any owner of any domestic animal which has been with or exposed to any contagions or infectious diseases may dispose of the same after having obtained from the State Veterinarian a certificate of health for such animal or animals.

SEC. 14. Any person or corporation who shall knowingly bring into the State any domestic animal or animals which are infected with any contagious or infectious disease, or any animal or animals which have been exposed to any such contagious or infectious disease shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay to the State not less than $100 nor more than $500, to be recovered by suit in the name of the State.

SEC. 15. Any person who owns or is in possession of live stock which is infected, or which is reported under the provisions of this act to be infected with any contagious or infectious disease, who shall wilfully prevent or refuse to allow the State Veterinarian or commission or other authorized officer or officers to examine such stock, or shall hinder or obstruct the State Veterinarian or other authorized officer or officers in any examination of or in any attempts to examine such stock, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than $10 nor more than $500.

SEC. 16. Any person who shall knowingly violate, disregard, evade, or attempt to violate, disregard, or evade any of the provisions of this act, or who shall knowingly violate, disregard, or evade any of the rules, regulations, orders, or directions of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission establishing and governing quarantine shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than $10 nor more than $500.

SEC. 17. The comm.ssion provided for in this act shall have power to employ at the expense of the State such persons and purchase such supplies and materials as may be necessary to carry into full effect all necessary orders given by it.

SEC. 18. The commissioners shall have power to call upon any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or constable to execute their orders, and such officers shall obey the orders of said commiss ouers, and the officers performing such duties shall receive compensation therefor as is provided by law for like services, and shall be paid therefor in like manner as other expenses of said commission are paid. And any officer may arrest and take before any justice of the peace of the county any person found violating any of the provisions of this act, and such officer shall immediately notify the prosecuting attorney of such arrest, whose duty it shall be to prosecute the person so offending according to law.

SEC. 19. Whenever the Governor of the State shall have good reason to believe that dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease has become epizootic in certain localities in other States. Territories, or countries, or that there are conditions which render such domestic animals from such infected districts liable to convey such disease, he shall by proclamation prohibit the importation of any live stock of the kind diseased into the State, unless accompanied by a certificate of health given by a duly authorized veterinary surgeon, and all such animals arriving in this State shall be examined immediately by said commission or some member thereof, and if he or they deem it necessary, he or they shall have said animal inspected by the State Veterinary Surgeon, and if, in his opinion, there is any danger of contagion or infection, they shall be placed in close quarantine until such danger of contagion or infection is passed, when they shall be released by order of said commission or some member thereof.

SEC. 20. For the purposes of this act, each member of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission is hereby authorized to administer oaths and affirmations.

SEC. 21. The commission is hereby authorized and required to cooperate with any board, commission, or officer acting under any present or future act of the Congress of the Un ted States for the suppression and prevention of contagious and infectious diseases among domestic animals, and the same right of entry, inspection, and condemnation of diseased animals upon private premises is hereby

granted to the United States board, commission, or officer as is hereby granted to the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission.

SEC. 22. Whenever it is deemed necessary by the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission to supervise and inspect any of the lines of transportation in this State and the stock yards in connection with the same, suitable inspectors shall be appointed by said commission whose duty it shall be to examine such lines of transportation and stock yards as to condition, manner of transporting stock, and such other matters as such commission may direct, and report such examination in detail to said commission, and the expense of such examination shall be paid by the corporation or corporations or individuals in charge of such lines of transportation or stock yards. Any such corporation, corporations, or individuals owning or operating such lines of transportation or stock yards shall conform promptly to all regulations made by said Sanitary Commission of which they shall have notice from such commission, and for any neglect or omission to comply with such regulations as herein provided, they shall be subject to the fines and penalties in this act provided, to be enforced and collected according to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 23. That whenever by act of the Congress of the United States the payment of the appraised value of domestic animals slaughtered for the purpose of preventing the spread of infectious and contagious diseases among any class or classes of domestic animals in the several States shall have been provided, and the necessary appropriation for such payment out of the National Treasury made by such act of Congress, then, from and after that date there shall be no further payment made out of the State Treasury for domestic animals of the class or classes payment for which is so provided by said act or acts of Congress, by order of said State Live Stock Sanitary Commission.

SEC. 24. The State Live Stock Sanitary Commission shall make annually a detailed report of its doings to the Governor, which report shall by the Governor be transmitted to the Legislature at its next regular or called session.

SEC. 25. That an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act; therefore, the same shall be in force from and after its passage.

RULES.

RULES OF THE STATE LIVE STOCK SANITARY COMMISSION.

