VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
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the State Board of Health, caused to be killed, every horse affected by glanders, 
found within its jurisdiction, but no horse shall be so killed on account of glanders 
until the value thereof be appraised as hereinafter provided. 
Section 2. Section sixty-three of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: 
Sec. 63. Compensation to owners.—To determine the value of such animal, 
the comptroller shall designate some competent, disinterested person, residing within 
the judical district in which such animal may be, to act as appraiser, with an appraiser 
to be selected by the owner of such animal, who shall proceed to appraise the value 
thereof. In case of a disagreement between the two appraisers, the third appraiser 
shall be selected by them, and the estimate of the value of either two of them shall be 
final. The animal shall be appraised at its sound value, provided, however, no single 
unregistered animal shall be appraised at more than sixty dollars; and no horse affect¬ 
ed with glanders shall be appraised/at more than fifty dollars. Each appraisal shall 
be in writing, signed by the appraiser or appraisers agreeing, and shall be delivered 
by them, if the animal be suspected of tuberculosis, to the veterinary practitioner in 
charge of such animal, and if the animal be a horse affected with glanders, to the 
secretary of the local board of health having jurisdiction thereof. Upon the delivery 
of such appraisal, such animal shall be killed, as hereinbefore provided; and if it be 
killed on account of tuberculosis, the veterinary practitioner in charge thereof shall 
forthwith make a post-mortem examination of the animal, and if it shall be discovered 
on such port-mortem examination that the animal was affected by tuberculosis, the 
owner of the animal shall be entitled to receive one-half of the appraised value; ’ pro¬ 
vided, however, that not more than sixty dollars shall be paid for a diseased registered 
animal and not more than twenty-five dollars shall be paid for a diseased unregistered 
animal, but if such examination of the animal killed on account of tuberculosis dis¬ 
closes that the animal was not affected with tuberculosis, the owner shall be entitled to 
receive the full appraised value. The written appraisal of the value of an animal 
killed on account of tuberculosis, and a written statement of the result of the post- 
moitem examination thereof, signed by the veterinary practitioner in charge thereof, 
shall forthwith be transmitted by such veterinary practitioner to the secretary of the 
State Board of Health, who shall file the same in his office. The secretary of the 
local board of health having jurisdiction in the case of a horse affected with glanders 
shall in case such horse is killed, upon receipt of the written appraisal, signed by the 
appraiser or appraisers, as hereinbefore provided, forthwith make and sign a certificate 
of such fact, and transmit such appraisal and certificate to the secretary of the State 
Board of Health, who shall file the same in his office. Upon receipt, from the veter- 
inary piactitioner, in the case of an animal killed on account of tuberculosis, or from 
the secretary of the local board of health, having jurisdiction in the case of a horse 
killed on account of glanders, such secretary of the State Board of Health shall forth¬ 
with make a written certificate, signed by him, setting forth the name and post-office 
address of the owner of the animal killed, and the amount which such owner is en¬ 
titled to be paid on account of the killing of such animal, and shall forthwith transmi 
such certificate to the comptroller, who shall issue his warrant upon the treasurer for 
the payment to such person of the amount so certified, and shall mail the same to such 
person at his post-offiice address as it appears by such certificate. No compensation 
shall be allowed to any person who shall have wilfully concealed the existence of 
