Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-06-15
CHAPTER 10.

An Act to prevent the importation and
sale Of diseased horses, dc.
AN ACT to prevent the importation,
running at large, and sale Of horses,
mules, or asses, diseased with Nasal
elect, Chambers, or Button-farcey.
SECTION l. Be it enacted By the Gen.
erdI assembly of the State of Z0Wd, That
it shall be unlawful for the owner of
any horse, mule, or ass, or any person
having the same in charge, knowingly
horse, mule, or ass, affected by the dis
eases known as Nasal elect, Chambers,
or Button-farcey; and any person 80
offending, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction,
be punished by a fine Of not less than
fifty dollars, nor more than five humid
red dollars, and in default of payment,
skall be imprisoned for any period not
+ to exceed twelve months, or by both
fine and imprisonmenta at the discretion
Sec. 2. ANY person being the owner
OF horses, mules, or asses, or having the
same in charge, that are known to DO
diseased with Nasal elect, Chambers, or
Bntton-farcey, that shall suffer the
same to run at large upon any common,
highway, or uninclosed land, or use, or
tic the same in any public place, or off
his or their own premises, or who shall
sell, trade or offer the same for sale or
trade, knowing the same to be 50 dis
eased, shall be guilty of misdemeanor
aud shall, on conviction be punished
by fine of not less than fifty dollars,
nor more than five hundred dollars,
and, in default of payment, shall be inn.
prisoned for any period not to exceed
twelve months, or by both fine and i'm
prisonment, at the discretion or the
Court.
SEC 8. All fines recovered under tn,
provisions Of this act, shall be paid int
The County Treasury for the benefit O
the school fund.
SEC. 4. Nothing in this act shall bt
30 construed as to prevent any persox
that may be injured by the importation
selling, trading, allowing to run al
large, or exposing in public places, o.
horses, mules, or asses, known to bt
diseased with Nasal elect, Chambers, OF
Buttea-farcey, from recovering damag
es in civil action, against any person
or persons, who may so import, sell
trade, allow to run at large, or other
wise expose in public places, or outsid.
Of their own premises, any such ami
mails.
Sec. s. Should any horse, mule, o.
ass, reasonably supposed to be diseased
with Nasal elect, Glande re-, or Button
farcey, be found running at large, with
out any known owner, it shall be law
full for the finder thereof, to take tn,
horse, mule, or ass, SO found, befor'
some Justice Of the Peace, who shall
forthwith cause the same to be exam
ined by some veterinary surgeon, o.
other person skilled in such diseases
and ii, on examination, it ia ascertaine,
to be SO diseased, it shall be competen
for such Justice of the Peace to orde
such diseased animal to be immediate
ly destroyed and effectively put out Q
the way; and the necessary expense
accruing under tho provisions of thi
section shall be betrayed out of tn
County Treasury.
Sec. s. This Act being deemed Of i'm
mediate importance, shall be in fore
from and after its publication in th
Iowa Daily State Register and low
Homestead, newspapers published Il
Des Moines.
Approved February %, 1866.
hereby certify that the foregoin
Act was published in the Iowa Dali
State Register on tho 18th day of Febru
AIRY, 1856, and in the Iowa HOMESTEAD
ON the It'll day of March, 1866.
.assgEs..Fs JAMES WRIGHT,
.2a+ssats Secretary Of Ststs