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These rules shall take effect upon approval by the Governor. 

 APPEOVED this 8th dav of June, 1918. 



LUCIUS E. PINKHAM, 



Governor of Hawaii. 

 Honolulu, T. H, 



LAWS UPON WHICH THE FOREGOING REGULATIONS ARE 



BASED. 



Extracts from Chapter 37, Revised Laws of Hawaii of 1915, as amend- 

 ed by Section 8 of Act 136 of the Session Laws of 1915. 



''Sec. 503. RULES AND REGULATIONS. Said board of agricul- 

 ture and forestry shall have power and authority to make rules and 

 regulations, and to amend the same from time to time in its discretion, 

 subject to the approval of the governor, for and concerning the inspec- 

 tion, quarantine, disinfection or destruction, either upon introduction 

 into the Territory, or at any time or place within the Territory, of ani- 

 mals and the premises and effects used in connection with such animals. 

 Included therein may be rules and regulations governing the transpor- 

 tation of animals between the different islands of the Territory and 

 along the highways thereof, and also such rules and regulations as may 

 be approved by the governor requiring the owners and masters of any 

 boat or vessel engaged in inter-island transportation of live stock, and 

 the managers and agents of railway companies carrying live stock 

 within the Territory, to make reports of the number and class of live 

 stock carried, names of owners and consignees, the places to and from 

 which such stock is shipped, the manner of handling such live stock, 

 the number of deaths or injuries to live stock occurring in transit or 

 while being loaded or unloaded, with the causes of such deaths or in- 

 juries and all other matters which may be deemed necessary by the 

 board for a full and complete record of such shipping and handling of 

 live stock. And also to prohibit the importation into the Territory from 

 any foreign country, or other parts of the United States, or from one 

 island within the Territory to another island therein, or to one locality 

 from another locality on the same island of animals known to be in- 

 fected with a contagious, infectious or communicable disease or known 

 to have been exposed to anv such disease. 



''Sec. 504. TERRITORIAL VETERINARIAN. Said board of ag- 

 riculture and forestry shall have power and authority to appoint a 

 superintendent of animal industry who shall be a competent veterinary 

 surgeon and shall be known as the ' Territorial veterinarian '. 



"He shall have charge, direction and control (subject to the direction 

 and control of the board), of all matters relating to the inspection of 

 animals and the prevention and eradication of contagious, infectious 

 and communicable diseases among animals and of all matters relating 

 to animal industry mentioned in or coming within the scope of this 

 chapter, and such other matters as the board shall from time to time 

 direct. He shall enjoy all the powers, rights, privileges and immunities 

 of an officer of the board of health. 



"Sec. 505. LIVE STOCK INSPECTORS. Said board of agriculture 

 and forestry shall have power and authority to appoint and commission 

 one or more live stock inspectors for each judicial circuit and other 

 employees as may be necessary for the proper carrying into effect of the 

 provisions of this chapter and may at its pleasure remove any inspector 

 or employee and fix their compensation. 



' ' See. '506. ENTRY OF ANIMALS. No domestic animal shall be 

 allowed to enter the Territory of Hawaii except after inspection by 

 the Territorial veterinarian or in his absence by a live stock inspector, 

 and a permit issued by such inspecting officer to the consignee or owner, 

 provided, however, that no fees for inspection shall be charged, nor de- 

 lays caused concerning the landing of any domestic animal for which 

 a certificate of health has been issued as prescribed by an act of con- 



