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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 11, 1910.
No. 81. The following regulations issued by the Director of Agriculture, Manila, for the handling of domestic animals imported into the Philippine Islands are published for information:-
"Domestic animals affected with rinderpest or foot-and-mouth disease, or considered by the Director of Agriculture to have been exposed to infection, and transferred from the vessel on which they arrive to lighters, in accordance with Section 9, General Order No. 13, and held on said lighters in accordance with Section 10 of said General Order, must be handled in accordance with the following rules and regulations:-
1. Animals found affected with rinderpest will immediately be killed and their
carcasses destroyed in the proper manner as heretofore provided.
2. Animals held on any vessel or lighter in accordance with Section 10, General Order No. 13, will not be allowed to be taken to the matadero in accordance with Section 11 of the above mentioned General Order, unless their bodies, feet, anl mouths are thoroughly disinfected immediately preceding their removal from the lighter.
3. No person except employees of the Bureau of Agriculture, Constabulary guards and police officers shall enter any quarantine corral, as defined in Section 10, General Order No. 13. unless in possession of a permit issued by authority of the Director of Agriculture authorizing the learer of said permit to enter the corral or corrals designated in said permit.
4. No person shall leave a quarantine corral, as defined in Section 10, General Order No. 13, for the purpose of going ashore, without first having his person and clothes disinfected in a manner satisfactory to the Director of Agriculture.
5. Quarantine corrals, as defined in Section 10, General Order No. 13, must be placed at least fifty meters away from the shore and must be so situated that they will float each day. Sufficient space must be provided so that animals held in these corrals may be conveniently inspected, separated, and disinfected by the employees of the Bureau of Agriculture.
6. For failure of any owner or agent, or any of their employees, to comply with these rules and regulations, such owner or agent will be denied permission to land any animal contained in the shipment at the time of such violation.
7. These rules and regulations shall become effective in Manila upon their approval by the Secretary of the Interior; and they shall become effective in Iloilo and Cebu March 1st, 1910."
F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.
11th March, 1910.