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this section, shall be subject to a fine of not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each
offense.

1888, art. 58, sec. 4. 1888. ch. 519, sec. 4.

4. Each member of said board shall be paid the sum of five
dollars per day and necessary expenses for time actually spent
in the discharge of his duties; and the sum of three thousand
dollars per year is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, to meet the expenses of said board, includ-
ing rent, printing, counsel fees, etc.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 5.

6. The governor shall also appoint a chief veterinary
inspector who shall be a graduate in good standing of some
recognized school of veterinary medicine, who shall hold his
office and be paid a salary not exceeding one thousand dollars
and traveling expenses, in the discretion of the governor, whose
duty it shall be to visit the stables of the city and counties
wherever and whenever he has reason to believe contagious or
infectious disease may exist; and he may visit any such stable
at any hour of the day between sunrise and sunset and shall
have power, with the consent of the said live stock sanitary
board, to order all animals which have been exposed to such
contagion or infection to be isolated in such manner as the
nature thereof may in his judgment render necessary to pre-
vent the spreading of such disease; to order that any premises,
farm or forms, stables or railway cars where such disease exists
or has existed be put in quarantine so that no domestic animal
of the same species shall be removed from or brought to the
premises or place so quarantined until the same shall have
been properly disinfected; to prescribe such regulations as he
may judge necessary or expedient to prevent infection or con-
tagion being communicated in any way from the places so
quarantined; to call upon all sheriffs and deputy sheriffs,
constables, policemen or other officers of the State, the city of
Baltimore, or of any county for information and assistance to
carry out and enforce the provisions of such orders and regu-
lations; 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,

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