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and vice-president already before the election of the other members on the part of the 

 said committee. 



If an agricultural district association does not either at all or within the prescribed 

 time avail itself of its right of voting, the meeting is to elect all the members of the 

 board of inspection, and any subsequent voting by the agricultural district association 

 is in such case invalid. 



14. The term of office of members of the board of inspection begins May 1 of the first 

 year and ends April 30 of the last of the three years for which they are chosen. 



If members of the board of inspection apply for discharge before the expiration of their 

 term of office, it is to be granted them by the county authorities, after provisions have 

 been made for the necessary substitution and eventual filling of the vacancy in the board 

 of inspection; until discharged, members are to attend to their official duties. 



If members of the board of inspection withdraw before the expiration of the period 

 for which they are chosen, a supplementary election for the remainder of that period is to 

 be held. Such election may be omitted, if no necessity exists for the filling of the board. 



15. The composition of the Board of Inspection, as well as changes therein, are to be 

 promulgated by the county authorities through the official paper of the district and re- 

 ported to the superior board of inspection and to the Centralstelle for agriculture. 



The president and vice-president, as well as the other members residing at the county 

 seat, are to be sworn by the county authorities and members residing outside the county 

 seat, by order of the county authorities, through the mayor of their place of residence. 

 The following oath is to be used: 



" I swear by the Almighty and Omniscient God, that I as a member of the board of in- 

 spection will attend impartially and to the best of my knowledge and conscience to the 

 discharge of the duties of the office conferred upon me. So help me, God. ' ' 



Members of the board of inspection who in the same capacity have already been pre- 

 viously sworn are to be reminded of the oath already made by them. 



16. The following persons are on account of personal interest prohibited from partic- 

 ipation in the resolutions or decisions of the board of inspection: (1) The owner and any 

 one who during the last two years has been owner of the bull to be inspected ; any one 

 else having a substantial interest in the decision of the board of inspection, or any one 

 interested in the use of the bull under inspection, or wherever a township bull is con- 

 cerned any one contributing to the expenditure of the township for bull-keeping through 

 township taxes. (3) The husband or wife of such parties as are mentioned in articles 

 1 and 2, even if their state of matrimony no longer exists. (4) Those who are related 

 in direct line, by marriage or by adoption, or related in a collateral line up to the third 

 degree or by marriage up to the second degree to the proprietor of the bull under in- 

 spection, even if the state matrimony on which the relationship is based no longer 

 exists. 



When the board is assembled it shall decide (otherwise the president) whether any 

 Buch case of hinderance exists. 



17. The board of inspection enters upon its duties upon the call of the county author- 

 ities. 



The president, or in his absence the vice-president, is required after receipt of the 

 giimmons to name a date for the assembling of the board of inspection, as well as place 

 and time for the bull inspection, and to summon in season for that purpose the two reg- 

 ular members. 



If a summoned member is prevented from taking part on account of personal interest 

 or other cause, he is at once to inform the president of the fact in order that the call 

 of a substitute, and if necessary the putting off of the date, may be made in season. 



In case the president is previously aware that a member is prevented from participat- 

 ing he may at once summon a substitute. 



Members of the board of inspection who prevent the inspection taking place through 

 tmexcused absence or the tardy notice of their inability to attend are responsible to the 

 township corporation for the costs incurred on their account. 



The mayor of the township concerned is to be informed in season of the date fixed for 

 a regular bull inspection, or for an investigation of the bull-keeping in the township, or 

 of a special inspection of a township bull, together with the request to be present at the 

 inspection or to delegate thereto a deputy, in order to obtain proper information in re- 

 gard to the circumstance of the case. 



18. To render valid a decision of the board of inspection the co-operation of the presi- 

 dent or vice-president and of two other members of the board of inspection is necessary 

 with the exception named in Article XI of the law. 



The board of inspection decides by a majority of votes, and as a rule immediately 

 after the inspection of the bull at the place. 



The decision of the board of inspection (in the case of section 22, also those of any 

 of its members) are to be entered on a current minute-book to be kept according to 



