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sufficient, the minister may allow the veterinary official a support 

 which shall not exceed three hundred francs yearly, in addition to 

 that allowed by the local authorities. 



Art. 5. The duties of the Government veterinarians are : 1. To 

 exert a careful supervision of the hygienic conditions of the animals 

 in their district. 2. To watch over the healthy condition of the stal- 

 lions used for breeding, and to see that they are adapted to the pro- 

 vincial regulations for the improvement of stock. 3. They must 

 carefully investigate all animals in their district with reference to 

 contagious or infectious diseases. 4. At the requisition of the gov- 

 ernor of their province, they must visit public markets and fairs and 

 watch over the health of the animals. 



Art. 6. Such veterinarians as are members of the provincial 

 agricultural commission control, when required by the governor or 

 said commission, the official duties of the other Government veteri- 

 narians of the province. 



Art. 7. It is their duty to notify the commissioner of the " ar- 

 rondissements," and the members of the agricultural commission, of 

 the presence of contagio-infectious diseases in their province. The 

 governor of the province receives his notification from the above- 

 named officials. In important cases the Minister of the Interior is 

 also to be notified by the General Inspector of Hygiene, who is 

 notified directly by the veterinary official. 



Art. 8. The Government veterinarians are also obliged to ob- 

 serve the conditions of agriculture in their respective districts, so far 

 as their other duties will permit of, and to make reports to the Min- 

 ister of the Interior. 



Art. 9. These officials must make official returns within the 

 first ten days of each quarter to the governor of the province, with 

 reference to each case of an infectious or contagious animal disease 

 that has taken place during the past quarter in their district, and 

 also with reference to all other facts which are of importance to the 

 Government. These reports are collected by the Provincial Agri- 

 cultural Commission, and sent by them to the governor, who in his 

 turn sends them to the minister. The General Inspector of Public 

 Hygiene must return a yearly report of all cases of contagious ani- 

 mal diseases which have occurred in the kingdom. 



Art. 10. The Government veterinarians have exclusively the 

 control of the infectious animal diseases, and must always be called 

 upon to make such examination by the higher officers of the Gov- 

 ernment. 



Art. 13. Such officials can only order the peremptory killing of 



