be kept for that purpose in the Department of the Treasury, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and may furnish to the Department facsimiles of such trade-marks; and thereupon the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause one or more copies of the same to be transmitted to each collector or other proper officer of the customs.

ART. 622. Applications for the recording of names or trade-marks in the Treasury Department will state the name and residence of the domestic manufacturer, and furnish a description of the mark and the names of the ports to which the facsimiles should be sent. No such name or trade-mark will be received unless accompanied by the proper proof of ownership and proof that the owner is a domestic manufacturer, which must consist of the affidavit of the owner or one of the owners, certified by a notary public, or other officer entitled to administer oaths, and having a seal.

ART. 623. On the receipt by a customs officer of any such facsimiles, with information from the Department. that they have been recorded therein, he will properly record and file them, and will exercise care to prevent the entry at the custom-house of any article of foreign manufacture copying or simulating such mark.

No fees are charged for recording trade-marks in the Department and custom-houses.

A sufficient number of facsimiles should be forwarded to enable the Department to send one copy to each port named in the application with ten additional copies for the files of the Department.

ART. 624. Especial attention is invited to the provision in said section prohibiting the entry of articles “which shall bear a name or mark which is calculated to induce the public to believe that the article is manufactured in the United States," and collectors and other officers of the customs are instructed to use due diligence to prevent violations of this provision.

§ 9. DISINFECTION OF HIDES.

ART. 625. Under a proclamation issued by the President of the United States on November 8, 1895, regarding the importation of neat cattle and the hides of neat cattle

the prohibition of the importation of neat cattle from the countries of Norway, Sweden, Holland, Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the countries of North, Central, and South America, including Mexico, and of the hides of neat cattle from all parts of the world, was suspended, and all importations of neat cattle are required to be made under the sanitary regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and all importations of hides under proper regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

ART. 626. The following method of disinfection of the hides of neat cattle intended for shipment to the United States, which is intended solely for the protection of cattle in this country, and is adopted at the suggestion of the Secretary of Agriculture, will be required in all cases of shipments of such hides to the United States, when not dry salted or arsenic cured, from the countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America, viz:

ART. 627. Dry hides which have been salted or arsenic cured may be accepted as having been disinfected by the process of curing, and need not be submitted to any further treatment. Dry hides which have not been salted or arsenic cured should be disinfected. Disinfection with sulphur dioxide may be accepted in case a room is provided which can be tightly closed, and also in case the bundles of hides are undone and each hide suspended separately from the ceiling in such manner that there may be free circulation of the sulphur fumes, and that all parts of the surface may be acted upon. There should D., 15609, be at least 4 pounds of sulphur burned to each 1,000 cubic 15765, 15768, 15906, feet of air space, and the room should be kept closed and

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15648, 15650, 15753,

15914, 16159, 16194,

16250, 16460, 16560, the hides subjected to the sulphur dioxide for six hours;

16561, 16704, 16692,

18714, 19016, 19367,

21105, 21132, 21145, 21190.

17452, 17892, 17911, or the dry hides may be immersed in a 4 per cent solution 19429, 20149, 20281, of carbolic acid, or a 1 to 1,000 solution of bichloride of mercury until they are thoroughly wet with the disinfectant. Fresh or moist hides, whether salted or not, should be disinfected by immersion in a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid, or a 1 to 1,000 solution of bichloride of mercury.

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ART. 628. Hides of neat cattle, other than dry salted or arsenic cured, the product of the countries above named, will require disinfection as above whenever they shall be shipped via the ports of any other country; and hides, other than dry salted or arsenic cured, the product of any country not named above, if transshipped and actually landed at ports in any of the countries named, will require disinfection.

ART. 629. The regulations herein provided do not in any way modify or affect any regulations concerning disinfection issued under the quarantine laws of the United States.

ART. 630. So far as the countries of Norway, Sweden, and Great Britain are concerned, however, entry may be allowed of moist hides imported direct therefrom without disinfection, provided the invoice shall contain the declaration of the shipper that the hides are the product of

such countries and were shipped from cattle in those countries at abattoirs, and that a certificate shall also be produced from the official veterinarian to the effect that the hides were taken from perfectly healthy cattle.

§ 10. INSPECTION AND QUARANTINE OF ANIMALS.

ART. 631. Under the act of August 30, 1890, the importation of all neat cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and all swine, is placed under the control and supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture in all matters pertaining to quarantine and inspection.

The importation of cattle, sheep, or swine which have been exposed to infection within sixty days next before their exportation is prohibited, and severe penalties are provided for persons knowingly concerned in the violation of this law. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to place and retain in quarantine, at the expense of the owners, any of the classes of animals above specified, and to slaughter the same when necessary. Importations of such T. D. 2014. animals can be allowed only at ports which have been designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as quarantine stations. The President of the United States or the Secretary of the Treasury may, whenever he considers it necessary for the protection of animals in this country, suspend the importation of all or any class of animals and of hides of neat cattle.

