together with the best known treatment and remedies, in time for publication in the several reports required by law, and perform such other services and duties as may be required by law, or directed by the governor, or the live stock agents, in the interest of the state.

146. It shall be the duty of the agents provided for in the first section of this act [142] to protect the health of the domestic animals of the state from all contagious and infectious diseases of a malignant character, and for this purpose it is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain, and enforce such quarantine, sanitary, and other regulation as it may deem necessary. It shall be the duty of any member of said agents, upon receipt by him of reliable information of the existence among the domestic animals of the state of any malignant disease, to at once notify the 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 such disease is found to be of a malignant, contagious, or infectious character, he shall direct the temporary quarantine and sanitary regulations necessary to prevent the spread of any such disease and report his finding and actions to the live stock agents.

147. Upon the receipt by any one of the report of the veterinarian provided for in section one (1) of this act [142], if said agent shall be of the opinion that the exigencies of the case require, he shall immediately convene the three live stock agents together with the veterinarian at such place as he may designate, and if, upon consideration of the report of the veterinarian, the agents shall be satisfied that any contagious or infectious disease exists of a malignant character, which seriously threatens the health of domestic animals, they shall proceed at once to the infected district, ascertain and determine the premises or grounds infected, and establish the quarantine, sanitary, and police regulations necessary to circumscribe and exterminate such disease; also to list and describe the domestic animals affected with such disease, and those which have been exposed thereto, and included within the infected district or premises so defined and quarantined, with such reasonable certainty as would lead to their identification; and for that purpose the said agents may, in their discretion, cause the live stock so included within the quarantine lines established to be marked or branded in such manner as they may designate; and no domestic animals liable to become infected with the disease, or capable of communicating the same, shall be permitted to enter or leave the district, premises, or grounds so quarantined except by authority of the live stock agents. The said agents shall also from time to time give and enforce such directions and prescribe such rules and regulations as to separating, mode of handling, treating, feeding, and caring for such diseased and exposed animals as it shall deem necessary to prevent the two classes of animals from coming in contact with each other, and perfectly isolate them from any other domestic animals which have not been exposed thereto and which are susceptible of becoming infected with the disease. And the said agents, or any of the members thereof, and said veterinarian are hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon any grounds or premises to carry out the provisions of this act.

148. When, in the opinion of the live stock agents, it shall be necessary to prevent the further spread of any contagious or infectious disease among the live stock of the state, to destroy animals affected with, or which have been exposed to any such disease, it shall determine what animal shall be killed and appraise the same as hereinafter provided, and cause the same to be killed and the

carcasses disposed of, as in its judgment will best protect the health of the domestic animals of the locality.

149. Whenever, as in the seventh section of this act [148] provided, the live stock agents shall direct the killing of any domestic animal or animals, it shall be the duty of the agents to make a fair and faithful appraisement of said animal or animals, and in making the appraisement the contagious disease with which the animal is affected, or to which they have been exposed, shall not be taken into consideration. The amount of the appraisement shall in no case exceed seventy-five ($75) dollars per head for horses and mules, and twenty ($20) dollars per head for cattle; Prorided, That no animal or animals shall be appraised except those affected with contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character, or such as have been exposed thereto.

150. When the agents 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 state, and given its orders as hereinbefore provided, prescribing quarantine and other regulations, they shall notify the governor thereof, who shall issue his proclamation proclaiming the boundary of such quarantine, and the orders, rules, regulations, prescribed by the live stock agents, which proclamation may be published by written or printed hand-bills, posted within the boundaries or on the lines of the district, premises, places, or grounds quarantined; Provided, That if the agents decide 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 agents shall give such notice as may to them seem best to make the quarantine established by them effective.

151. The agents provided for in this act shall have power to employ at the expense of the state such persons, and purchase such supplies and material as it may be necessary to carry into effect all orders by them given, as herein before provided; Provided, That no labor shall be employed, nor labor material or supplies purchased by the agents, except such labor material as may be necessary to carry into effect the experimentation, quarantine, and other regulations prescribed by the live stock agents; And provided, further, The agents may, in their discretion, upon the recommendation of the veterinarian employ such expert's assistance as may from time to time be required, and such assistant shall have power to execute all orders and instructions given them by the live stock agents.

