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BILLS BEFORE THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. 
fectious or contagious disease (except tuberculosis or glanders), affecting domestic ani¬ 
mals shall be brought into or break out in this State, the Commissioner of Agriculture 
shall take measures to promptly suppress the same and prevent such disease from spread- 
ing. < 
Section 2. The following sections of chapter six hundred and sixty-one, laws of 
eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled “ An Act in relation to the public health, 
constituting chapter twenty-five of the general laws,” are hereby repealed, namely : Sec¬ 
tions sixty, sixty one, sixty-two, sixty-three and sixty-four. 
Section 3. Chapter ten hundred and thirteen, laws of eighteen hundred and ninety- 
five, entitled “ An Act to amend the public health law in relation to the appointment of 
a special committee of the State Board to investigate the disease of tuberculosis,” is hereby 
repealed. 
Section 4. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. 
Section 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
State of New York. —No. 619 .—In Assembly. 
Introduced by Mr. HANNA—read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. 
AN ACT 
TO AMEND CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF EIGHTEEN 
HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE, ENTITLED “AN ACT IN RELATION TO AGRICUL¬ 
TURE, CONSTITUTING ARTICLES ONE, 1 WO, THREE, FOUR AND FIVE OF CHAPTER 
THIRTY-THREE OF THE GENERAL LAWS.” 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact 
<as follows : 
Section i. Section sixty-four of chapter three hundred and thirty-eight, laws of 
eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 
Section 64. Employment pf veterinary surgeons. —The Commissioner may employ 
such and so many [medical and] veterinary [practitioners] surgeons and such other per¬ 
sons as he may from time to time deem necessary to assist him in discharging the duties 
imposed upon him by this article and may fix their compensation. [All persons now em¬ 
ployed by the governor for such purposes shall continue in the employ of the Commissioner 
upon the same terms, until such employment shall be terminated or modified by the Com¬ 
missioner.] No animal shall be destroyed by the Commissioner, or by his order on the 
ground that it is a diseased animal, unless first examined by a [medical or] veterinary 
[practitioner] surgeon in the employ of the Commissioner under this section, nor until 
such [practitioner] surgeon renders a certificate to the effect that he has made such exam¬ 
ination, that in his judgment such animal is affected with a specified infectious or con¬ 
tagious disease, or that its destruction is necessary in order to suppress or aid in suppress¬ 
ing such disease, or to prevent such disease or to prevent the spread thereof, specifying 
the reasons for such necessity. The New York State Veterinary Medical Society shall 
at each annual meeting nominate three veterinary surgeons, residents of each agncul- 
tural division respectively. The names of such nominees shall be annually transmitted 
under seal by the President and Secretary prior to November first to the Commissioner of 
Agriculture from which list the veterinarians employed by the department shall be selected x 
American Horses in Germany. —A despatch to the New 
York Herald from Berlin, Feb. 1, says : “ The Prussian Minister 
of Agriculture has recently altered the regulations for the im¬ 
portation of American horses. The executive authorities have 
been instructed that, henceforth, American horses are to be kept 
isolated at the ports of entry for eight days. After veterinary 
inspection during*that period they are to be free for sale or in¬ 
land transport, if the veterinary surgeons declare them free of 
infectious diseases.” 
