ART. 58.] LIVE STOCK SANITARY BOARD. 951
carry out and enforce the provisions of such orders and regula-
tions; to prescribe regulations for the destruction of animals
affected with or exposed to an infectious or contagious disease
and for the proper destruction 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 Baltimore or counties, to obey and observe all orders and
instructions which they may receive from said veterinary inspec-
tor, in the enforcement of the provisions of this article within
their respective jurisdictions.
1888, ch. 519, sec 6.
6. Any person who shall violate or transgress the terms or
requirements of any order or regulation issued and prescribed by
the said veterinary inspector with the consent of the said live stock
sanitary board, under the authority of this article, or shall refuse to
said veterinary inspector or his assistants, access to his prem-
ises, farms, stables, cars, sheds or pens, or shall resist said in-
spector or his assistants in applying any of the quarantine orders
or regulations, or shall conceal the fact that contagious or infec-
tious disease exists on his premises, shall be subject to a fine of
not more than one hundred nor less than fifty dollars, which
fine may be imposed by any justice of the peace of the city of
Baltimore or any county where such offence may be committed.
Ibid. sec. 7.
7. It shall be the duty of all persons practising veterinary
medicine in this State to report immediately to said board all
cases of contagious or infectious disease among llve stock, which
may come to their knowledge; 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 offence.
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