LIVE STOCK. 2073

Board of Agriculture to be of a transmissible character, or any domestic
animal reacting to tuberculin or mallein test. This report shall be in writ-
ing, and shall include a description of each animal affected, with the
name and exact address of the owner or person in charge of the animal,
if known, and the exact locality of the animal, and the number of sus-
ceptible domestic animals that have been exposed to the disease; and a
failure to so report for forty-eight hours after they shall come into such
knowledge shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof,
they shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 8. 1888, sec. 8. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 8. 1916, ch. 337.

12. It shall be unlawful for any person to inoculate any animal in
this State with the virus of any infectious or contagious disease incident
to animals without the consent in writing of the said State Board of Agri-
culture, and that any person convicted of this offense shall be fined a sum
not less than one or more than five hundred dollars, in the discretion of
the Court.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1888, sec. 9. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 9. 1916, ch. 337.

13. For the performance of the duties imposed on them by this Article,
all constables, sheriffs or deputy sheriffs or other State officers shall be
paid as for the performance of similar duties under existing laws.

An. Code, sec. 10. 1904, sec. 10. 1888, sec. 10. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 10. 1916, ch. 337.

14. It shall be the duty of all State's Attorneys to prosecute all per-
sons accused of violating the provisions of this Article, and to defend in
all cases of appeals from appraisements.

An. Code, sec. 11. 1904 sec. 11. 1888, sec. 11. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 11. 1916, ch. 337.

15. All rules and regulations formulated and issued by said Board
in pursuance of the powers hereby conferred on it, shall have the force
and effect of laws, and all violations of such rules and regulations shall be
punished as misdemeanors are punished at common law. And all ap-
praisements 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 destroyed, and said Board shall have the discretion to have
such animals slaughtered or quarantined.

An. Code, sec. 12. 1904, sec. 12. 1888, sec. 12 1888, ch. 519, sec. 12. 1916, ch. 337.

16. Any person who shall sell or otherwise dispose of an animal which
he knows, or has good reason to believe, is affected with any contagious
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