VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
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commission a veterinarian to the grade of second lieutenant. 
§2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
In Assembly, No. 964—Introduced by Mr. GRAEFF—read once and referred to the 
Committee on Agriculture. 
AN ACT TO AMEND THE AGRICULTURAL LAW RELATING TO THE 
IMPORTATION OF CATTLE FOR DAIRY AND BREEDING PUR¬ 
POSES. 
The People of the State of New York , represented in Senate and 
Assembly , do enact as follows : 
Section 1. Article four of chapter three hundred and thirty- 
eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled 
“ An act in relation to agriculture, constituting articles one, 
two, three, four and five of chapter thirty-three of the general 
laws,” as amended by chapter three hundred and twenty-one of 
the laws of nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended by 
inserting therein a new section to be known as section seventy-e 
and to read as follows: 
§yo-e. Importation of neat cattle; inspection.—Neat cattle 
shall not be imported into this state for dairy or breeding pur¬ 
poses, unless they are in a healthy condition. The person im¬ 
porting or causing such cattle to be imported shall present to 
the person to whom they are delivered a certificate that such 
cattle are in a healthy condition and shall file a copy of such 
certificate in the office of the commissioner of agriculture. 
Such certificate shall be signed and executed by a practitioner 
of veterinary medicine and surgery duly authorized or licensed 
to practice in accordance with the laws of the state from which 
such cattle are imported. Such certificate shall be in the form 
prescribed by the commissioner of agriculture, and shall state 
the name and residence of the person from whom such cattle 
were purchased, and of the person importing them, also the 
name and residence of the person in this state to whom they 
are sold, unless they are shipped into the state to be sold or re¬ 
sold in which case the certificate shall give name and residence 
if consignee and place of consignment, the number of cattle 
imported and a brief description of such c.attle, the date of the 
examination, and such other matters as may be required by the 
said commissioner. Such examination shall be made within 
ten days prior to the importation of such cattle into this state. 
No practitioner of veterinary medicine and surgery shall sign 
any such certificate unless he shall have first filed in the office 
of the commissioner of agriculture certified evidence of his au- 
