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 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 STATE VETERINARIAN 
 
 CHAPTER 21. 
 
 Sec. 190. Appointment — Qualification. The gov- 
 ernor is Hereby authorized to nominate, and by and 
 witn tne advice and consent of the senate, appoint, 
 during eacn regular session of the legislature, a com- 
 petent veterinary surgeon, who shall be known as the 
 state veterinarian. Mo person shall be competent, un- 
 der the provisions of this chapter, to receive the ap- 
 pointment of state veterinarian who is not a grad- 
 uate in good standing of a recognized college of 
 veterinary surgery, either in the nited States, Canada 
 or Europe. 
 
 Sec. 191. Term of office. He shall hold his office 
 for two years. He may, however, be removed at any 
 time by the governor for neglect of duty or other 
 malfeasance in office, and, in case of a vacancy oc- 
 curring in the office of state veterinarian from any 
 cause whatsoever, when the legislature is not in ses- 
 sion, the governor shall have tne power to fill such 
 vacancy by appointment; and any person so appointed 
 to fill such vacancy shall give the same bond and 
 perform the same duties as are prescribed for the 
 state veterinarian by the provisions of this chapter, 
 and shall hold his office for the unexpired term for 
 which such appointment shall have been macie. 
 
 Section 19a. Duties. The duties of the State Vet- 
 erinarian shall be as follows: 
 
 To investigate any and all cases of dangerously 
 contagious or infectious diseases among domestic ani- 
 mals in this state of which he may have knowledge, 
 or which may be brought to his notice by any resi- 
 dent in the locality where such disease exists. It 
 shall also be his duty, in the absence of specific in- 
 formation, to miake visits of inspection to any locality 
 where he may have reason to suspect that there is 
 contagious or infectious disease; to quarantine ani- 
 mals affected with or. exposed to diseases as above; 
 and to order the gathering or rounding up of all 
 animals affected with such diseases. No animals 
 pronounced affected with a dangerously contagious 
 or infectious disease, by the State Veterinarian, or his 
 duly authorized deputy, shall be turned loose, re- 
 moved, or permitted to escape, but shall be held sub- 
 ject to the order of the State Veterinarian; and all 
 animals ordered gathered or rounded up shall be so 
 gathered or rounded up within a reasonable length 
 of time, to be determined by the state veterinarian. 
 Any person failing to comply with the provisions of 
 this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty 
 nor more than five hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 193. (As amended by Chapter 96, S. L. 1911.) 
 Authority to quarantine. In all cases of contagious 
 or infectious disease among domestic animals other 
 than sheep or goats in this state, the state veterin- 
 arian shall have authority to order the quarantine of 
 the infected premises, and in case such disease shall 
 become epidemic in any locality in this state, the 
 state veterinarian shall immediately notify the gov- 
 ernor of the state, who shall thereupon issue his 
 proclamation, forbidding any animal of the kind 
 among which said epidemic exists, to be transferred 
 from such locality without a certificate from the 
 state veterinarian showing such animal to be healthy. 
 Whenever it shall become known to the state veterin- 
 arian that disease known as mange, itch, scabies or 
 any other infectious or contagious disease exists 
 among cattle, horses or domestic animals, except 
 sheep and goats of any county, district or section of 
 the state, it shall be the duty of the said veterinarian 
 to take such steps as will prevent the spread of said 
 disease within the state, and said veterinarian shall 
 have power as a sanitary measure to inspect and 
 compel the dipping spraying or other sanitary treat- 
 ment as may be determined by said veterinarian, of all 
 such animals in the State of Wyoming, or in any 
 county, district or section of said state, under such 
 rules and regulations as the said veterinarian may 
 adopt, and the said veterinarian may order the owner 
 or owners or persons in charge of such animals to 
 dip, spray or otherwise treat all or any part of such 
 animals as said veterinarian may find to be infected 
 or to have been exposed to mange or scabies, or other 
 infectious or contagious disease. If the owner or 
 
4 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 owners or persons in charge of such animals so order- 
 ed treated, shall, after reasonable notice to be de- 
 termined by said veterinarian, fail to dip, spray or 
 otherwise treat such animals as ordered by said veter- 
 inarian is hereby authorized- to seize, or cause to be 
 seized, dipped or sprayed or otherwise treated, such 
 animals; and to hold and sell the same, or such part 
 thereof as may be necessary to pay all cost of said 
 inspection, seizing-, caring for, dipping, spraying or 
 other treatment, together with cost of sale, and such 
 sale shall be made at such time and place, and in such 
 manner as may be prescribed by said veterinarian af- 
 ter not less than three days, nor more than fifteen 
 days' notice of the time, place and purpose of such 
 sale has been given by said veterinarian to the owner 
 or persons in charge of such animals, and in case 
 personal service of such notice cannot be had within 
 the county in which the animals are being held by 
 such veterinarian, then such notice may be given 
 either by personal service outside of said county or by 
 advertisement in any paper selected by said veter- 
 inarian: Provided, however, That the owner or owners 
 of such animals so seized and held may, at any time 
 prior to such sale, recover possession of the same 
 upon payment to the state veterinarian of the amount 
 of costs incurred by order of the veterinarian against 
 such animals; and, Provided, further, That any sum 
 realized from the sale of such animals over and above 
 the amount of costs incurred against such animals 
 shall be returned by the state veterinarian to the 
 owner of such animals if known or can by any rea- 
 sonable diligence be found, otherwise to be placed in 
 the estray fund subject to the laws; and provided, 
 also, that the owner or owners or persons in charge 
 of any stock imported into his state for breeding, 
 dairy or other purposes, who do not have attached 
 to the bill of lading of such stock, or in his or their 
 possession a certificate from a duly authorized United 
 States or State Inspector showing such stock to be 
 free from infectious and contagious disease, shall • 
 have such stock inspected and pay therefor the fees 
 prescribed by law, but where said owner or owners or 
 persons in charge have such certificate he or they 
 shall submit it to said state veterinarian for his ap- 
 proval and there shall be no charges made therefor, 
 unless said veterinarian shall receive information 
 causing him to determine that an inspection of such 
 stock is necessary. Be it further enacted, that it shall 
 be the duty of the state veterinarian to collect the 
 following inspection fees on all stock herewith enu- 
 merated imported into this state and inspected as 
 hereinbefore provided: Horses, twenty-five cents; 
 mules, twenty-five cents; asses, twenty-five cents; 
 cattle, ten cents; swine, five cents. All of such fees 
 so collected to be turned over to the State Treasury 
 and, reported as other state funds." 
 
 Sec. 194. Diseased animals to be slaughtered. In 
 any case of epidemic disease where premises nave 
 been previously quarantined by the state veterinarian, 
 as before provided, he is further authorized and em- 
 powered, when in his judgment necessary to order 
 the slaughter of any or all diseased animals upon said 
 premises, and of all animals that have been exposed 
 to contagion or infection under the following re- 
 strictions: Said order shall be a written one and 
 shall be made in duplicate, and there shall be a dis- 
 tinct order and duplicate for each owner of the ani- 
 mals condemned, the original of each order to be filed 
 by the veterinarian with the governor, and the dupli- 
 cate given to said owner. And, further, before slaugh- 
 tering any animals, or animal that has been exposed 
 only and does not show disease, the veterinarian shall 
 call in consultation with him two respectable prac- 
 ticing veterinarians or physicians, residents of the 
 state, or if this be impossible, then two reputable and 
 well known stock owners, residents of the state, and 
 shall have the written endorsement upon his order of 
 at least one of said consulting physicians or stock 
 owners, stating that such action is necessary, and 
 the consent of the owner or person in charge, before 
 such animal or animals shall be slaughtered. 
 
