The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-25

| OF account of being affected with, or eX-
posed to. a contagious, or communicable
disease, or on account of being infected
or infested with the carrier or the car
riers OF the Gauss or the causes of a
| contagious infectious or communicable
disease of live stock.
| Sec. ?. Be it further enacted that the
professor of veterinary science of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute shall act
as state veterinarian of Alabama. The
State veterinarian shall nominate. and
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board shall
elect, as many assistant State veterinar-
ians and State live stock inspectors as
! they may deem necessary and as the
| funds at their disposal shall permit.
Sec g. Be it further enacted, that the
State veterinarian is authorized and di-
rected to quarantine "a stall, lot, yard,
pasture, field, town, city, township. coun-
ty, or any part of the State of Alabama,
when he shall determine the fact that live
stock in such place or places are AFFECT
| ed with a contagious, infectious or com
| municable disease, or when said i've
| stock are infested or infected with the
! carrier or the carriers of contagious,
| infectious or communicable disease. The
| State veterinarian or an assistant State
veterinarian shall give written or printed
notices of the establishment of said quar-
antine to the owners or keepers of said
! livestock, and to the proper officials OF
| railroad, steamboat or other thanspor-
tation companies doing business in or
through the quarantined part or parts Of
| the State.
Sec. A. Be it further enacted, that no
railroad company, or the owners or mas
| tiers of any steam or other vessel or boat
shall receive for transportation or shall
| transport livestock from any quarantined
! part into any other part of Alabama eX-
cept as hereinafter provided. No per
son, corporation or company shall de-
! liver live stock for transportation to any
| railroad company or sailing or steam
vessel or boat, in a guaranteed part OF
| Alabama except as hereinafter provided
| No person, company or corporation shall
| drive or cause to be driven live stock on
| foot. or transport live stock in a private
| conveyance or cause live stock to be
! transported in a private conveyance from
| a quarantined part to non-quarantined
i part of Alabama, except as hereinafter
provided.
! Sec {. BE it further enacted. that live
| stock may be moved within the limits of
| a quarantined part or from a quarantined
/ part of Alabama only under and in com
pliance with, the rules and regulations
! of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board.
/ 1t shall be unlawful to move or to allow
to be moved, any live stock from one
place to another within the limits of q
quarantned part or from a quarantined
part to a non-quarantined part of Ala
bama, in any other manner or method
or under any conditions other than pre-
scribed by the rules and regulations Of
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board.
Sec c. Be 1t further enacted, that all
live stock, except such live stock as are
to be used for immediate slaughter, when
| brought into Alabama by person. COM
| pany or corporation, railroad or other
transportation companies. shall be ac-
companied by certificate of health and
said certificate shall state that said ami
NAL or animals are free of contagious, in
| fectous or communicable disease, and
the carrier or the carriers of the cause
or the causes of such diseases. This GER
tilcate must be made by a qualified vet
erinarian Immediately after he has per-
sonally examined the live stock and be-
fore the live stock has been shipped into
Alabama. This certificate shall be at
tached to, and accompany, the Shipping
| bill of the live stock to the place to which
the live stock is shipped, and the owner
of the live stock or agent of the trans
portation company shall mail or send
/ said certificate to the State veterinarian
Immediately following the arrival of the
live stock at its place of destination. The
State veterinarian shall furnish qualified
veterinarians and transportation compa-
MES with blank health certificates at ac-
! tual cost.
Sec Z. Be it further enacted that own
ers, renters, or parties in possession of
quarantined live stock quarantined
| places shall follow the directions in the
rules and regulations of the State Live
Stock Sanitary Board in cleaning
and disinfecting infected live stock
and infested or infected quaran-
tined places, and in destroying tine
! carriers of the cause of a contagious,
infest or infect live stock and quaran-
tined places. Said cleaning of said live
! stock and the disinfecting of said places
and destroying of said carriers shall be
done by the owners or the parties in
possession of the infected live stock and
places. in a reasonable time after re-
ceiving written or printed notice from
| the State veterinarian, an assistant State
veterinarian, or State live stock in
! spector. Any person, company or corpo-
ration violating the provisions of this
sec ion shall be guilty OF misdemeanor
and on conviction shall be punished for
each and every violation by fine not
less than ten dollars, nor more than one
hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment not
less than ten days nor more than sixty
days, or both such fine and imprison-
ment.
Sec. Be 1t further enacted, that the
State veterinarian, the assistant State
veterinarian and the State live stock in
! spectors are hereby empowered to enter
upon the premises or into any barns or
porarily or permanently kept in the State
| of Alabama in the discharge of the duties
| prescribed in this act. Any person, or
! persons who forcibly assault, resist, OPP
pose, prevent, impede or interfere with
the State veterinarian, an assistant State
tor in the execution Of his or their du-