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conceal or attempt to conceal such diseased animal, or knowledge 

 of such diseased animal, from a member or agent of the State Live 

 Stock Sanitary Hoard. 



Section 3. It shall be unlawful to move upon or across any public 

 highway; or to expose, to contact with other animals of the same 

 species, or iii any public place, any animal known to be afflicted with 

 any one of the diseases enumerated in section one of this act, or 

 with any other disease adjudged and proclaimed by the State Live 

 Stock Sanitary Board to be of a dangerously infectious or virulent 

 character, except upon specific permission so to do, from a member 

 or agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board. 



Section 4. No person shall inject into, or otherwise administer to, 

 any domestic animal that is producing, or that is intended to, or 

 that may, produce human food, or that is to be used as food for 

 man, any virus or other substance containing pathogenic or disease- 

 producing germs, of a kind that is virulent for man or for animals, 

 excepting upon specific permission so to do, from a member or au- 

 thorized agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board: Provided, 

 however, That nothing in this section shall prevent the use of calves 

 or other cattle for the production of vaccine, against small-pox. 



Section 5. The maximum limit of appraisement that shall here- 

 after be allowed for animals that it shall be deemed to be necessary 

 to destroy, to prevent the further spread of a dangerous, contagious 

 or infectious disease, shall be as follows: For a horse or mule, forty 

 dollars; for a bovine animal, of pure breed or registered stock, fifty 

 dollars; for a bovine animal, of grade or common stock, twenty-five 

 dollars; for a sheep or pig, ten dollars: Provided, however, That 

 the amount of appraisement shall not, in any case, exceed three- 

 fourths of the actual value of the animal at the time of appraise- 

 ment: And provided further, That the total appraisements, in any 

 one year, shall not exceed thirty-five thousand dollars. 



Section 6. The State Live Stock Sanitary Board may co-operate 

 with any local board of health in accordance with rules and regula- 

 tions, and upon such terms of co-operation as may mutually be 

 agreed upon, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of dairy 

 herds and of milk supplies, and for the purpose of protecting such 

 milk supplies from contamination; and the State Live Stock Sanitary 

 Board may undertake, so far as possible, to bear one-half of the cost 

 of such examinations as are made, beyond the limits of the jurisdic- 

 tion of the said local board of health, for the purpose of protecting 

 from contamination milk produced to be sold within the field of 

 jurisdiction of said local board of health. 



Section 7. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act 

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

 fore any alderman, magistrate, or justice of the peace, shall be sen- 

 tenced to pay a fine of not less than ten dollars and not more than 

 one hundred dollars for each and every offence, together with all 

 costs of the prosecution; and, in default of the payment of said 

 fine and costs, shall stand committed until the same are paid. All 

 penalties and costs recovered for the violation of any of the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be paid to the secretary of the State Live- 

 stock Sanitary Board, or to an authorized agent of said Board, and 

 by him be immediately covered into the State Treasury. 



Section 8. This act shall take effect June first, one thousand nine 