 See. 105. Burning: of carcass. It shall be the duty 
 of the state veterinarian, or his regularly appointed 
 deputy, who shall be a graduate of a legally chartered 
 school of veterinary surgery in good standing, to 
 condemn said animals before the proceeding of 
 slaughter of such animals as may be condemned, ex- 
 cept sheep and goats, and also the destruction of the 
 carcass, which latter shall be by burning to ashes and 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 5 
 
 shall include every part of the animal and hide, and 
 also excrement as far as possible. He shall cause the 
 said slaughter and burning- to be done as cheaply as 
 practicable and shall pay the expense from any con- 
 tingent fund appropriated for his office taking proper 
 vouchers for the same. 
 
 Sec. 11M5. Annual report. The state veterinarian 
 shall make a report at the end of every year to the 
 governor of all matters connected with his work, and 
 the governor shall transmit to the several boards of 
 county commissioners such parts of said report as 
 may be of general interest to the breeders of live 
 stock. The governor shall also give information in 
 writing as rapidly as he obtains it to the various 
 boards of county commissioners, of each cause of sus- 
 picion or first eruption of disease in each locality, its 
 course and the measures adopted to check it. 
 
 Sec. 107. Importation of stock may be restricted. 
 Whenever the Governor of the State shall have reason 
 to believe that any disease covered by this chapter has 
 become epidemic in certain localities in another state 
 or territory, or that conditions exist which render do- 
 mestic animals liable to convey disease, he shall there- 
 upon by proclamation schedule such localities and- 
 prohibit the importation from them of any live stock 
 of the kind diseased or suspected of being diseased 
 into this State, except under such restrictions as he 
 may deem proper. Any firm, association, corporation, 
 person, or persons who shall violate such proclama- 
 tion by receiving such prohibited animals for ship- 
 ment, or cause same to be shipped or otherwise 
 imported into this State without complying with such 
 proclamation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five 
 hundred nor more than five thousand dollars for each 
 offence, and shall further 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 animals. 
 
 Sec. 19S. Notice of disease to veterinarian — Pen- 
 alty for concealment. It shall be the duty of any per- 
 son or persons who shall have or suspect ihat there 
 is upon his or their premises any case of contagious 
 or infectious disease among domestic animals, to im- 
 mediately report the same to the state veterinarian, 
 and a failure so to do, or any attempt to conceal the 
 existence of such disease, or to wilfully or maliciously 
 obstruct or resist the said veterinarian in the' dis- 
 charge of his duty as hereinbefore set forth, shall be 
 deemed a misdemeanor, and any person or persons who 
 shall be convicted of any one of the above acts or 
 omissions shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor 
 more than five hundred dollars for each and every 
 offense, shall forfeit all claims to an indemnity for 
 loss from the state, and upon conviction a second time 
 shall, in addition to the above named fine, be impris- 
 oned for a term not less than thirty days nor more 
 than six months. 
 
 Sec. 190. Examination of animals — Seizure of dis- 
 eased animals. The following regulations shall be 
 observed in all cases of disease covered by this 
 chapter: 
 
 First — It shall be unlawful to sell, give away or in 
 any manner part with any animal affected with or 
 suspected of contagious or infectious disease; and in 
 the case of any animal that may be known to have 
 been affected with, or exposed to any such disease 
 within one year prior to such disposal, due notice of 
 the fact shall be given in writing to the party re- 
 ceiving the animal. 
 
 Second — It shall be unlawful to kill for butcher 
 purposes, any such animal, to sell, give away or use 
 any part of it, or its milk, or to remove any part of the 
 skin. A failure to observe these provisions shall be 
 deemed a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine not less than one hundred dollars, nor 
 exceeding five hundred dollars. It shall be the dutv 
 of the owner or person having in charge anv animal 
 affected with, or suspected of any contagious or infec- 
 tious disease to immediately confine the same in a safe 
 place, isolated from other animals, and with all ne- 
 cessary restrictions to prevent dissemination of the 
 disep^e until the arrival of the state veterinarian. 
 
 The above regulations shall apply as well to ani- 
 mals in transit through the state, as to those resident 
 therein, and the state veterinarian or his dulv author- 
 ised age^t shall have full authority to examine, 
 whether in car, or yards, or stables, all animals pass- 
 ing through the state or anv part of it, and on detec- 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS. W VOM1NG 
 
 tion or suspicion of disease, to take possession of and 
 treat and uispose of said animais in me same manner 
 as is prescribed ior animals resident in tne state. 
 
 !sec. 200. Approval 01 claims arising' iroi.i .^uiujili. 
 ter ui diseased uniniais. All ciainis against tne state 
 arising- rrorn tne slaughter of animals unuer me pro- 
 visions of this chapter snail, togetner witn tne order 
 of tne veterinarian and the valuation of tne appraisers 
 in each case be submitted to , the state auditor, who 
 shall examine them witnout unnecessary, ueitij, and 
 for each one that he finds to be equitable ana entitled 
 to inaemnity under tnis chapter, snail issue his war- 
 rant on the state treasurer tor tne sum namea in the 
 appraiser's report. All claims for indemnity arising 
 under the provisions of tnis chapter, shall, before tney 
 are presented for payment to the auditor, ue suomitted 
 to tne state veterinarian, who shall fully inform him- 
 self of the facts .connected with eacn claim; if ne shail 
 be of thg" opinion that- tne claim is legal and just, he 
 shall approve the same in writing endorsed thereon; if 
 he shall be of the contrary opinion, ne snail rejefci it 
 in like manner, and in all cases he shall express in 
 such endorsement the reasons for his approval or re- 
 jection, as the case may be. If the state veterinarian 
 shall reject a claim, it shall then, together with the 
 endorsement of the veterinarian, setting form his 
 reasons for such rejection, be submitted for determina- 
 tion to a board of arbitration, to consist of three mem- 
 bers, which shall be formed as follows: The state 
 veterinarian shall select as one member of said board 
 one stock grower, who shall be a resident of the 
 county wherein the slaughtered animais for which 
 the claim is made, ranged. The claimant shall as such 
 member of said board, another stock grower, who 
 shall be a resident of the same county, and these two 
 so selected shall choose the third member of the board 
 from among the stock growers of tne same county. 
 The arbitrators shall have power to appoint a time and 
 place for hearing; to adjourn from time to time; to 
 administer oaths to witnesses; to hear the allegations, 
 and evidence of the parties, and to make an award 
 thereon. All the arbitrators shall meet and act to- 
 gether during the investigation; but when met, a ma- 
 jority may determine any question. Before acting, 
 they shall each be sworn before an officer authorized 
 to administer oaths, faithfully and fairly to near and 
 examine the allegations and evidence of the parties in 
 relation to the claim in controversy; and to make a 
 just finding according to their understanding and ac- 
 cording to the provisions of "this chapter. The award 
 of the arbitrators shall simply be to the effect that 
 they find the claim legal and just, according to the 
 provisions of this chapter; or the reverse, as the case 
 may be. The award shall be in writing, signed by the 
 arbitrators, or a majority of them and shall be for- 
 warded by them with all the papers submitted to them, 
 to the state auditor. If the board of arbitrators shall 
 concur with the state veterinarian in rejecting the 
 claim, their decision shall be final. If the board of ar- 
 bitrators shall find that the claim is legal and just, 
 then the said claim shall in all respects be held as 
 though the state veterinarian had in the first place ap- 
 proved the same. In auditing any claim under this 
 chapter, it shall be the duty of the auditor to satisfy 
 himself that it does not come under any class for which 
 indemnity is refused by this chapter, and he shall re- 
 quire the affidavit of the claimant to this fact, or if the 
 claimant be not cognizant thereof, then of some re- 
 putable person who is cognizant thereof, and the audi- 
 tor may at his discretion require further proof. The 
 indemnity to be granted shall be two-thirds of the 
 ordinary value of the animal as determined by the 
 appraisers, without reference to its diminished value 
 because of being diseased. It shall be paid to the 
 owner upon his application and the presentation of the 
 proofs prescribed herein; and it shall be the duty of 
 said owner to make such application within six months 
 of the slaughter of the animal for which payment is 
 claimed, failing- which such claim shall be barred by 
 limitation. These payments shall be made by the 
 state treasurer as before provided, and from the fund 
 provided by this chapter. The right to indemnity un- 
 der this chapter is limited to animals destroyed by 
 reason of the existence or suspected existence of some 
 epizootic disease, generally fatal and incurable, si>ch 
 as rinderpest, hoof and mouth disease, pleuro pneumo- 
 nia, anthrax or Texas fever among bovines, glanders 
 among horses, and anthrax among sheep. For the or- 
 dinarv contagious diseases not in their nature fatal. 
 
