the duties required by this act: Provided, however, That in no one year shall the board be in session more than sixty days, except upon call of the Governor, and each member of the board shall receive 10 cents for each and every mile actually traveled, which per diem and mileage shall be paid on the warrant of the Auditor, to be issued on the filing in the Auditor's office of an itemized account thereof, properly certified thereto by such member, duly countersigned by the Secretary, with the seal of the board and approval of its chairman.

SEC. 2. The Governor shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the legislative council appoint, a skilled veterinary surgeon for the Territory of Arizona, who at the date of such appointment shall be a graduate in good standing of a recognized college of veterinary surgeons, and who shall hold his office for the term of two years, unless sooner removed by the board; the salary of said veterinary surgeon shall be the sum of $1,200 per annum and 10 cents per mile for each mile actually and necessarily traveled in the discharge of his duties. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties the Territorial Veterinarian shall take and subscribe an oath to faithfully perform the duties of his said office and shall execute a bond to the Territory of Arizona in the sum of $5,000, with good and sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, which bond and sureties thereto shall be approved by the Governor, and said bond, together with the oath of office, shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Territory.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animal or animals who discovers, suspects, or has reason to believe that any of his domestic anima's, or domestic animals in his charge, are affected with any infectious or contagious disease to immediately notify such fact, belief, or suspicion to the board or any member of it or to the Territorial Veterinarian; and it shall be the duty of any person who discovers the existence of any contagious or infectious disease among the domestic animals of another to report the same to the said board or Territorial Veterinarian, and any attempt to conceal the existence of such disease, or to wilfully or maliciously obstruct or resist the said board or the Territorial Veterinarian in the discharge of their duties as herein set forth, shall be deemed a misdemeanor.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the board provided for in the first section of this act to protect the health of the domestic animals of the Territory from the contagious and infectious disease of a malignant character, and for this purpose it is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain, and enforce such quarantine, sanitary, and other regulations, including methods of disinfecting railroad cars, as it may deem necessary. It shall be the duty of any member of said board, upon receipt by him of reliable information of the existence among the domestic animals of the Territory of any malignant disease, to immediately notify the Territorial Veterinarian, who shall go at once to the place where any such disease is alleged to exist and make a careful examination of the animals believed to be affected with any such disease, and ascertain, if possible, what, if any, disease exists among the live stock reported to be affected and whether the same is contagious or infectious or not; and if said disease is found to be of a malignant, contagious. or infectious character, he shall direct a temporary quarantine and sanitary regulations necessary to prevent the spread of any such disease and report forthwith his findings and actions to the chairman of the board.

SEC. 5. Upon the receipt by the chairman of the board of the report of the Territorial Veterinarian provided for in Section 4 of this act, he shall immediately, if the exigencies of the case require it, convene the board at the most convenient place; and if upon consideration of the report of the veterinarian the board shall be satisfied that any contagious or infectious disease exist which seriously affects the health of domestic animals, they shall, after ascertaining and determining the extent of premises or grounds infected, authorize the veterinarian to establish the

quarantine, sanitary, and police regulations necessary to circumscribe and exterminate such disease: and no domestic animal liable to become infected with the disease or capable of communicating the same shall be permitted to leave the district, premises, or grounds so quarantined except by the authority of the veterinarian. The said board shall prescribe such rules and regulations as will enable the veterinarian to perfectly isolate the diseased and exposed animals from all other domestic animals which are susceptible of becoming infected with disease; they shall also, from time to time, prescribe and enforce such directions, rules, and regulations as to separating, mode of handling, treating, feeding, and caring for such infected or diseased and exposed animals as it shall deem necessary to prevent the two classes of anima's from coming in contact with each other; and the said board or any of the members thereof, or said veterinarian, are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon any grounds or premises to carry out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 6. When the said board shall have determined the quarantine and other regulations necessary to prevent the spread among domestic animals of any malignant, contagious, or infectious disease found to exist among the live stock of the Territory, and given the orders as herein before provided prescribing quarantine and other regulations, it shall notify the Governor thereof, who shall issue his proclamation proclaiming the boundary of such quarantine and the orders, rules, and regulations prescribed by the board, which proclamation may be published by written or printed handbills posted within the boundaries or on the lines of the district, premises. places, or grounds so quarantined, or by being published in the stock papers of the Territory: Provided, That if the board decides that it is not necessary, by reason of the limited extent of the district in which such disease exists, that a proclamation should be issued, then none shall be issued, but the board shall give notice as may to it seem best to make the quarantine established effective.

