656 BOAKD OF AGEICULTURE. 



consideration tlieii- or its actual value at the time of appraisement, and 

 such appraisement shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses 

 under this act are provided for: Provided, That under such appraisement, 

 not more than twenty-tive dollars shall be paid for any infected animal: 

 And provided further, the right to indemnity does not exist and tlie pay- 

 ment of such must not l)e made in the following- cases: 



For animals liolonging to the United States; 



For animals belonging to the State; 



For animals brought into tlie State contrary to the rules and regula- 

 tions of the State Veterinarian; 



For animals found to be diseased, or that are destroyed because they 

 have been exposed to disease before or at the time of their arrival in 

 the State; 



For an animal which was previously affected by any other disease, 

 which from its nature and development was incurable and necessarily 

 fatal; 



For an animal which the owner knowingly or wittingly purchased 

 affected with disease, or from a place where contagious disease was 

 known to exist. 



Sec. 4. That all sheep consigned to or passing through stockyards 

 shall be dipped before leaving, if intended for any other purposes than 

 immediate slaughter in the State, the time of dipping, the manner of 

 dipping, and kind of dip used to l)e sul:>ject to the approval of the State 

 Veterinarian: Provided, That in the winter at such times as the dipping 

 of sheep would be hazardous to their liealth, the sheep may be with- 

 drawn upon permit from the State Veterinarian, which permit shall be 

 issued upon the written agreement of the owner that the sheep will 

 remain in his possession, and that he will dip at such future time and in 

 such manner as the State Veterinarian may direct. -That all sheep found 

 affected with scabies shall be dipped at such time and in such manner 

 and with such dip. as the State Veterinarian shall direct, and at the ex- 

 pense of the owner. 



Sec. 5. That the State Veterinarian (ir liis authorized agent shall at 

 any time have the right to enter any premises, farms, fields, pens, 

 abattoirs, slaughterhouses, buildings, cars, or vessels, where any domestic 

 animals are at the time (luartered, or wherever the carcass of any one may 

 be, for the purpose of examining it in any way that may be deemed 

 necessary to determine whether they are or were the subjects of any 

 contagious or infectious disease. 



Sec. 6. That the State Veterinarian may accept in behalf of the S^tate, 

 the rules and regulations prepared and adopted by the Department of 

 Agriculture of the United States, for the suppression of any contagious 

 diseases among domestic animals, and shall co-operate with the author- 

 ities of the United States in the enforcement of such rules and regu- 

 lations. 



Sec. 7. That the Inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry shall 



