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The Secretary of Health shall have power to reserve for experimental treatment any animal ordered to be slaughtered under §§ 661—694 of this title, and may himself make, or authorize any officer or person employed by him to make post-mortem examinations of the animals which have died, or which are supposed to have died, from infectious or contagious disease, and to dig up the carcasses of such animals for the purpose of investigation. History —Mar. 14, 1907, p. 85, § 10, eff. July 1, 1907.