72 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



or before an officer having jurisdiction, for damages occasioned by such 

 trespass. 



SEC. 4252. [How hedge fence regulated.] An owner or occupant 

 of land bordering upon any public road or highway, except a street or 

 alley in a municipal corporation, or through which any public road or 

 highway passes, may set, plant, and cultivate a hedge or live fence, pre- 

 cisely on the line of the road -or public highway, and place on the mar- 

 gin of such road a protection fence, not to occupy more than six feet 

 of the margin or edge of the road; and such protection fence, when 

 placed opposite any live fence or hedge actually set or planted, shall 

 be permitted by the supervisors and all other persons, to remain for 

 the term of seven years; but the trustees of any township may grant 

 permission in writing, to the owner of any hedge or live fence, to con- 

 tinue such protection fence any length of time which they may deem 

 necessary. 



SEC. 4253. [Size of hedge fence restricted.] The owner of any 

 hedge fence on a partition line, ,or along a public highway, shall not 

 permit such fence to remain of a greater height or width than six feet, 

 for a longer period than six months, or leave the cuttings from the 

 same on the public highway for a greater length of time than ten days. 



SEC. 4254. [Penalty for violation of the provisions with 

 respect to hedge fence.] A person who violates the preceding sec- 

 tion shall be liable to the person damaged in a sum not exceeding twenty 

 cents per rod of sucK hedge fence; and if the hedge is along a public 

 highway, he shall be liable to the trustees of the township in which it 

 is situate, in a sum not exceeding fifteen cents per rod of such fence ; 

 but before judgment is rendered it shall appear, by affidavit, that the 

 party complained against has had at least twenty days' notice before 

 the beginning of the suit, from the party complaining, that such hedge 

 is unlawful, and that unless cut to a proper height within twenty days 

 suit will be commenced for such violation. 



SEC. 4255. [Where actions with respect to hedge fence to be 

 brought.] All actions under the two next preceding sections shall be 

 brought upon the complaint of the person damaged, before a justice of 

 the peace of the township in which the hedge is situate, or if the hedge 

 is along a public highway, the complaint shall be made by the supervisor 

 of the road in whose district the hedge is situate. 



VETERINARIANS. 



(4412-1) SEC. i. [Examination of veterinarians.] All persons 

 who now, or shall hereafter, practice veterinary medicine and surgery 

 in the state of Ohio, and have not been engaged in such practice for at 

 least three years prior to the passage of this act, (May 21, 1894), in the 

 state of Ohio, shall be examined as to their qualifications by a state board 

 of veterinary examiners, to be appointed as hereinafter provided. 



(4412-2) SEC. 2. [Certificate.] Any one who successfully 

 passes the examination before the state board of veterinary examiners 

 shall receive from said board a certificate signed by the members thereof, 

 which certificate shall state that the person to whom it is given has passed 

 the prescribed examinations and is competent to practice veterinary medi- 



