352 impounding; injuries on highways, etc. 



turn to the owner stock held in quarantine before the ex- 

 penses of quarantine were paid.^^** 



Where the animals were found to have been actually dis- 

 eased when killed, it was held that, under the statute, the 

 owner was properly limited to their actual value in their dis- 

 eased condition.^^* 



It has been held by the Supreme Court of the United States 

 that the grant of an exclusive right to maintain slaughter- 

 houses for cattle, guarded by a proper hmitation of prices to 

 be charged and imposing the duty of providing ample con- 

 veniences, with permission to all owners of stock to land and 

 to all butchers to slaughter at those places — was a police reg- 

 ulation within the power of a State legislature.^^^ So, an 

 ordinance granting to a person an exclusive right to remove 

 from the city limits all such dead animals, not slain for human 

 food, as should not be removed by the owner in person or by 

 his immediate employee within twelve hours after death, and 

 requiring the owner, if not intending to remove it himself, 

 to deposit immediately a notice of the death in a box provided 

 for that purpose by the aforesaid person, was held a valid 

 exercise of poHce power and not to be open to the objection 

 of creating a monopoly or of depriving persons of their 



^° Hardwick v. Brookover, 48 Kan. 6og. 



As to the expense of cattle quarantined on the owner's premises, see 

 Kenneson v. Framingham, 168 Mass. 236. 



""'Tappen v. State, 146 N. Y. 44. And see Campbell v. Manchester 

 (N. H.), 36 Atl. Rep. 877. 



Where the appraisement has been made at their value as diseased cattle, 

 mandamus will not issue to compel the commission to change their ap- 

 praisement: Shipman v. State Live-Stock Sanitary Comn., supra. 



"^ Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wall. (U. S.) 36. 



But the legislature has no right to continue the exclusive right to a 

 slaughter-house so that no future legislation, nor even the same body, 

 can in future modify it: Butchers' Union Co. v. Crescent City Co in 

 U. S. 746. 



As to the right of the commissioner of a department to restrict bidders 

 for supplies to the use of animals killed and dressed within the State, see 

 In re Rooney, 26 Misc. (N. Y.) y^. 



