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VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
An Act to establish “The State Live Stock Sanitary Commis¬ 
sion” and to provide for the control and suppression of 
tuberculosis and other dangerous diseases of domestic ani¬ 
mals in Pennsylvania. 
Section i. — Be it enacted, etc., that a commission is hereby established to be 
known as “The State Live Stock Sanitary Commission.” This commission shall 
consist of five commissioners to be appointed by the governor as follows : The Secre¬ 
tary of the State Board of Agriculture, a practical breeder of live stock, the Secretary 
of the State Board of Health, and two competent and qualified veterinarians who are 
members in good standing in any legally chartered Veterinary Medical Association of 
this State who are graduates in good standing of some recognized and reputable veter¬ 
inary college. Each commissioner shall be appointed for a period of four (4) years, 
and shall be subject to removal by the governor for incompetency or neglect of duty. 
Sec. 2. —It shall be the duty of the commission to protect the health of the do¬ 
mestic animals of the state, to determine and employ the most efficient and practical 
means for the suppression, control or eradication of dangerous, contagious or infec¬ 
tious diseases among the domestic animals, and especially of tuberculosis, and for 
these purposes it is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain, enforce 
and regulate such quarantine and other measures relating to the movements and care 
of animals and their products, the disinfection of suspected localites and the destruc¬ 
tion of animals as it may deem necessary to prevent the spread and transmission of 
contagious or infectious diseases. 
Sec. 3.—Whenever it shall be adjudged necessary to the interests of the live 
stock industry of this state or to the welfare of the public to kill an animal or animals 
suffering from some contagious or infectious disease and an agreement cannot be 
made with the owner or owners thereof as to their value ; three appraisers shall be 
appointed, one by the owner or owners of the cattle, one by the commission or com¬ 
missioner and a third by these two, who shall under oath or affirmation appraise the 
animal or animals at their actual value at the time of the appraisment and the owner 
shall be paid one half of the appraisement, provided that no such appraisement shall 
exceed fifty dollars for single unregistered cattle or seventy dollars for single regis¬ 
tered cattle or forty dollars for a glandered horse or mule, and further provided that 
no animal or animals found to be infected with a contagious or infectious disease 
within ninety days after having been brought from another state into Pennsylvania, 
shall be paid for, but notwithstanding, the commission shall be authorized to slaugh¬ 
ter such animal or animals if in their judgment such a course is necessary to the in¬ 
terests of the live stock industry or to the welfare of the public, and provided that in 
case it shall be found upon making the autopsy of an animal appraised and killed by 
order of the commission or of a commissioner that such animal was not at the time 
of slaughter suffering from the contagious or infectious diseases supposed to have 
been present, the entire appraised value shall be paid to the owner or owners. 
