34 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



(No. 7.) 



[House Bill No. 75.] 



CHAPTER V. 



An Act to Prevent the Spread of the Disease known as Glanders or 



Farcy. 



Be it enacted iy the Senate and House of Bepresentatives in General Assem- 

 bly convened : 



Section 1. Any person who shall knowingly sell or offer for sale, or 

 use, or expose, or cause to be sold, or offered for sale, used, or exposed, 

 any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or 

 farcy, shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or imprisoned not more 

 than thirty days or both. 



Sec. 2. The owner, or any person having charge of any horse, shall 

 cause the same to be killed immediately upon being notified by the 

 State Board of Agriculture, or the commissioners on diseases of domes- 

 tic animals, that such horse is infected with the disease known as 

 glanders or farcy, and any person upon receiving such notification, who 

 shall neglect to comply with the provisions of this section, shall be 

 fined not more than seven dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty 

 days, or both. 



Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 



Approved, February 25, 1880. 



