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five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the connty jail not exceed- 

 ing six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and shall be 

 liable for any damage or loss that may be sustained by any person or 

 persons by reason of the failure of any owner or person in control of 

 live stock to comply with the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 

 passage and approval. 



An act to prevent the importation into the State of California of horses, mules, 

 asses, or cattle which are affected with any infectious or contagious disease; 

 to provide for the inspection of such animals before they are brought into 

 the state; to repeal an act entitled, "An act to prevent the importation of 

 neat cattle for dairy or breeding purposes affected with tuberculosis into 

 the State of California," approved March 7, 1911; to repeal an act entitled, 

 "An act to prevent the importation of horses, mules and asses affected with 

 glanders into the State of California," approved March 7, 1911. 



[Approved June 4, 1913.] 



Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company or 

 corporation, their agents and servants, to bring into the State of Cali- 

 fornia any horses, mules, asses, or cattle, unless such animals have been 

 examined and found free from infectious or contagious diseases, which 

 freedom from disease shall be established by a certificate of health 

 signed by a regularly qualified and practicing veterinarian who is a 

 graduate of a duly recognized and accredited veterinary college of good 

 standing; provided, however, that in case of cattle over six months of 

 age intended to be used for dairy or breeding purposes, said certificate 

 of health shall also state and certify that each individual animal thereof 

 has been personally and carefully inspected and subjected to a physical 

 and clinical examination and also subjected to the tulierculin test, and 

 that each individual animal thereof has been found free from any 

 suspicious symptoms of tuberculosis, or of any infectious or contagious 

 disease other than tuberculosis, and also that each individual animal 

 thereof failed to react to the tuberculin test. Said certificate shall also 

 include a complete temperature record of each animal during the period 

 while undergoing the tuberculin test. The certificate of health and 

 tuberculin test record, as provided for in this act, shall be in duplicate, 

 one copy of which must be attached to the way bill of the shipment, and 

 the other copy shall be forwarded to the state veterinarian of the State 

 of California on the day the shipment is made ; provided, further, that 

 any person, firm, company or corporation, their agents and servants, 

 wishing to bring cattle into the State of California for exhibition at 

 fairs, may, by making application to the state veterinarian of the State 

 of California, receive permission to bring such cattle into the State of 

 California for such purpose without the tuberculin test as provided for 

 herein, but in all such eases said permit must be attached to the way bill 

 accompanying the shipment of such cattle; and provided, further, that 

 in case any of such exhibition cattle are sold to remain in the State of 

 California, they must be subjected to the tuberculin test and proved free 

 from tuberculosis before being delivered to the purchaser. It is further 