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 such as scab or hoof-rot in sheep, and epizootic influ- 
 enzas in Horses, no indemnity shall be paid. The rignt 
 to indemnity shall not exist, and payment of such shall 
 not be made in the following cases: 
 
 p irst — For animals belonging to the United States. 
 
 Second — For animals tnat are brought into the 
 state contrary to tne provisions of this ciiapter. 
 
 Third — For animals that are found to be diseased 
 or tnat are destroyed because they have been ex- 
 posed to disease before or at the time of their arrival 
 in tne state. 
 
 .fourth — When an animal was previously affected 
 by any otner disease which from its nature and devel- 
 opment was incurable and necessarily fatal. 
 
 Fifth — When the owner or person in charge shall 
 have knowingly or negligently omitted to comply with 
 the provisions of the last two preceding sections. 
 
 Sixth — When the owner or claimant at the time of 
 coming in possession of the animal knew it to be dis- 
 eased, or received the notice specified in the first clause 
 of the last preceding section. 
 
 Sec. 201. Shall pay arbitrators. Each member of 
 boards of arbitration formed and acting under the pro- 
 visions of this chapter shall receive for their services 
 the sum of five dollars per day for each day they may 
 be actually engaged and employed in the investigation 
 of any claim, and shall be paid by the state veterina- 
 rian out of the "veterinarian contingent fund." 
 
 Sec. 202. (As amended by Ch. 12, S. L. 1913.). Com- 
 pensation — Deputy. The State Veterinarian shall re- 
 ceive for his services the sum of $2,400.00 per annum 
 together with his actual necessary traveling expenses 
 when in the performance of his duty, provided said 
 actual necessary traveling expenses shall not exceed 
 seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum. 
 
 The veterinarian is hereby authorized in his dis- 
 cretion to appoint a deputy, for the performance of 
 whose duties the veterinarian shall be responsible, and 
 who shall exercise such powers as may be deputed to 
 him by the State Veterinarian. Such deptuy shall re- 
 ceive not exceeding five dollars per day for the time 
 actually employed. The appraisers herein provided 
 for, shall each receive five dollars per day or part of 
 day they may be actually employed as such, which 
 shall be paid from their county fund upon the certifi- 
 cate of the justice who summoned them. The justice 
 shall receive his ordinary fee for issuing a summons, 
 to be paid out of the county fund. The members of 
 the board of health, veterinarians, physicians, or stock 
 owners, called in consultation by the Veterinarians, 
 shall receive five dollars for each day or part of day 
 they may actually be so employed, and ten cents per 
 mile, mileage for the distance actually traveled, which 
 rums shall be paid from the Veterinarian's contingent 
 fund hereafter provided. For this and other incidental 
 expenses, connected with his work, and made his duty 
 by this chapter, such as his traveling expenses, causing 
 a imals to be slaughtered and their carcasses burned, 
 and disinfecting infected premises, the veterinarian 
 shall have at his disposal the sum of six hundred dol- 
 lars, which shall be known as the Veterinarian's Con- 
 tingent Fund. Before entering on the discharge of his 
 duties, he shall give good and sufficient bond in the 
 sum of five thousand dollars for the proper manage- 
 ment of the same. He shall make a sworn statement 
 semi-annually to the Governor, supported sy full 
 vouchers of the amount disbursed; and any part of the 
 six hundred dollars not used shall be covered into the 
 state treasury." 
 
 Sec. 2(Kt. Cla*ros rejected by veterinarian to be ar- 
 bitrated. The state auditor shall pay no claim for 
 indemnity under this chapter which shall have been 
 rejected by the state veterinarian, unless, the same 
 shall have been submitted, as hereinbefore provided, to 
 a board of arbitration and by such board decided to be 
 legal and just. If any claimant shall refuse to submit 
 his or her claim which shall have been rejected by the 
 state veterinarian; to a board of arbitration as herein- 
 before provided, such refusal shall be deemed conclu- 
 sive evidence of a waiver of all claim for indemnity 
 under the provisions of this chapter. 
 
 Sec. 204. Inability of state limited to appropria- 
 tion. The liability of the state for indemnity for ani- 
 mals destroyed under the provisions of this chapter, 
 in any two years, is limited by and shall in no case 
 exceed the amount especially appropriated for that 
 purpose and for that period. 
 
 Sec. 205. Quarantine requested. Whenever any 
 person who is a taxpayer of this state and is the owner 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS,, WYOMING 
 
 of domestic animals located therein, shall notify the 
 state veterinarian that he has reason to believe said 
 animals, or any of them are suffering from any conta- 
 gious or infectious disease, the said veterinarian shall 
 immediately proceed to the locality where said animals 
 are located and shall investigate and determine the 
 nature of said disease, and if contagious or infectious 
 shall proceed in the manner prescribed by the provi- 
 sions of this chapter to quarantine and destroy all 
 such diseased animals. 
 
 See. 20G. Payment of expense. For the purposes, 
 of the preceding 1 section there is hereby appropriated 
 out of any fund in the state treasury, not otherwise 
 appropriated, the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars 
 per year, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to 
 be known as "the veterinarian's contingent fund" and 
 to be used in paying the actual and necessary travel- 
 ing and incidental expenses of the state veterinarian 
 while performing the duties herein imposed, Provided,. 
 That nothing in this section contained shall be con- 
 strued to authorize the payment, from the appropria- 
 tion hereby made, of any expense or charge relating 
 to the office or duties of state veterinarian other than 
 such as immediately pertains to the investigation of 
 contagious and infectious disease of domestic animals, 
 made under the provisions of this chapter. 
 
