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428 LIVE STOCK. [ART. LVIII
tagious or infectious disease, or has been exposed thereto within ninety
days, or shall permit the same to pass over or upon any public highway,
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.
1904, art. 58, sec. 13. 1888, art. 58, sec. 13. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 13. 1916, ch. 337.
13. It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully expose any ani-
mal 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 State Board of Agriculture or its duly authorized
officers or agents; any person convicted of violating any of the provi-
sions 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 State Board of Agriculture or its duly authorized
officers or agents without appraisement or compensation from the State.
1904, art. 58, sec. 14. 1888, art. 58. sec. 14. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 14. 1916, ch. 337.
14. In the event of any building or buildings, sheds, stables, stable
furniture, hay, straw or fodder or feed being reported to the said Board
by its officers 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.
1904, art. 58, sec. 15. 1888, art. 58, sec. 15. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 15.
1906, ch. 431. 1916, ch. 337.
15. In the event of its being deemed necessary for the said Board
to prevent the spread of contagious or infectious disease, to cause any
animal or animals so diseased, or exposed to such disease to be slaugh-
tered, the value of such animal or animals shall be appraised under
such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State Board of
Agriculture, by two sworn appraisers, to be sworn before any officer
authorized to administer oaths and affirmations, one of which appraisers
to be appointed by the owner or custodian of such animals, the other
by the said Board of Agriculture or its duly authorized representa-
tive, or in case the said owner or custodian of such animals shall neg-
lect or refuse to name such appraiser, then by two appraisers to be
appointed by said Board of Agriculture or its duly authorized repre-
sentative, who in case of disagreement shall call in a third; but in no
event shall the appraisement, together with the estimated value of the
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