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any special fund in the state treasury now remaining or 

 made available by law for the administration of the provi- 

 sions of any of the statutes enumerated in section nine hereof 

 or for the use, support, or maintenance of any board, commis- 

 sion, office or officer that is abolished by the provisions hereof 

 and whose duties, powers and functions are, by the provisions 

 of this act, transferred to and conferred upon the department 

 of agriculture. Such expenditures by the director shall be 

 made in accordance with law in carrying on the work for 

 which such appropriations were made or such special funds 

 created. 



DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 



PROTECTION OF DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK 

 FROM DISEASE. 



An act to protect domestic live stock from contagious and 

 infectious diseases, to provide for the appointment and 

 duties of officials to carry into effect the provisions of this 

 act) and to provide an appropriation therefor. 



(Approved March 18. 1899. Amendments approved March 20, 1905; 

 March 23, 1907; March 19, 1909; and May 18, 1915. Stats. 1899, 

 p.129 ; 1905, p. 423; 1907, p. 932; 1909, p. 431; 1915, p. 564.) 



SECTION 1. The office of state veterinarian* of the State creation of 

 of California is hereby created. It shall be the duty of the 

 governor, within sixty days after the passage of this act, to 

 appoint a skilled veterinary surgeon for the State of Cali- 

 fornia to fill said office of state veterinarian, who at the date 

 of such appointment shall be a graduate in good standing of a 

 recognized college of veterinary surgery legally qualified to Qualifications, 

 practice as such in this state, and who shall hold office for a 

 period of four years from and after the date of qualification. 

 The salary of said state veterinarian shall be three thousand salary, 

 six hundred dollars per annum, payable at the same time and 

 in the same manner as are the salaries of other state officers. 

 Said state veterinarian shall also be allowed his necessary 

 expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties as hereinafter 

 provided. In making said appointment it shall be the duty 

 of the governor to disregard political affiliations, and to be 

 guided in his selection merely by the professional and moral 

 qualifications of said veterinarian for the performance of his 

 duties. 



SEC. 2. The governor is hereby authorized and empowered Assistant 

 to appoint an assistant state veterinarian, who shall at the veterinarian. 

 time of such appointment be a graduate in good standing of a 



*By section 8 of the act of 1919, creating a Department of Agriculture 

 (see page 9 hereof) the duties and powers of the State Veterinarian were 

 transferred to this department, and upon the organization of the department 

 these duties were assigned to the Division of Animal Industry. "State Veter- 

 inarian" should be read, therefore, "Department of Agriculture, Division of 

 Animal Industry." 



