VERMONT AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



treatment, cure and extirpation of such disease, but shall not 

 apply the tuberculin test without the consent of the owner of 

 the cattle, but in quarantine regulations against cattle imported 

 from without the State the tuberculin test may be applied, and 

 they may condemn and order killed any cattle or other domes- 

 tic animals believed by said Board to be infected with bovine 

 tuberculosis or any contagious disease, and may order the bod- 

 ies of the same buried or burned, as in their judgment the case 

 may require ; may forbid the sale or removal from the premises 

 of any dairy product from cows that are believed to have bovine 

 tuberculosis. Any person who shall knowingly violate or re- 

 fuse to comply with any order or regulation of such Board, 

 made under the authority of this section, shall be fined not more 

 than two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than two 

 years, or both. 



Sec. 4814. If any person shall sell or offer to sell any cat- 

 tle or other domestic animal known to him to be infected with 

 bovine tuberculosis or any contagious disease, or any disease 

 dangerous to the public health, or shall sell or offer to sell any 

 part or parts of such cattle or other domestic animals, he shall 

 be fined not more than two hundred dollars or be imprisoned 

 not more than two years, or both. 



Sec. 4815. The value of all cattle or other domestic ani- 

 mals killed by the written order of the Board of Agriculture 

 shall be appraised by one of said Board and a disinterested per- 

 son selected by the owner of the condemned animals, if these 

 two cannot agree upon the amount of the appraised value of the 

 animal, they shall select a third disinterested person, who to- 

 gether with them shall appraise the animal, such appraisal to 

 be made just before killing, and on a basis of health. The 

 limit of the appraisal of cattle shall be forty dollars. A post 

 mortem examination shall be made, and if the animal be found 

 affected with bovine tuberculosis, or any disease dangerous to 

 the public health, the owner of the animal shall receive one- 

 half the appraised value ; but if no bovine tuberculosis or dis- 

 ease dangerous to the public health be found, the owner of 

 the animal shall receive the full amount of the appraisal, and 

 in addition shall receive the slaughtered animal. The amount 

 which the owner is entitled to receive shall be paid by the 

 State to the owner of such animal or animals upon a written 

 order, signed by the member of the Board in charge, and coun- 

 tersigned by the secretary of said Board. No indemnity shall 

 be paid to the owner of condemned cattle or other domestic 

 animals that have not been owned and kept in the State for at 

 least six months previous to the discovery of the disease. Any 

 person who shall knowingly violate, or refuse to comply with 

 any regulations made by such Board of Agriculture, under the 



