2268. Penalty-Entitled to recover damages.

SEC. 3. Every person who may violate either of the preceding sections of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor by a fine not less than thirty nor exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in [the] county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, and the owner or owners of any animal or animals injured or damaged by any act or omission in violation of the provisions of this act shall be entitled to recover the amount of damages sustained from the owner or owners of the diseased live stock from which the contagion came, and shall also be entitled to recover the costs of prosecution.

An Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases among live stock of the State of Nevada, and to quarantine against other states or infected districts.

Approved March 13, 1903, 99

2269. Proclamation of quarantine-Proviso.

SECTION 1. Whenever, upon the application of ten or more citizens of this state to the governor, asking for a proclamation of quarantine against any state or states, district or districts, infected by contagious diseases prevailing among live stock of said states or districts, the governor may issue a proclamation giving notice to such state or district, by mailing to the governor of said state or states, district or districts, where such disease exists, a copy of said proclamation in which it shall be stated that all diseased or infected, and all stock having been exposed to any infectious or contagious disease or diseases, are prohibited from entering within the borders of this state during the time of quarantine; provided, that said prohibition shall not apply to any stock being transported through and beyond the limits of this state by any railroad company by permit or authority granted by any agent or inspector acting under the instruction and authority of the United States government.

2270. Governor to employ veterinary.

SEC. 2. The governor shall at all times have the power to employ a veterinary surgeon to investigate epidemic and contagious diseases affecting live stock in this state.

2271. Misdemeanor-Penalty.

SEC. 3. Any person who, in violation of the quarantine regulations expressed in section 1 of this act by bringing the live stock into this state from the state or district so quarantined, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than two thousand dollars, together with all the costs of treatment and disinfection, and the stock so treated and disinfected shall be held by the veterinary surgeon appointed by the governor for the full cost of treatment and fine imposed and shall not be released until both fine and costs are paid.

An Act to provide for immediate destruction of domestic animals dying of contagious or infectious diseases.

Approved February 25, 1905, 32

2272. Disposal of bodies-Animals dying of infectious diseases must be burned or buried-Proviso.

SECTION 1. It is hereby made the duty of any person, firm or corporation, or of the officers or agents of any person, firm or corporation, owning or

claiming any cattle, sheep, pigs, horses or other animals that shall die of any contagious or infectious disease, to cause any of said animals dying as aforesaid to be burned or buried with not less than three feet of earth over the carcass within twenty-four hours after the knowledge of death as aforesaid shall have come to said person, firm, corporation, officers or agents; provided, however, this act shall not apply to domestic animals dying without a limit of one mile of any town, city, inhabited ranch house, or one-half mile of any public highway, situated in the State of Nevada.

2273. Idem-Penalty.

SEC. 2. Any person, firm or corporation, or the officers or agents of any person, firm or corporation, that shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for any term not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

2274. Estrays to be reported to a justice-Procedure-Failure misde

meanor-Larceny.

SECTION 1. Every person finding any stray horse, mare, colt, jack, or jenny, or any neat-foot animal, or any number of these animals, upon his farm or premises, or upon the public highway or domain, and shall take the same up for keeping, shall, within ten days, if said animal or animals remain on his farm or premises, or keeping, go before some justice of the peace of his township, and give, under oath, a full description of the marks and brands, color, and kind of such animal or animals, also the time, and all necessary information that will lead to the cause of the said animal or animals coming into his keeping, that may have come to his knowledge, and the marks and brands have not been altered since they came to his farm or premises; provided, no animal shall be considered an estray if the owner is known to the person finding it. At the time the taker up appears before the justice, as aforesaid, the justice shall, without delay, appoint two disinterested appraisers, who are resident householders of the county, to appraise and describe such animal or animals, and cause a notice of such estray or estrays, with a full description of the same, giving the brands, marks and colors thereon, to be published once a week for two consecutive months, in a newspaper published at the county-seat of the county in which the animal or animals may be taken up, and if there be no newspapers published at the county-seat, then the said notice shall be published in the newspaper nearest to the same. The said justice shall also cause three notices to be posted of such estrays, in conspicuous places, one of which shall be the justice's office, and the others the vicinity of the place where the estray animal or animals may have been taken up. For refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this section of this act, justices of the peace shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor in office, and the taker up of such estray or estrays shall be deemed guilty of grand or petit larceny, according to the value of the estray animal or animals taken up, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as

is provided in the law of the State of Nevada entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments." As amended, Stats. 1877, 90.

