The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-04-08
STATE SUPERVISION OF DIARIES
and LIVESTOCK UNDER ONE BOARD.
New Law, Effective April l, Consolidates Sanitary Board
With Commission and Gives Authority to Further
Protect Public Health and Eradicate Disease.

state veterinary surgeons, and federal
lay inspectors may likewise be ap-
pointed agents for the livestock SAM
tary board, all to serve without COM
~pensation.
g The state veterinary surgeon or any
agent or officer of the sanitary board
is empowered to enter any lot, yard,
land, building, room, enclosure, car,
wagon, boat or other place or vehicle
used for the treatment, storage, manu-
facture, display or transportation of
animals. meat or dairy products in
tended for sale or disposal as food or
whereon or wherein may be found any
livestock affected with or which has
been exposed to an infections, conta-
gious, communicable or dangerous
disease, or disease carrying insects.
Powers of Sanitary Board.
The livestock sanitary board shall
have power to supervise the state vet
Urinary surgeon and all other en-
ployes, prescribe their duties, compen-
sation and tenure in office; to remove
any of it's appointees for cause; to
supervise sanitary conditions of live
stock in this state; to foster, and pro-
tect the livestock industry by the in
~vestigation and control of diseases; to
promulgate and enforce rules as it
may deem necessary to prevent in
PRODUCTION or spreading of diseases
and governing inspections and tests of
livestock intended for importation in
to the state; to establish standards
and sanitary conditions of slaughter
houses, meat and meat products,
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products, barns, cows, factories and
other places where products for con-
sumption as food are kept, stored or
handled; to promulgate rules for the
control of manufactured foods for
livestock; to install an adequate sys-
tenn of meat inspection at any time
and any place; to cause to be slaught-
cred any livestock known to be af-
fected with or exposed to infectious
diseases and to destroy barns, sheds
or other buildings or personal prop
erty similarly infected; to indemnify
owner of such stock or property UNI
der the provisions of this act; to re-
quire persons engaged in the hand
ling of meat food p%roucts or dairy
products to furnish statistics of the
quantity and cost of such food and
the name and address of the person
supplying such products; and to pro-
mitigate rules for the inspection and
tuberculin test of dairy cattle or other
animals.
Naturalization Provision.
One of the important changes in
the law, as it has existed in the past,
is in the matter Of payment to own
ers for the loss sustained in the
slaughter of diseased animals. Here
tofore the owner has been reimbursed
to the full amount of the assessed
value of the animal, the tax assess
ment being taken as the basis. Now,
under the new law, the owner will re-
ceive by rs percent of the assessed
value. The reason for this is that
under the law in existence up to two
years ago the full and true value was
not taken as the tax assessment for
the reason that the tax figured at 100
percent of the assessed value. When
the new Classification law was adopted
two years G and the tax imposed
upon a percentage of about one-third
the true value of the cattle, the as
sessed value was about doubled and
the payment for slaughtered cattle
upOl III iS" value dlIlOSG DIOht lic
board.
Excluded from Indemnity.
Owners of animals or property de-
stroyed shall not be entitled to in
demnity when the animals belong to
the United States, when brought into
the state violating any of the provis-
ions of this act or the rules of the
board, when owner knew animal was
diseased when it came into his pos
session, when animals had the disease
when brought into the state; when
owner has not used diligence to pre-
vent disease; when entire herd from
which animal is killed has not been
under supervision of the board; when
animals are not destroyed within 60
days after being condemned.
Schedule of License Fees.
1t shall be unlawful, for any per-
son to conduct any creamery, receiv-
ing station, dairy, butter, cheese, con-
densed milk OF ice cream factory
without first securing a license which
will expire on the last day of Deem
Der of the year in which issued. The
schedule fees provided by the act fol-
lows:
Diaries of 20 cows or less, 81 an
nually.
Diaries of oven 20 cows, $3.50 an
nually.
Cheese, butter and condensed milk
factories with annual output of less
than 100000 pounds. S. annually.
Cheees, butter and condensed milk
factories having an annual output of
500 900 pounds or more. $25 annually.
. Ice cream factories having an an
rual output of less than $4,000 gal
Ions, 81 annually.
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