406 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



the tuberculin test. The certificate shall give a description of each ani- 

 mal brought into the state, sufficiently accurate for identification, and 

 shall also give the date and place of examination, the preparation of 

 tuberculin used, the quantity injected, the temperature immediately be- 

 fore inoculation, the temperature at the eleventh hour and every two 

 hours subsequent thereto, for at least ten hours, or until the reaction is 

 completed. The certificate shall be signed by a veterinarian who is a 

 graduate of a recognized veterinary college, and shall be sent imme- 

 diately to the secretary of the state board of agriculture, who shall im- 

 mediately notify a commissioner of the county into which the cattle are 

 to be shipped, transported or driven, and said commissioner shall exam- 

 ine the cattle to identify them. Failure to comply with the law shall be 

 considered a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one hun- 

 dred dollars. 



Section 3. Complaint for the violations of the jjrovisions of this 

 chapter shall be made to the secretary of the state board of agriculture, 

 and said secretary shall be exempt from giving surety for costs on any 

 complaint made as aforesaid. 



From an intelligent stand-point this would seem to be a good 

 law, and one which ought to have been left alone ; but the Rhode 

 Island Legislature of 1900 passed the following amendment: — 



[Chapter 756, Acts of 1900.] 



Section 1. All persons desiring to import cattle into this state or 

 from other states without obtaining the certificate required by section 

 two of chapter Uiree Imndred and forty-four of the public laws, shall 

 give written notice to the cattle commissioner of the county into which 

 the cattle are brought within forty-eight hours after the arrival into the 

 state of such cattle ; and such notification shall contain a specified list of 

 the cattle so imported, with a full description of age, sex, and such other 

 particulars as may be necessary for the identification of the said cattle 

 and the place where they can be found. 



Section 2. Innnediately upon the receipt of such notification the 

 cattle commissioner of the county into which said cattle are imported 

 shall proceed within seventy-two hours to the place designated and make 

 a physical examination of said cattle ; and if upon such examination 

 said cattle shall be deemed free from tuberculosis, it shall be so certified 

 by said cattle commissioner upon a permit, and a duplicate thereof be 

 given to the owner of said cattle, and the cattle shall be released for the 

 use and benefit of the owner. 



Section 3. If after such examination the cattle commissioner shall be 

 of the opinion that the cattle so examined are atilicted with tuberculosis, 

 he shall require of the imjiorter that the susi)ected cattle be tested with 

 tuberculin, said test to be ajiplied by a veterinarian of a recognized 

 veterinary college, who shall give to the said commissioner a certificate 

 in writing that such test has been applied, together with a statement of 

 the tuberculin used, quantity injected, temperature of each animal before 

 inoculation and at the eleventh and every two subsequent hours there- 



