FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART X. 637 



evidence as the board of supervisors may demand showing the claimant to be 

 entitled thereto. The person claiming the bountj- shall produce such statement, 

 together with the whole skin of the animal, to the auditor of the county wherein 

 such wolf, lynx or wild cat was taken and killed, and he shall destroy or de- 

 face the same so as to prevent their use to obtain for the second time the bounty 

 herein provided. Any person who shall demand a bounty on any of the above 

 mentioned animals killed or taken in another State or county, or on a domesticated 

 animal, shall be lined not more than one hundred nor less than fifty dollars. 



I-)OGS IvILLED. 



Sec. 23iO. It shall be lawful for any person to kill any do? caught in the 

 act of worrying, maiming or killing any sheep or lamb, or other domestic animal, 

 or any dog attacking or attempting to bite any person, and the owner shall be 

 liable to the party injured for all damages done by his dog. except when the 

 party is doing an unlawful act. The provisions of this section shall not apply 

 to any damage done by a dog affected with hydrophobia. 



PEDIGREES. 



KEGISTRATION OF PEDIGREES. 



Sec. 2341. Any owner or keeper of a stallion or bull for public service 

 who represents him to be pure bred, thoroughbred, or standard bred, of any 

 breed of horses or cattle that has a stud or herd book for the registration of 

 pedigrees, shall place a oopy of a certificate of regi-»tration on the door or the 

 stall or stable where such animal is usually kept, giving the registration number, 

 name of breeder, name of animal, and the volume and page of the stud or herd 

 book, in which such animal is recorded, and, when requested to do so, shall give 

 to any patron a copy of such certificate. Any violation of the provisions of this 

 section shall be a misdemeanor. 



PUBLISHING FALSE PEDIGREES. 



Sec. 2342. Any person who shall post or publish or cause to be posted 

 or published, or shall cause to be recorded in any public record kept as a record 

 of pedigrees, any false pedigree of any horse, cattle, sheep or swine shall be 

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

 costs, and be imprisoned in the county jail till said fine is paid, but not ex- 

 ceeding three months. 



STATE VETERINARY. 



MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE AMONG" 

 HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, ETC. 



APPOINTMENT— QUALIFICATION. 



Sec. 2529. The State veterinary surgeon shall be appointed by the gov- 

 ernor, subject to removal by him for cause, who shall hold office for three years. 

 He shall be a graduate of some regularly established veterinary college, skilled 

 in that science, and shall be by virtue of his office a member of the State board: 

 of health. 



