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the secretary of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board Duty of veteri the occurrence among animals of any one of the following diseases: glanders, anthrax, blackleg, or blackquarter; contagious pleuro-pneumonia, or lung plague Diseases of doof cattle; rinderpest, or cattle plague; haemorrhagic septicaemia; 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; rabies, or hydrophobia; maladie de coit, or eldurine, of horses; advanced or generalized tuberculosis or tuberculosis of the udder; or any other disease adjudged and proclaimed by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to be of a dangerously infec tious or virulent character.

port.

The report to the secretary of the State Live Stock Contents of reSanitary Board shall be made in writing, and shall include a description of the diseased animal or animals, the name and address of the owner or person in charge of the animal, if known, and a statement as to the location of the animal.

Section 2. No person who has knowledge of the existence of any one of the diseases enumerated in Section one of this act, or of an animal afflicted with any one of the said diseases, or with any other disease adjudged and proclaimed by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to be of a dangerously infectious or virulent character, shall conceal or attempt to conceal such diseased animal, or knowledge of such diseased animal, from a member or agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board.

Section 3. It shall be unlawful to move upon or across any public highway; or to expose, to contact with other animals of the same species, or in any public place, any animal known to be afflicted with any one of the diseases enumerated in section one of this act, or with any other disease adjudged and proclaimed by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to be of a dangerously infectious or virulent character, except upon specific permission so to do, from a member or agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board.

Knowledge of ex

istence of disease

not to be con

cealed.

Diseased animals

not to be exposed.

virus, etc.

Section 4. No person shall inject into, or otherwise Inspection of administer to, any domestic animal that is producing, or that is intended to, or that may, produce human food, or that is to be used as food for man, any virus or other substance containing pathogenic or disease-producing geims, of a kind that is virulent for man or for animals, excepting upon specific permission so to do, from a member or authorized agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall prevent the use of calves or other cattle for the production of vaccine, against smallpox.

Proviso.

Limit of appraisement.

Proviso.

Co-operation with local boards of health.

Condition of herds.

Section 5. The maximum limit of appraisement that shall hereafter be allowed for animals that it shall be deemed to be necessary to destroy, to prevent the further spread of a dangerous, contagious or infectious disease, shall be as follows: For a horse or mule, forty dollars; for a bovine animal, of pure breed or registered stock, fifty dollars; for a bovine animal, of grade or common stock, twenty-five dollars; for a sheep or pig, ten dollars: Provided, however, That the amount of appraisement shall not, in any case, exceed three-fourths of the actual value of the animal at the time of appraisement: And provided further, That the total appraisements, in any one year, shall not exceed thirty-five thousand dollars.

Section 6. The State Live Stock Sanitary Board may co-operate with any local Board of Health, in accordance with rules and regulations, and upon such terms of co-operation as may mutually be agreed upon, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of dairy herds and of milk supplies, and for the purpose of Contamination of protecting such milk supplies from contamination; and the State Live Stock Sanitary Board may undertake, so far as possible, to bear one-half of the cost of such examinations as are made, beyond the limits of the jurisdiction of the said local Board of Health, for the purpose of protecting from contamination milk produced to be sold within the field of jurisdiction of said local Board of Health.

milk supply.

Repeal

Section 7. Any person violating any of the provi sioins of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction before any alderman, magistrate, or justice of the peace, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than ten dollars and not more than one hundred dollars for each and every offence, together with all the costs of the prosecution; and, in default of the payment of said fine and costs, shall stand committed until the same are paid. All penalties and costs recovered for the violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be paid to the secretary of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, or to an authorized agent of said Board, and by him be immediately covered into the State Treasury.

Section 8. This act shall take effect June first, one thousand nine hundred and five, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

APPROVED-The 30th day of March, A. D. 1905.

SAML. W. PENNYPACKER.

No. 57.

AN ACT

Requiring county commissioners to repair all county bridges, and to pay the expense of such repairs out of the county treasury.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after County bridges. the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the several counties of this Commonwealth to repair all county bridges, heretofore erected or to be hereafter erected by the county, Repair. and to pay the expenses of such repairs out of the county treasury, in the usual manner.

Section 2. All laws or parts of laws, general, special Repeal. or local, inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed.

APPROVED-The 30th day of March, A. D. 1905.

SAML. W. PENNYPACKER.

