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diseases among the domestic animals; and for these purposes it is hereby 

 authorized and empowered to establish, maintain, enforce and regulate 

 such quarantine and other measures relating to the movements and care 

 of animals and their products, the disinfection of suspected localities and 

 articles, and the destruction of animals, as it may deem necessary; and 

 to adopt, from time to time, all such regulations as may be necessary 

 and proper for carrying out the purposes of this act. 



Sec. 3. The said live stock sanitary board shall hold its first meeting 

 at the state eapitol on the first Tuesday in May, 1909. The members 

 of the board shall take and subscribe to the oath of office required of other 

 civil officers, and the board shall then organize by electing one of its 

 members president and one vice-president, and the state veterinarian 

 shall serve as the secretary and executive officer of the board. The 

 board shall hold its meetings at the state eapitol at such times as it may 

 designate, but there shall not be to exceed four regular meetings each 

 year, provided that the president of the board shall have power to call 

 special meetings whenever in his judgment it becomes necessary. The 

 members of the board, with the exception of the secretary and executive 

 officer shall receive as compensation for their services the sum of five 

 dollars per day for each day employed, and actual and necessary travel- 

 ing expenses in attending the meetings of the board which sum shall be 

 paid out of the state treasury upon vouchers of the board duly certified 

 by the president and secretary thereof. 



Sec. 4. The secretary and executive officer of the board shall receive 

 an annual salary of $2,500 per year, to be paid from the state treasury, 

 and before entering upon the duties of his office he shall give a bond 

 to the state of Iowa, with good and sufficient surety, in the sum of five 

 thousand dollars ($5,000), conditioned upon the proper discharge of said 

 duties. He shall furthermore receive actual expenses necessarily incurred 

 and ^paid by him in the discharge of his duties, and such amount shall 

 be paid out of the fund appropriated for the work of the live stock sani- 

 tary board. 



Sec. 5. The secretary and executive officer of the state live stock 

 sanitary board shall act as state veterinarian and it shall be his duty 

 to ascertain by personal examination or through reports from accredited 

 representatives of said board and other reliable resources, all informa- 

 tion which he can obtain regarding the existence of contagious, infectious 

 and epidemic diseases of animals; to execute all orders, rules and regu- 

 lations made by said live stock sanitary board and to present at the 

 quarterly meetings of said board a detailed report of all matters con- 

 nected with the work done by him cr his subordinates during the quarter 

 preceding said meeting. 



Sec. 6. The dean of the division of veterinary medicine of the Iowa 

 State college shall in addition to his duties as a member of this board, 

 act as bacteriologist and consulting veterinarian to the said live stock 

 sanitary board, and it shall be his duty to make or have made bacterio- 

 logic or pathologic examination of all diseased animals or portions there- 

 of, or of such material as may be forwarded to him by said board or its 

 duly authorized agents. 



