640 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



FlilDEKAl. l.NSl'KCTOltS. 



Sec. 2351. The inspectors of the bureau of animal industry of the United 

 States department of agriculture shall have the right of inspection, quarantine 

 and condemnation of animals affected with hog cholera or swine plague, or sus- 

 pected to be so affected, or that have been exposed to this disease, and for these 

 purposes are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon any ground or 

 premises. It is hereby made the duty of sheriffs, constables and peace officers to 

 ;issist MK-h inspectors when so requested ; and said inspectors shall have the 

 same powers and protection as peace officers while engaged in the discharge of 

 their dnries. 



DISEASED ANIMALS DESTROYED^OMPENSATION. 



Sec. 23.">2. Whenever any swine in the district specified in the regulations 

 are fovmd to be affected with or to have been exposed to hog cholera or swine 

 plague, said swine may be condemned and destroyed ; and the owners of all swine 

 destroj'ed under the provisions of this act shall be entitled to receive a reasonable 

 compensation therefor, but not more than the actual value in the condition when, 

 condemned. In case of failure on the part of the inspector and the owner to agree 

 as to the amount of compensation, the swine shall be appraised by a board of 

 citizens of this State, one of whom may be appointed by the inspector, one by 

 the owner of the swine, and the two thus appointed shall select a third, and 

 these together shall proceed to appraise the amount to be paid to the owner for 

 the animals destroyed. Such appraisal shall be made under oath, and shall be 

 final when the value of the animals does not exceed one hundred dollars, but in all 

 other cases either party shall have the right of appeal to the district court, but 

 such appeal shall not delay the destruction of the diseased or exposed animals. 



EXPENSES. 



Sec. 2358. All expenses of quarantine, condemnation and destruction of 

 swine under the provisions of this act. and the expenses of any and all measures 

 that may be used to eradicate hog cholera, shall be paid by the United States, and 

 in no case shall this state be liable fur any damages or expenses of any kind under- 

 the provisions of this act. 



PENALTY. 



Sec. 23o4. Any person violating any order of quarantine made under this 

 act. or any regulations prescribed by the secretary of agriculture and accepted by 

 the governor of this State for the eradication of hog cholera, shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than 

 twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 



SWINE DYING FROM DISEASE. 



Sec. 5015. The owner or person having charge of any swine any of which' 

 die or are killed on account of any disease, shall upon such fact coming to his^ 

 knowledge, immediately burn the same. 



REPEAL — NOT TO BE DEALT IN. 



Sec. 5016. — a. No person shall buy, sell, deal in or give away, or offer to buy, 

 sell or deal in any swine that have died of any disease, or that have been killed 

 on acount of any disease. ^ 



NOR CONVEYED ALONG HIGHWAY. 



Sec. 5017. No person shall convey upon or along any public highway or 

 other public ground, or any private land except that owned or leased by him, any 

 diseased swine, or swine that died or have been killed on account of any disease. 



