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[CITE: 21USC119]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
         CHAPTER 4--ANIMALS, MEATS, AND MEAT AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION OF INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF CONTAGION
 
Sec. 119. Agents to examine and report on methods of treatment 
        of animals, and means for suppression of diseases
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to appoint two competent 
agents, who shall be practical stock raisers or experienced business men 
familiar with questions pertaining to commercial transactions in 
livestock and/or live poultry, whose duty it shall be, under the 
instructions of the said Secretary of Agriculture, to examine and report 
upon the best methods of treating, transporting, and caring for animals, 
and the means to be adopted for the suppression and extirpation of 
contagious pleuropneumonia, and to provide against the spread of other 
dangerous contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases. The 
compensation of said agents shall be at the rate of $10 per diem, with 
all necessary expenses, while engaged in the actual performance of their 
duties under this Act, when absent from their usual place of business or 
residence as such agent.

(May 29, 1884, ch. 60, Sec. 2, 23 Stat. 31; Feb. 9, 1889, ch. 122, 
Sec. 1, 25 Stat. 659; July 14, 1890, ch. 707, 26 Stat. 288; Feb. 7, 
1928, ch. 30, 45 Stat. 59.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act May 29, 1884, ch. 60, 23 Stat. 
31, as amended, which is popularly known as the Animal Industry Act. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 112 of this title and Tables.

                          Codification

    Substitution of Secretary of Agriculture for Commissioner of 
Agriculture, see note set out under section 112 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1928--Act Feb. 7, 1928, inserted ``and/or live poultry'' after 
``livestock''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 113, 114, 118, 136a of this 
title; title 16 section 1540.
