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Opinion No. 13-1087

Collection Attorney General Opinions and Advisory Letters
Date 07/31/1913
File Number 1913 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 13-1087

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Opinion No. 13-1087

July 31, 1913

BY: H. S. CANCY, Assistant Attorney General

TO: W. J. Linwood, Esq., Secretary, Cattle Sanitary Board, Albuquerque, N. M.

CATTLE.

Cattle offered for shipment by rail in New Mexico, although driven into the state from Old Mexico are subject to inspection.

OPINION

{*258} I am in receipt of your letter of the 29th inst. in which you state that you have instructed one of your inspectors that, before cattle driven into the state from Mexico for shipment by rail from points within New Mexico, they should be subjected to the same inspection as cattle belonging in New Mexico and being shipped therefrom, and you ask for the opinion of this office as to whether such instruction is correct.

I am of opinion that whenever cattle are offered for shipment by rail in New Mexico, it matters not where they come from, that they are subject to the same inspection as cattle raised and owned in New Mexico and intended to be shipped out of the state. Your instruction to the inspector is, undoubtedly, correct.

 You are being directed to the most recent version of the statute which may not be the version considered at the time of the judgment.