EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 703

refuse to said officer or his assistants' access to his premises,
farms, stables, cars, sheds or pens, or shall resist said officer
of the State Board of Agriculture 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 hun-
dred 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 com-
mitted.

7. It shall be the duty of (all persons practicing veteri-
nary medicine in this State to report immediately to said
Board all cases of contagious or infectious diseases among live
stock which may come to their knowledge) every practitioner
of veterinary medicine in Maryland, immediately upon re-
ceiving information thereof, to report to the State Board
of Agriculture each case of any of the following diseases,
namely: glanders, anthrax, blackleg or black quarter; con-
tagious pleuro-pneumonia or lung plague of cattle; rinder-
pest or cattle plague; hemorrhagic speticemia; foot and
mouth disease, or aphthous fever of cattle; southern cattle
fever or Texas fever; sheep scab, mange of cattle or horses;
hog cholera, or swine plague; fowl cholera; rabies or hydro-
phobia; maladie du coit, or dourine of horses; advanced or
generalized tuberculosis or tuberculosis of the udder; or any
other disease now or hereafter proclaimed by the State Board
of Agriculture to be of a transmissible character, or any do-
mestic animal reacting to tuberculin or mallein test. This
report shall be in writing, and shall include a description of
each animal affected, with the name and exact address of the
owner or person in charge of the animal, if known, and the
exact locality of the animal, and the number of susceptible
domestic animals that have been exposed to the disease; and
a failure to so report for forty-eight hours after they shall
come into such knowledge shall be deemed a misdemeanor,
and, on conviction thereof, they shall be fined not exceeding
fifty dollars for each offense.

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 in
writing of the said State Board of Agriculture, and that any
person convicted of this offense shall be fined a sum not less
than one or more than five hundred dollars, in the discretion
of the Court.