706 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 337

infectious disease among live stock, in the State of Maryland,
but such agreement shall provide that such work shall be
under the control of the State authorities.

17. In the event of an epidemic of contagious, or infectious
disease among the live stock of this State, it shall be the duty
of the said Board to appoint such assistants as may be necessary
to promptly suppress the same and to fix their pay.

18. When any animal is slaughtered under the provisions
of this Article, the owner, subject to such regulations as may
be prescribed by the State Board of Agriculture, may dispose
of the whole or any part of the carcass, and of the hides and
offal, in such manner as may not tend to spread disease or
affect the health of the public; any inspector who shall corrupt-
ly pass as healthy a diseased animal, or pass as healthy any
animal or part of an animal contrary to the rules and regula-
tions prescribed by the State Board of Agriculture, shall, on
conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

19. All hogs and other domestic animals dying of any con-
tagious or infectious disease shall be buried at a depth of at
least three feet or be burned, at the discretion of the owner;
and any person or persons permitting any dead hogs or any
other domestic animals, having died of any contagious or infec-
tious disease, to remain unburied upon his or their premises
for the space of three hours prior to sunset of said day after
he has discovered the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace,
shall be fined not less than ten dollars for each offense or im-
prisoned in the county jail for not less than ten days, or be
both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the justice.

20. It shall be the duty of all dairymen or herdsmen or
individuals making a business of supplying milk to cities, towns
and villages or elsewhere, to register their herds or cattle with
the State Board of Agriculture, in violation of which the par-
ties offending shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more
than twenty for each offense.

21. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture
to have inspected at least annually without notice to the owner
or those in charge of any dairy, or the parties supplying milk
as named in Section 20 the premises wherein cows are kept,
and if such premises are found in an unsanitary condition, the
said Board may prohibit the sale and shipment of milk from
such premises until such time as such premises shall conform to
the following sanitary rules: