954 LIVE STOCK. [ART. 58.

of said appraisement in favor of the said owner or owners; and
if the owner of such animals or buildings, or other property,
shall not be satisfied with the amount of the said appraisement,
he may, within sixty days, appeal to the circuit court for the
county, or to the Baltimore city court, if such animals or build-
ings are within the city of Baltimore, by filing in said court a
copy of such appraisement, with a petition for writ of subpoena,
against the said veterinary inspector, and said appeals shall be
acted on by said court in the same manner as appeals from
justices of the peace.

1888, ch. 519, sec. 16.

16. The said board is hereby authorized and empowered to
agree with the bureau of animal industry of the department of
agriculture of the United States, or other properly constituted
authority of the United States, for co-operation in the work of
eradicating 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.

Ibid sec. 17.

17. In event of an epidemic of contagious or infectious dis-
ease among the live stock of this State, it shall be the duty of
the said board to appoint such assistants to said inspector as may.
be necessary to promptly suppress the same, and to fix their pay.

Ibid. sec. 18.

18. All diseased animals that, under the provisions of this
article, shall be slaughtered at any slaughter-house where meat is
prepared for market, shall be slaughtered under the supervision
of the chief veterinary inspector or his assistant; and it shall be
the duty of said inspector to see that the carcasses and offal of
such diseased animals, whether such disease is contagions or
otherwise, are destroyed and not sold for food; and any inspec-
tor who shall corruptly pass as healthy a diseased animal, shall,
on conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding five hundred dol-
lars and forfeit his commission.