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Any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent or employe of any person, 

 firm, or corporation, who shall give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any 

 agent, officer, or inspector authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed 

 by this act, or by the rules and regulations of the State Livestock Sanitary 

 Board, any money or other thing of value, with intent to influence said 

 agent, officer, or inspector in the discharge of any duty herein provided for, 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be 

 punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not 

 exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 



If any person shall sell or offer for sale, or offer for transportation to market, 

 any meat or meat food product which is diseased, unsound, unhealthful, un- 

 wholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, knowing that such meat or 

 meat food product is intended for human consumption, he shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, sliall be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding 

 one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 



Any person, firm, or corporation, or any officer or agent of such firm or cor- 

 poration, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by 

 a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one 

 year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 



Section 14. All fines and penalties arising from violations of any of the 

 provisions of this act shall be paid to the State Livestock Sanitary Board, and 

 shall be immediately paid by said Board to the State Treasurer, for the use 

 of the Commonwealth. 



Approved— The 25th day of May, A. D., 1907. 



EDWIN S. STUART. 



No. 195. 



AN ACT 



Supplemental to an act, entitled "An act to establish a Department of Agri- 

 culture, and to define its duties and to provide for its proper administration," 

 approved the thirteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun- 

 dred and ninety five; to provide for the appointment of a Deputy State Vet- 

 erinarian, a clerk, and a stenographer, and to fix their salaries. 

 Section 1. Be it enacted, &c.. That in addition to the officers and employes 

 provided for by the act to which this is a supplement, there may be ap- 

 pointed by the Governor, for the term of four years, a Deputy State Veteri- 

 narian, at an annual salary of twenty-one hundred dollars, ($2,100.00); and 

 there shall be appointed by the State Veterinarian a clerk, at an annual salary 

 of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00), and a stenographer at an annual salary 

 of nine hundred dollars ($900.00.) 

 Approved— The 25th day of May, A. D., 1907. 



EDWIN S. STUART. 



No. 261. 



AN ACT 



Supplementary to "An Act for the taxation of dogs and the protection of 



sheep," approved the twenty-fifth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand 



eight hundred and ninety-three; requiring all dogs to wear a collar, to be 



provided by the owner, together with a tag to be attached thereto showingr 



payment of tax; imposing certain duties upon constables, tax collectors and 



county commissioners; and providing for the killing of dogs whose owners 



fail to comply with this act and the act to which this Is a supplement. 



'Section 1. Be it enacted, &c.. That hereafter all dogs, made taxable by the 



act to which this is a supplement, shall be required to wear, at all times, a 



substantial collar, to which shall be attached the tag hereinafter mentioned; 



said collar to be furnished by the owner of said dog or dogs; and said tag to 



be furnished by the county commissioners, and to be paid for by them, out of 



the funds realized from the taxation of dogs. 



Section 2. The county commissioners of the several counties shall prepare 

 and furnish, annually, to the several tax collectors of the counties metal 

 tags, to be given by the tax collectors to the owners of dogs when said 

 owners shall pay the tax assessed upon said dogs. Upon one side of said tag 



shall be stamped, in raised letters, the following "Dog tax for 



(naming the year), paid." 



Section 3. At the time of payment of dog tax by the owner of such dog, the 

 tax collector shall give the said owner one of said tags, prepared for the year 

 for which said tax is paid, which said tag shall thereupon be attached to 

 the collar of the dog for which said tax was paid by the owner of said dog. 



Section 4. Should the owner of any dog or dogs neglect to pay the tax assess- 

 ed for said dog or dogs, and to comply otherwise with the provisions of this 

 act during the year for which said tax is assessed, it shall immediately there- 



