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426 LIVE STOCK. [ART. LVIII
animals of the same species shall be removed from or brought to the
premises or place so quarantined until the same shall have been properly
disinfected; to prescribe such regulations as he may judge necessary or
expedient to prevent infection or contagion being communicated in any
way from the places so quarantined; to call upon all sheriffs and deputy
sheriffs, constables, policemen or other officers of the State, the City of
Baltimore, or of any county, for information and assistance to carry
out and enforce the provisions of such orders and regulations; to pre-
scribe regulations for the destruction of animals affected with or exposed
to an infectious or contagious disease, and for the proper destruction of
their hides and carcasses, and all objects which might carry infection
or contagion; to prescribe regulations for the disinfection of all build-
ings, premises and railway cars, and of all objects from which, or by
which infection or contagion might take place, or be conveyed; to alter
and modify from time to time, as he may deem expedient, the terms
of all such orders and regulations, and to cancel or withdraw the same
at any time; and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs,
constables, policemen or other officers of the State, City of Baltimore,
or counties, to obey and observe all orders and instructions which they
may receive from said State Board of Agriculture or its duly author-
ized officers or agents in the enforcement of the provisions of this Arti-
cle within their respective jurisdiction.
1904, art. 58. sec. 6. 1888. art. 58. sec. 6. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 6. 1916, ch. 337.
6. Any person who shall violate or transgress the terms or require-
ments of any order or regulation issued and prescribed by the said State
Board of Agriculture or its duly authorized officer under the authority
of this Article, or shall refuse to said officer or his assistants access to
his premises, farms, stables, cars, sheds or pens, or shall resist said
officer of the State Board of Agriculture or his assistants in applying
any of the quarantine orders or regulations or shall conceal the fact that
contagious or infectious disease exists on his premises, shall be subject
to a fine of not more than one hundred nor less than fifty dollars, which
fine may be imposed by any station house Justice of the Peace of the
City of Baltimore, or any Justice of any county where such offense may
be committed.
1904, art. 58. sec. 7. 1888. art. 58. sec. 7. 1888. ch. 519. sec. 7. 1916, ch. 337.
7. It shall be the duty of (all persons practicing veterinary medi-
cine in this State to report immediately to said Board all cases of con-
tagious or infectious diseases among live stock which may come to their
knowledge) every practitioner of veterinary medicine in Maryland, im-
mediately upon receiving information thereof, to report to the State
Board of Agriculture each case of any of the following diseases, namely:
glanders, anthrax, blackleg or black quarter; contagious pleuro-pneumo-
nia, or lung plague of cattle; rinderpest or cattle plague; hemorrhagie
septicemia; foot and mouth disease, or aphthous fever of cattle; southern
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