Тах. Duty of county treasurer. Administer oaths. act, any person who shall violate, disregard, or evade or attempt to violate, disregard, or evade any of the provisions of this act, or who shall violate, disregard, or evade, or attempt to violate, disregard, or evade any of the rules, regulations, orders or directions of the live stock sanitary commission establishing and governing quarantine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon the conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred, nor more than five thousand dollars. SEC. 25. There shall be levied and assessed upon the assessed value of all taxable property in the state in each year, one-tenth of one mill on each and every dollar thereof, to be known as the Live Stock Indemnity Fund Tax; said tax to be assessed and collected in the same manner and at the same time as is now or may be prescribed by law for the assessment and collection of state revenue. SEC. 26. It shall be the duty of the county treasurers of the several counties to preserve the fund thus provided for as a separate fund, and to transmit the same twice a year to the state treasurer, who shall keep the same in a fund to be known as the Live Stock Indemnity Fund. SEC. 27. For the purposes of this act each member of the live stock sanitary commission is hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths and affirmations. SEC. 28. The live stock sanitary commission shall have power to create and enforce quaran tine against the disease known as Texas, sple nic, or Spanish fever, in any of the counties of this state. In so doing it shall have the power, and, as far as possible, follow the terms of law and requirements of the law creating the commission. SEC. 29. That the live stock sanitary com- Co-operation. mission be authorized and directed to co-operate with the commissioner of agriculture of the United States, or any officer or authority of the general government in the suppression and extirpation of any and all contagious diseases among domestic animals, and in the enforcement and execution of any and all acts of congress to prevent the importation or exportation of diseased cattle, and the spread of infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals. state. SEC. 30. The liability of the state for carry- Liability of ing out the provisions of this act in any two years is limited by, and shall in no case exceed the amount especially appropriated for that purpose and that period. clause. SEC. 31. All acts and parts of acts incon-Repealing sistent with this act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 5th, A. D. 1885. CHAPTER 5. AN ACT to prevent the spread of hog cholera and other Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of the Duty of owner. owners of swine or other domestic animals, Selling or buy ing carcass. Emergency clause. dying from cholera or other diseases, within twenty-four hours after their death, to cause the carcass of such animals to be suitably buried or burned up, on the premises owned or occupied by such person. SEC. 2. If the owner of any swine or other domestic animals, dying from cholera or other disease, or any other person, shall sell or dispose of the carcass of such swine or other domestic animals, to any person for the purpose of manufacturing the same into soap or rendering the same into lard, or for other purposes, or if any person shall buy, or otherwise obtain the carcass of any swine or other domestic animals, dying from cholera or other disease for manufacturing purposes as aforesaid, or any other purpose except that of burial or burning, as provided in the preceding section, every such person shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not less than twentyfive dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding six months. SEC. 3. Whereas an emergency exists, this act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Approved, March 4, A. D. 1885. CHAPTER 6. AN ACT to amend sections 29 and 33 of chapter 4, article IV, of the Compiled Statutes of 1881. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That section 29 of chapter 4, article IV. of the Compiled Statutes of 1881, be amended to read as follows: SEC. 29. That any person or person killing Bounties. wolves, wild cats, coyotes, or mountain lion within the boundaries of such counties as may at any election by a vote of the majority of electors voting, to determine as hereafter provided, and presenting the scalps of the same with the two ears and face down to the nose, to the county clerk of the county in which the same were killed, with satisfactory proof in writing upon oath that the same were killed within the boundaries of the aforesaid counties, shall be entitled to the following bounties: For every wolf so killed, three dollars; for every wild cat so killed, one dollar; for every coyote so killed, one dollar; for every mountain lion so killed, three dollars. Certificates of such bounties, when so allowed, shall be issued by the county clerk to the person entitled thereto, and upon the presentation of such certificates to the county treasurer, said treasurer shall pay to the holder of such certificates the amount named therein out of the county general fund. Election. Repealing clause. Comp. Stat., 57:58. 1879, 162. SEC. 2. That section 33 of chapter 4, article IV., of the Compiled Statutes of 1881, be amended to read as follows: SEC. 33. Upon the petition of fifty tax payers of any county to the county commissioners or county board, favorable to granting bounties for the destruction of wild animals, as provided in section one of this act, it shall be the duty of said county commissioners or county board to present the prayer of said petitioners to the electors of such county at the next succeeding election. SEC. 3. That sections 29 and 33 of chapter 4, article IV. of the Compiled Statutes of 1881, are hereby repealed. Approved March 5th, 1885. CHAPTER 7. Village and AN ACT to provide for the registration by the Auditor of Public Accounts of bonds issued by villages and cities of the second class. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of SECTION 1. That all bonds hereafter issued Registration. by the corporate authorities of any village or city of the second class shall, before such bonds or any of them are sold or negotiated, be presented to the auditor of public accounts, and he shall examine such bonds and all proceedings relative to their issue, and if he be satisfied that such bonds have been le |