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io determine and employ the most eflieient and practical means 

 for the prevention, suppression, control or eradication of dangerous, 

 contagious or infectious diseases among tin? domestic animals, and 

 for these purposes it is hereby authorized and empowered to estab- 

 lish, maintain, enforce and regulate such quarantine and other mea- 

 sures relating to the moNcnuMits and care of animals and their 

 products, the disinfection of suspected localities and articles and the 

 destruction of animals', as it may deem necessary, and to adopt from 

 time to lime all sueh regulations as may be necessary and proper 

 for cari'ying out the purposes of this act : Provided, however. In 

 the case of any slowly contagious diseases only suspected or diseased 

 animals shall be quarantined. 



Section 3. That when it shall be deemed necessary to condemn 

 and kill any animal or animals to prevent the further spread of 

 disease, and an agreement cannot be made with the owners for the 

 value thereof, three appraisers shall be appointed, one by the owner, 

 one by the commission or its authorized agent, and the third by the 

 two so appointed, who shall, under oath or aftirmation, appraise the 

 animal or animals, taking into consideration their actual value and 

 condition at the time of appraisement, and such appraised price shall 

 be paid in the same manner as other expenses under this act are 

 provided for: Piovided, That under such appraisement not more 

 than twenty-iive dollars shall be paid for any infected animal of 

 grade or common stock, and not more than tifty dollars for any in- 

 fected animal of registered stock, nor more than forty dollars for any 

 horse or mule of common or grade stock and not to exceed fifty per 

 cent, of the appraised value of any standard bred, registered or im- 

 ported horses. 



Section 4. That the Board or any member thereof, or any of their 

 duly authorized agents, shall at all times have the right to enter any 

 premises, farms, fields, pens, abattoirs, slaughter houses, buildings, 

 cars or vesesls, where any domestic animal is at the time quartered, 

 or wherever the carcass of 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 dis- 

 eases. 



Section 5. That any person or persons wilfully violating any of 

 the provisions of this act or any regulation of the State Live Stock 

 Sanitary Board, or wilfully interfering with officers appointed under 

 this act, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and shall, upon con- 

 viction, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or 

 by imprisonment not exceeding one month, or both, at the discretion 

 of the court. 



Section 6. That the State Live Stock Sanitarv Board is hereby 

 empowered to appoint and employ such assistants and agents and to 

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