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section, as before named, after his account for said inspection shall have been allowed 

 by the county commissioners in the same manner and form as claims against the 

 county are allowed and approved by them. The inspector shall receive ten per 

 cent of all tines and penalties collected in cases in which he gives information of 

 the offense, and his interest in the result shall not affect his competency as a wit- 

 ness; and all fines and penalties as herein provided shall be paid into the general 

 fund of the county. 



SEC. 4153. It shall be the duty of the inspector between the tenth day of August 

 and the tenth day of December in each year to visit each flock of sheep within his 

 county and make a written report of their condition as to scab or other malignant 

 contagious diseases, and when he reports no disease he shall be paid by the county 

 as provided iu the last preceding section. 



SEC. 4154. No sheep inspectors shall be appointed by the county commissioners of 

 any counties of this Territory until they have been petitioned to make such appoint- 

 ment by the majority of the sheep-owners of said counties respectively. 



SEC. 4155. The inspector shall be allowed to appoint deputy inspectors when his 

 duties are such as to require his presence in distant portions of the county at the 

 same time. Such appointment shall be approved by the chairman of the board of 

 county commissioners, and when so appointed and approved the official acts of such 

 deputies, as such, shall have full force, and the inspector and his bondsman shall be 

 held responsible therefor. 



SEC. 4156. Whenever a sheep inspector shall wilfully and falsely report any sheep 

 subject to disease, he shall be subjected to a fine of ten times the amount of fees 

 charged by him for inspecting, and if he shall wilfully and falsely report any sheep 

 inspected by him free from disease that are thus infected, he shall be subjected to a 

 penalty not exceeding three hundred dollars for each offense. 



Section 4157 provides for his removal by the commissioners if found guilty of 

 either of the offenses set forth in section 4156. 



SEC. 4158. Every owner of sheep having scab or other malignant diseases shall 

 have the right to drive over the intermediate ranges to his own dipping works, or 

 to any public or private dipping works, but in so doing he shall consult the owners 

 or occupants of said ranges twenty-four hours before reaching the nearest limits of 

 the same as to where he shall cross the same, and in no case shall he enter another's 

 corral or water at his troughs or accustomed watering places with his diseased 

 sheep without the written or otherwise express consent of the owner, and he shall 

 take every possible precaution to avoid mixing his diseased sheep with any other 

 flock or flocks. For each and every violation of these provisions of this section he 

 shall be subjected to a penalty of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than 

 five hundred dollars, and shall be held liable for damages in case any other flock of 

 sheep contract disease through his carelessness or failure to comply with this law. 



SEC. 4159. Every person driving a flock of sheep from one range to another, or 

 through any portion of this State, shall use every precaution to avoid mixing his 

 sheep with those belonging on the range through which he may be driving, or with 

 sheep being driven by other persons, and a wilful or careless neglect of the pro- 

 visions of this section shall subject the party so offending to civil suit for damages 

 by the person with whose sheep hrs sheep may become mixed, and to a fine of not 

 less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars : Provided, That 

 this section be not so construed as to prevent the proper herding of sheep on their 

 accustomed ranges. 



SEC. 4234. The county commissioners of the various counties in this Territory are 

 hereby authorized and required to encourage the destruction of wolves, wildcats, 

 lynx, bear, and mountain lion, by making payment out of the county fund to any 

 persons who shall engage in the destruction of the several animals hereinbefore 

 named, the sum of money as herein designated, as a bounty for the destruction of 

 said animals, viz: For each wolf or coyote, one dollar and fifty cents ; for each 

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