 See. 207. Report to governor. On or before De- 
 cember tenth, prior to the meeting of the legislature, 
 the state veterinarian shalLmake a report to the gov- 
 ernor of the duties performed by him under the provi- 
 sions of this chapter and shall include, in said report, 
 a statement, showing the number of requests for his 
 services filed with him during the preceding two years, 
 the number of such requests complied with by him, 
 the names of the persons or corporations making such 
 requests; a full statement of the result or nis said 
 investigations, including a statement of the expense of 
 performing the duties herein imposed. 
 
 CHAPTER 42, LAWS, 1917. 
 
 Sec. 1. Emergencies, In case of a serious out- 
 break of a contagious, infectious, or epizootic disease 
 among live stock in this state — the checking of which 
 cannot be accomplished without additional funds, the 
 State Veterinarian shall present such fact to the Gov- 
 ernor of this state, who may then authorize the in- 
 curring of a deficiency to meet the emergency. 
 CHAPTER 77, LAWS, 1917. 
 THE TUBERCULIN TEST LAW. 
 
 See. 1. Tuberculin test of dairy cattle. Penalty. 
 All cows in the State of Wyoming supplying milk or 
 cream in cities or towns, or to creameries in tins state, 
 shall be tuberculin tested for tuberculosis; and all 
 bulls which are known to have been exposed to such 
 cows, shall also be tested as above. If necessary, Lie. 
 State Veterinarian may order the quarantine of such 
 animals as suspected of being diseased with tubercu- 
 losis; and any person, persons, firm, association, or 
 corporation violating such quarantine shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof 
 shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one 
 hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 See. 2. Appointment Special Deputy State Veter- 
 inarian. Duties. Salary. Other assistants. The 
 State Veterinarian, by and •with the advice and con- 
 sent of the Governor, is hereby authorized to appoint 
 a qualified person, to be known as a special deputy 
 state veterinarian, who shall act under the direction 
 of the State Veterinarian in carrying out the provi- 
 sions of this act, who shall take an oath for the faith- 
 ful and efficient performance of all duties required of 
 him and who shall give satisfactory bond to the State 
 of Wyoming in the sum of three thousand dollars 
 ($3,000.00). The special deputy state veterinarian 
 shall receive a salary of one thousand five hundred 
 dollars ($1,500.00) per annum, together with all actual 
 and necessary traveling expenses incurred while en- 
 gaged in the performance of his duties. The State 
 Veterinarian is further authorized to employ such 
 other assistants as may be deemed necessary to carry 
 out the provisions of this act. 
 
 See. 3. Certificate or permit. Penalty. No dairy, 
 association, person, or persons engaged in the busi- 
 ness of selling milk or cream in cities or towns or to 
 creameries in this state, may sell such milk or cream 
 unless they possess a certificate or special permit 
 from the State Veterinarian, as hereinafter provided. 
 Any dairy, association, person, or persons violating 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and snail upon conviction thereof be fined not less 
 man ten nor more than one hundred dollars, tor each 
 offense. 
 
 sec. 4. Certificate., Permit. On completion of 
 the tuberculin test upon all uairy cattle as above, 
 owned uy any dairy, association, Arm, corporation, 
 person, or persons, the State Veterinarian shall cause 
 a certificate to be issued to such owner or owners, 
 snowing tnat all such cattle are free from tubercu- 
 losis; or, if all animals were not found free from tu- 
 berculosis, a certificate showing- that proper disposi- 
 tion (.as lequired uy mwj nas ueen made of diseased 
 animals, and that the remaining- animals in the herd 
 or herds are free from tuoerculosis, so far as may be 
 determined by the tuDerculin test. Such certificate 
 shall be the owner's authority for selling milk or 
 cream as above. As the tuberculin- testing of ail 
 dairy cattle in this state cannot begin immediately 
 upon the date that this act becomes effective, the 
 State Veterinarian is hereby authorized to issue spe- 
 cial permits to owners of such cattle as remain 
 untested while the provisions of this act are being 
 carried out, for the selling of milk or cream in 
 cities or towns or to creameries in this state, without 
 certificate as above provided. These special permits 
 shall be effective only for the period from the date 
 that this act becomes effective, until proper test and 
 issuance of certificate as above provided. 
 
 Sec. 5. Notice to owners. The State Veterina- 
 rian, or his duly authorized agent shall ascertain the 
 names and addresses of all owners of dairy cattle in 
 this state and shall notify them, in writing, of the 
 provisions of this act, — obtaining acknowledgement, 
 from owner, of receipt of such notice. No person, 
 persons, firm, association, or corporation owning 
 dairy cattle shall be considered as violating the pro- 
 visions of this act, who has not been officially notified 
 of its provisions. The owner notified shall make ap- 
 plication to the State Veterinarian for a special per- 
 mit as above provided, — to be used as his authority 
 for selling milk or cream in cities or towns, or to 
 creameries in this state, until such animals shall have 
 been tuberculin tested and certificate issued as above 
 provided. 
 
 See. 6. Ear tasrs. Record. Each animal tested 
 with tuberculin under the provisions of this act, 
 which passes the test satisfactorily to the State Vet- 
 erinarian, shall have an ear-tag inserted in its ear. 
 The State Veterinarian shall see that a correct record 
 is kept of all cattle tested, the date and place of 
 testing, the names and addresses of owners, and the 
 number of the ear-tag inserted in the ear of each 
 animal, and shall report this information in his reg- 
 ular biennial report. 
 
 Sec. 7. Dairy cow defined. A "dairy cow" within 
 the meaning of this act, shall be any cow the milk 
 or milk products from which is sold for human con- 
 sumption. 
 
 Sec. 8. Fees. The first tuberculin test of all cat- 
 tle of owners selling milk or cream in cities or towns 
 or to creameries in this state, shall be made without 
 charge to such owners; but for subsequent tests, at 
 owners' request or other-wise (except as hereinafter 
 provided) a fee of one dollar per head shall be charged 
 and collected by the veterinarian making the test. 
 
 Sec. 9. Tuberculosis eradication fuud. The fees 
 collected in compliance with the preceding section, 
 shall be immediately transmitted to the State Veteri- 
 narian who shall deposit same in the State Treasury 
 to the credit of the "Tuberculosis Eradication Fund" 
 hereby created; such fund shall be under the control 
 of the State Veterinarian and any salaries or expenses 
 connected -with bovine tuberculosis eradication work 
 in this state may be paid by the State Treasurer from 
 such fund, upon presentation of State Auditor's 
 voucher properly approved. 
 
 Sec. 10. Re-tests of cattle. Whenever the State 
 Veterinarian shall have reasons to suspect that the 
 disease tuberculosis exists, or has been introduced by 
 imported dairy cattle, among any herd or number of 
 dairy cattle in this state, he shall order the retesting 
 of same, — regardless of former tests made, if any. 
 
 Sec. 11. Accredited herds. Any owner or owners 
 of dairy cattle in this state, who shall cause same to 
 be officially tested for tuberculosis at least once each 
 year, for three years, shall be the owner or owners of 
 an "Accredited Herd"; provided the premises and 
 buildings where such animals are kept, pass a sani- 
 
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 tary inspection required by regulations (hereby au- 
 thorized; of the State Veterinarian. Accredited herds 
 shall be advertised as such, at least once each year, 
 in the official county newspapers of the counties 
 wherein such animals are assessed for taxation, and 
 in other ways; and cattle from accredited herds shall 
 be accepted without special tuberculin test for ship- 
 ment to all states of the Union recognizing such herds. 
 
