Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-04-23

! AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION
4o3, AND TO AMEND SECTIONS
lo2, 4o5. 400, 500, sol, 5oe, 500, AND
$40 OF TIE GENERAL LAWS
| RELATING TO THE IMPORTA-
/ TON. TESTING AND EXAM
NATION OF CATTLE, HORSES
AND MULES.
1t is hereby enacted by the General
| Assembly OF the State Of Vermont:
| Section l. Section 4o2 of the Gen
cral Laws is hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
Sec. 4o2. A person shall not bring
or cause to be brought, or ship or cause
to be shipped, into this state, any cat
tie. horses or mules, without the writ
Such permission shall be in the form
of a printed or written permit, and shall
state the name and address of the i'm
porter, the number of animals to be
imported, the name of the place where
such animals are to be held in quar-
antlnc for examination. and such other
particulars as shall be deemed neces-
sary. When cattle, horses or mules,
brought into the state Oh such permit
have reached their destination, the
owner shall forthwith notify said COM
missioner of the fact Said commits
sioner shall, within a reasonable time,
i'll person, or through some competent
assistant, examine all such cattle. horses
or mules, and, may apply such tests
as he deems necessary to determine the
health of such animals. Calves under
three months of age from tuberculin-
tested herds and accompanied by per-
NIT and certificate of health, shall not
be detained in quarantine or held for
test Such certificate of health shall be
executed under oath by the party max
ing the shipment Cattle, horses or
mules, found free from tuberculosis or
other contagious or infectious disease
shall forthwith be released from quar-
antine Animals found diseased shall,
if said commissioner deems necessary to
protect the health of domestic animals,
forthwith be slaughtered by and at the
expense of the owner, and the carcasses,
under regulations prescribed by said
commissioner shall be burned or buried
or may be shipped to fertilizer or rem
dering plant as hereinafter provided !;
and, when animals are killed on the
premises of their owner, said commits
sioner or his agent shall witness their
burial or burning, unless same are
shipped as herein provided The owner
may retain the hides of such slaughtered
animals if slaughtered on the owners
premises, except from animals affected
with certain dangerous diseases and if
shipped to fertilizer or rendering plant,
the owner may receive the net proceeds
from the salvage. The owner shall
bear the expense of detention, exam
nation, test and slaughter but not the
personal expenses of said commissioner.
Sec. g. Section 4o5 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows
Sec. 4o5. Cattle brought into the
state on permits may be tested in the
state of origin. When animals have been
so tested, they will not be held for
further test in this state, provided the
tests have been made by veterinarian
whose competency and reliability are
certified to by the authority charged
with the control of live stock sanitary
matters in the state in which such test
was made When the live stock COM
missioner has reason to believe that
tubcrculin or malein testing in any
state is not done in competent or
reliable manner, he may issue permits
for the importation of cattle, horses and
mules from such state subject to quar-
antinc at destination and retest at
the expiration of period not to exceed
sixty days.
Sec. 3. Section 4oo of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as to read
as follows:
Sec. 400. All tubcrculin tests shall be
reported to the live stock commissioner
by the owner of the cattle tested or his
agent. Such report shall be made with
in five days from the time said test is
completed and shall include complete
temperature record and such other in
formation as said commissioner may re-
quirc. If such test is made by n
veterinarian under authority of said
commissioner and any rcactors are
found, they shall be appraised by the
veterinarian or said commissioner and
paid for as provided in section five
hundred and three, provided the owner
of the reacting cattle and the owner or
owners from whom such cattle have
within ninety days been bought, has
tested his entire herd or herds within
one year i'll accordance with the regu-
lations prescribed by said commissioner
under section five hundred, or provided
the owner or owners of such herd or
herds from whom the cattle were bought
shall agree to test such entire herd or
herds under said regulations, in which
case the claim shall not be paid until
such entire herd or herds have been
tested.
Sec 4. Section 500 of the General
Laws is hereby amended so as TO read
as follows:
Sec. 500 An owner Of cattle or
horses may make application to said
commissioner for a state test of his
stock for tuberculosis or CHAMBERS. In
the case of cattle. the commissioner shall
forthwith send said owner an applica-
ton blank and agreement calling for
such information about the herd as he
may require and prescribing as con-
dition of such test the observance on
the part of the owner of such measures
as shall be deemed necessary by the com
missioner to keep the herd free from
tuberculosis. AS soon as possible after
the receipt of such application and
agreement said commissioner shall in
person, or by some competent person
employed by him for that purpose, make
a thorough physical examination of such
animals, and, may subject them to the
tuberculn test In the case of horses
the commissioner shall make, or cause
to be made, upon the application of the
owner thorough physical examination
of said animals and may subject them
to the mallein test. If any of the ami
mails react to the test, they shall be con-