Chapter II. to prevent the Spread of foreign Diseases among the Cattle of the United States
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CHAP. II.— An Act to prevent the Spread of foreign Diseases among the Cattle of the United States.Dec. 18, 1865.See 1866, ch. xii.*Post*, p. 3. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the importation of cattleImportation of cattle prohibited. be, and hereby is, prohibited. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary2THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3, 5, 6. 1866. of the Treasury to make such regulations as will give this law full andRules and regulations. immediate effect, and to send copies of them to the proper officers in this country, and to all officers or agents of the United States in foreign countries.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That when the President shall give thirty days’ notice, by proclamation, that no further danger is to be apprehended from the spread of foreign infectious or contagious diseases among cattle, this law shall be of no force, and cattle may be imported in the same way as before its passage. Approved, December 18, 1865.