 Sec. 12. Insanitary premises. Penaity. The State 
 Veterinarian or other person acting under his author- 
 ity may order any insanitary dairy barns or premises, 
 cleaned and disinfected. Such cleaning and disinfect- 
 ing shall be at the expense or the owner or owner. 
 If, after a reasonable length of time, insanitary barns 
 or premises ordered cleaned and disinfected by the 
 State Veterinarian or other person acting under his 
 authority, are not cleaned and disinfected as ordered, 
 then such owner or owners shall be fined not less than 
 ten nor more than one hundred dollars, for each 
 offence. 
 
 Sec. 13. Cities may require test. The Mayor or 
 Board of Commissioners of any city or town of this 
 state shall have the power by ordinance duly enacted, 
 to require the owner or owners of dairies or dairy 
 herds, or persons selling or offering for sale any milk 
 or its products within such city or town, to compel 
 such owners of dairies or dairy herds, to have all ani- 
 mals in such herds tested for tuberculosis, once each 
 year; and to prohibit the sale of milk or its products 
 in such city or town unless all cows from which such 
 milk is obtained have passed the test for tuberculosis 
 within the past year. 
 
 Sec. 14. Hindering test. Penalty. Any person 
 who intentionally interferes with or hinders the work 
 of the State Veterinarian or his employes under this 
 act, or who attempts to defeat the object of the tu- 
 berculin test by a previous injection of tuberculin, 
 commonly known as ''plugging", or in any other way 
 attempts to prevent an accurate and truthful deter- 
 mination of the condition of the cattle tested, shall be. 
 fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred 
 dollars for each offence, or by imprisonment in the 
 county jail of not more than thirty days, or both, in 
 the discretion of the court. 
 
 CHAPTER 100, LAWS, 1917. 
 Sec. 1. Authority for co-operation with U. S. Bu- 
 reau of Animal Industry. The state hereby gives its 
 consent and indicates its willingness that the bureau 
 of animal industry, of the nited States Department 
 of Agriculture and its employes shall come within 
 the State of Wyoming for all purposes connected with 
 the importation and exportation of diseased live stock, 
 and for all purposes connected with the eradication, 
 suppression and control of dangerous, infectious and 
 contagious diseases of live stock. The State Veteri- 
 narian is hereby authorized to appoint as deputies, all 
 employes of the above federal bureau, working within 
 the State of Wyoming as above. 
 
 CHAPTER 112, LAWS, 1917. 
 
 STALLION AND JACK REGISTRATION 
 
 DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Sec. 1. Certificate. Every owner or keeper of 
 any stallion or jack in this state, who uses such ani- 
 mal for public service, or who represents such animal 
 as being fit for public service, shall procure a certifi- 
 cate as hereinafter provided, and keep same or an 
 exact copy thereof posted in a conspicuous place 
 within every barn, shed, or building where such stal- 
 lion or jack is kept for service, and shall mention the 
 same in all advertisements as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Sec. 2. How to obtain certificate. In order to 
 obtain such certificate, there shall be presented to the 
 State Veterinarian, an affidavit, signed by a qualified 
 veterinarian who is not interested in the buying or 
 selling of horses or mules, to the effect that he has 
 personally examined such stallion or jack and that to 
 the best of his knowledge and belief said stallion or 
 jack is free from any hereditary, infectious, conta- 
 gious, or transmissable disease, or serious defects in 
 general conformation. If such stallion or jack is pure- 
 bred, there shall be presented to the State Veterina- 
 rian for examination and comparison, a certificate of 
 registration of such stallion or jack, issued by a for- 
 eign stud book or by an association recognized by the 
 United States Department of Agriculture. 
 
 Sec. 3. Forms of certificate. The certificates 
 shall be of two forms, — one for pure-breds and one 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 1.1 
 
 for grades. Each certificate shall state the name of 
 the animal and give a complete description of same. 
 If pure-bred, certificate must show the registered 
 number of the animal and name of stud-book or as- 
 sociation in which such stallion or jack is registered. 
 Each certificate shall bear the name of the importer 
 or breeder, the name of the present owner, a descrip- 
 tion of animal as to color and general conformation, 
 the year foaled, and the inspector's statement as to 
 whether the animal is sound or unsound. If un- 
 sound, the certificate shall contain the names of the 
 diseases and weak points of the animal. Each certifi- 
 cate shall bear the signature of the veterinarian 
 making the examination, and the State Veterinarian. 
 (A grade shall be defined as a stallion or jack whose 
 owner presents an affidavit of two persons that said 
 grade has either a sire or dam of pure-breeding.) 
 
 Sec. 4. Examination. Fees. Fund. Any gradu- 
 ate veterinarian practicing in compliance with the 
 veterinary practice law of this state shall be author- 
 ized to make examinations of stallions and jacks for 
 application for certificate as above provided, and such 
 examination shall be at the expense of the owner or 
 owners of such animals. For each original certificate 
 issued by the State Veterinarian there shall be charged ■ 
 a fee of one dollar ($1.00); a fee of one dollar ($1.00) 
 each for certificates of transfer of ownership; and a 
 fee of fifty (50) cents each for duplicates. Any cer- 
 tificate or duplicate may be revoked at any time if 
 owner is using same in violation to the provisions of 
 this act, or if same is being used by any person or 
 -persons other than owner without transfer having 
 been made. or. if stallion or jack is found to be affected 
 with any contagious, infectious, or communicable 
 disease, ,or serious defect in general conformation. 
 All money collected by the State Veterinarian in com- 
 pliance with the provisions of this act, shall be turned 
 in to the state treasury to the credit of the "Stallion 
 Registration Fund" hereby created, and such fund is 
 hereby appropriated for the use of the State Veteri- 
 narian in carrying out the provisions of this act. 
 
 Sec. 5. Advertising-. No owner or keeper of any 
 stallion or jack not of pure breeding shall permit the 
 printing, publishing, or circulating of any bill, poster, 
 card, newspaper advertisement, or other advertise- 
 ment calling attention to said stallion or jack as a 
 breeder, unless the same shall have the words "Grade 
 Stallion" or "Grade Jack" in 48 point type immedi- 
 ately preceding the same. 
 
 Sec. 6. Record. Report. It shall be the duty of 
 the State Veterinarian to see that a correct record is 
 kept of all certificates, and the issuance, refusal, or 
 revocation of same. Such record shall be kept in the 
 office of the State Veterinarian and all information 
 contained therein shall be reported to the Governor 
 on January 1st of each year. 
 
 Sec. 7. Clerk. Compensation. To assist in car- 
 rying out the provisions of this act, the State Veter- 
 inarian is hereby authorized to employ a clerk, who 
 shall receive a salary of not to exceed twenty-five 
 dollars ($25.00) per month, and such salary shall be 
 paid from any available contingent or fund under the 
 control of the State Veterinarian. 
 
 Sec. 8. Transfer. If the owner of a stallion or 
 jack shall sell/ exchange, or transfer the same, the 
 State Veterinarian shall upon receiving the certificate 
 and all duplicates in force at the time of such sale, 
 transfer, or exchange, issue the new owner a certifi- 
 cate of transfer of ownership. 
 
 Sec. 0. Penalty. Any person persons, firm, asso- 
 ciation, or corporation violating any of the provisions 
 of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twen- 
 ty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or 
 be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty 
 days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the dis- 
 cretion of the court. 
 
 GENERAL, LIVE STOCK LAWS. 
 