SEC. 7. In any case of epidemic disease where premises have been previously quarantined by the Territorial Veterinarian, as before provided, he is further authorized and empowered, when in his judgment necessary, by and with the consent of the board, to order the slaughter of any or of all diseased animals upon said premises and of all animals that have been exposed to contagion or infection, under the following restrictions: The order for slaughter shall be in writing and shall be made in duplicate, and there shall be a distinct order and a duplicate for each owner of the animal or animals condemned, the original of each order to be filed in the office of the said board and the duplicate given to the said owner. And, further, before slaughtering any animal or animals that have been exposed only and do not show disease the veterinarian shall call in consultation with him two reputable practicing veterinarians or physicians, residents of the Territory, or if this is impracticable, then two reputable and well-known stock owners, residents of the Territory, and shall have the written indorsement upon his orders of at least one of said consulting physicians or stock owners, stating that the said action is necessary, and the consent in writing of the owner or person in charge before such animal or animals shall be slaughtered. It shall be the duty of the Territorial Veterinarian to superintend the slaughtering of such animals as may be condemned, and also the destruction of the carcass, causing the same to be destroyed as cheaply as practicable, which destruction shall be by burning to ashes, and shall include every part of the animal and hide and also excrement and stable bedding or corral litter as far as possible.

SEC. 8. Any person, persons, firm, or corporation who shall have in his possession any domestic animal affected with any contagious or infectious disease, knowing such animal to be so affected, or after having received notice that such animal is so affected, who shall sell, drive, ship, trade, or give away such diseased animal or animals which have been exposed to such infection or contagion, sheep infected with scab upon the range excepted, or who shall move or drive any domestic

animal in violation of any direction, rule, regulation, or order establishing and regulating quarantines, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor: Provided, That any owner of any domestic animal which has been affected with or exposed to any contagious or infectious disease may dispose of the same after having obtained from the Territorial Veterinarian a bill of health of such animal. It shall be unlawful to kill for butcher purposes any diseased animal, to sell, give away, or use any part of it or its milk, or to remove any part of the skin.

SEC. 9. Whenever the said board shall have good reason to believe that any contagious or infectious disease exists in any other State, Territory, or countries, or that there are conditions that render domestic animals from such districts liable to convey such disease, they shall report the same to the Governor. Thereupon the Governor shall, by proclamation, prohibit the importation of any live stock of the kind diseased into the Territory, unless accompanied with a certificate of health given by a duly authorized State or Territorial Veterinarian, and all such animals arriving in this Territory shall be examined upon arrival by the Territorial Veterinary Surgeon, and if deemed necessary placed in close quarantine until all danger of infection is passed, when they shall be released by order of the Territorial Veterinarian. All expense connected with such examination shall be paid by the owner or owners of such stock.

SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm, or corporation to drive or transport, or cause to be driven or transported, into the Territory of Arizona any live stock from those States, Territories, or countries against which the Governor has proclaimed a quarantine, as hereby provided for in Section 9 of this act: Provided, That cattle in transit through the Territory on a railroad, when not unloaded, are not liable to any penalties attached to this act. Otherwise the regulations contained herein shall apply as well to those animals in transit through the Territory as to those resident therein, and the said board, a member thereof, or the Territorial Veterinary Surgeon shall have full authority to examine, whether in yards, or pasture, or stables, or upon the public domain, all animals passing through the Territory or any part of it, and on detection or suspicion of disease to take possession of and treat and dispose of said animals in the same manner as is prescribed for animals resident in the Territory.

SEC. 11. Any person, persons, firm, corporation, owner, or agent who shall knowingly bring into this Territory any domestic animal or animals affected with any contagious or infectious disease, or any animal or animals which have been exposed to any contagious or infectious disease, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 12. Except as otherwise provided in this act, any person, persons, firm, corporation, owner, or agent who shall violate, disregard, or evade, or attempt to violate, disregard, or evade any of the provisions of this act, or who shall violate, disregard, or evade, or attempt to violate, disregard, or evade any of the rules, regulations, orders, or directions of the said board establishing and governing quarantine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person, persons, firm, corporation, owner, or agent who violates any of the provisions of this or of Sections 3, 5, 8, or 11 of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $300 and shall be liable for any damages that may be sustained by reason of their failure to comply with the provisions of the said sections.

