same is paid, and if the same be not paid within ten days after such treatment has been completed he shall collect the same, together with the costs and expenses of collection, by advertising and selling said sheep, or so many thereof as may be necessary, in the manner provided by law for the sale of personal property on execution. If upon examination within a period of from fifteen to twenty days from the time of the last dipping the inspector finds said sheep are still infected, he shall at once take possession of said sheep and treat them as herein before specified: Provided, however, That no person, company, or corporation shall be required to dip a flock of ewes, or any part of them in which there are ewes with lambs, at any time from the fifteenth day of April until the first day of July in Exception. any of any year, nor shall any owner or owners of sheep be required to dip any of their sheep between the first day of November and the fifteenth day of April of any year, but all such sheep infected with scab must be held in quarantine and kept separate from sound sheep. It shall also be the duty of such inspector to require the owner or owners of such sheep, while held in quarantine during the above periods of exemption, to spot and hand dress all sheep in the flocks that show scab or any infectious or contagious disease with some reliable medicine; and the inspector shall have power to enforce spotting or hand dressing during the periods of exemption above referred to, the same as he has power to enforce dipping at any other period of the year.

SEC. 11. Whenever the governor of the State shall have good reason to believe that any disease covered by this act has become epidemic in certain localities in any other State or Territory, or that conditions exist that render sheep liable to Proclamation by governor. convey disease, he shall thereupon by proclamation schedule such localities and prohibit the importation from them of any sheep into this State, except under such restrictions as he may deem proper or as may be provided by this act. Any person, company, or corporation who after publication of such proclamation shall knowingly receive in charge any sheep from any of the prohibited districts and transport and convey the same within the limits of any county of this State shall be deeined guilty of a misdemeanor, and further, shall become liable for any and all damages and loss that may be sustained by any person or persons by reason of the importation or transportation of such prohibited sheep: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall prohibit the transportation of sheep from such districts through the State by railroad train under such restrictions and regulations as the governor may prescribe.

SEC. 12. Any person, company, or corporation intending to bring or cause to be brought from any other State or Territory into any county of the State of Wyoming any sheep must first obtain from the inspector appointed under this act of the first Certificate from inspector. county into which he shall intend to bring said sheep a certificate that said sheep are sound and free from all scab or other infectious or contagious disease before crossing the boundary line of the State and county. It shall be the duty of every inspector, at the request of any person, company, or corporation or association desiring or intending to bring said sheep into this State from any other State or Territory, upon being tendered the amount of his fees for special examinations, as hereinafter provided, to with all convenient speed examine any sheep he shall be so requested to examine, and if such sheep be found to be free from scab or other infections or contagious disease and are perfectly sound such inspector shall give his certificate in writing to such applicant over his official signature setting forth the soundness and freedom of such sheep from disease, and he shall Permit to enter State. issue a permit for such sheep to be brought into the State. And no sheep shall be brought into this State except as hereinafter provided without first obtaining such certificate and permit: Provided, however, That any sheep that have been previously examined by any of the inspectors of this State may return at any time within five months after the date of the certificate of the examination of such sheep, provided such sheep have not been grazing within any district scheduled by the governor by his proclamation, as herein before provided, without additional examination except in the event that a complaint be Proviso. made against such sheep as hereinbefore provided: And provided, That nothing in this act shall apply to sheep brought into this State from other States for the purpose of being dipped, sheared, or for the purpose of being shipped on the railway when said sheep do not encroach within the State a distance to exceed six miles from the boundary line of this State, and when said sheep do not remain within this State a longer period of time than is necessary to complete the operation of such dipping, shearing, or shipping: And provided further, That

this section shall not apply to sheep brought into this State for stock purposes from the East, except in the event that the governor shall have issued his proclamation against the State from which the same shall come, in which event such sheep last mentioned shall be treated at the point to which

Place of treatment. they are consigned by railroad, the expense of such inspec

tion and examination and of any treatment of said sheep to be paid by the owner or person in charge of such sheep. The governor shall have the power to regulate the inspection of sheep coming into this State from any other State or Territory in any manner he may see fit, whenever he shall have issued his proclamation as Penalty. herein before provided, wherever such sheep may have come from, Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 13. Whenever any inspector shall examine any flock of sheep and find them wholly sound and free from scab and all other infectious or contagious disease, he shall give the owner or controller thereof a certificate, in writing, showing the date of such examination or inspection, the brand or paint mark on the Examination. sheep so inspected, and the fact that such sheep so inspected and examined are wholly sound and free from all scab or other infectious or conta gious disease, which certificate shall be good in any county in this State into which such sheep shall be brought, and the same shall not be further inspected or examined unless a complaint be made against the same, as provided in section nine of this act.

SEC. 14. Any person, company, corporation, or association desiring to move his or their sheep which are not sound. or which are infected with scab or any infec tious or contagious disease, shall obtain from the inspector

Traveling permit. a traveling permit, but such permit shall only be granted

for the purpose of moving said sheep to the nearest place where they may be treated for said disease, and by such route as such inspector shall designate. No such sheep shall be moved until such permit shall have been obtained. Any person, company, corporation, or association who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and any party injured or damaged by reason of the moving of said sheep shall be entitled to recover from said person, company, corporation, or association by civil action the amount of damage that said party may have sustained by reason thereof.

SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of every person or perCivil action for damages. sons owning or having under his control any sheep or flocks of sheep which have become infected with scab or other infectious or contagious disease to forthwith report such fact, in writing, to the inspector of the county in which such sheep are being grazed. And if any such person shall fail, neglect, omit, or refuse to so report such fact for the period of fifteen days, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon receiving such notice, the inspector shall proceed as provided in section ten of this act. Any person, company, corporation, or association violating any of the provisions of this section shall be liable in a civil action for the damages sustained by any other person, company, corporation, or association in consequence of such violation. Liability of owner, herder, or agent. civil or criminal, arising under this act, SEC. 16. In any action or proceeding, all persons having an interest in sheep and controlling the same, concerning which such action or proceeding is had, shall be deemed the owner of such sheep and shall be liable severally and jointly for a violation of this act. Any herder or other person in charge of sheep who will wilfully refuse to give an inspector information as to the condition of sheep in his charge shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. In criminal actions against corporations or individuals under this act no arrests shall be necessary, but a summons containing notice of the time and place of trial, together with a copy of the complaint filed before a justice of the peace, or in the court in which the action is commenced, shall be served in the same manner and for the length of time provided by law for the service of summons in civil action. Civil action no bar to criminal. SEC. 17. The provisions of this act requiring the sheep inspector to prosecute for violation of its provisions shall not be construed so as to prevent such prosecutions from being commenced and prosecuted by other persons as criminal actions are commenced and prosecuted in other cases.

SEC. 18. Such sheep inspector is hereby authorized and Deputy inspectors. empowered to appoint one or more deputy sheep inspectors, who shall each take the same oath and give the same bond, which shall be approved

in the same manner as the oath and bond of the sheep inspector, as provided in section two of this act. Such deputy sheep inspectors shall be at all times under the direction and control of the sheep inspector, and shali report all their official acts and doings to him.

SEC. 19. Such sheep inspector shall be entitled to receive the Compensation. sum of five dollars for each and every day and part of a day employed in the discharge of his duties, together with his actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred in the perforinance thereof, to be paid as follows:

For services performed under the provisions of section nine of this act Fees. he shall be paid as therein provided; and for all examinations and inspections in which he shall find scab or other infectious or contagious diseases among the sheep so examined and inspected he shall be paid by the owner or controller of such sheep, and his per diem and expenses shall be a lien upon such sheep until the same are paid. And he shall be authorized to collect the same in the manner provided in section ten of this act. For all examinations and inspections of sheep coming into this State under the provisions of section twelve of this act he shall be paid by the person at whose request such examination or inspection was made the following fees, to wit: Five dollars per day for each day necessarily spent in making such inspection, and one-fourth of a cent per head for each sheep in the flock or flocks so inspected, and said fees shall be a lien on the sheep so inspected. SEC. 20. Deputy sheep inspectors shall be entitled to Of deputy inspectors. receive the same compensation as sheep inspectors, which shall be paid and secured to him [them] in all respects as herein provided for the compensation to be paid inspectors.

SEC. 21. Every sheep inspector shall keep a book, in Inspection record book. addition to the book required by section eight of this act, to be known as the "Inspection Record," in which he shall enter and record all his official acts and proceedings and all the official acts and proceedings of his deputies. Such record shall show the name of the owner of every flock of sheep inspected, when the same was inspected, the brand or paint mark on the sheep, the result of the inspection, the names of the persons to whom certificates and permits have been granted, and the date and nature of each of the same, and any and all orders and directions made by such inspector or deputy inspector in relation to any of the matters in this act specified. And each of said books shall be a public record and shall be open to examination by any citizen at any time, and the same shall be turned over by such inspector to his successor in office.

SEC. 22. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners Stationery. of the several counties of this State to furnish to such inspectors all the books, blanks, and other stationery necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act.

SEC. 23. All misdemeanors under sections ten, fourteen, fifteen, and

Penalty. sixteen of this act shall be punishable by a fine of not less than twenty

five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and all misdemeanors under sections eleven and twelve of this act shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, and all such fines, when collected, shall be paid into the treasury of the county.

SEC. 24. Chapter one hundred and twenty-five of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An art for the appointment of sheep inspectors, and prescribing their duties, and fixing their compensation, and the manner of payment of the same, and providing penalties for the violation of this act," approved March 2, A. D. 1895, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 25. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 26. This act shall be in effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 1, 1897.

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NATIONAL AND STATE DAIRY LAWS.

Special effort has been made to have this collection of laws include all laws now operative which refer to dairy products or their imitations. In each case the names of the acts and the abstract made from them have been submitted to the State officer specially charged with their enforcement, or, where there is no such officer, to the secretary of state, with the request that the statements be corrected if necessary, indorsed, and returned. Replies were received from nearly every State and Territory. In a few cases, where no returns were made by State officers, the matter was referred to a prominent citizen interested in dairying or to an officer of a dairy association. No reply has been received from Nevada or Utah.

In a few instances it has been discovered that laws of a general nature referring indirectly to dairy products, as some public health laws, which were not noted in the statements submitted, are operative, and they have been included. It is not unlikely that some such laws are still missing, as occasionally it is a difficult matter to decide whether or not a general food law should be included when it is known it is not enforced, so far as dairy products are concerned.

In the arrangement of the table and abstracts, the following order has been followed, viz: State dairy officials, milk, butter, cheese, imitation butter, imitation cheese, miscellaneous, pure food. For obvious reasons it is not always possible to arrange the full laws in the same order.

The laws of some States are very bulky, for the reason that old laws are not repealed or entirely replaced by later legislation. For example, there may be a long law on imitation butter and cheese; later a more stringent law on imitation butter is passed, but the old law remains because of the comparatively small part of it which refers to imitation cheese. Or an act is passed which covers practically the same ground as an earlier act, but a comparatively unimportant feature is not included or repealed, and on this account it is necessary to print both laws in full.

It is hoped this compilation and the abbreviated statements will be of use where new dairy legislation is needed as well as where dairy laws now on the statute books are not as generally known as they should be.

R. A. PEARSON, Assistant Chief of Dairy Division.