152. It shall be the duty of the railway corporations doing business in this state to clean and disinfect the cars used by them in transporting stock in this state, at such times and places and in such manner as the live stock agents may designate, whenever in their opinion any such order may be necessary to prevent the spread of infectious or contagious diseases; and any such corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each offense, to be recovered in civil action to be prosecuted under the directions of the attorney general, in the name of the state of Nebraska.

153. When any animal or animals are killed under the provisions of this act by order of the agents, the owner thereof shall be paid therefor the appraised value as fixed by the appraisement as hereinbefore provided for; Provided, The rights of indemnity on account of animals killed by order of the live stock agents, under the provisions of this act, shall not extend to the owner of animals which have been brought into the state in a diseased condition, or from a state, county, territory, or district in which the disease with which the animal is infected, or to which it has been exposed, exists; nor shall any animal be paid for by the state

which may have been brought into the state in violation of any law or quarantine regulation thereof, or the owner thereof shall have violated any of the provisions of this act, or disregarded any rule, regulation, or order of the live stock agents, or any member thereof; nor shall any animal be paid for by the state which came into the possession of the claimant with the claimant's knowledge that such animal was diseased, or was suspected of being diseased, or having been exposed to any contagious or infectious disease; nor shall any animal belonging to the United States be paid for by the state; Provided, further, That in no case shall compensation be allowed to the owner of any animal or animals, when, by reasonable diligence, he, his proper agent or employe, could have protected said animal or animals from being exposed, or to any owner who, in person or by agent, conceals the existence of any contagious or infectious disease among his stock; And provided, further, That no remuneration shall be paid by the state for animals slaughtered for contagious or infectious disease in any case where the owner or his representative is not the first to notify the proper authorities of the existence of such a disease, or a suspicion of the same, among his stock; that no remuneration shall be paid for horses or mules found diseased or suspected of glanders, when such horse or mule have been imported into the state and have not been in the state over six months.

154. It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animals who discovers, suspects, or has reason to believe that any of his domestic animals, or domestic animals in his charge, are affected with any contagious or infectious disease, to immediately report such fact, belief, or suspicion to the live stock agents, or any member thereof, and to the sheriff and county clerk of the county in which such domestic animal is found, 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 at once to the sheriff and county clerk of the county in which such domestic animal is found.

155. The sheriff, to whom the existence of any infectious or contagious disease of domestic animals is reported, shall forth with proceed to the place where such domestic animal is and examine the same, and forthwith report the result of such examination to the live stock agents, or any member thereof, and shall prescribe such temporary quarantine regulation as will prevent the spreading of the contagion or infection, until the live stock agents can provide and order suitable quarantine rules and regulations. Said sheriff shall receive for such services mileage fees as in other cases, and in each case of quarantine ordered, a further fee of two ($2) dollars, all of which fees shall be paid by the county where such services were rendered.

156. [Diseased animals-Importation.]-Any person who shall knowingly bring into this state any domestic animal which is affected with any contagious or infectious disease shall be deemed guilty of a mismemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than four thousand dollars ($4,000).

157. Any person who owns or is in possession of live stock which is, or which is suspected or reported to be, affected with any infectious or contagious disease, who shall refuse to allow the veterinarian, or other authorized officer or officers, in any examination of, or in an attempt to examine such stock, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).

158. [Quarantine violation.]-Any person 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 permit such animal to run at large, or who shall keep such animal where other domestic animals, not affected by or previously exposed to such disease, may be exposed to its contagion or infection, or who shall sell, ship, drive, trade, or give away such diseased animal or animals which have been exposed to such infection or contagion, or who shall move or drive away any domestic animal in violation of any direction, rule, regulation, or order establishing and regulating quarantine, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each of such diseased or exposed domestic animals which he shall permit to run at large, or keep, or sell, drive, trade, or give away, in violation of the provisions of this act; 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 veterinarian a bill of health for such animal.

159. When any live stock shall be appraised and killed by order of the live stock agents they shall issue to the owner of the live stock so killed a certificate showing the number and kind and general description of animals killed, and the amount to which holder is entitled, and report the same to the auditor of state, and upon presentation of such certificate to the auditor, he shall draw his warrant on the treasurer for the amount therein stated, payable out of any money appropriated for the live stock indemnity fund.

