ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPOET OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 133 



])er annum for the ensuing two years. The law follows : 



CHAPTER 120 



'"An Act to Create the State Board of Entomology. To define its 



poAvers and duties and appropriate money therefor." 

 Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana. 



Section 1. There is hereby created the Montana State Board 

 of Entomology, which shall be composed of the State Entomologist 

 the Secretary of the State Board of Health and the State Veter- 

 inarian, 



Sec. 2. The Secretary of the State Board of Health shall be 

 Chairman of said Board and the State Entomologist shall be Sec- 

 1 etary. 



Sec. 3. None of the members of said board shall receive any 

 compensation other than that already allowed by law, except that 

 the actual expenses of members while engaged in the duties incident 

 to the work of said board shall be paid out of the appropriation made 

 to carry on the work of said board. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the dut}- of said board to investigate and 

 study the dissemination by insects of diseases among persons and 

 animals, said investigation having for its purpose the eradication 

 and prevention of such diseases. 



Sec. 5. Said board shall take steps to eradicate and prevent 

 the spread of Rocky Mountain tick fever, Infantile Paralysis and 

 all other infections or communicable diseases that may be trans- 

 mitted or carried by insects. 



Sec. 6. Said board shall have authority to make and prescribe 

 rules and regulations including the right of quarantine over persons 

 and animals in any district of infection and shall have the right to 

 designate and prescribe the treatment for domestic animals to pre- 

 vent the spread of such diseases ; but said board shall not have the 

 right to prescribe or regulate the treatment given to any person 

 suffering from any infections or communicable disease. 



Sec. 7. All rules and regulations of the State Board of Ento- 

 mology shall be subject to approval by the State Board of Health. 



Sec. 8. The board shall publish in printed form all rules and 

 regulations which shall be adopted by said board for the eradication 

 and control of diseases of any kind and such rules and regulations 



