LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Otf 



(4211-3) SEC. I. [Bounty for the killing of English sparrows.] 

 Every person being an inhabitant of this state, shall be entitled to receive 

 a bounty of twenty cents per dozen for all sparrows, known as the English 

 sparrow, killed, to be allowed and paid in the manner hereinafter provided. 



(4211-4) SEC. 2. [Proof required of persons applying for such 

 bounty.] Every person applying for such bounty, shall take the heads 

 of such sparrows, in lots of not less than one dozen, to the clerk of~the 

 township, village or city, -within which such sparrows shall have been 

 killed, who shall thereupon decide upon such application, and if satis- 

 fied of the correctness of such claim, shall issue a certificate stating the 

 amount of bounty to which such applicant is entitled, and shall deliver 

 the same to such applicant, and shall destroy the heads. of such sparrows; 

 provided, that the clerk of the township, village or city. shall in no case 

 issue such certificate unless there is at the time of issuing the same a 

 fund in the township, village or city treasury out of which to pay the 

 same, which fund shall have been set apart out of the general fund of 

 the township, village or city, or shall have been raised by a levy for 

 such purposes by the township trustees, or by the councils of the village or 

 city, and shall be known as the sparrow fund, and the township trustees 

 of any township, or the councils of any village or city may, in their discre- 

 tion, create such fund, which in no year, in any township or village shall 

 exceed two hundred dollars, and in no city the sum of five hundred dol- 

 lars ; and any amount of such fund which shall remain unexpended upon 

 the first day of March of each year may be credited to -the general fund of 

 the township, village or city. 



(4211-5) SEC. 3. [How paid.] Such certificate may be pre- 

 sented by the claimant or his agent to the city treasurer, or the treasurer of 

 the township or village in which such sparrows may have been killed, who- 

 shall pay the same out of the fund provided for the payment of such cer- 

 tificates. 



DISEASES. 



(4211-6) SEC. i. [Transportation of cholera-infected hogs.] 

 From and after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any person 

 or persons owning or having charge of any hog or hogs infected with 

 cholera, to transport the same within the borders of this state. 



(4211-7) SEC. 2. [Liability of violator.] Any person or per- 

 sons violating the provisions of this act, shall be liable for all damages 

 resulting from the introduction of such disease thereby, to be recovered 

 by any person so damaged, and shall also be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding 

 five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail of the county not exceed- 

 ing six months, or both. 



(4211-8) SEC. 3. [Common carriers or employes not affected, 

 etc.] This act shall not be construed so as to affect common carriers 

 or their employes, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its- 

 passage. 



(4211-9) SEC. i. [Board of live stock commissioners.] The 

 governor shall, with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint three 

 persons, who shall constitute a board of live stock commissioners, who 

 shall hold their office in the order in which they are named, the first fpr 

 one year, the second for two years, and the third for three years, and 