160. Whenever the governor of the state shall have good reason to believe that any dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease has become epizootic in certain localities in other states or territories or counties, 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 transportation of any live stock of the kind diseased into the state, except under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the live stock agents; and all such animals arriving in this state shall be examined without delay by the veterinary surgeon, or the live stock agents.

161. The owners of any public stock yards doing business in this state, when requested by the live stock agents, shall appoint, and keep constantly in their employ, at their expense, a competent inspector of live stock, whose duty it shall be to daily inspect, with care, all animals brought into the stock yards, in whose employ any such inspector may be, under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the live stock agents; and upon the discharge by such inspector, in such yards, of any animals affected with any malignant, contagious, or infectious disease, he shall direct the manner in which any such diseased animals shall be disposed of, so as to prevent the spread of any such contagious or infectious disease, and for this purpose may cause any such diseased animals to be killed, and the carcasses to be disposed of at the expense of the owner thereof; but in no event shall any such diseased stock be permitted to be driven or shipped out of any such stock yards, except to some rendering establishment, or other suitable place for killing or disposing of such diseased animal, as herein before provided for, and then under such regulations and restrictions as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the disease, on account of which any such animals have been condemned; Provided, That the owner of any animal or animals, ordered to be destroyed by any inspector, shall have the right to appeal from any decision of such inspector to the veterinarian or live stock agents, and during the pendency of such appeal the condemned animals shall be kept in strict quarantine, unless the veterinarian shall decide such stock is not so diseased, then said expenses shall be paid by the owner of such stock yards;

And provided further, That no compensation shall be made by the state to the owners of diseased live stock found in public stock yards, and destroyed as herein provided. The inspector of live stock in any public stock yards in this state shall, on demand of the owner of any live stock passing through any such stock yards, furnish to said owner a bill of health, for any live stock by him inspected, as hereinbefore required, and found to be healthy.

162. The live stock agents, or veterinarian, shall have the power to call upon any sheriff, under sheriff, deputy sheriff, or constable to execute their orders; and such officers shall obey the orders of said agents, or veterinarian, and the officers performing such duties as provided for by this act shall receive compensation therefor, prescribed by law for like services, to be paid as other expenses of said commission, as hereinbefore provided; and any officer may arrest without a warrant, and take before any magistrate of the county, any person found violating the provisions of this act, and such officers shall immediately notify the county attorney of such arrest, and he shall prosecute the person so offending according to law.

163. Except as otherwise provided in this act, any person 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 any of the rules, regulations, orders, or directions of the live stock agents, establishing and governing quarantine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred ($100) nor more than five thousand ($5,000) dollars.

164. There shall be levied and assessed upon the assessed value of all taxable property in the state in each year one-fourth (1) of one (1) mill on each and every dollar thereof, to be known as the live stock indemnity fund tax. Said tax to be assessed and collected in the same manner and at the same time as is now or may be prescribed by law for the assessment and collection of state revenue.

165. It shall be the duty of the county treasurers of the several counties to preserve the fund thus provided for as a separate fund, and to transmit the same as now required by law to the state treasurer, who shall keep the same in a fund to be known as the live stock indemnity fund.

166. For the purpose of this act each one of the live stock agents and the veterinarian is hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths and

affirmations.

167. That the live stock agents be authorized and directed to co-operate with the commissioner of agriculture of the United States, or any officer or authority of the general government, in the suppression and extirpation of any and all contagious diseases among domestic animals, and in the enforcement and execution of any and all acts of congress to prevent the importation or exportation of diseased cattle, and the spread of infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals.

168. The liability of the state for carrying out the provisions of this act in any two years is limited by and shall in no case exceed the amount especially appropriated for that purpose and that period..

Secs. 169 to 186. "An act to regulate and protect sheep husbandry in the state of Nebraska, to provide for the appointment of sheep inspectors therein, and to prescribe their duties." 1883, p. 61. In force June 1.

169. Whenever, in any county in this state, a majority of the sheep owners therein shall petition the board of county commissioners of their county for the appointment of a sheep inspector, recommended by a majority of petitioners in such county, it shall be the duty of the said board of county commissioners to appoint some suitable, competent person sheep inspector in and for said county.