120 THE LUNG PLAGUE OF CATTLE. 



case, recover from the town a fair compensation for the damages sustained by him : 

 but no costs shall be taxed unless the damages recovered in such action, exclusive of 

 interest, exceed the appraisal of the assessors, and the State shall reimberse any town 

 four-fifths of any sum so recovered. 



SEC. 49. Whenever such disease exists in any town, the municipal officers shall 

 forthwith give notice thereof to the governor and secretary of the board of agricul- 

 ture, but if commissioners have been appointed as hereinafter provided, such notice 

 shall be given to them. 



SEC. 50. The governor may, when he deems it expedient, appoint commissioners who 

 shall have full power to make all necessary regulations, and to issue summary orders 

 relative thereto, for the treatment and extirpation of any contagous disease among 

 cattle, and may direct the municipal officers to enforce and carry them into effect ; 

 and any such officer or other person refusing or neglecting to enforce, carry out and 

 comply with any regulations of the commissioners shall be punished by a fine as pro- 

 vided in section forty-three. 



SEC. 51. When said commissioners shall make and publish any regulations they 

 shall supercede the regulations made by the municipal officers, during the time those 

 made by the commissioners are in force. 



SEC. 52. All losses and damages and reasonable expenses sustained in consequence 

 of execution of the orders of said commissioners shall be appraised as provided in the 

 thirty-ninth section, and paid as provided in the thirty-seventh section. 



SEC. 53. The commissioners shall keep record of their doings, and make report 

 thereof to the next annual session of the legislature, on or before the tenth day of 

 January, unless sooner required by the governor ; and such record or an abstract 

 thereof shall be printed in the annual volume of transactions of the State board of 

 agriculture. 



SEC. 54. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may terminate 

 the commission, when, in his judgment, the public safety may permit. 



MARYLAND. 



(Chapter 439, acts of the general assembly of Maryland, 1880.) 



AN ACT to prevent the spread of infectious or contagious pleuro-pneumonia among the cattle of this 



State. 



SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Maryland, that whenever it 

 shall be brought to the notice of the governor of this State that the disease known as 

 contagious or infectious pleuro-pneumonia exists among the cattle in any of the coun- 

 ties of this State, or in the city of Baltimore, it shall be his duty to take measures to 

 promptly suppress the disease and prevent it from spreading. 



SEC. 2. And be it enacted, that for such purpose the governor shall have power to 

 issue his proclamation stating that infectious or contagious disease exists, in any 

 county or counties of the State, or in the city of Baltimore, and warning all persons 

 to seclude all animals in their possession that are affected with such disease or have 

 been exposed to the infection or contagion thereof, and ordering all persons to take 

 such precautions against the spreading of such disease as the nature thereof may, in his 

 judgment, render necessary or expedient ; to order that any premises, farm or farms, 

 or stables where such disease exists or has existed, be put in quarantine, so that no 

 domestic animal be removed from or brought to the premises or places so quarantined, 

 and to prescribe such regulations as he may judge necessary or expedient to prevent 

 infection or contagion being communicated in any way from the places so quaran- 

 tined ; to call upon all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to carry out and enforce the pro- 

 visions of such proclamations, orders, and regulations ; and it shall be the duty of all 

 sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to obey and observe all orders and instructions which they 

 may receive from the governor in the premises ; to employ such and so many medical 

 and veterinary practitioners and such other persons as he may from time to time deem 

 nceessary to assist him in performing his duty as set forth in the first section of this 

 act, and to fix their compensation ; to order all or any animals corning into the State 

 to be detained at any place or places for the purpose of inspection and examination ; 

 provided, that animals coming from a neighboring State that have passed a veterinary 

 examination in said State, and have been quarantined and discharged, shall not be 

 subject to the provisions of this act ; to prescribe regulations for the destruction of 

 animals affected Avith infectious or contagious disease, or of those in direct contact 

 with such and liable to spread the disease, and for the proper disposition of their hides 

 and carcasses, and of all objects which might convey infection or contagion; provided, 

 that no animal shall be destroyed unless first examined by a medical or veterinary 

 practitioner in the employ of the governor as aforesaid ; to prescribe regulations for 

 the disinfection of all premises, buildings, and railway cars, and of all objects from 

 or by which infection or contagion may take place or be conveyed ; to alter and modify, 



