7 U.S.C. § 391
Establishment of bureau; appointment of chief; duties
There shall be in the Department of Agriculture a Bureau of Animal Industry. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to appoint a chief thereof, who shall be a competent veterinary surgeon, and whose duty it shall be to investigate and report upon the condition of the domestic animals and live poultry of the United States, their protection and use, and also inquire into and report the causes of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases among them, and the means for the prevention and cure of the same, and to collect such information on these subjects as shall be valuable to the agricultural and commercial interests of the country.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1938–1944 · leading case: United States v. Sanders, 145 F.2d 458 (10th Cir. 1944).
United States v. Sanders, 145 F.2d 458 (10th Cir. 1944). “31 , 7 U.S.C.A. § 391 . The Act of March 3, 1905, 33 Stat.”
United States v. Price, 95 F.2d 687 (5th Cir. 1938). “The first of these statutes, enacted May 29, 1884, 7 U.S.C.A. § 391 , just after Kansas had provided for its Livestock Sanitary Commission, created a Bureau of Animal-Industry.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.