1. Upon reliable information that any domestic animal is infected with any dangerously contagious or infectious disease, the case must at once be reported to the secretary of the county board of health of the county in which the case exists, and said secretary shall at once notify the secretary of this commission. A failure to comply with the above will render the party liable to be prosecuted under the laws of the State of Indiana provided in such cases.

2. When any horse, mule, ass, cattle, or sheep is reported to be infected with any dangerously contagious or infectious disease, said secretary or any member of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission shall at once notify the State Veterinarian of such report, who shall at once visit the presm ses where such animals are and thoroughly examine the same, and if, upon examination, he is satisfied that the disease is a dangerously contagious or infectious disease he shall quarantine the animal or animals and premises, and also quarantine all animals or premises that have been exposed to such disease, and promptly notify the commission of his action, accompanying the same with all the correspondence relative to the case, and also notify the owner of his opinion.

3. All quarantines established by the State or an Assistant State Veterinarian shall continue in force until removed by order of the commission. Parties whose animals are quarantined under the provisions of this law may have the same

released from quarantine by making satisfactory proof to the commission that the cause for which such quarantine was originally declared no longer exists. 4. The State Veterinarian or secretaries of county boards of health making reports of investigation shall give the name and post office address of the owner of animals inspected, location of such animals, date of inspection, complete description of animals diseased and of animals exposed, a description of the exposure to which they have been subjected, the condition of the diseased animals, the name and address of the nearest constable, and the time employed in such investigation. The report must be accompanied by an exact duplicate of the quarantine notice served, with return made thereon of the manner of service, and all correspondence relative to the cause. Said report must be addressed to the Live Stock Sanitary Commissioners of the State of Indiana, and directed to the secretary at Lafayette, Indiana. Proper blanks will be furnished upon application to the secretary.

5. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the secretary of the county board of health that animals have been brought into his locality from a State or county known or believed to be infected, against which the Governor of the State has proclaimed, he shall immediately notify the secretary of this commission of the facts so far as he knows them covering the following points, viz: Locality from whence such animals came, name and post-office of owner or person in charge, if shipped by railroad or boat, giving names of same, time of arrival, number, age, sex, and breed of animals, so far as it is practicable to ascertain. 6. The commission will not approve the claim for any animals destroyed unless they were so destroyed by the order of some member of the commission, having first been appraised by them.

7. When it is deemed necessary, any member of the commission may appoint any local veterinarian to do any service in examining, treating, and caring for diseased animals, and no bill for services, examinations, or for materials and expenses will be recognized unless first ordered by some one of the commission.

8. Assistant State Veterinarians, when appointed by the commission to do special work, shall be entitled to receive for their services $3 per day and necessary expenses: but in no case shall they receive more than $1 per day and necessary expenses while engaged in the public service; neither shall they be permitted to make any charge nor receive any compensation from a private individual during the time they are actually employed and paid by the State. Nor will any bill for services or expenses be approved unless so ordered by some member of the commission.

9. Any person desiring to ship any animal or animals from this State to another State, the authorities of which require health certificates to accompany such animal or animals, may call upon the State Veterinarian, or some one authorized by this commission, and request him to inspect such animal or animals. It shall thereupon be the duty of such veterinarian to at once make such inspection, and if he finds the animal or animals to be healthy and to come from a locality wherein there does not, nor has not for four months preceding, existed any case of contagious disease among the kind of animals in question, he shall give to the owner of such animal or animals a certificate of health, specifying the number, sex, and breed of such animal or animals. For such services said veterinarian shall be entitled to receive from the owner the same compensation as herein allowed him by the State, together with his necessary expenses in going from and to his regular place of business or abode. In no case shall the State be liable for the cost of such services; neither shall the veterinarian receive from any private person for such service a compensation greater than herein authorized. Any violation of this provision shall be considered sufficient ground for dismissal from the service of the State. At the end of each month veterinarians making such inspections are required to make a tabulated report of the same to the secretary of this commission.

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A veterinary surgeon, appointed by the Governor, has supervision of all contagious and infectious diseases among domestic animals, and, with the concurrence of the State Board of Health, may make such rules and regulations as he may regard necessary for the prevention and suppression and against the spread" of said diseases. These rules and regulations require the concurrence of the executive council for publishment and enforcement.

The veterinarian makes investigations of animals upon the order of the Governor; he may destroy diseased animals under certain conditions, paying for them their actual value in their condition when condemned. An appeal may be taken to the district court by either party if a condemned animal is found not to be diseased and the indemnity exceeds $25. No indemnity shall be paid for animals destroyed while in transit across the State.

