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and effect of laws, and all violations of such rules and regulations shall
be punished as misdemeanors are punished at common law. And all
appraisements of animals to be slaughtered and of buildings to be
destroyed shall be approved by said board before such animals are
slaughtered or such buildings are destroyed, and said board shall have
the discretion to have such animals slaughtered or quarantined.

1904, art. 58, sec. 12. 1888. art. 58, sec. 12. 1888. ch. 519, sec. 12.

12. Any person who shall sell or otherwise dispose of an animal
which he knows or has good reason to believe is affected with any con-
tagious or infectious disease, or has been exposed thereto within ninety
days, or shall permit the same to pass over or upon any public high-
way, street, lane or alley, or to graze any unfenced lot or piece of
ground without the consent of the said board, shall on conviction thereof
be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
for each animal so driven or exposed. Such fine may be imposed by
any station house justice of the peace of the city of Baltimore or any
justice of any county where the offense shall be committed.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1888, art. 58, sec. 13. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 13.

13. It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully expose any
animal to others affected with a contagious or infectious disease, or to
put or suffer to be put any healthy or unexposed animal of the same
species into any stable or on any premises which have been declared to
be infected until the same shall have been declared to be free from such
infection by the said veterinary inspector with the consent of said board;
any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this section
shall be subject to a fine of not less than one nor more than five hundred
dollars for each offense, and the animal or animals so introduced into
such infected stables or premises shall be slaughtered by said veterinary
inspector without appraisement or compensation from the State.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1888, art. 58, sec. 14. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 14.

14. In the event of any building or buildings, sheds, stables, stable
furniture, hay, straw or fodder being reported to the said board by
said inspector as being incapable' of proper disinfection, the said' board
may, in its discretion, have such buildings or articles so infected
appraised, as hereinafter provided for the appraisement of animals,
and destroyed.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1888. art. 58. sec. 15. 1888. ch. 519, sec. 15. 1906, ch. 431.

15. In the event of its being deemed necessary by the said vet-
erinary inspector and the said board, in order to prevent the spread'
of contagious or infectious disease, to cause any animal or animals so
diseased or exposed to such disease to be slaughtered, the value of such
animal or animals shall be appraised in their then condition by two-
sworn appraisers, to be sworn before any officer authorized to admin-
ister oaths and affirmations, one of said appraisers to be appointed by