Volume 14 · 2
Public Law 39–II
to prevent the Spread of foreign Diseases among the Cattle of the United States.
Approved December 18, 1865
Statutory text
An Act
to prevent the Spread of foreign Diseases among the Cattle of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the importation of cattle
Importation of cattle prohibited.
be, and hereby is, prohibited. And it shall be the duty of the SecretaryTHIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3, 5, 6. 1866. of the Treasury to make such regulations as will give this law full and
Rules 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, .