Illinois Statutes Chapter 510. Animals § 50/18. Cattle exposed to Texas or splenic fever; duties of carriers and stockyards

§ 18. All railroad, truck, steamboat and other transportation companies that shall receive and ship cattle from any territory scheduled on account of Texas or splenic fever, shall immediately after such cattle are unloaded, and before the cars are used for any other purpose, cleanse and disinfect such cars, or quarters in which such cattle are shipped, in accordance with the rules and regulations that may hereafter be prescribed by the Department.

All such companies unloading any diseased animals in any yards along the line of their roads or routes of travel, shall unload them in pens set apart especially for diseased animals, and shall allow no other animals to enter into or be placed in such pens.

All stockyard companies or other receiving yards in the State of Illinois, receiving any such diseased animals, shall set apart certain portions of their yards for them, and shall conspicuously mark such yards and provide separate chutes, alleys and scales for such animals, and where the way-bills or bills of lading of the railroads delivering them show that they are the kind of animals hereinabove in this section described, they shall be placed in that portion of the yards set apart for such animals, and in no case shall they be unloaded by any railroad, truck, steamboat or transportation company, in yards or pens other than those set apart from the exclusive receiving and yarding of such animals.