852 
VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
five dollars for any single head of eattle registered, and forty 
dollars for a single glandered horse or mule ; and further, pro¬ 
vided, that no animal or animals found to be infected with any 
contagions or infectious disease within ninety days after having 
been brought from another State into the State of New York, 
shall be paid for, but, notwithstanding, the commission shall be 
authorized to slaughter or cause to be slaughtered such animal 
or animals if in their judgment such a course is necessary to the 
interests of the live stock industry or to the welfare of the pub¬ 
lic ; and provided, that in case it shall be found that the autopsy 
does not show or produce evidence of any contagious or infec¬ 
tious disease at the time of slaughtering, and were so slaugh¬ 
tered or destroyed by order of the commission, commissioner, or 
their duly authorized agent, the entire appraised value of the 
animal or animals shall be paid to the owner or owners. 
Sec. 4. The commission or commissioner, or their dnl}^ au¬ 
thorized agent, shall have the right to suppress the use or sale 
of any milk, product or products, of any animal or animals 
whatsoever, whenever they or he should deem it necessary for 
the welfare of the public, by reason or otherwise of any conta¬ 
gions or infections disease existing, or reasonably thought to be 
existing in any animal or animals that produce milk or any 
product sold for food, whether it be the product of, or the ani¬ 
mal itself; when such suppression is so enforced, especially by 
reason of tuberculosis in milch cows, the commission, commis¬ 
sioner, or their agent, shall send notice to such local Board of 
Health in the locality that such supply is used, of such suppres¬ 
sion, and shall cause a notification to be sent to such Boards of 
Health as soon as such suppression or quarantine has been 
removed. 
Sec. 5. The commission, or any commissioner, or any of 
their duly authorized agents, shall at any and all times have the 
right to enter any premises, farms, fields, pens, abattoirs, slaugh¬ 
ter-houses, buildings, cars’or vessels, where any domestic animal 
is at the time quartered, or wherever the carcass of one may be, 
for tlie purpose of examining it in any way that may be deemed 
necessary to determine whether they are or were the subjects of 
any contagious or infectious disease, and may call upon the 
sheriff or deputy sheriff, constable or peace officer of any county 
wherein such action is necessary to carry out and enforce the 
provisions of any notice, order or regulation which may be 
made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, 
and all such sheriffs or deputy sheriffs, constables or peace offi- 
