140 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept., 



section 3402 of the general statutes, concerning damage done by dogs, 

 and fails for a period of thirty days after receiving such notice, to es- 

 timate such damage v/ith the person selected by the person who claims 

 to have suffered damage, or, in ca:e he acts with such person to esti- 

 mate such damage and they cannot agree as to the amount thereof, 

 fails for a period of ten days, to agree with such person in choosing 

 some disinterested third person to assist in estimating such damage, 

 or if such selectmen shall agree on such disinterested third person and 

 no two of said three persons shall be able to agree as to the amount 

 of damage sustained, then the person who claims to have sustained 

 damage may institute a civil action, for the recovery of the damages 

 sustained by him, against the town, a selectman of which was notified 

 as aforesaid. If additional or increased damages are claimed on ac- 

 count of a flock of sheep being attacked, chased or worried, accruing 

 subsequent thereto and not apparent at the time of the first appraisal 

 of damages to the flock, a supplemental notice of claim for such 

 damages may be given to the selectmen at any time within six months 

 from the discovery of the original damages. Such supplemental notice 

 of claim shall set forth the facts upon which such additional or in- 

 creased damages are based. Such claim shall be made to one of the 

 selectmen and shall be acted upon in the manner provided in section 

 3402 of the general statutes. When, in the opinion of the selectmen, 

 the damage shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, the selectmen 

 may call on the commissioner on domestic animals to assess such 

 damages. 



CHAPTER 226. 



An Act Amending an Act Concerning the Quarantine of 



Animals. 



Section 2094 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: 

 Said commissioner may quarantine all animals that he has reasonable 

 grounds to believe to be infected with a communicable disease, and 

 prohibit or regulate the sale of all the products thereof, and such ani- 

 mals shall be confined in a place designated by him, for such time as 

 said commissioner shall judge necessary. The provisions of this sec- 

 tion shall not apply to cases of glanders, farcy or anthrax. Any person 

 or any officer or agent of any corporation who shall obstruct or attempt 

 to obstruct said commissioner or any assistant while engaged in the 

 discharge of any duty hereunder shall be fined not more than one hun- 

 dred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both. 



CHAPTER 242. 

 An Act Concerning the Duties of Dog Wardens. 



Section 1. Section 3401 of the general statutes is amended to read 

 as follows: The selectmen of every town, except towns containing a 

 city whose limits are coterminous with the limits of such town, and the 

 chief of police of every such city, and of every other city containing 

 more than fourteen thousand inhabitants shall, annually, on or before 

 the first day of April, appoint some person to be dog warden for the 

 term of one year thereafter, and report such appointment within ten 

 days of the making thereof to the commissioner on domestic animals, 

 and the dog warden so appointed shall perform the duties hereinafter 

 prescribed; but, in any town within which there exists a city containing 

 more than fourteen thousand inhabitants the limits of which are not 

 coterminous with the limits of such town, the town dog w^arden shall 



