The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-05-21
Public General L0zDs.

States or Territories, and the Local Boards
OF Health in the several counties shall investi.
gate all reported cases of contagious or in
fectlous diseases of livestock in their re-.
spectiye counties, and if found to be con.
taglous or infectious, shall report the same
at once to the said State Livestock Sanitary
Board.
SECTION 3. And be it enacted, That each
member OF said board shall be paid the sum
OF five dollars per day, and necessary ex-
penses for time actually spent in discharge of
his duties.
SECTION a. And be it enactea, That the
sum OF three thousand dollars per year be
and the same is hereby appropriated, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, to meet
The necessary expenses of said board, in
Guiding rent, printing, &c
SECTION B. And be at enacted, That it shall
6ethe duty of all persons praclicing veter-
mary medicine in this Stale to report i'm
mediately to said board all cases of infectious
or contagious disease among live stock,
which may come to their knowledge, and a
failure so to do for forty-eight hours after he
or they shall come into such knowledge,
shall be deemed misdemeanor and on con
vlctlon thereof, shall be fined Il sum not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars for each offence.
SECTION 6. And be ii enacted, That it
shall be unlawful for any person to inocuate
any animal IN this State with the virus of
any Infectious or coht"Siouo diss~so i.Aailent
to animals without the consent of said Live
Stock Sanitary Board and that any person
convicted of this offence, shall be fined
sum not less than one hundred nor more
than five hundred dollars in the discretion of
the Court.
SECTION Z. And be 1t enacted, That for
the performance of the duties imposed on
them by the Act of which this is supplement
tai, all constables sheriffs or deputy sherifs
or other State officers, shall be paid as for the
performance Of similar duties under existing
laws.
SECTION 8. And be 1t enacted, That it shall
be the duty of all States Attorneys to prose
cute all persons accused of violating this Act
or the Act to which this is a supplement,
SECTION O. Ind be at enacted, That all
rules and regulations formulated and issued
by said board in pursuance Of the powers
hereby conferred on them shall have the force
of law, and all violations thereof shall be
punished as provided in the original Act of
eighteen hundred and eighty-four chapter
one hundred and fiity-seven, and all appraise
ments of animals to be slaughtered or OF
buildings to be destroyed, shall be approved
by said board before such animals are
slaughtered or such buildings destroyed, and
said board Shall have the discretion to have
such appraised animals destroyed or quaran-
tined.
SECTION 10. And6e IL enacted, That so
much of section eight, of the Act of eighteen
hundred and eighty-four, chapter one hun
dred and fifty seven, as limits the amount to
be used in any two years for the pay
ment of animals slaughtered, be and the same
is hereby repealed, and that all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent with this Act, be and
the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION II. And be 1t enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from the date of its
passage
Approved April l, 1886.
We hereby certify thatthc aioregong is
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session,
1886.
L. b. PRETTYMAN,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
w. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.