He passed quarantine laws to protect the people - the first ever such laws in North America.
Most countries have strict quarantine laws regarding pets.
The quarantine law, which applies to all domestic mammals, dates from a time when rabies was a serious problem.
In desperation, more and more people are turning to smuggling to skirt the quarantine law.
The quarantine laws would not permit us to remove them sooner-& now only on condition that we burn them to ashes.
A meeting in 1953 by Australian federal authorities ruled that they would not change the quarantine laws for the Olympic horses.
Rabies; a killer disease that's been kept at bay by Britain's tough quarantine laws.
I imagined being met by authorities at the airport and paying a huge fine or even being sent to jail for breaking quarantine laws.
We have no EU-wide stock of vaccines, and in most countries our quarantine laws are outdated.
I suspected that someone was smuggling a pet dog back to England and avoiding the quarantine laws.
