190 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Januaiy 30, 1909. 

 The following warrants were issued in payment of services for 

 the month of January, 1909 : 



No. 6936 J. H. Deemer, salary superiuteiident of grounds $ 88.33 



No. 6937 J. C. Simpson, extra services as member of executive 



committee 100.00 



No. 6938 A. R. Corey, salary assistant secretary 100.00 



MEETING OF COMMITTEE ON CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. 

 February 4-5, 1909. 



A meeting- of the Committee on Contagious Diseases Among 

 Domestic Animals was held with the following members present : C. 

 F. Curtiss, chairman, II. L. Pike and Elmer M. Reeves. 



Chairman Curtiss presented a rough draft of a proposed bill for 

 a sanitary board whose duty it would be to look after diseases among 

 domestic animals. The proposed bill was considered by the com- 

 mittee, as well as by members of the Committee on Animal Hus- 

 bandry of the House. The following bill was agreed upon : 



A BILL. 



For an act to establish a state live stock sanitary board of Iowa, and to 

 provide for the control and suppression of dangerous, contagious or in- 

 fectious diseases of domestic animals, and for the inspection of live 

 stock imported into the state of Iowa for breeding, work, or dairy 

 purposes. 



Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 



Section 1. That a board is hereby established to be known as the 

 State Live Stock Sanitary Board. This board shall consist of the Presi- 

 dent of the state department of agriculture, the dean of the division of 

 veterinary medicine of the Iowa State College, the state veterinary sur- 

 geon, who shall be a competent and qualified person as provided in the 

 act creating that office, and two additional members appointed by the gov- 

 ernor, who shall be legal residents and qualified voters of the state of 

 Iowa, and who shall be persons who are financially interested in the 

 breeding and maintenance of domestic animals in the state of Iowa. One 

 of the latter two members shall be appointed for a term of one year and 

 one for a term of two years, the term of service in each case to begin 

 May 1, 1909, and the successors of each shall serve for a term of two 

 years thereafter and until their successors are appointed and qualified. 



Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the state live stock sanitary board 

 to protect the health of the domestic animals of the state; to determine 

 and employ the most efficient and practical means for the prevention, sup- 

 pression, control or eradication of dangerous, contagious or infectious 



