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LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



their successors in office shall be appointed for three years each. They 

 .shall meet as soon as practicable after their appointment, and after taking 

 the oath of office, shall appoint from their number a president and 

 secretary. 



(4211-10) SEC. 2. [Duty as to exterpating diseases.] The 

 board of commissioners are authorized to use all proper means to prevent 

 the spread of dangerous and fatal diseases among domestic animals, and 

 to provide for the extirpation of such diseases; and in the event of any 

 such contagious or infectious disease breaking out in this state, it shall 

 be the duty of all persons owning or having in charge animals infected 

 with the same, to immediately notify said board of commissioners, or some 

 member thereof, of the existence of such disease, and thereupon it shall 

 be the duty of said board immediately to cause proper examination thereof 

 to be made by a competent veterinarian ; and if said disease shall be found 

 to be a dangerously contagious or infectious malady, the board shall order 

 the diseased animals, and such as have been exposed to the contagion, to 

 be strictly quarantined in charge of such person as the board, or an 

 authorized member thereof, shall designate, and to order any premises 

 or farms where such disease exists, or has recently existed, to be put in 

 quarantine, so that no domestic animal subject to such disease, be re- 

 moved from or brought to, the premises or places so quarantined; and 

 the board shall prescribe such regulations as they may deem necessary to 

 prevent the contagion from being communicated in any way from the 

 premises so quarantined. 



(4211-11) SEC. 3. [Bodies of dead animals.] The bodies of all 

 dead animals shall be buried or burned by the owners thereof, as pro- 

 vided by law. 



See 6923a. 



(4211-12) SEC. 4. [An act to suppress dangerously contagious 

 -diseases of animals; expenses of quarantining such animals; duty of 

 rsheriffs and constables.] That any person having in his possession, 

 or under his care, any animal which he knows, or has reason to believe, 

 is affected with a dangerously contagious or infectious disease, and does 

 not, without unnecessary delay, make known the same to said board, or 

 -to some member thereof, or to the sheriff or constable of the proper 

 county, to be by him communicated to said board ; or any person or cor- 

 poration who shall bring into this state, or sell or dispose of any animal, 

 knowing the same to be affected as aforesaid, or any animal having been 

 -exposed to such contagion, within three months of such exposure, or 

 shall move the animal so diseased or exposed from the quarantine to 

 which it was ordered by the board of commissioners, or shall move 

 any animal to or from any district in this state declared to be infected 

 with such contagious disease, or shall bring into this state any animal of 

 the kind diseased from any district outside of the state that may at any- 

 time be legally declared to be affected with such disease, without the 

 consent of said board, except under such conditions as are or may be 

 prescribed by said board, shall, upon conviction of either of the aforesaid 

 offenses, be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. And 

 all proper expense incurred in the quarantining of animals under the pro- 

 visions of this act, shall be paid by the owners thereof, and if the same 

 is refused, after demand made by order of the commissioners, an action 

 may be brought to recover the same with costs of suit, which action may 

 be in the name of the state of Ohio, for the use of the board of live stock 



