FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART X. 639 



TREATMENT OF DISEASED SIlEEl'. 



Sec. 2344. It shall be the duty of the sheep inspector, upon the com 

 phiint of three or more sheep owners that any sheep within his jurisdiction have 

 the scab or any other nmlignant. contagious disease, to immediately inspect 

 and report in writing the result of his inspection to the county auditor, to be 

 filed by him for reference by the board of supervisors or any party concerned 

 And if he deem it necessary, in order to prevent the spread of the disease to the 

 sheep of the other owners, he shall command the owner or agent to dip or other- 

 wise treat such diseased sheep, and sliall inspect such diseased sheep every month 

 thereafter until such disease shall be eradicated. 



EXPENSES. 



Sec. 2345. It shall be the duty of the sheep inspector to dip or otherwise 

 treat duch diseased sheep, should the owner or agent refuse to do so, and all 

 costs, expenses and charges, togetlier with a per diem of three dollars per day, 

 .shall be charged against the owner of such sheep, and shall be lien thereon, and 

 may be recovered in an action. 



COMl'EiNSATlON OF INSFECTOK. 



Sec. 2340. Such compensation fof the inspector shall be three dollars per 

 •day. and shall be paid by the owner of the sheep, or his agent, if the disease is 

 found to exist. In case no disease is found to exist, the complainants shall pay 

 •such fee. 



INSPECTION OF SHEEP FKOM OUTSIDE THE STATE. 



Sec. 2347. Upon the arrival of any flock of sheep within the State from a 

 ■distance of more than twenty miles outside the boundaries of the State, the 

 -owner or agent shall notify the inspector of the county in which such sheep are 

 being held, and he shall inspect the flock at the expense of the owner or agent : 

 ^nd if the sheep are found sound shall furnish the owner or agent a cei'tificate 

 which shall be a passpoi't to any part of the State : but sheep in transport on board 

 of railroad cars, or passing through the State on such cars, shall not come within 

 the provisions of this section. Any violation of, or failure to comply with 

 the provisions of this and the four preceding sections by the owner of any sheep 

 shall subject him to a forfeiture of not to exceed one hundred dollars, which 

 shall be a lien on such sheep, and shall be recovered in an action by the county 

 attorney in the name and for the use of the county. 



BRINGING DISEASED SHEEP INTO THE STATE. 



Sec. 5012. If the owner of sheep, or any person having the same in 

 charge, knowingly import or drive into the State sheep having any contagious dis- 

 ease ; or knowingly turn out or suffer any sheep having any contagious disease to 

 run at large upon any common, road or uninclosed lands : or sell or dispo.sp of any 

 •sheep, knowing the same to be so diseased, he shall be fined in any sum not 

 less than fiftv nor more than one hundred dollars. 



ERADICATION OF HOG CHOLDRA. 



REGULATIONS ACCEPTED. 



Sec. 2350. The governor is hereby authorized to accept, on behalf of the 

 State, any rules and regulations prepared by the secretary of agriculture of the 

 United States for the eradication of hog cholera or swine plague, in one or more 

 •counties of this State, and he. together with the State veterinary surgeon, may co- 

 with the government of the United States for the objects of this act. 