2275. Record of estray-How restored to owner.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the said justice to record the description, together with full information given by the taker up, and the justice shall, within ten days, if the estray animal or animals is or are not before proved by their proper owner, transmit a full transcript to the county recorder of his county, and the said recorder shall record the same in his estray book; said book shall be subject to examination by all persons making application to the recorder, and also the estray book of the justice of the peace; and every person claiming and proving said estray animal or animals that has or have been posted by this act, shall have restitution of the property so claimed, by paying all costs and such charges as may be awarded to the taker up by the justice of the peace of his county.

2276. Penalty for neglect to comply with act.

SEC. 3. Any person knowing of any horse, mare, colt, mule, jack, or jenny, or any number of neat cattle, or any number of these animals, running at large on his farm or premises, and not knowing the proper owner, who refuses or neglects to comply with the requisitions of the foregoing section, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding the value of the stock so neglected to be posted, recoverable before any court having jurisdiction of the same. 2277. Estrays not to be used.

SEC. 4. No person shall be allowed or permitted to use, or cause to be used, to profit or otherwise, any animal within his charge or keeping, under the foregoing provisions of this act; and any persons failing or refusing to comply with the requisitions set forth in this section shall be deemed guilty of grand or petit larceny, according to the value of the same, and, on conviction thereof, be punished in accordance with the provisions of the act concerning crimes and punishments. As amended, Stats. 1877, 91. 2278. Penalty for moving estrays.

SEC. 5. The owners of any stray animal, which is legally taken up under the provisions of this act, shall not be permitted to take, lead, or drive the same from the farm or possession of the person legally possessed of such animal, until proven and charges paid according to the provisions of this act; and any person knowingly and wilfully violating the provisions of this section, shall be subject to all the penalties that he would be subject to under the statute law, provided he had no claim on such animal.

See sec. 2232.

2279. Removing, larceny, when.

SEC. 6. If any one shall remove any stray animal from any rancho, or farm, or inclosure, contrary to the provisions of this act, who shall not be the owner of the same, he shall be deemed guilty of grand or petit larceny, according to the value of the property.

2280. Right to reclaim forfeited.

SEC. 7. If the owner of any lost or stray animal shall not appear and prove his property therein within three months, provided they are neat-foot animals and valued at fifty dollars and under that amount, and six months, provided they are horses, mules, or other animals, and valued at one hundred dollars and upwards, after the same is posted, he shall forfeit his right thereto, and the property in such animal shall be vested in the taker up, on his paying into the county treasury the one-half appraised value thereof, as fixed by the appraisers as aforesaid.

2281. Moneys paid, how disposed of.

SEC. 8. All moneys paid into the county treasury, under the provisions of this act as above provided, shall become a part and belong to the county school fund of the county in which the proceedings are had, and be drawn from the county treasury on proper warrant, and shall be exclusively appropriated to the county school fund, and for no other purpose.

2282. Fees of justice and recorder-Costs, by whom paid.

SEC. 9. The justice of the peace and recorder shall receive for their services in any one case, whether for one or more animals, two dollars and fifty cents each; and all other officers or persons shall receive for their services the same fees as are allowed for similar services within the county. All costs and charges accuring [accruing] under this act shall be paid by the person taking up the estray animal or animals, but shall be reimbursed by the owner, upon proof and delivery of his property. As amended, Stats. 1877, 186. 2283. Taker up not liable for escape or death.

