210 The IIokse Tndustky of 'New Yoiik State 



provided in section three of this act. The enrollment and verification of 

 pedigree and the issuing of license certificates shall be done by the Animal 

 Husbandman of the State Experiment Station. 



2. In order to carry out the provisions of this act, tlie active members of 

 the Live Stock Commission, namely, the Animal Husbandman of the State 

 Experiment Station, who shall be secretary and executive officer, a graduate 

 veterinarian and a prominent breeder of live stock, shall constitute a Stallion 

 Examining and Registration Board, who.se compensation shall be while en- 

 gaged in personally examining stallions and jacks five dollars per diem and 

 traveling expenses in addition to the regular compensation, as provided for 

 by the law establishing the Live Stock Commission; to pass upon certificate 

 of veterinary examination; to provide, when necessary, for veterinary inspec- 

 tion; to issue stallion license certificates; to make all necessary rules and 

 regulations, and to perform such other duties as may be deemed necessary 

 to carry out and enforce the provisions of this act. 



3. In order to secure the license certificates herein provided for, the owner 

 of each stallion or jack shall present his candidate for an examination, to- 

 gether with all necessary papers relative to his breeding and ownership, at 

 the county seat of each county, or such other place and at such times as 

 may be fixed by said board. Three insertions in one or more newspapers in 

 each county constituting a legal notice to the owners of sires. It shall be the 

 duty of this board to personally examine each stallion or jack and determine to 

 the best of their knowledge and belief whether said stallion or jack is free 

 from infectious, contagious or transmissible diseases or unsoundness, and their 

 findings shall be final. Upon verification of pedigree and certificate of 

 breeding (in case of pure-bred stallions or jacks), and providing said stallion 

 or jack has satisfactorily passed said veterinary examination, a certificate 

 shall be issued to the owner. The presence of any one or more of the follow- 

 ing named diseases shall disqualify a stallion or jack for public service, and 

 are hereby defined, as infectious, contagious or transmissible diseases" or 

 unsoundness for the purpose of this act: 



Cataract; amaurosis (glass eye); periodic ophthalmia (moon blindness). 



Laryngeal hemiplegia (roaring or whistling). 



Pulmonary emphysema ( heaves, broken wind ) . 



Chorea (St. Vitus' dance, crampiness, shivering, string-halt). 



Bone spavin; ringbone; sidebone; navicular disease. 



Bog spavin; curb; with curby formation of hock. 



Glanders; farcy; maladie du coit; utheral gleet; mange; melanosis. 



Osteoperosis ; canker of the foot; laminitis. 



The Stallion Examining and Registration Board is hereby authorized to 

 refuse a certificate of enrollment to any stallion or jack affected with any 

 one of the diseases specified and to revoke a previously issued license at any 

 time if upon examination a stallion or jack is found to be so affected. 



4. The Stallion Examining and Registration Board is authorized in case of 

 emergency to name a committee in each county, consisting of a graduate 

 veterinarian and a practical horseman whose compensation shall be ten dollars 

 per diem and expenses while making such examinations, who shall examine 

 the various stallions or jacks in said county, and issue to the owner of said 

 animals, under oath, a certificate stating that said animals are free from 

 infectious, contagious and transmissible diseases or unsoundness, as herein 

 defined. The owner shall forward the same, together with all necessary 

 papers, relative to the breeding or ownership of said animals, to the secretary 

 of the examining and registration board, who in turn shall issue the proper 

 certificate. 



5. The owner of any stallion or jack used for public service in this state 

 shall post and keep affixed, during the entire breeding season copies of the 

 license certificate of such stallion or jack issued under the provision of 

 section six in a conspicuous place, both within and upon the outside of every 

 stable or building where said stallion or jack is used for public service, at 

 his home or elsewhere. Such copies shall lie printed in iKild-faced and con- 

 spicuous type, not smaller than " long primer," and the words " pure bred " 

 or " grade " must precede the name of the stallion or jack, as the case may be. 



