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1466 LIVE STOCK. [ART. 58
premises and railway cars and of all objects from which or
by which infection or contagion might take place or be con-
veyed; 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 inspector in the enforcement of the
provisions of this article within their respective jurisdictions.
1888, art. 58, sec. 6. 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 premises, forms, stables, cars, sheds or pens, or
shall resist said inspector or his assistants in applying any of
the quarantine orders or regulations or shall conceal the fact,
that contagious or infectious 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 station
house justice of the peace of the city of Baltimore or any
justice of any county where such offense may be committed.
Ibid. sec. 7. 1888, ch. 519, 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 live 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, ond, on conviction thereof,
they shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense.
Ibid. sec. 8. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 8.
8. It shall be unlawful for any person to inoculate any
animal in this State with the virus of any infectious or con-
tagious disease incident to animals without the consent of the
said live stock sanitary board and any person convicted of this
offense shall be fined a sum not less than one nor more than
five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court.
Ibid. sec. 9. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 9.
9. For the performance of the duties imposed on them by
this article all constables, sheriffs or deputy sheriffs or other
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