SEC. 10. If any stray animal die or escape from the possession of the taker up, at any time before the expiration of six months from the taking up, he shall not be held liable in any manner on account of such animal.

2284. Stallions and Spanish bulls to be castrated.

SEC. 11. That if any stallion one and a half years old or upwards, shall be found running at large, out of the enclosed ground of the owner or keeper of said horse, it shall be lawful for any person to take up such horse, and forthwith give notice to the owner or keeper thereof, if said owner or keeper be known; and if the owner or keeper do not appear within three days thereafter, and pay to the said taker up five dollars as a compensation for his trouble, the taker up shall proceed to advertise said horse; and the same proceedings shall be had in every respect, as hereinbefore provided in cases of stray horses; provided, that the taker up may, at the expiration of twentydays from the time of advertising, castrate, or procure to be castrated, the said horse, which shall be done at the risk and expense of the owner. And all Spanish bulls of one and a half years old and upwards, found running at large, shall be castrated, or cut, as herein before provided.

Act cited, Chase v. Chase, 15 Nev. 261.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of inspectors of hides, defining their duties, and mode of compensation," approved March 3, 1881.

Approved March 10, 1897, 72

2285. Appointment of hide inspector-Duties.

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of any district court in this state, upon the application in writing, of three or more property owners in any township of any county within said district, to appoint in and for such township, and for such length of time as may be deemed necessary not exceeding two years, an inspector of hides, whose duty it shall be to examine, when requested so to do by any three taxpayers of said township, the hides of any or all cattle killed in said township, and to mark each hide inspected in such a manner as may be indicated by the district judge, and shall, upon the request of said taxpayers as aforesaid, have the right, and it shall be his duty to go upon the premises of any resident of such township and make search for any hides concealed, or which such inspector or said taxpayers may have reason to believe are concealed upon said premises, and shall report, in writing, to the district attorney of the county in which he has been appointed at such times as may be designated by the district court making the appointment, giving the number of hides inspected, the brands or other

marks upon such hides, the names of the persons in whose possession they were found, and whether the persons having them in possession had killed the cattle from which the hides were taken, or had obtained them from other persons, and the names of such persons.

2286. Idem-Compensation.

SEC. 2. The rate of compensation of such inspectors shall be fixed by the court at the time the appointments are made, and shall be paid by the parties on whose petition they are appointed, or by the taxpayers upon whose request they act, as provided in section 1 of this act.

Above act supersedes act of 1881, 118.

An Act to protect horse growers.

Approved March 9, 1889, 97

2287. Punishment for erroneous pedigree.

SECTION 1. Any person who shall sell any stallion within the limits of this state, intended for breeding purposes, and who shall give a false or erroneous written pedigree, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than one year nor more than five years, and such person so offending shall be liable to the person so purchasing for all damages he may sustain by reason of such false record of pedigree; provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to any representation concerning pedigree unless the same has been reduced to writing and signed by the party so making the same. 2288. To keep pedigree posted-Penalty.

SEC. 2. Every person who shall keep a stallion for the service of mares shall keep posted in a conspicuous place on or near the stable where such stallion is kept, a full and complete pedigree of such stallion headed by the name by which said stallion is known; provided, that in cases where the pedigree is unknown such fact shall be inserted in such notice in lieu of pedigree. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and as a further punishment for the offense the owner or keeper of such horse shall have no legal right to collect any charges made for services of such horse.

An Act providing for the inspection of horses about to be driven or shipped out of the state; creating the sheriffs of the several counties inspectors of horses, and prescribing their duties as such; prohibiting the transportation by railroad companies of horses without inspection; and providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.

2289. Inspection of horses required before removal from state. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of every person or persons, firm, association or corporation, shipping or driving any horses out of this state to hold the same at some convenient place for inspection as hereinafter provided by this act, and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, association or corporation to ship, drive or in any manner remove beyond the boundaries