The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-02-15
AFFECTING LIVESTOCK INTERESTS.

A bill which has been passed b.
the state Legislature, making prOvis
ion for the treatment of mango among
cattle, is of considerable interest t
Montana stockmen. About a yea
ago the federal authorities issued or
ders that Montana cattle coming from
districts where mango or scabies wa:
known to exist must not be shipped
out Of the state, but this order was la
ter modified with the understanding
that a state law dealing with the mat
ter would be enacted. The measure
passed by the legislative assembly is to
this effect:
The first section of the bill confers
upon the board of stock commission
ers. in addition to its other duties,
that of determining the existence and
employing the most efficient and prac.
teal means to prevent and suppress
scabies, and adopt such quarantine
regulations as the board may deem
wise, all such regulations to conform
to those of the department of agricul.
ture at Washington.
The second section of the bill tells
what the board shall do when it has
determined the disease exists ia any
district, a. follows:
"Whenever the said board shall
from time to time have determined
that said disease exists in any such
district or districts, and created and
defined the same, the same shall be
known as an infected district or dis.
~tricts, and the board shall as soon as
possible after creating such infected
district, u notice of the creation
and Of the limits thereof to be given
by publication once a week for three
successive weeks in some newspaper
within and of general circulation with.
in said district, and if no newspaper
be published therein, then in some
newspaper published at a point near.
thereto: and thereupon it shall be
the duty OF all persons owning or hav-
ing the control of any of the aforesaid
of livestock within the bound.
aries of said district, to dip or treat
said livestock within said district or
SO much Of said livestock as the regu.
lations of said board applicable to
said district may require-the dipping
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compliance with the regulations of
said board, aud within such reason.
able time after the completion of the
of the notice of the crea-
lion of said district as said board may
prescribe. The said board shall, be-.
ore publishing said notice, as to any
district, prescribe the dipping
applicable thereto; and
hall publish said regulations with
said notice."
The fourth section provides that 80
lays after the expiration of the publ
cation Of a notice creating any
Infected district, the board shall
cause to be seized and gathered and
Tipped and treated all undipped or
1ntreated live stock within the district.
But no obligation Is to be created
. gainst the board, the expense to be
paid by the board out Of any sums
out of the liability created by
the act.
Section four makes the state veterin.
and stock inspectors subject to
the supervision and control of the
board in the exercise Of the powers
created by the act.
Stock inspectors for the purposes Of
the act shall be deemed deputy state
veterinarians subject to the approval
of the department of agriculture at
Washington, and they are to act as
such deputies without bond or compen-
sation from the state. All dipping is
to be under the supervision of the
state veterinarian.
The board is empowered and re.
quired to impose and collect u dipping
Inspection fee to cover the estimated
cost of dipping or treating and super
vision.
The seventh section provides that
for all money paid out by the board
pursuant to the provisions of the act
and in addition such further sum per
head as may be fixed by the board as
a peualty, and for all sums due on ac.
count of dipping or treating super
vision, the board shall have IA lien
upon all live stock of the person own.
ing the same, and the board has power
to enforce the lien by appropriate &C.
ton.
The secretary is to keep in his Office
a record Of all sums due it on account
of payments made or expenditures in
Cured OF account Of the dipping of
any stock, and this record is to be
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