ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars for each offence.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That each member

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of said board shall be paid the sum of five dol-
lars per day, and necessary expenses, for time
actually spent in the discharge of his duties;
and the sum of three thousand dollars per year
be and the same is hereby appropriated, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, to meet the
expenses of said board, including rent, printing,
counsel fee, &c.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the governor
shall also appoint a chief veterinary inspector,

Per diem, etc.

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 dis-
ease may exist ; and he may visit any such sta-
ble at any hour of the day between sunrise and
sunset, and shall hare 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 judg-
ment render necessary to prevent the spreading
of such disease ; to order that any premises,
farm or farms, 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

Shall appoint.

to the premises or place so quarantined until the
same shall have been properly disinfected ; to
prescribe such regulations as he may judge ne-
cessary 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 regulations ; to prescribe regulations
for the destruction of animals affected with or
exposed to an infectious or contagious disease,

Prescribe reg-
ulations, etc.