The authorities are empowered to cooperate with the United States authorities in the prevention or eradication of infectious or contagious diseases.

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SEC. 2529. The State Veterinary Surgeon shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to removal by him for cause, who shall hold office for three years. He shall be a graduate of some regularly established veterinary college, skilled in that science, and shall be by virtue of his office a member of the State Board of Health. SEC. 2530. He shall have supervision of all contagious and infectious diseases among domestic animals in, or being driven or transported through, the State, and is empowered to e-tablish quarantine against animals thus diseased or that have been exposed to others thus diseased. whether within or without the State, and with the concurrence of the State Board of Health may make such rules and regulations as he may regard necessary for the prevention and suppression, and against the spread of said disease or diseases, which rules and regulations, the executive council concurring, shall be published and enforced, and in the performance of his duties he may call for the assistance of any peace officer.

SEC. 2531. Any person who wilfully hinders, obstructs, or resists said Veterinary Surgeon, his assistants, or any peace officer acting under him or them when engaged in the duties or exercising the powers herein conferred, or violates any quarantine established by him or them, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 2532. Said surgeon shall biennially make a full and detailed report of his doings since his last report to the Governor, including his compensation and expenses, which report shall not exceed 150 pages of printed matter.

SEC. 2533. Whenever a majority of any board of supervisors or township trustees, or any city or town council, whether in session or not, shall in writing notify the Governor of the prevalence of, or probable danger from, any of said diseases, he shall notify the Veterinary Surgeon, who shall at once repair to the place designated in said notice and take such action as the exigencies may demand, and the Governor may, in case of emergency, appoint a substitute or assistants with like qualifications and with equal powers and compensation.

SEC. 2534. Whenever in the opinion of the State Veterinary Surgeon the public safety demands the destruction of any stock, the same may be destroyed upon the

written order of such surgeon, with the consent of the owner, or upon approval of the Governor, and by virtue of such order such surgeon, his deputy or assistant, or any peace officer may destroy such diseased stock, and the owner thereof shall be entitled to receive its actual value in its condition when condemned, to be ascertained and fixed by the State Veterinary Surgeon and the nearest justice of the peace, who, if unable to agree, shall call upon the nearest, or other justice of the peace upon whom they agree as umpire, and their judgment shall be final when the value of the stock, if not diseased, would not exceed $25; but in all other cases either party shall have the right of appeal to the district court, but such appeal shall not delay the destruction of the diseased animals. The Veterinary Surgeon shall at once file with the Governor his written report thereof, who shall, if found correct, indorse his finding thereon, whereupon the Auditor of State shall issue his warrant therefor upon the Treasurer of State, who shall pay the same out of any moneys at his disposal under the provisions of this act, but no compensation shall be allowed for stock destroyed while in transit through or across the State, and the word "stock," as herein used, shall be held to mean cattle, horses, mules, and asses.

SEC. 2535. The Governor, with the Veterinary Surgeon, may cooperate with the Government of the United States for the objects of this chapter, and the Governor may accept and receipt for any moneys receivable by the State under the provisions of any act of Congress which may at any time be in force upon this subject and pay the same into the State treasury to be used according to the act of Congress and the provisions of this chapter as nearly as may be.

SEC. 2536. There is annually appropriated, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the uses and purposes herein set forth.

SEC. 2537. Any person, except the Veterinary Surgeon, called upon under the provisions of this chapter, shall be allowed and received $2 per day while actually employed.

SEC. 2538. When engaged in the discharge of his duties the Veterinary Surgeon shall receive the sum of $5 per day and his actual expenses, the claim therefor to be itemized, verified, accompanied with written vouchers, and filed with the State Auditor, who shall allow the same and draw his warrant upon the treasury therefor.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Rules and regulations for the control of contagious and infectious diseases of animals were issued on January 19, 1898, but the only reference to bovine tuberculosis is in Rule 12, which is as follows:

RULE 12. In suspected cases of bovine tuberculosis the tuberculin test shall be recognized as a valuable diagnostic.

The report of the veterinarian for the biennial period ended June 30, 1899, contains the following as rules which "should be adopted by all who desire to have healthy animals and their dairy products. free from taint of any kind." These were also published as information by the State Board of Health in Circular No. 5-1900:

DIRECTIONS FOR DISINFECTING DAIRY BARNS AND FOR THE CARE OF MILK.

1. Clean out all litter, excrement, rejected fodder, cobwebs, and dust, thoroughly sweeping down the walls and ceilings.

2. Spray ceiling, walls, and floor with a solution of bichloride and water, one to five hundred.

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