8 VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sec. 4809. The Board of Agriculture may prohibit the 

 introduction of horses or other domestic animals, believed to 

 be infected with or exposed to any contagious disease, into 

 this State, or may quarantine all such animals for such time as 

 the public good requires; but shall not prohibit the transpor- 

 tation of the same in cars through this State. 



Sec. 4810. If a person violates such order, after the same 

 has been published three successive days in such newspapers 

 published in this State as the Board directs, he shall be fined 

 not more than three hundred dollars for each offense, and 

 every officer or agent of any company or other person who 

 violates such order, shall be fined as aforesaid. The intro- 

 duction into this State at the same time of a number of horses, 

 cattle, or other domestic animals, contrary to the orders of 

 such Board, shall be deemed a separate and distinct offenes 

 for each animal. 



Sec. 4811. The Board shall endeavor to obtain full in- 

 formation in relation to any contagious disease which may 

 prevail among domestic animals near the borders of the State, 

 and publish and circulate such information at their discretion; 

 and should any such disease break out, or should there be rea- 

 sonable suspicion of its existence among cattle or other do- 

 mestic animals in any town in this State, they shall examine 

 the cases and publish the results of their examination for the 

 benefit of the public. The board is also authorized to exam- 

 ine under oath in the several towns and cities in this State, all 

 persons possessing or believed to possess knowledge of any 

 material facts concerning the existence or dissemination of di- 

 seases among domestic animals, and for this purpose shall have 

 all the power now conferred upon justices of the peace to com- 

 pel witnesses to attend and testify. 



Sec. 4812. All costs and expenses incurred in procuring 

 the attendance of such witnesses shall be allowed by the State 

 auditor, upon the approval of the Governor, and be paid by 

 the State. 



Sec. 4813. When bovine tuberculosis or any contagious 

 disease exists in the State among cattle or other domestic ani- 

 mals, the Board of Agriculture may quarantine all infected ani- 

 mals or such as they suppose have been exposed to the conta- 

 gion, may prohibit any animal from passing on or over any of 

 the highways near the place of quarantine, may enter upon any 

 premises where there are animals suspected to have bovine 

 tuberculosis or any contagious disease, may employ such ex- 

 pert help and means as they deem necessary to a thorough in- 

 vetigation of such Jdiseases, may make, all investigations and 