ART. 632. The following regulations, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, under the provisions of the act of August 30, 1890, regarding the inspection and quarantine of animals imported into the United States, are published for the information and guidance of officers of the customs and others concerned, the selection of the ports mentioned therein as quarantine stations being approved.

Sec. 25 of act July 24, 1897.

In pursuance of sections 7, 8, and 10 of the act of Con- T. D. 22014. gress entitled "An act providing for the inspection of meats for exportation, and prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles of food or drink, and authorizing the President to make proclamation in certain cases, and for other purposes," approved August 30, 1890, and of the act of Congress making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture, approved March 1, 1899, the following regulations are hereby prescribed for the inspection and quarantine of horses, neat cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and swine imported into the United States on and after

March 1, 1900. All previous regulations for such inspection and quarantine shall become void after that date:

1. With the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the following-named ports are hereby designated as quarantine stations, and all horses, cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, and swine imported into the United States and which are subject to quarantine and inspection must be entered through said stations, viz:

On the Atlantic seaboard: Boston, Mass.; New York, N. Y., and Baltimore, Md. On the Pacific seaboard: San Diego, Cal. Along the boundary line between the United States and Mexico: Nogales, Ariz.; El Paso, Eagle Pass, Laredo (Port of Corpus Christi, Tex.), and Brownsville,

Along the border or boundary line between the United States and British Columbia and Canada: Vanceboro (Port of Bangor, Me.) and Houlton, Me.; Beecher Falls (Port of Newport, Vt.), Island Pond (Port of Newport, Vt.), Newport, Richford (Port of Burlington, Vt.), St. Albans, Vt. (Port of Burlington, Vt.); Rouse Point (Port of Plattsburg, N. Y.), Ogdensburg, Cape Vincent, Charlotte (Port of Rochester, N. Y.), Niagara Falls, and Buffalo, N. Y.; Detroit, Port Huron, and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. (Port of Marquette, Mich.); Pembina, N. Dak., and Port Townsend, Wash.

The following-named stations are designated for the entry of animals which are subject to inspection only, viz: Eastport, Calais, and Fort Fairfield, Me. (Port of Houlton, Me.); Derby Line (Port of Newport, Vt.) and North Troy, Vt. (Port of Newport, Vt.); Mooers Junction (Port of Plattsburg, N. Y.), Chateaugay (Port of Plattsburg, N. Y.), Malone, Fort Covington (Port of Plattsburg, N. Y.), Waddington (Port of Ogdensburg, N. Y.), Morristown (Port of Ogdensburg, N. Y.), and Alexandria Bay, N. Y. (Port of Cape Vincent, N. Y.).

2. The word "animals," when used in these regulations, refers to and includes all or any of the following kinds: Horses, asses, and mules; neat cattle, sheep, and other ruminants; and swine.

Under the word "horses" will be included asses and mules, and under the word "sheep" will be included all ruminants except cattle. The words "contagious diseases," when used in these regulations, includes and applies to all or any of the following diseases: Glanders and farcy, maladie du coit, distemper, anthrax, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, Texas or splenetic fever, tuberculosis, actinomycosis, foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, vari

ola, foot rot, seab, hog cholera, swine plague, and erysipelas.

3. (a) All horses imported into the United States from any part of the world, except as otherwise provided for the countries of North America, shall be required to pass a careful veterinary inspection at the port of entry.

(b) All cattle, sheep, and other ruminants imported. into the United States from any part of the world, except as hereinafter provided for the countries of North America, shall be accompanied with a certificate from the local authority of the district in which said animals have been for one year next preceding the date of shipment, stating that no contagious pleuro-pneumonia, foot-and-mouth disease, anthrax, rinderpest, or any other disease contagious to cattle has existed in said district for the past year.

(c) All swine imported into the United States from any part of the world, except as otherwise provided for the countries of North America, shall be accompanied with a certificate similar to the one required for cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, relating to the existence of foot-andmouth disease, hog cholera, swine plague, and erysipelas. (d) All such animals shall also be accompanied with an affidavit by the owner, stating that said animals have been in the district where purchased for one year next preceding the date of sale, and that no contagious disease affecting the species of animals imported has existed among them, nor among any animals of the kind with which they have come in contact, for one year last past, and that no inoculation has been practiced among said animals for the past two years. Also by an affidavit from the importer or his agent supervising the shipment, stating that they have not passed through any district infected with contagious diseases affecting said kind of animals; that they have not been exposed in any possible manner to the contagion of any of said contagious diseases, and that the animals, when not driven, have been shipped in clean and disinfected cars and vessels direct from the farm where purchased.

(e) The foregoing certificate and affidavits must accompany said animals and be presented to the collector of customs at the port of entry, and by him be delivered to the inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry stationed at said port, to allow them to be imported into the United States.

4. All neat cattle imported into the United States from any part of the world, except as provided for the countries