 Sec. 2546. Drover's liability. Any person who 
 shall drive any herd of horses, cattle or flock of sheep 
 over any portion of any road or highway, so desig- 
 nated as not for horses, cattle or sheep as aforesaid, 
 after such designation and the posting of notices as 
 aforesaid, and after the provision of another reason- 
 able highway for cattle, horses and sheep in lieu 
 thereof as aforesaid, shall be liable to the county in 
 which is situated such mountain road or highway, for 
 
12 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 any and all damages done thereto, by driving- over 
 the same, such flocks or herds of cattle, Horses or 
 sheep. 
 
 Sec. 2578. (Amended by chapter 78, W. S. L., 1917. > 
 The following shall be a lawful fence in the State of 
 Wyoming: A fence made of tubular wrougnt iron 
 fence posts or sound wooden posts and four spans of 
 barbed wire with a wooden rail on top, and said posts, 
 so used to be tubular wrought iron fence posts, with 
 cast iron base to be twenty-two inches in length, or 
 wooden posts at least four inches in diameter, set 
 firmly in the ground at least twenty inches deep, 
 either side of said posts, so used, to be placed at no 
 greater distance apart than thirty-three feet with iron, 
 or wooden stays between the posts, said stays to ue 
 placed equal distance apart from themselves and the 
 post on either side; a post and board fence made of 
 sound posts, not less than four inches in diameter, 
 set substantially in the ground not more than ten 
 feet apart, with three boards of one inch lumber, 
 eight inches wide, and not more than ten inches 
 apart, or four boards one inch thick and six inches 
 wide, not more than eight inches a.part securely 
 fastened with nails or otherwise, a three pole fence 
 with round poles, not less than two inches in diameter, 
 at the small end, with either upright or leaning posts, 
 not more than twenty-two feet apart, and securely 
 fastened with nails, wires, or otherwise; Provided, 
 That all other fences made and constructed of boards, 
 rails, poles, stones or hedge plants, or other material 
 except wire, which, upon evidence, shall be declared 
 to be as strong and as well calculated to protect en- 
 closures, and shall be as effective for resisting breach- 
 ing stock as. those hereinbefore described, shall be 
 considered a lawful fence; Provided, That none of the 
 fences above described shall be considered lawful if 
 less than four feet high, except within the corporate 
 limits of an incorporated city or [or] town; and Pro- 
 vided further. That any fence enclosing any hay cor- 
 ral situate outside of any field enclosed by a lawful . 
 fence, shall not be less than six feet high and shall 
 be constructed of boards, poles or ■wire, or partly of 
 boards, poles or wire, and the posts shall not be more 
 than eight feet apart and set twenty -four inches in 
 the ground, and if such fence is constructed ot barbed 
 wire there shall not be less than seven spans of wire, 
 and all wires shall be kept properly stretched, and all 
 gates in any .of said fences shall be constructed of 
 boards or poles. 
 
 Sec. 253'!). Owner defined. Any person or persons 
 occupying, using, enjoying, maintaining or having the 
 charge of any enclosure, shall be considered the owner 
 thereof, in any action commenced .under the provi- 
 sions of this chapter. 
 
 Sec. 25S0. Maintenance of partition fence. The 
 owner or owners of any lawful fence which may be- 
 come a partition fence by virtue of being used to en- 
 close some field or lot belonging to some other person, 
 company or corporation, may require any such person, 
 company or corporation to pay for one-half of what 
 it would actually cost to construct that portion of 
 such partition fence, so used by any such person, 
 company or corporation, and in case of refusal any 
 such owner or owners may have and maintain a civil 
 action against any such person, company or corpora- 
 tion so refusing, and shall be entitled to recover one- 
 half of what it would actually cost to construct that 
 portion of such partition fence so used by any such 
 person, company or corporation, and cost of suit. Any 
 such person, company or corporation acquiring an 
 interest in any such partition fence by purchase or 
 otherwise, shall have an understanding with such 
 fence they shall maintain and keep in repair respect- 
 ively, and each party shall thereafter keep in good 
 repair his portion of such fence and neither party 
 shall abandon his part of such partition fence, or re- 
 move the same or any portion thereof, except by 
 giving to the other party at least one year's notice 
 of his intention so to do, or by obtaining the written 
 consent of all parties interested therein. 
 
 Sec. 2581. Damage by breachy animals — Arbitra- 
 tion. Any person or persons owning or having in his 
 or her or their possession or charge any horses, mules, 
 cattle or any one of such animals which shall breach 
 over or under or breach into any lawful enclosure be- 
 longing to any person or persons other than the 
 owners of such animal or animals, shall be liable to 
 the party or parties sustaining such injury for all 
 elamages he, she or they may have sustained by rea- 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 13 
 
 son of such breaching as aforesaid, to be recovered in 
 a civil action before any court having jurisdiction 
 thereof, or by arbitration, each party to select a prop- 
 erty holder, and the two arbitrators to select a third, 
 and said arbitrators, before entering upon their duties, 
 shall be first sworn before a justice of the peace, and 
 it shall be the duty of the arbitrators to carefully ex- 
 amine the fence, its condition and assess the damage 
 done; -the arbitrators shall examine witnesses under 
 oatu, one of them to administer said oath to the wit- 
 nesses; they shall make a written report signed by at 
 least two of the arbitrators, to any justice of the 
 peace in the county in which such damage is sus- 
 tained. The finding of the arbitration, as pravided for 
 in this section, shall, within three days after the same 
 shall have been rendered, be filed with any justice of 
 the peace in the county where said trespass shall have 
 been committed, who shall enter the cost upon his 
 docket and proceed to issue execution therein as in 
 other cases originally commenced before him. 
 
 Sec. 2582. Notice to owners when damage done. 
 The party sustaining the damage shall notify the 
 owner or person having in charge such offending ani- 
 mals, of such damage, and the probable amount there- 
 of; Provided, He knows to whom such animal or ani- 
 mals belong, and that such owner or keeper resides 
 within the county where the damage was committed. 
 
 Sec. 2583. Retention of animals to secure payment. 
 The person suffering such damage done by animals as 
 mentioned in Sec. 2581, may restrain and keep in cus- 
 tody as many of such offending animals as are equal 
 in value to the damage done, until the finding of the 
 court or arbitration be ascertained, unless, before such 
 suit, the amount of his claim and expense or Keeping 
 such animals be tendered him. 
 
 Sec. 2584, Proof and judgment for damage. If, 
 upon the trial of .any action under the provisions of 
 Sec. 2581 it shall appear by competent testimony, that 
 the plaintiff's enclosure is a lawful fence under the 
 provisions of this chapter, he shall be allowed to 
 prove the amount of damage sustained; and (if he has 
 retained in custody the animals committing such dam- 
 age.) the amount of the expense incurred for keeping 
 such animals, and any judgment rendered for dam- 
 ages, costs and expenses against the defendant, shall 
 be a lien upon the animals committing the damage. 
 But if it shall appear upon the trial that the plain- 
 tiff's enclosure is not a lawful fence, or that no dam- 
 age was sustained, judgment shall be rendered against 
 the plaintiff, for costs of suit and damages sustained 
 by defendant. 
 
