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State officers shall be paid as for the performance of similar
duties under existing laws.

1888, art. 58, sec. 10. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 10.

10. It shall be the duty of all State's attorneys to prosecute
all persons accused of violating the provisions of this article
and to defend in all cases of appeals from appraisements.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 11.

11. 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 appraisements 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 are destroyed, and said board shall have the
discretion to have such animals slaughtered or quarantined.

Ibid. sec. 12. 1888, ch. 519, sec. 12.

12. Any person who shall sell or otherwise dispose of on
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 driven or exposed. Such fine may be
imposed by any station house justice of the peace of the city
of Baltimore or any justice of any county where the offense
shall be committed.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1886, ch. 519, sec. 13.

13. It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully expose
any animal to others affected with a contagious or infectious
disease, or to put or suffer to be put any healthy or unexposed
animal of the same species into any stable or on any
premises which have been declared to be infected until the
same shall have been declared to be free from such infection
by the said veterinary inspector with the consent of said board;
any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this
section shall be subject to a fine of not less than one nor more
than five hundred dollars for each offense, and the animal or