The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-03
STATE VETERINARY SURGEON.


An Act to Provide for the Appointments al
State Veterinary Surgeon, and to Pre-
scribe His Duties.
Be 1t enacted by the LEGISLATURE Of the State q
Kansas:
SECTION L The Governor. by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, shall, imme-
diately upon the passage of this act. appoint .
competent and skilled veterinary surgeon for
the State, who, at the date Of such appoint
ment, shall be q graduate in good standing or
recognized college of veterinary surgery,
and who shall hold his office until his successor
Is appointed and qualified. unless sooner
removed, for cause, by the Goveror. Inc
Governor shall also, at the regular session or
the Legislature in 1885, and every TWO years
thereafter, and during u regular session OF
the Legislature, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, appoint a competent
and skillful Veterinary Surgeon Tor the State,
having the qualifications above mentioned
whose term of Office shall be for two years
from the first day of April next succeeding
his appointment, unless sooner removed as
hereinbefore provided The Veterinary Sur
Geon for the State shall keep mis- Office at the
Capitol OF the State in a room 10 DC provided
by the Secretary of State, and shall receives
salary of twenty five hundred $500 dollars
per annum, payable as the salaries or State
officers are paid, and actual necessary travel
ing expenses by him incurred and paid, in
from the Treasury, upon itemlzed &C
counts thereof properly verified;
by t6e Governor The Governor shall i'm
mediately I'LL all vacancies which may at any
time occur in the office of State Veterinarian
SEC 3 Before entering upon the duties or
his office, the State Veterinarian shall
take and subscribe an oath to faithfully
discharge the duties of his said office
and shall execute bond to the State OF Kan
SaS in the sum OF hve thousand tS5,UUOl dollars.
with good ano sufficient sureties, conditioned
for the faithful performance of the duties or
his office; which bond and sureties thereto
shall be approved by the Governor, and said
bond, together with his oath of office. shall be
deposited in the Office of the Secretary or
State.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the State
Veterinarian, under direction OF the Live
Stock Sanitary Commission for the state, to
investigate any and all cases of contagious or
infectious disease among domestic ami
to his knowledge or be brought to
the notice of the Live Stock Sanitary Commits
sion, and for this purpose shall visit at once
any locality within the State where any such
contagious or infectious disease or do
nestle animals may be reported to ex-
list, and make a full and careful exam,
to be diseased, and inqire into the nature and
| cause of any such disease which he may dis
| cover; prescribe the proper care, necessary
remedies and direct the sanitary measures
thereof; and to make full re-
port of his findings and dofngs in the
premises, to the Live Stock Sanitary Com
lions as to the means necessary to be en-
plOyed to prevent the spread, and best calcu-
lated to eXterminate any and all such con-
tagious or infectious diseases, by HIM found
| to exist among the domestic animals of the
State.
SEC. 4. The State Veterinarian shall make
a continuous scientific study and investiga-
ton of all diseases of domestic animals, and
the causes, representatives. and cures thereof,
and report the result of his study
and Investigation to the Secretary
of the State Board of Agriculture,
giving in plain ordinary language the symp-
toms by which any such disease may be
identified; how liable to be introduced and
spread; the causes and conditions
to which may be attributed the spon-
taneous production OF any such
| disease, and the sanitary and other meas
ures best calculated TO prevent the germina-
ton and arrest the spread of any such conta-
giOus and infectious disease among live
stock, together with the best known
treatment and remedies, also the treat
ment necessary in case of injury to
domestic animals in time for publication in
| the several reports required by law of the said
Board Of Agriculture; and perform such
| other service and duties as may be required
| by law or directed by the Live Stock Commits
! sion in the interest of the State.
| SEC. ). This act shall take effect and be In
| force from and after its publication In ths
official State paper.