Chap. 335.—An ACT to provide for the examination and testing of dairy
eattle for controlling tuberculosis, and to appropriate money for ex-
penses thereof.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That under the
direction of the live stock sanitary board and the State dairy and food
commissioner, the State veterinarian and the veterinarian of the Vir-
ginia experiment station, shall, from time to time, make such examina-
tions and apply tuberculin tests to breeding or dairy cattle as may he
directed by the said State live stock sanitary board and the State dairy
and food commissioner, for the purpose of controlling in the herds of
this State the disease known as tuberculosis, and under such rules and
regulations as may be prescribed, from time to time, by said board and
commissioner: provided, that no tuberculin test or tests shall be applied
to any animal or animals in this State unless requested by the owner or
owners thereof, and the further agreement by the owners of such animals
as may be submitted for tests to meet such requirements as may be made
by the said live stock sanitary board and commissioner. It is further
enacted that all reacting animals shall be surrendered to the State, said
animals to be disposed of according to such rules and regulations as may
be prescribed by said board and commissioner, the owner of said react-
ing animals to receive in compensation for said reacting animals a sum
not to exceed forty dollars ($40.00), or as may be agreed upon between
the owner of said reacting animals and the said board: provided further,
that in case of pure-bred and registered animals, unless segregated under
the Bangs method, the owner of such reacting registered animals shall
receive not in excess of eighty dollars ($80.00) for any such registered
animal, and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act,
the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or as much theerof as may
be needed, be, and is hereby, authorized to be expended out of the funds
appropriated to the State dairy and food department.

The net proceeds received from the sale of carcasses made by the
State of reacting slaughtered animals to be covered into the State treas-
ury and be used to help defray the expenses of the office of the dairv and
food commissioner in addition to the regular appropriation.

The actual and necessary expenses incident to the execution of the
provisions of this act shall be audited and paid as the other expenses of
the office of the State dairy and food commissioner.

The State live stock sanitary board and the State dairy and food
commissioner, acting jointly, shall make and publish such rules and
regulations as they may deem proper for carrying out the provisions
of this act.

The dairy and food commissioner shall publish, or cause to be pub-
lished, in bulletin form at least annually, a correct statement of all
examinations and tuberculin tests made, number of reacting animals
slaughtered and segregated, together with any incidental information
concerning same, which the said board may deem proper, and shall make
an annual report to the governor of the work done under the provisions
of this act, which report shall include a complete accounting of all
moneys expended for the preceding fiscal year.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall take effect from the date
of its passage.

3. All acts in conflict with this act to be repealed.