128 THE LUNG PLAGUE OF CATTLE. 



animals shall be brought into or shall break out hi this State it shall be the duty of 

 the governor to take measures to suppress the same promptly and to prevent the same 

 from spreading. 



SEC. 2. For such purpose the governor shall have power : 



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

 county or counties in the State, and warning all persons to seclude all animals in 

 their possession that are affected with such disease or have been exposed to the infec- 

 tion or contagion thereof, and ordering all such persons to take such precautions 

 against the spreading of such disease as the nature thereof may in his judgment ren- 

 der necessary or expedient. 



To order that any premises, farm or farms 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 contagion being communicated in any way from 

 the places so quarantined. 



To call upon all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to carry out and enforce the provisions 

 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 necessary to assist him in performing his 

 duty as set forth in the first section of this act and to fix their compensation 1 . 



To order all or any animals coming into this State to be detained at any place or 

 places for the purpose of inspection and examination. 



To prescribe regulations for the destruction of animals affected with infectious or 

 contagious 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 em- 

 ploy of the governor aforesaid. 



To prescribe regulations for the disinfection of all premises, buildings, and railway 

 cars, and of all objects from which or by which infection or contagion may take place 

 or be conveyed. 



To alter and modify from time to time, as he may deem expedient, the terms of all 

 such proclamations, orders, and regulations, and to cancel or withdraw the same at any 

 time. 



SEC. 3. Any person transgressing the terms of any proclamation, order, or regula- 

 tion issued or prescribed by the governor under authority of this act, shall be guilty 

 of a misdemeanor. 



SEC. 4. All expenses incurred by the governor in carrying out the provisions of this 

 act, and in performing the duty hereby devolved upon him, shall be audited by the 

 comptroller as extraordinary expenses of the executive department, and shall be paid 

 out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



CHAPTER 306. AX ACT in relation to infectious and contagious diseases of animals. (Passed May 



17, 1879, by a two-thirds vote.) 



The people of the State of New York, represented in senate and assembly, do enact 

 as follows : 



SECTION 1. Whenever in his judgment for the more speedy and economical sup- 

 pression, or for preventing the spread of any infectious or contagious disease of domes- 

 tic animals, the public welfare shall be promoted thereby, the governor shall have, in 

 addition to the powers conferred upon him by chapter one hundred and thirty-four 

 of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, the power to cause to be slaugh- 

 tered and to be disposed of afterwards as in his judgment may be expedient, any ani- 

 mal or animals which by contact or cohabitation with diseased animals, or by other 

 exposure to infections or contagion may be considered or suspected to be liable to 

 contract or to communicate the disease sought to be suppressed, oi>to be prevented 

 from spreading. 



SEC. 2. Whenever any animal shall be slaughtered under any order of the gov- 

 ernor for the purpose of suppressing or of preventing the spread of any infectious or 

 contagious disease, the compensation to be made by the State to the owner shall be 

 computed upon the basis of allowing for any diseased animal the actual value, if any, 

 at the time of slaughter ; for any animal that has been kept in the same stable, pen, 

 field, pasture, or yard, with a diseased animal, two-thirds of the sound value ; and iu 

 the case of any other animal so slaughtered, the full value at the time of slaughter, 

 without regard to the depreciation due to exposure, or suspicion of exposure, to infec- 

 tion or contagion : Provided, hoivever, That if the carcass of any animal so slaughtered 

 shall be sold for more than the amount which the owner would be entitled to receive 

 as compensation aforesaid, the excess shall be paid to such owner : And provided further, 

 That no compensation shall be made under the provisions of this section or otherwise 



