ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIV 1017 



Section 5. When complaint is made to the state board of agriculture 

 that a stallion or jack is diseased and on investigation it is by the de- 

 partment deemed necessary, an examination shall be made by the state 

 veterinarian or his duly authorized deputy; the owner of such stallion 

 or jack shall select some recognized graduate veterinarian to act with the 

 state veterinarian and the said veterinarian shall, upon receipt of a notice 

 act jointly with the state veterinarian and these two shall appoint a third 

 graduate veterinarian to act with them and their decision shall be final. 

 In case all three or any two of the experts declare the stallion or jack is 

 eligible to receive or retain a license, then the expense of the consulta- 

 tion shall be paid by the state board of agriculture out of funds collected 

 for registration fees, or if three or any two of the experts declare the 

 stallion or jack not to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of 

 this act, the expense incurred shall be paid by the person owning the 

 animal and it may be collected in the same manner as in any case of 

 appeal in civil action. 



Section 6. If the owner of any registered animal shall sell, exchange or 

 transfer the same, he shall file certificate, accompanying the same with a 

 fee of fifty cents, with the secretary of the state board of agriculture, who 

 shall, upon receipt of the original state certificate properly transferred 

 and the required fee, issue a new certificate to the then new owner of the 

 animal and all fees provided by this act shall go into the treasury of the 

 department of agriculture. 



Section 7. Every person, firm, company or corporation importing any 

 stallion or jack into the state of Iowa for use or public service, sale, ex- 

 change or transfer, shall first secure certificate of freedom from disease 

 from a recognized state or federal veterinarian, certifying that said animal 

 is free from any or all diseases referred to in Section Three of this act. 

 The federal admission certificate shall be accepted for horses imported 

 from foreign countries. 



Section 8. Any person who shall fradulently represent any animal, 

 horse, cattle, sheep or swine to be registered, or any person who shall post 

 or publish or cause to be posted or published any false pedigree or cer- 

 tificate of soundness, or shall use any stallion or jack over two years old 

 for public service, or sell, exchange or transfer any stallion or jack over 

 two years old, representing such animal to be registered, without first 

 having such animal registered, and obtaining the certificate of soundness 

 from the state board of agriculture, as hereinbefore provided, or who shall 

 violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 

 and be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or im- 

 prisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days or by both fine and 

 imprisonment. 



Section 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the 

 first day of January, 1912, and sections twenty-three hundred forty-one-a 

 (2341-a), twenty-three hundred forty-one-b (2341-b), twenty-three hundred 

 forty-one-c (2341-c), twenty-three hundred forty-one-d (2341-d), and twenty- 

 three hundred forty-one-e (2341-e) of the supplement to the code, 1907, are 

 hereby repealed on and after the first day of January, 1912. Nothing in 



