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ART. LVIII] LIVE STOCK. 420
carcass, hide and offal exceed ninety per centum of the fair market
value of the animal or animals, or a total of five hundred dollars for
any one animal; and which said appraisement when approved by said
Board of Agriculture shall be filed with the Comptroller; and the
Comptroller shall forthwith issue his warrant to the Treasurer for the
amount of said appraisement, in favor of the said owner or owners;
and if the owner or owners of such animals or buildings or other prop-
erty shall not be satisfied with the amount of said appraisement, he
may, within sixty days, appeal to the Circuit Court of the County, or
10 the Baltimore City Court, if such animals or buildings are within
the City of Baltimore, by filing in said Court a copy of the appraise-
ment with a petition for a writ of subpoena against the officer repre-
senting the said State Board of Agriculture, and said appeals shall be'
acted on by said Court in the same manner as appeals from Justices of
the Peace.
1904, art. 58, sec. 16. 1888, art. 58, sec. 16. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 16. 1916, ch 337.
16. The State Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized and
empowered to agree with the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture of the United States, or other properly constituted
authority of the United States, for co-operation in the work of eradicate
ing any contagious or infectious disease among live stock, in the State
of Maryland, but such agreement shall provide that such work shall be
under the control of the State authorities.
1904, art. 58, sec. 17. 1888, art. 58. sec. 17. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 17. 1916, ch. 337.
17. In the event of an epidemic of contagious or infectious disease
among the live stock of this State, it shall be the duty of the said Board
to appoint such assistants as may be necessary to promptly suppress the
same and to fix their pay.
1904, art. 58, sec. 18. 1888, art. 58, sec. 18. 1888. ch. 519, sec. 18. 1916, ch. 337.
18. When any animal is slaughtered under the provisions of this
Article, the owner, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by
the State Board of Agriculture, may dispose of the whole or any part
of the carcass, and of the hides and offal, in such manner as may not
tend to spread disease or affect the health of the public; any inspector
who shall corruptly pass as healthy a diseased animal, or pass as healthy
any animal or part of an animal contrary to the rules and regulations
prescribed by the State Board of Agriculture, shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.
1904, art. 58. sec. 19. 1890, ch. 321, sec. 19. 1916, ch. 337.
19. All hogs and other domestic animals dying of any contagious or
infectious disease shall be buried at a depth of at least three feet or be
burned, at the discretion of the owner; and any person or persons per-
mitting any dead hogs or any other domestic animals, having died of
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