The record-union., 1896-07-25
VERY IMPORTANT MATTERS.
Affecting the Health and Well-Being Of
the Community.
TO be Considered To-Day by the Board
Of Supervisors Of the
County.

The Board Of Supervisors will meet
to-day to attend to some special mat
ters of Importance which they had not
time to consider while sitting last week
as Board Of Equalization.
One of these matters is the repairing
of the Twelfth-street bridge over the
! American River, which has to sustain
more travel than any other bridge in
the county. Certain repairs are needed,
and it will be necessary for the board
to act In the matter at once.
The board will also consider two i'm
portant ordinances that Chairman Nor
rison has had prepared. One relates to
the creation of the office Of Veterinary
Inspector and the other to the inspection
of dairies, slaughter-houses, markets,
and all places where articles of food
are sold. These ordinances are as fol-
lows:
ORDINANCE NO. -.
Creating the office of Veterinary In
spector and prescribing his duties.
The Board of Supervisors of the coun-
ty of Sacramento do ordain as fol-
lows:
Section 1. The office of Veterinary In
spector of the county of Sacramento,
State of California, is hereby created.
Immediately after this ordinance shall
take effect the Board of Supervisors OF
the county of Sacramento shall elect
veterinary surgeon to fill said office, who
shall hold office at the pleasure of said
board, and shall receive a salary OF S1OU
per month, and all necessary travelling
expenses incurred while engaged in per-
forming the duties of his office. NO
person shall be eligible to this office VINO
shall not be duly qualified veterinary
surgeon holding a certificate from the
State Veterinary Medical Board, which
certificate shall have been recorded IN
the office of the County Clerk OF the
county Of Sacramento, and who ShaH
not have been a resident of the county
of Sacramento for a period Of one year
next preceding his election, and who
shall not be an elector of the State of
California.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of said
Veterinary Inspector to visit all
dairies. slaughter-houses, markets, and
other places from which milk, meat,
poultry, fish, or game are sold or sup
piled for human food, and inspect the
sanitary condition of all places from
which said articles of food are distri-
buted He shall inspect all living ami
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all meat, poultry, fish, or game offered
or intended to be offered for sale for
human food, and shall at all times, for
the purpose of inspection, have free ac-
cess to all dairies or other places where
any domestic animals are kept; also,
all slaughter-houses, markets, and other
places from which meat poultry, fish,
or game are sold, or offered to be sold,
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refusal to permit such entry and access,
or any resistance thereof shall be deem
ed a misdemeanor.
Section 3. He shall as soon as possible
upon receipt of sufficient information
that any domestic animal within the
county Of Sacramento is affected with
any infectious or contagious disease, ex-
anime said animal, and If deemed nee
essary by said Inspector make the nee
essary examination or test according
to the rules laid down by the United
States Bureau of Animal Industry from
which he shall obtain his diagonostic
agents. and if said animal be found to
be affected with any contagious or In
fectious incurable disease said Veterin-
ary Inspector shall at once notify the
owner or person in whose possession
said animal shall be, that said animal
is so affected and request him to deprive
said animal of life.
Section f. Upon the discovery OF any
animal affected with any contagious
or infectious disease he shall prescrlpe
and apply such rules and regulations
as in his Judgment the case may re-
ouire for the effectual suppression ana
eradication of the disease
Section :. Said Veterinary Inspector
shall keep a record of all examinations
and tests made by him and file month
" report thereof with the Chairman OF
the Board Of Supervisors.
Section 6. The Board of Supervisors
shall employ such assistants and fur-
nish such supplies and material as may
be necessary in carrying into effect the
provisions of this ordinance.
Section Z. All ordinances and parts
Of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
Section 8. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force from and a1ter
its passage.
ORDINANCE NO. =.
An ordinance regulating the health OF
domestic animals and the sanitary
condition of dairies, slaughter-houses'
markets and other places from wnlch
the food supply is distributed
The Board of Supervisors of the coun-
ty Of Sacramento do ordain as follows:
Section L. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person to keep within the county
of Sacramento any domestic animal
known to be affected with glanders.
farcy, anthrax, tuberculosis, splenic or
splenetfc fever or any other contagious
CT infectious incurable disease.
Section 2. Every person owning, or
who shall have in his possession, any
domestic animal affected, or which he
has reason to believe is affected, with
any of the diseases mentioned in Sec
tion ] of this ordinances, shall at once
report the same to the Veterinary In
spector. who shall as soon as possible
proceed to make the necessary examina-
rion or test of said animal according to
the rules laid down by the United States
Bureau of Animal Industry.
Section g. Every domestic animal
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