SUPPLEMENT. 751 



In case a sufficient amount for costs is advanced, or if the proposal conies from u town- 

 ship official, the county authorities are to require the president of the board of inspection 

 to bring about a decision with regard to it. 



It is left to the president whether he himself will decide on the proposal or whether 

 he will charge another member of the board of inspection with doing so. In this matter 

 he is to consider all possible saving in traveling expenses. 



As rules for procedure in other regards the provisions of sections 16 to 19 and 21 are 

 applicable, with the modification that as a rule only one member of the board of inspec- 

 tion makes and decides upon the examination of the bull. 



The examination of the bull can be made at the place of residence of the deciding 

 member, if the owner of the bull takes him thither for that purpose. 



In exceptional cases a permit maybe granted without previous examination of the 

 bull at the place where it is kept, provided the deciding member of the board of inspec- 

 tion is thoroughly informed concerning the bull, in consequence of an inspection held a 

 short time previously, as, for instance, at a recent award of premiums. 



The county authorities are to be informed of the decision taken upon any proposal, with 

 a statement of the bill of costs. 



23. Upon the special request of a bull-owner the full board of inspection may decide 

 upon a proposal for a permit after the regular bull inspection, if the applicant is willing 

 to bear the cost arising therefrom. 



It is left to the judgment of the county authorities, after consultation with the com- 

 mittee of the agricultural district association, to allow, so far as it is in necial 

 bull inspections to be held in certain townships by the whole board of inspection if either 

 the cattle -owners concerned or the townships, or, by vote of the township meeting, the 

 (township corporation are willing to defray the expenses. 



ARTICLE 13. 



24. The appointment of the superior board of inspection is, as a rule, to precede the 

 election of the members of the boards of inspection in the district of the circuit associa- 

 tion of the agricultural association, as the appointment of the same person as a member 

 of both boards is to be avoided where possible. Accordingly the centralstelle for agri- 

 cultu re is in due season to call upon the circuit committees of the agicultural associa- 

 tion to propose cine experts residing in their respective districts for appointment as mem- 

 tners of the superior board of inspection. 



The composition of the superior board of in spection is to be promulgated through the 

 official papers of the districts concerned. 



The members of the superior boards of inspection are by direction of the centralstelle 

 for agriculture to be sworn by the county authorities of their place of residence, using 

 the oath given in section 15. Members of the superior board of inspection, who in such 

 capacity have been already previously sworn, are to be reminded of the oath already 

 made by them. 



The provisions of section 14 are properly applicable to members of the superior board 

 of inspection (see, however, article 13, section 4, of the law). 



25. If a complaint is transmitted in the prescribed form (article 12 of this law), the 

 county authorities arc, in cases where proofs are subjoined, in the first place, to cause 

 the board of inspection to report promptly upon the complaint, and then to send it with 

 such report to the president of the superior board of inspection for further action, stating 

 the amount of costs deposited. 



The corresponding provisions of sections 16 to 19 are properly applicable to the pro- 

 ceedings of the superior board of inspection, with the following modifications: 



(1) Participation in a resolution or opinion of the superior board of inspection is pro- 

 hibited to those members who are at the same time members of the board of inspection 

 from which the contested decision comes, or who have participated as former members 

 in the said contested decision. 



(2) If the permit is granted in second instance it is to be enforced at once and handed 

 to the claimant, and the county authorities are to be informed of it for the purpose of 

 taking further steps with regard to the costs. But if the complaint is rejected, then 

 without prejudice to its immediate communication to the claimant a resolution com- 

 prising u brief explanation is to be drawn up and sent to the county authorities to whom 

 the complaint was addressed. The county authorities on their part are to fix the costs 

 to be borne by the complainant, and then to cause the resolution of the superior board 

 of inspection, together with their decision concerning the costs, to be handed to the com- 

 plainant through the mayor. 



26. The members of the boards of inspection and superior boards of inspection are to 

 receive for performing their functions outside the township district of their place of resi- 

 dence 5 marks allowance for an entire day, and a proportional sum for a shorter time, 



