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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Slaughter by 

 ranchman 

 for own 

 consumption 



Hides 

 retained. 



Record of 

 cattle 

 slaughtered 

 by 



ranchman. 



Cattle to be 

 inspected 

 before 

 slaughter. 



Certificate of 

 brand, etc., 

 before 

 shipment. 



Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit an 

 owner of property, or a ranchman located on a definite prop- 

 erty as a tenant, lessee or purchaser under contract, from 

 slaughtering cattle in small numbers on said premises for his 

 own consumption, and nothing herein shall be so construed as 

 to prohibit such ranchman from selling or giving away a por- 

 tion thereof ; provided, that such person shall not be required 

 to take out a license. 



SEC. 9. The hides of all such cattle slaughtered by the 

 owner thereof, or removed from any cattle which have died 

 from any cause, shall be retained in the possession of the 

 owner where the same may be inspected, with the brands 

 attached thereto, and without any alteration or disfiguration 

 thereof, for a period of at least fifteen days after the death 

 of said cattle, or until said hides are inspected. 



Every ranchman, who so slaughters cattle on such premises, 

 shall keep a record in a book to be kept for that purpose of all 

 the cattle so slaughtered by him, with- a description thereof, 

 including all the marks and brands of such slaughtered 

 cattle, the date of slaughter, and shall at the end of each month, 

 make a true and correct copy of such record and send the same 

 by registered mail to the office of the cattle protection board,* 

 and shall likewise exhibit the said record on demand of any 

 officer of this state. 



SEC. 10. No cattle except cattle shipped for slaughter and 

 which have been inspected as herein provided prior to ship- 

 ment, shall be slaughtered until they shall have been first 

 inspected and certified to as being the property of the person 

 slaughtering same or causing same- to be slaughtered or being 

 duly authorized by the owner thereof to slaughter said cattle ; 

 provided, that any person licensed hereunder to slaughter 

 cattle after twenty-four hours notice in writing, addressed to 

 the local inspector demanding his presence at a specified time 

 and place for the purpose of inspecting such cattle for slaugh- 

 tering, may, without the certificate of inspection of said inspec- 

 tor slaughter said cattle, providing he makes a written state- 

 ment designating the general description of the animal or ani- 

 mals slaughtered, such as the age, color, weight, etc., and 

 specifying in detail the earmarks and brands of such animal or 

 animals; and provided, further, that he retain the hides of such 

 animal or animals for at least fifteen days thereafter as herein- 

 before provided. 



SEC. 11. It shall be unlawful for any common carrier to 

 receive any cattle, or the hides of any cattle, for transportation 

 to points within or without this state until such carrier shall 

 have been furnished with duplicate certificates signed by an 

 inspector, showing, in the case of cattle, the brands and 

 earmarks of such cattle, the number of cattle of each 

 earmark and brand, the names of shipper and consignee 

 and also the origin and destination of said cattle. In the case 



*See note, page 68 hereof. 



