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1406 LIVESTOCK. [ART. 58
pendency of such quarantine it shall not be lawful for any person, com-
pany or corporation to bring into the State of Maryland any animal or
animals of the kind so infected from the district so quarantined; and
any person, company or corporation, whether owner, agent or carrier,
convicted of a violation of the provisions of this section, shall be subject
, to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hun-
dred dollars for each offense.
1904, art. 58, sec. 4. 1888, art. 58, sec. 4. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 4.
4. Each member of said board shall be paid the sum of five dollars
per day and necessary expenses for time actually spent in the discharge
of his duties; and the sum of three thousand dollars per year is hereby
appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to meet the
expenses of said board, including rent, printing, counsel fees, etc.
Ibid. sec. 5. 1888, art. 58, sec. 5. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 5.
5. The governor shall also appoint a chief veterinary inspector who
shall be a graduate in good standing of some recognized school of vet-
erinary medicine, who shall hold his office and be paid a salary not
exceeding one thousand dollars and traveling expenses, in the discretion
of the governor, whose duty it shall be to visit the stables of the city
and counties wherever and whenever he has reason to believe contagious
or infectious disease may exist; and he may visit any such stable at any
hour of the day between sunrise and sunset and shall have power, with
the consent of the said live stock sanitary board, to order all animals
which have been exposed to such contagion or infection to be isolated
in such manner as the nature thereof may in his judgment render nec-
essary to prevent the spreading of such disease; to order that any
premises, farm or farms, stables or railway cars where such disease
exists or has existed be put in quarantine so that no domestic animal
of the same species shall be removed from or brought to the premise?
or place so quarantined until the same shall have been properly dis-
infected; to prescribe such regulations as he may judge necessary or
expedient to prevent infection or contagion being communicated in any
Way from the places so quarantined; to call upon all sheriffs and deputy
sheriffs, constables, policemen or other officers of the State, the city
of Baltimore, or of any county for information and assistance to carry
out and enforce the provisions of such orders and regulations; to pre-
scribe regulations for the destruction of animals affected with or
exposed to an infectious or contagious disease and for the proper destruc-
tion of their hides and carcasses and all objects which might carry
infection or contagion; to prescribe regulations for the disinfection of
all buildings, premises and railway cars and of all objects from which
or by which infection or contagion might take place or be conveyed;
to alter and modify from time to time, as he may deem expedient, the
terms of all such orders and regulations and to cancel or withdraw the
same at any time; and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs and deputy
sheriffs, constables, policemen or other officers of the State, city of Bal-
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