324 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 



" Sect. 3, Every owner, driver, possessor, or person having the 

 charge or custody of an old, maimed, or disabled or diseased horse, 

 mule or other animal, who shall cruelly work the same when unfit 

 for work, or cruelly abandon the same, shall be punished for every 

 such offence in the same manner provided in section one. 



" Sect. 4. Any person who shall carry or cause to be carried in 

 or upon any vehicle or otherwise, any animal in an unuecessarily 

 cruel or inhuman manner, shall be punished in the same manner 

 provided in section one. 



" Sect. 5. No railroad company in this state, in the carrying or 

 transportation of cattle, sheep, swine, or other animals, shall con- 

 fine the same in cars for a longer period than twenty-eight con- 

 secutive hours, unless delayed by storm or other accidental cause, 

 without unloading for rest, water, and feeding for a period of at 

 least five consecutive hours. In estimating such confinement, the 

 time the animals have been confined without such rest on connect- 

 ing roads from which they are received, shall be computed, it 

 being the intention of this act to prevent their continuous confine- 

 njent beyond twenty-eight hours, except upon contingencies here- 

 inbefore stated ; and animals unloaded for rest, water and feeding 

 under the provisions of this act, shall be properly fed, watered, 

 and sheltered during such rest by the owners or persons in custody 

 thereof, or in case of their default in so doing, then by the railroad 

 company transporting them, at the expense of said owners or per- 

 sons in custody thereof. 



" Sect. 6. If any owner or person in charge of said animals 

 refuses or neglects to pa}^ for the care and feed of animals so 

 rested, the railroad company may charge such expense to the 

 owner or consignee, and retain a lien upon the animals until the 

 same is paid ; and no claim for damages for detention shall be 

 recovered by the owner or shipper of any animals for the time 

 they are detained under the provisions of this act. 



"Sect. T. Any railroad company, owner, consignee, or person 

 in charge of such cattle, sheep or other animals, who shall violate 

 any provision of the fifth or sixth sections of this act, shall for 

 each and every such, violation, forfeit and pay a penalty of one 

 hundred dollars. 



" Sect. 8. Any person may take charge of an^'' animal whose 

 owner has abandoned it, or is failing to properly take care and 

 provide for it, and may furnish the same with proper shelter, 



