[1760-1; Comp., 1125.] "Dangerous communicable disease", as herein used, includes glanders or farcy, surra, rinderpest, hemorrhagic septicemia, hog cholera, foot-and-mouth disease, contagious pleuropneumonia, or any other acute communicable disease which may cause a mortality of  over five per centum in the period of one month. [1760-2.] SECTION  1859 . Bringing of Diseased Animal Into Islands Forbidden.  — Except upon permission of the Director of Agriculture, it shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to ship or otherwise bring into the Philippine Islands any animal suffering from, infec ted with, or dead of any dangerous communicable disease, or any effects pertaining to such animal which are liable to introduce such disease into the Philippine Islands. Any such animal or its effects may be permitted by the Director of Agriculture to enter the Islands under such conditions as to quarantine, cremation, or other disposal as he may direct, or which shall be deemed by him sufficient to prevent the spread of a ny such disease. [1760-3.] SECTION  1860 . Removal of Diseased Animal from Province to Province Prohibited.  — It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to ship, drive, or otherwise take or transport from one island, province, municipality, township, or settlement to another any do mestic animal suffering from any dangerous communicable disease or to expose such animal, either alive or dead, on any public road, street, or highway where it may come in contact with other domestic animals. [1760-4.] SECTION  1861 . Regulation Concerning Removal of Diseased Animals from Infected Localities . — When the Secretary of Public Instruction shall declare that a dangerous communicable animal disease prevails in any island, province, municipality, township, or set tlement, and that there is danger of spreading such disease by shipping, driving, or otherwise transporting or taking out of such island, province, municipality, township, or settlement any class of domestic animals, it shall be unlawful for any person, fi rm, or corporation to ship, drive, or otherwise remove the kind of animals so specified from such locality except when accompanied by a certificate issued by authority of the Director of Agriculture stating the number and kind of animals authorized to be s hipped, driven, taken, or transported, their destination, the manner in which they are authorized to be Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 552