 See. 2585. Proceedings when defendant is un- 
 kiiown. If, upon the trial, it appears that the defend- 
 ant is not the owner, or the person in charge of such 
 offending animals, he shall be discharged from the 
 action with his costs, and the suit may proceed against 
 the defendant whose name is unknown; and if, at the 
 commencement of the action, the plaintiff does not 
 know the name of the owner, or keeper of such offend- 
 ing animals, he may bring suit against the defendant 
 unknown, in which case service shall be made by 
 posting copies of the summons in three of the most 
 public places within the county, not less than ten 
 days previous to the day of trial, which posting may 
 be done by the proper officer, or by any voter of the 
 county. 
 
 Sec. 2588. Penalty for destroying fences. Any 
 person who shall wilfully or negligently leave open, 
 break down or destroy any bars or gate, made and 
 provided for the use and convenience of the public, or 
 shall wilfully tear down, throw down or destroy in 
 any manner any lawful fence, shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, 
 or by confinement in the county jail not more than 
 three months, or by both fine and imprisonment in the 
 discretion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 2587. Failure to make unlawful fence lawful 
 — Penalty. The owner or owners of any unlawful 
 wire fence, who shall have been convicted of con- 
 structing or maintaining the same contrary to the 
 provisions of this chapter, shall, within thirty days 
 after such conviction, reconstruct such -wire fence into 
 •a lawful wire fence, and in case of a refusal or failure 
 so to do, every such owner or owners shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, 
 shall again be punished as provided in Sec. 2588 and 
 each and every period of thirty days thereafter that 
 such owner or owners refuse or neglect to reconstruct 
 
14 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 such unlawful fence, shall be considered a separate 
 offense and be subject to like punishment. 
 
 See. 25SS. Liability tor constiux*tmi£ unlawful 
 fence. Any person or persons, company or corpora- 
 tion who snail construct or maintain, contrary to the 
 provisions of this chapter, any unlawful wire fence, 
 shall be liable in a civil action for all damages to ani- 
 mals that may occur by reason of such unlawful en- 
 closure, and the owner or owners of any such unlawful 
 wire fence shall, moreover, be dee.ned guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be 
 fined in a sum not less than Ave dollars nor more 
 than twenty-five dollars, and for each subsequent of- 
 fense, the, line shall not be less than twenty-five dol- 
 lars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 25.S9. Unlawful tence may Jie Jtiade lawful — 
 Penalty. The owner or owners of any unlawful wire 
 fence shall reconstruct the same into a lawful wire 
 fence, and in case of refusal or failure so to do, he. 
 or they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 on conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in 
 Sec. 2588. 
 
 Sec. 2590. Fences across roads — Penalty. All 
 fences which shall hereafter be constructed across any- 
 road leading to any watering place, or which may be 
 constructed across any road which has been used as a 
 public road, shall, at the point where such fence inter- 
 sects^ or crosses any such road, be constructed of 
 boards or poles extending for a distance of not less, 
 than eight feet on each side of the middle of any such 
 road, and in case of a failure so to do, the owner or 
 owners of any such fence shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be pun- 
 ished as provided in Sec. 258S. 
 
 Sec. 2591. Fencing public roads. The board of 
 county commissioners may authorize the erection of a 
 lawful fence upon the right of way of roads estab- 
 lished under the provisions of chapter 168, at the ex- 
 pense of the petitioners for the establishment of such 
 roads, or as may be agreed upon between petitioners* 
 and the board of county commissioners; Provided, The 
 said board shall locate and cause to be constructed 
 gates at such intervals as it may deem necessary for 
 the convenience of the public. Such gates shall be 
 marked "county gates," and with further notice of the 
 penalty for any damage for leaving open, prescribed 
 by Section 2586. 
 
 Sec, 2592. Duty county surveyor. It shall be the 
 duty of the county surveyor of each county to file a 
 copy of a plat of legally established county roads in 
 the United States land office of the district in which 
 the said roads are located. 
 
 Sec. 2593. Railroads shall fence. All railway cor- 
 porations, owning or operating- a line of railway within 
 the state, shall construct, maintain and keep in repair 
 on each side of the track thereof, a sufficient fence, so 
 connected with suitable cattle guards at public road 
 crossings as to prevent stock from getting on the rail- 
 road track of said corporation, and such fence when 
 of barb wire to consist of four wires securely fast- 
 ened t'o posts set not more than thirty-two feet apart, 
 with stays not more than ten feet apart. Such fence 
 shall be constructed within nine months after the com- 
 pletion of any railroad track or any part thereof, and 
 in the case of railroads now constructed and in oper- 
 ation, within three months after the approval of this 
 chapter; Provided, That railway corporations shall not 
 be required to construct and maintain a fence within 
 the boundaries of any incorporated city or town. 
 
 Sec. 2594. Liability in damages. Any corporation 
 operating a railway and failing to fence the same and 
 to construct and maintain suitable cattle guards as 
 required by the preceding section, shall be liable to 
 the owner or owners of any live stock killed or irir 
 jured by reason of its failure to construct or keep in 
 repair such fence or cattle guard in the manner pro- 
 vided in the preceding section, for the full amount of 
 the damage sustained by the owner on account thereof, 
 and to make a prima facie case for recovery, it shall 
 only be necessary for such owner to prove the loss or 
 injury to his property; Provided, That no corporation 
 operating a railroad shall be liable for any damage oc- 
 casioned. by the wilful act of the owner or of his agent 
 or employees or for stock killed or iniured on public 
 road crossings unless negligence on the part of such 
 corporation, its agents, servants or employes can be 
 shown. 
 
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 CHAPTER 173. 
 
 OWNERSHIP, BRANDING AND RANGING. 
 
 Sec. 2596. Stock owner defined. Every person 
 who owns neat cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep or 
 goats is a stock owner. 
 
 see. 2597. Live stock defined. Neat cattle, horses, 
 mules, asses, sheep and goats are live stock. 
 
 Sec. 2598. Live stock on open range shall be 
 branded. Every stock owner who allows his live stock 
 over six months old to range upon the open range or 
 without an enclosure, or to run at large or mingle 
 with live stock other than his own, shall have and 
 adopt a brand and shall brand his live stock with such 
 brand, which shall be recorded in the office of the 
 county clerk in each county in which said live stock 
 ranges. 
 
 Sec. 2599. Duty of secretary — Brand book. It 
 shall be the duty of the secretary of the state board 
 of live stock commissioners to procure a suitable 
 book, to be known as the state brand book, in which 
 shall be recorded the brand and the definite place of 
 the brand upon the animal, used for tne branding of 
 horses and cattle, sheep, mules and other live stock in 
 this state. 
 
 Sec. 2600. Copy, of brand record — Where. On or 
 before the first aay of January, 1910, every person, 
 association or corporation, using any brand or brands 
 in this state, for the purpose of branding horses or 
 cattle, or other live stock, shall forward to the secre- 
 tary of the state board of live stock commissioners a 
 copy of such brand or brands, duly certified by the 
 clerk of the county in which such brand or certified 
 by the clerk of the county in which such brand or 
 brands is or are recorded. The said clerk shll furnish 
 such certificate without charge therefor, to the owner 
 of any such brand, and the secretary of the state 
 board of live stock commissioners shall, upon receipt, 
 record the same without charge. 
 
