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•shall be condemned, quarantined or slaughtered as tuberculous, 

 under the provisions of this article, if it shall be found to be 

 tuberculous by a physical examination. If the owner of animals 

 suspected of being tuberculous desires to have such animals 

 tested with tuberculin and enters into a written agreement with 

 the state in the manner prescribed by the commissioner of agri- 

 culture, before such test is made, to the effect that he will dis- 

 infect his premises and either consent to the slaughter of the 

 .animals responding to such test, or hold them and their products 

 in strict quarantine, pursuant to the directions of the commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, such test shall be made by a medical or 

 veterinary practitioner designated by the commissioner. The 

 commissioner may also in his discretion order such tuberculin 

 test to be made, and if the animal responds to such test, he may 

 •cause such animal to be slaughtered or held in strict quarantine. 



§ 64. Employment of veterinary surgeons. — The commissioner 

 may employ such and so many medical and veterinary practition- 

 ers 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 medical or veteri- 

 nary practitioner in the employ of the commissioner, nor until 

 such practitioner renders a certificate to the effect that he has 

 made such examination, that in his judgment such animal is 

 affected with a specified infectious or contagious disease, or that 

 its destruction is necessary in order to suppress or aid in sup- 

 pressing such disease, or to prevent such disease, or to prevent 

 the spread thereof, specifying the reasons for such necessity. 



§ 65. Regulations and the enforcement thereof. — The commis- 

 sioner may prescribe such regulations as in his judgment may 

 be thought suited for the suppression or prevention of the 

 spread of any such disease, and for the disinfection of all 

 premises, buildings, railway cars, vessels, and other objects from 



