in the United States not in the State of Louisiana which is located in an area not quaran- tined for splenetic, southern, or Texas fever unless and until the said cattle shall have been inspected and found free of infection and a written permit for the shipment issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, nor until permission shall have been obtained in advance of the movement from the proper official of the State or Territory into which the cattle are to be shipped. From the other parishes in the State of Louisiana cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move interstate to points outside of the quarantined area in accordance with the regulations for immediate slaughter. MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, FLORIDA. The entire States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are quar- antined. From the above-mentioned States cattle shall only be moved or allowed to move to points outside of the quarantined area in accord- ance with the regulations for immediate slaughter. GENERAL PROVISION. During the continuance of the quarantine as herein established no cattle of the quarantined area of any State or Territory (except those portions from which cattle may be moved upon inspection) shall be moved or allowed to move to any portion of the quarantined area of another State or Territory from which, under the specific provi- sions of this rule, cattle are allowed to be shipped for purposes other than immediate slaughter upon inspection and certification by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry. OPEN SEASON. During the months of January, November, and December of each year cattle of the quarantined area of any State or Territory may be moved interstate therefrom for purposes other than immediate slaughter into the State of Kansas, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, those portions of the States of California, Texas, Ten- nessee, and Georgia not included in the quarantined area, and that portion of the State of Missouri south of the Missouri River if the said cattle shall first have been inspected under proper facilities for inspec- tion at the point of origin and found free of infection and a written permit for the movement issued by an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry or by a duly authorized inspector of the State or Ter- ritory to which the cattle are destined, and if permission shall first have been obtained from the proper official of the said State or Territory. [34431] During the months of January and February, the first fifteen days of March and the last sixteen days of December in each year, cuttle of the quarantined area of any State or Territory may be moved inter- state therefrom for purposes other than immediate slaughter under the above-mentioned restrictions into those portions of the States of Vir- ginia and North Carolina not included in the quarantined area. Dur- ing the month of January and the last seventeen days of December in each year cattle of the quarantined area of any State or Territory may be moved interstate therefrom for purposes other than immediate slaughter under the above-mentioned restrictions into that portion of the State of Oklahoma not included in the quarantined area. Cattle of the quarantined area that have been shipped interstate during the months of January, November, and December of each year to any State or Territory outside of the quarantined area other than those States and Territories and portions thereof set out herein shall not be moved into any of the States or Territories or portions thereof hereinbefore mentioned within three months of the date of the move- ment from the quarantined area. Cattle which are moved interstate from the quarantined area of any State or Territory into those States or Territories or portions thereof hereinbefore mentioned, under certificates from inspectors either of the Bureau of Animal Industry or of the States or Territories to which the cattle are destined for feeding or stocking purposes shall, when shipped, be transported in cleaned and disinfected cars or boats, and shall -not be placed in stock pens which have been reserved for cattle originating in the quarantined area. FEEDING STATIONS FOR NONINFECTED CATTLE. Cattle not of the quarantined area which are transported inter- state by rail through the quarantined area may be unloaded therein for rest, feed, and water into properly equipped noninfectious pens set apart for such cattle at the Fort Worth Stock Yards at Fort Worth, Tex.; the stock yards of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway at Hodge, Tex.; the stock yards of the International and Great Northern Railroad at Laredo, Tex.; the Southern Pacific Rail- way Stock Yards at Los Angeles, Cal.; the stock yards at Colton, Cal., and Bakersfield, Cal.; the Sapulpa Stock Yards of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad at Sapulpa, Okla. ; the stock yards of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway at Muskogee, Okla.; and at such other points as may from time to time be authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture, provided such pens and the platforms, chutes, and alleyways leading thereto are constructed and main- tained in accordance with the specifications set out in the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture to prevent the spread of splenetic fever in cattle. 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