40 c The Agricultural Law 



tioners and such other persons as he may, from time to time, deem 

 necessary to assist him in discharging the duties imposed upon 

 him by this article, and may fix their compensation, to the amount 

 appropriated therefor. No animal shall be destroyed by the 

 commissioner or by his order on the ground that it is a diseased 

 animal, unless first examined by a veterinary practitioner in the 



employ of the commissioner or whose work is 



Animals destroyed approved by the commissioner, nor until such 



only on certificate practitioner renders a certificate to the effect 



of veterinarian, that he has made such examination,- that in his 



judgment such animal is affected with a speci- 

 fied infectious or contagious disease, or that its destruction is 

 necessary in order to suppress or aid in suppressing such disease, or 

 to prevent such disease, or to prevent the spread thereof, specify- 

 ing the reasons for such necessity. (As amended by chapter 316 

 of the Laws of 1909.) 



*§ 64-a. Tuberculin, issuing certificates relative to tuberculin 

 tested cattle, branding of tuberculous animals. — Any person using 

 or injecting tuberculin into bovine animals for the purpose of 



determining whether they are affected with the 

 Method of testing, disease known as tuberculosis, shall take the 



temperatures of such animals before, during and 

 after such injections, according to the most approved methods, shall 

 Jkeep a correct record of such temperatures so taken and shall send 



a report within one week thereafter to the corn- 

 Report to missioner of agriculture giving a detailed ac- 

 commissioner. count of the tests thus made, including the de- 

 scription of animals, the location of the farm 

 or farms upon which tests were made and the name and address of 

 the owner or custodian, and such other information concerning the 

 use of tuberculin as may be called for by the commissioner of 

 agriculture. A report of each such test so made shall be accom- 

 panied by a statement of the owner or person in charge giving 



the date upon which the said animals were last 

 Previous test, tested, if at all, and if known, with tuberculin, 

 and the name and address of the person or per- 

 sons making such test. If no such test has been made within four 

 weeks, or if the animals were not treated in any manner for the 



* This section erroneously numbered 64-a; apparently intended to follow 

 § 95, which was § 64 of former Agricultural Law. 