No. 58.

AN ACT

Authorizing W. C. Wolfe, a citizen of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, to bring suit in the court of common pleas of Dauphin county against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

C. Wolfe to sue
Commonwealth.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the General As- Authorizing W. sembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by virtue of the power vested in it by section eleven of article one of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, does hereby authorize and allow W. C. Wolfe, a citizen of Cambria county, Pennsylvania, to bring suit, either in law or equity, in the courts of common pleas of Dauphin county, against the said Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to recover any sum or sums of money that may be legally or justly due the said W. C. Wolfe by the said Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; said suit or suits to be subject to the same rules of evidence and appeal as other suits brought in said courts are subject. The original and all other process required to be issued in said suit to be served upon the Attorney General of the Commonwealth.

APPROVED-The 30th day of March, A. D. 1905.
SAML. W. PENNYPACKER.

6 Laws.

State Treasury.

Officers, clerks and employes.

Salaries.

No. 59.

AN ACT

To fix the number and salaries of officers, clerks and employes in the State Treasury.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the number and salaries of the officers, clerks and employes in the State Treasury, which the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint, shall be as follows:

One cashier of the State Treasury, at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum.

One assistant cashier of the State Treasury, at a salary of two thousand two hundred dollars per an

num.

One bond clerk, at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.

One assistant bond clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum.

One expert bookkeeper, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum.

One corporation clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum.

One clerk, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum.

Two clerks, each at a salary of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum.

Two stenographers, each at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum.

One watchman, at a salary of nine hundred dol lars per annum.

One fireman, at a salary of nine hundred dollars per

annum.

One messenger, at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

Section 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

APPROVED-The 31st day of March, A. D. 1905.

SAML. W. PENNYPACKER.

Trees, vines,

plants, etc., protection of.

No. 60.

AN ACT

To provide for the protection of trees, shrubs, vines and plants, against destructive insects and diseases; providing for the enforcement of this act, the expenses connected therewith, and fixing penalties for its violation.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no person shall knowingly or wilfully keep any tree, shrub, vine or

plant in any nursery, orchard, or public or private grounds, in this Commonwealth, nor knowingly or willingly send out from such nursery any tree, shrub, vine or plant, affected with San José Scale, or other San Jose Scale, insects or diseases, such as crown-gall, black-knot or peach-yellows, destructive of such tree, vine, shrub or plant.

etc.

tion of nurseries.

chards, grounds,

Section 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of official examinaAgriculture, through the Economic Zoologist, or such other agent or agents as he may select, to cause an examination to be made, at least once each year, of each and every nursery in this State where trees, shrubs, vines or plants are grown; and he may also, by himself or agent, make inspection of any orchard, Inspection of oror other grounds or place, in this State, for the pur- etc. pose of ascertaining whether the trees, shrubs, vines or plants therein kept are infested with San José Scale or other insect pests, or diseases destructive of such trees, shrubs, vines or plants. If, after such examination of any nursery, it be found that the said trees, shrubs, vines or other plants, so examined, are apparently free in all respects from any such dangerously injurious insects or diseases, the Secretary of Agriculture or his duly authorized agent, or other person designated to make such examination, shall thereupon issue to the owner or proprietor of the said stock, thus examined, a certificate setting forth the Certificate. fact of the examination, and that the stock or trees so examined are apparently free from any and all such destructive insects and diseases.

Section 3. Should any nurseryman, agent, dealer or broker send out or deliver, within the State, trees, vines, shrubs, plants, buds, or cuttings, commonly known as nursery stock, and which are subject to the attacks of the insects and diseases designated in this act, unless he has in his possession a copy of said certificate, dated within the year thereof, or wrongfully be in possession of said certificate, he shall be guilty

of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be pun Misdemeanor. ished in accordance with the provisions of section eight of this act.

stock.

tificate.

Section 4. All nursery stock, as designated in this Shipment of act, sent out by any nurseryman, agent, dealer or broker within this State, shall be accompanied by a copy of said certificate attached to each box, bale or package. A certificate issued by an official of the Government cerUnited States, setting forth the fact that the nursery stock has been fumigated, and is free from any and all such destructive insects and diseases, shall be accepted in lieu of the State inspection. Transportation Duties of transcompanies are required to reject all nursery stock not portation compaaccompanied with a certificate of inspection, and also

nies.

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