704 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 337

9. For the performance of the duties imposed on them by
this Article, all constables, sheriffs or deputy sheriffs or other
State officers shall be paid as for the performance of similar
duties under existing laws.

10. It shall be the duty of all State's Attorneys to prose-
cute all persons accused of violating the provisions of this
Article, and to defend in all cases of appeals from appraise-
ments.

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 destroyed, and said Board shall have the
discretion to have such animals slaughtered or quarantined.

12. Any person who shall sell or otherwise dispose of an
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 im-
posed 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.

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 prem-
ises which have been declared to be infected, until the same
shall have been declared to be free from such infection by the
said State Board of Agriculture or its duly authorized officers
or agents; any person convicted of violating any of the provi-
sions 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 animals so introduced into such infected stables
or premises, shall be slaughtered by said State Board of Agri-
culture or its duly authorized officers or agents without ap-
praisement or compensation from the State.