Paragraphs 1, 2, and 4 of the regulations issued by the Live Stock Sanitary Board on May 1, 1900, are applicable to tuberculosis as one of the contagious diseases, and they are given herewith:

First. All persons desirous of shipping or driving live stock of any class into or through the Territory of Arizona should secure a certificate of health for the

same from the State or county veterinarian where they originate, declaring that said animals are free from all contagious and infectious diseases, and a copy of said health certificate should be sent to the Secretary of the Board or Territorial Veterinarian as early as possible.

Second. It shall be the duty of all transportation companies before entering the Territory with any live stock to inform the Sanitary Board, through its Secretary or Territorial Veterinarian at Phoenix, stating:

(a) Name of the shipper. (b) Place from which the stock originated. (c) Destination of stock. (d) Whether or not shipment is accompanied by certificate of health, and, if so, by whom signed.

Should they originate in a healthy district, they will be admitted if accompanied by proper health certificate (according to Rule 1).

Should the stock originate in an infected district which would render them liable to communicate an infectious or contagious disease, the Territorial Veterinarian shall place them in quarantine until all danger of infection is passed.

Fourth. When application is made for the admission of live stock into the Territory of Arizona, not accompanied by proper health certificate, the Territorial Veterinarian may inspect said stock at point of entry into the Territory of Arizona before issuing such permit, and the owner of said stock shall pay the Territorial Veterinarian his legal mileage and per diem while making such inspection.

ARKANSAS.

There is no law relative to bovine tuberculosis in Arkansas.

CALIFORNIA.

California has a general law against contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals which in a general sense includes tuberculosis. This law provides that the owners of diseased animals shall keep them isolated from other animals of the same species and shall not drive them upon a public highway or onto a range where they will come in contact with other animals of like species not so affected.

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AN ACT to prevent the spread of contagious or infectious diseases among domestic animals. (Approved March 23, 1893.)

The people of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Any person or persons, company, or corporation, owning or having possession or control of any animal affected by any contagious or infectious disease, who shall fail to keep the same within an inclosure, or herd the same in some place where they will be secure from contact with other animals of like kind not so affected, or who shall suffer such infected animals to be driven on the public highway or to range where they will be likely to come in contact with other animals not so affected, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, punished by a fine of not more than $500 for each offense.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

COLORADO.

Colorado has no law relative to bovine tuberculosis.

CONNECTICUT.

Dr. C. A. Lindsley, Secretary of the Connecticut State Board of Health, says: "There were a number of laws relating to tuberculosis in cattle. In 1895 some additional legislation was enacted which was somewhat in advance of public sentiment, and in 1897 every law on the subject was repealed excepting one forbidding the sale of milk from any cows that were known to be tuberculous."

The section (General Statutes, 1888) not repealed is as follows:

SEC. 2664. Any person who shall knowingly sell or expose for sale milk, or any product of milk, from any cow which shall have been adjudged by the Commission upon Diseases of Domestic Animals affected with tuberculosis or other blood disease, shall be fined not more than $7 or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

DELAWARE.

No special law relating to bovine tuberculosis is on the statutes of Delaware; the disease is embraced in the general act of May 4, 1893, providing for the eradication of infectious and contagious diseases among domestic animals.

The Governor of the State is authorized to issue a proclamation, when necessary, stating that an infectious or contagious disease exists in the State, naming the locality, and warning all persons to seclude their animals of the kind diseased and to take the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of the disease.

Animals coming into the State may be detained for inspection and examination. The Governor may prescribe regulations for the destruction of animals affected with a contagious or infectious disease; no animal shall be destroyed, however, until examined by a veterinarian in the employ of the Governor. No provision is made for indemnifying the owners of animals killed on account of being diseased.

LAW.

(CHAPTER 639, VOL. 19, LAWS OF DELAWARE.)

AN ACT for the eradication of infectious and contagious diseases among the lower animals. (Passed at Dover, May 4, 1893.)

SECTION 1. That in order to protect the lives and property of citizens of Delaware when threatened by epidemics of contagious and infectious diseases among the lower animals, authority is hereby vested in the Governor of this State to issue his proclamation stating that an infectious or contagious disease exists in any county or geographical district of the State, and warning all persons to seclude, in the premises where they may be at the time, all animals within the quarantined district that are of a kind susceptible to contract the disease in question, and ordering all persons to take such precautions against the spread of such disease as the nature thereof may in his judgment render necessary or expedient.

SEC. 2. To call upon all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to carry out and enforce the provisions of such proclamations, orders, and regulations; and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs to obey and observe all orders and instructions which they may receive from the Governor in the premises.