Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-04

| hereinDefore provided. The veterinary
surgeon for the state shall keep his Of
flee at the capitol of the state. in a
room to be provided by the secretary of
state, and shall receive salary Of
twenty-five hundred tS2 ,580l dollars per
annum, payable as the salaries Of state
| officers are paid, and actual necessary
travelling expenses by him incurred and
paid in the discharge of his duties, to be
drawn from the treasury, upon itemized
accounts thereof properly verified, rem
dered monthly, and approved by the
governor. The governor shall immedi.
ately fill all vacancies which may at any
time occur in the Office of state veterin-
arian.
SEC. 2. Before entering upon the du-
ties of his office, the state veterinarian
shall take and subscribe an oath ia
faithfully discharge the duties of his
said office, and shall execute a bond to
the state of Kansas in the sum of FIVE
thousand tS5,0OO) dollars, with good and
sufficient sureties, conditioned for the
faithful performance of the duties of
his office, which bond and sureties there
10 shall be approved by the governor,
and said bond, together with his oath
of office, shall be deposited in the Office
of the secretary of state.
SEC. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the
state veterinarian, under the direction
OF the live stock sanitary commission
OF the state, to investigate any and all
cases of contagious or infectious dis.
eases among domestic animals of the
state, which may come to his knowl-
edge or be brought to the notice of the
live stock sanitary commission, and for
this purpose shall visit at once any To-
cality within the state where any such
contagious or infectious disease of do
mestic animals may be reported to ex-
ist, and make full and careful exami-
nation of all animals supposed to be
diseased, and inquire into the nature
and cause OF any such disease he may
discover prescribe the proper care.
necessary remedies, and direct the san
itary measures necessary to prevent the
spread thereof, and to make full re-
port of his findings and doingS in the
premises, to the live stock sanitary COM
mission, with recommendations and
suggestions as to the means necessary
to be employed to prevent the spread,
and best calculated to exterminate any
and all such contagious or infectious
diseases, by him found to exist among
the domestic animals of the state.
SEC. 4. The state veterinarian shall
make continuous scientific study and
investigation of all diseases of domestic
animals, and the causes, preventatives
and cures thereof, and report the result
OF his study and investigation to the
secretary of the state board of agricul-
ture, giving in plain ordinary language
the symptoms by which any such dis
ease may be identified how liable to be
introduced and spread /; the causes and
conditions to which may be attributed
the spontaneous production of any such
disease and the sanitary and other
measures best calculated to prevent the
termination and arrest the spread Of
any such contagious and infectious dis
ease among live stock, together with
the best known treatment and remedies,
also the treatment necessary in case Of
injury to domestic animals, in time for
publication in the several reports re-
quired by law of the said board of agri-
culture and perform such other service
and duties as may be required by law
or directed by the live stock commission
in the interest of the state.
SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its publica-
ton in the official state paper.