ACT OF INCORPORATION. 7 



by any railroad or any incorporated company, or by any person. 

 And every such company or person who shall bring, transport, or in- 

 troduce any cattle or other domestic animals into this state after said 

 board shall have issued an order to such company or person, forbid- 

 ding the same, or after the board shall have published for five suc- 

 cessive days an order in such newspapers published in this state as the 

 board may direct, forbidding any person or company to do so, shall 

 pay a fine not exceeding three hundi-ed dollars for each and every of- 

 fense, and every officer or agent of any company or other persons 

 who shall violate such order shall be subject to the fine aforesaid. In 

 case of the introduction into this state of a number of cattle or 

 other domestic animals contrary to the orders of said board as afore- 

 said, the introduction of each animal shall be deemed a separate and 

 distinct offense. 



Sec. 12. Whenever any contagious disease breaks out or is known 

 to exist in any section of this state, the board shall have the power at 

 their discretion to quarantine all infected animals, or those supposed 

 to have been exposed to contagion, and to prohibit the di'iving or trans- 

 porting of such animals or any others upon the public highways in 

 any town or district where such movement of animals is considered 

 by the board as dangerous to the public safety. 



Sec. 13. The board are authorized to enter upon any premises 

 where there are any animals that are supposed to be affected with any 

 disease, to investigate the facts and to make all necessary regulations 

 for the prevention, treatment, care, and extirpation of such disease, 

 and whenever any person shall fail to comply with any regulation so 

 established by the said board, they shall be punished by a fine not ex- 

 ceeding three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding 

 one year. 



Sec. 14. The board may appoint suitable persons on or near the 

 several highways, railroads, and thoroughfares in the state, whose duty 

 it shall be strictly to inquire into all violations of this act, -and to re- 

 port the same tu the board for immediate prosecution. 



Sec. 15. The board of agriculture may appoint three commis- 

 sioners on diseases of domestic animals and delegate to them the full 

 powers which by this act are conferred upon the board. 



Sec. 16. All prosecutions for the violation of any of the provis- 

 ions of this act shall be commenced within thirty days from the com- 

 mission thereof. 



Sec. 17. The sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is annu- 

 ally appropriated for the use of the board, and the comptroller shal] 



