52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS. - CH. 464-JUNE 16, 1938 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 J. 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), and as authorized by section 2 (a) of the Act of June 26, 1934 (31 U. S . C . 725a); 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 for carrying out the provi- sions of the Packers and Stockyards Act, approved August 15, 1921 (7 U. S . C . 181-229), as amended by the Act of August 14, 1935 (7 U. S. C . 218-218d); and the Secretary of Agriculture, upon appli- cation 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 dissem- inate information concerning livestock and animal products; to pre- pare 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 analo- gous 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 pur- chase 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 dis- eases, 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, $178,220. Animal husbandry: For investigations and experiments in animal husbandry; for experiments in animal feeding and breeding, includ- ing cooperation with the State agricultural experiment stations and other agencies, including repairs and additions to and erection of buildings absolutely necessary to carry on the experiments, $789,380, including $12,500 for livestock experiments and demonstrations at Big Springs or elsewhere in Texas, to be available only when the State of Texas, or other cooperating agency in Texas, shall have appropriated an equal amount or, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, shall have furnished its equivalent in value in coop- eration for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1939: Provided, That of the sum thus appropriated $238,957 may be used for experi- 719 Cattle quarantine. 33 Stat. 1264. 21 U. S. C. §§123- 128. Twenty-eight hour law. 34 Stat. 607. 45U. S. C. 5§71-74. Meat inspection. 34 Stat. 674, 1260; 41 Stat. 241 . 21U.S.C.§§95, 71-94, 96. 48 Stat. 1225 . 31U.S .C . §725a. Animal viruses, etc. 37 Stat. 832 . 21 U.S. C. §§ 151- 158. Packers and Stock- yards Act. 42 Stat. 159; 49 Stat. 648. 7U.S.C.§181- 229; Supp. III, § 218- 218d. Inspections other than at headquarters. Credit of fees to ap- propriate fund. Collection and dis- semination of informa- tion. 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. Big Springs, Tex., cooperative demon- strations, etc.; condi- tions. Provmso. Poultry feeding and breeding.
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