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Eeplacing the Livestock Sanitary Commission, the 

 legislature, in 1919, created the Department of Ani- 

 mal Industry, in charge of a commissioner appointed 

 for a six-year term, and reassigned to the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in 1921. On the recommenda- 

 tion of the Commissioner of Animal Industry, the 

 governor was directed to appoint a state veterinarian, 

 also for a six-year term. This official must be a 

 graduate of an institution qualified to confer the 

 degree of veterinary surgeon and competent to diag- 

 nose, treat and control diseases of live-stock. Gen- 

 eral charge of the protection of the health of the 

 domestic animals of the State from contagious and 

 infectious diseases was given to this commissioner. 

 It followed that quarantine was subject to the com- 

 missioner's direction. The presence of contagious 

 and infectious disease among animals was required 

 to be reported to the Commissioner, whose office is in 

 Lansing. In case the destruction of diseased live- 

 stock became necessary as a protective measure, the 

 Commissioner was to appraise its value and on this 

 basis the owner was entitled to recover from the State 

 the sum thus determined, with restrictions of amount 

 as to tuberculous cattle. The observance of quaran- 

 tine regulations was definitely enjoined on the own- 

 ers of animals exposed or infected. At the same 

 time, the importation of such live-stock was pro- 

 culture is a commissioner, while liis subordinates include 

 a deputy commissioner, chief clerk (general office work 

 for the Department of Agriculture, bookkeeper, stenog- 

 raphers). 



