PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 280-JUNE 29, 1949
Post, p. 744 .
26 Stat. 416 .
60 Stat. 633 .
Post, p. 410 .
Service at stock-
yards.
37 Stat. 832.
48 Stat. 38 .
49 Stat. 781.
Payment of claims.
61 Stat. 7.
21 IT. S. C.,
Supp.
II, §§114h11-4d .
23 Stat. 31 .
7 U . C., Supp.11,
§391 note;21U. S. C.,
Supp. 11, §113a.
Basis of appraise-
ment.
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 live-
stock, the inspection of vessels, the execution of the twenty-eight-hour
law, the inspection and quarantine of imported animals in accord-
ance with the Act of August 30, 1890 (21 U. S . C . 102), and the
Act of July 24, 1946 (21 U. S . C . 133), and the inspection work relative
to the existence of contagious diseases, $1,154,000: Provided, That
service shall be maintained at all stockyards having such service
during the current fiscal year.
Meat inspection: For carrying out the provisions of laws relating
to Federal inspection of meat and meat-food products, $12,577,000.
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, $394,000.
Marketing agreements, hog cholera virus and serum: The sum of
$47,500 of the appropriation made by section 12 (a) of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act, approved May 12, 1933 (7 U. S . C . 612), is
hereby made available 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), including
personal services in the District of Columbia.
ERADICATION OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH AND OTHER CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF
ANIMALS
For expenses necessary, including personal services in the District
of Columbia, in the arrest and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease,
rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other contagious or infec-
tious diseases of animals, or European fowl pest and similar diseases
in poultry, including the payment of claims growing out of past and
future purchases and destruction of animals (including poultry)
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 sinilar circumstances, when such owner has
complied with all lawful quarantine regulations; and for foot-and-
mouth disease and rinderpest programs undertaken pursuant to the
provisions of the Act of February 28, 1947 (21 U. S . C . Sup p. 1
114b-114d), and the Act of May 29, 1884, as amended (7 U. C .,
391; 21 U. S . C ., 111-122), including expenses in accordance with
section 2 of said Act of February 28, 1947, the Secretary may transfer
from other appropriations or funds available to the bureaus, corpora-
tions, or agencies of the Department such sums as he may deem neces-
sary, to be available only in an emergency which threatens the live-
stock or poultry industry of the country, and any unexpended balances
of funds transferred under this head in the next preceding fiscal year
shall be merged with such transferred amounts: Provided,That, except
for payments made pursuant to said Act of February 28, 1947, the
payment for such animals hereafter purchased may be made on
appraisement based on the meat, egg-production, dairy, or breeding
value, but in case of appraisement based on breeding value no appraise-
ment of any such animal shall exceed three times its meat, egg-produc-
tion, or dairy value. and, except in case of an extraordinary emergency,
to be determined by the Secretary. the payment by the United States
Government for any such animals shall not exceed one-half of any
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