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When voluntary application has been made to the said board for the 

 testing of either dairy or pure bred herds, as provided in this section, 

 the party making the application shall agree to pay all expenses of said 

 test or examination except the remuneration of the veterinarian making 

 said test or examination. 



Sec. 13. The expense of killing and burial or destruction of a dis- 

 eased animal, when the killing was ordered by any board, and done lo- 

 cally, shall be borne by the town or incorporated place where the animal 

 was kept. The expense of quarantine, when the animal is taken from 

 the possession of its owner, shall be defrayed, four-fifths by the state and 

 one-fifth by the town or place. When such quarantined animal is left 

 upon the premises of its owner or keeper, he shall bear the expense. 

 When an animal is quarantined while being shipped into the state, the 

 expense shall be borne by the owner or keeper. Whenever the owner 

 or keeper of an animal becomes liable for an expense incurred by any 

 board under this act, the board shall have a lien on such animal there- 

 for, and may also maintain action for the animal. 



Sec. 14. During the prevalence among domestic animals of any of 

 the diseases referred to in this chapter, any owner or keeper of such 

 animals may post upon the premises a notice forbidding all persons to 

 enter any building or inclosure thereon in which animals are kept; and 

 thereafter no person shall so enter, except a member or agent of the 

 state board or of a local board of health. If the disease for which the 

 animal is quarantined be a highly contagious disease, the owner or at- 

 tendant in charge of said animal or animals shall be subject to the regu- 

 lations of the state live stock sanitary board in leaving the premises 

 where such quarantine is maintained. Every person violating any of the 

 provisions of this chapter, or any rule or regulation made hereunder 

 ^y the state board or any local board of health, or any order made by 

 either under the authority of this chapter, shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, the minimum punishment whereof shall be a fine of twentj'- 

 five dollars; or imprisonment for thirty days. Any member of a local 

 board who shall neglect or refuse to enforce the rules and regulations 

 of a local board made thereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, the 

 minimum punishment thereof shall be a fine of $25; and each day's neglect 

 or refusal to perform any duty imposed upon him under this chapter, 

 shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. 



Sec. 15. Every person w^ho shall wilfully oppose or obstruct a health 

 officer or physician charged with the enforcement of the health laws, in 

 performing any legal duty, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 16. Every owner or person in charge of sheep, who shall im- 

 port or drive into the state, or who shall turn out or suffer to run at 

 large, upon any highway or uninclosed lands, or upon any lands ad- 

 joining, inclosed lands, occupied by any person for pasturing sheep, any 

 sheep having any contagious disease, or who shall sell, let or dispose 

 of any such sheep, knowing them to be diseased, without first apprising 

 the purchaser or person taking them of such disease, shall be guilty of a 

 gross misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars 

 nor more than two hundred dollars. 



