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providing for and regulating- the agencies, methods and manner 

 of conducting, and the investigations aforesaid, regarding the 

 existence of said contagious diseases ; for ascertaining, entering 

 and searching places where such diseased animals are supposed 

 to exist ; for ascertaining what animals are so diseased, or have 

 been exposed to contagious diseases ; for making, reporting and 

 recording descriptions of the said animals so diseased or exposed 

 and destroyed, and for appraising the same, and for making 

 payment therefor ; and to make all other needful rules and regu- 

 lations which may, in the judgment of the commissioners, be 

 deemed requisite to the full and due execution of the provisions 

 of this act. All such rules and regulations, before they shall 

 become operative, shall be approved by the governor of Maine 

 and thereafter published in such manner as may be provided for 

 in such regulations and after such publication said rules and 

 regulations shall have the force and effect of law, so far as the 

 same are not inconsistent with this act and other laws of the 

 State, or United States. 



Sect. 4. That any person or persons who shall knowingly 

 and wilfully refuse permission to said commissioners, or either 

 of them, or their duly constituted agent to make, or who know- 

 ingly and wilfully obstructs said commissioners, or either of 

 them, or their duly constituted agent in making all necessary 

 examinations of, and as to animals supposed by said commis- 

 sioners to be diseased as aforesaid, or in destroying the same, or 

 who knowingly attempts to prevent said commissioners, or either 

 of them, or their duly constituted agent from entering upon the 

 premises and other places hereinbefore specified where any of 

 said diseases are by said commissioners supposed to exist, shall 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction 

 thereof, or of either of the acts in this section prohibited, shall be 

 punished by fine not exceeding one hunared dollars, or by impris- 

 onment, not exceeding ninety days, or by both fine and imprison- 

 ment, at the discretion of the court. 



Sect. 5. That any person who is the owner of, or who is pos- 

 sessed of any interest in any animals affected with any of the dis- 

 eases named in section two of this act, or any person who is 

 agent, common carrier, consignee, or otherwise is charged with 

 any duty in regard to any animal so diseased, or exposed to the 

 contagion of such disease, or any officer or agent charged with 