 "Sec. 2601. As amended by chapter 126 Session 
 Laws, 1913. Recording fee. Any person, company, 
 firm, association or corporation, desiring to adopt any 
 brand or marks to be used for the branding or mark- 
 ing of horses, cattle and sheep or other live stock in 
 this state, shall before using the same, forward to the 
 Secretary of the State Board of Live Stock Commis- 
 sioners, a facsimile of such brand or mark stating the 
 range and counties, on and in which, the stock are to 
 be grazed, together with the fee of one dollar to pay 
 for the recording of the same, which sum shall be paid 
 into the State Treasury to the credit of the inspection 
 fund. Upon receipt of such facsimile and fee, the Sec- 
 retary of the State Board of Live Stock Commission- 
 ers, shall immediately record the same in the state 
 record, unless said brand or paint mark, has already 
 been recorded in the said record on behalf of some 
 other person, company, firm, association or corpora- 
 tion, in which latter case the Secretary of the State 
 Board of Live Stock Commissioners shall return such 
 facsimile and fee to the party by whom the same was 
 forwarded to him with suggestions of brands or marks 
 that can be recorded; Provided, that the Secretary of 
 the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners shall not 
 record any brand or mark which in his discretion 
 would conflict with any brand or mark of record in 
 the same locality." 
 
 Sec. 2602. As amended by chapter 126 Session 
 Laws, 1913. Certified record. Upon the recording of 
 any such brand, brands or mark, as provided in Para- 
 graph 2600 and 2601, the owner thereof shall procure 
 from the Secretary of the State Board of Live Stock 
 'Commissioners, a certified copy of such brand or mark, 
 paying therefor the sum of fifty cents, which fee shall 
 be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of 
 the inspection Fund; Provided, that not more than one 
 brand or one mark and brand shall appear on one 
 certified copy; and provided, further, that if more 
 than one mark and brand appear on one certified copy, 
 the Secretary of the State Board of Live Stock Com- 
 missioners shall charge the sum of fifty cents for 
 each additional mark or brand. 
 
 Sec. 2. Evidence of ownership. "The certified 
 copy thus secured in the foregoing section shall be 
 prima facie evidence of the ownership of such animal 
 or animals by the party -whose brand or mark it might 
 be and shall be taken as evidence of onwership in all 
 suits of law or in equity, or in any criminal proceed- 
 ings, when the title to the animal is involved, or 
 
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 proper to be proved, when such claim is sustained and 
 corroborated with other evidence." 
 
 Sec. 2603. As amended by chapter 126 Session 
 Laws, 1913. Unlawful to record brand. From and 
 
 after (the day on which this Act is approved), it shall 
 be unlawful for any county clerk in this State to re- 
 cord any brand, mark or bill of sale of any brand or 
 mark. 
 
 Sec. 2604. As amended by chapter 126 Session 
 Laws, 1913. Brand is property — May be assigned or 
 sold. Any brand or mark recorded in accordance with 
 the requirements of this chapter shall be considered 
 as the property of the person causing such record to 
 be made, and shall be subject to sale, assignment, 
 transfer, device and descent, the same as personal 
 property. Instruments of writing- evidencing any such 
 sale, assignment or transfer must be acknowledged as 
 deeds to real estate are now regarded by law to be, and 
 must be recorded in the office of the State Board of 
 Live Stock Commissioners, in a book to be, by the said 
 State Board of Live Stock Commissioners, respectively 
 kept for that purpose, which shall be properly in- 
 dexed. Recording of such instrument shall have the 
 same force and effect as to third parties, as the record- 
 ing of instruments affecting real estate, and the ac- 
 knowledgment of same shall have the same force and 
 effect as the acknowledgment of deeds to real estate, 
 and a certified copy of the record of any such instru- 
 ment, duly acknowledged, may be introduced in evi- 
 dence the same as is now provided for certified copies, 
 of instruments affecting- real estate. 
 
 Sec. 2605. As amended by chapter 126 Session 
 Laws, 1913= Brand Book. It shall be the duty of the 
 State Board of Live Stock Commissioners to publish 
 a brand book, in which shall be given a facsimile, or 
 copy, or all brands and marks recorded in the office 
 of the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners, to- 
 gether with the owner's name, postoffice addresses and 
 the county or counties wherein the brand was orig- 
 inally recorded; which names, brands, and marks shall' 
 be arranged in the most convenient form for reference- 
 Said book shall be bound in good and substantial 
 binding; one copy of which shall be forwarded to the 
 County Clerk of each county, in whose ortice it shall 
 be kept open for the inspection of all persons inter- 
 ested. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the 
 State Board of Live Stock Commissioners, quarterly, 
 after the publication of such brand book, to furnish 
 each County Clerk with a list of the brands and marks- 
 recorded in his office during the preceding three 
 months, and yearly thereafter to issue supplements of 
 all brands and marks recorded in his office during the 
 preceding year. The Secretary of the State Board of 
 Live Stock Commissioners is authorized to publish, if 
 he deem best to do so, a limited number of such brand 
 books, and sell same for such price as he may consider 
 reasonable and proper, which price shall not be less- 
 than the actual cost of same. 
 
 Sec. 2. Brand Book. "The fees thus secured in 
 the foregoing section shall be deposited in the Statfe 
 Treasury to the credit of the Inspection Fund." 
 
 Sec. 2606. Failure to record — Deemed abandon- 
 ment. On and after the first day of January, 1910, no 
 person, company or corporation shall claim or own any 
 brand or mark which has not been recorded in the 
 office of the secretary of the state board of live stock 
 commissioners in accordance with this chapter, and 
 any failure to so record a brand or mark on or before 
 the first day of January, A. D. 1910, shall be deemed 
 an abandonment of the same; Provided, That no per- 
 son, company or corporation shall be at liberty to 
 claim or use any such abandoned brand or mark until 
 after he has caused the same to be recorded in com- 
 pliance with the terms of this chapter. 
 
 Sec. 2607. As amended by chapter 126 Session 
 Laws. 1913. Brands recorded every tenth year. Irr 
 the year 1915 and every tenth year thereafter, every 
 owner of a brand or mark used by him shall ie-record 
 the same, and any failure to so re-record in the office 
 of the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners any 
 such brand or mark then in use by such live stock 
 owner, shall be deemed an abandonment of same. 
 
 Sec. 2. At the expiration of each re-recorfin^ pe- 
 riod, the Secretary of the State Board of Live Stock 
 Commissioners, shall notify by registered mail, at t'->e 
 sriven addresses as on the record kent by the State 
 Board of Live Stock Commissioners, the party bavins- 
 such brand, brands or marks on record the year of 
 such re-recording period, to the effect that the brand 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING IT 
 
 or mark has not been re-recorded and the same must 
 oe re-reeorueu witnin ninety days from the date of 
 tms notice or said brand or mark will be declared 
 abandoned, and will be allowed to other applicants. 
 
 see. Zoom. As amended oy chapter 12 Session 
 Laws ot is»Aa. bees, ±< or re-recoruing any old brand 
 or marK, tne Secretary of tne State board of Live 
 atoc-K Commissioners, snail charge the same as pro- 
 vmeu in Sections ;s60i and 2t>0z. i'or recording' a bill 
 ot sale tne sum ot one dollar for the first State re- 
 coraeu brand or mark therein descriued and twenty- 
 11 /e cents ror eacn additional recorded brand or mark 
 tjien 01 record to tne party or parties executing suci,i 
 bill of sale, which fee shall be deposited in the State 
 Treasury to tne credit of tne Inspection Fund. 
 
 See. 2009. As amended by chapter 12©' Session 
 Laws of lt»±3. iiiarnl may be sold. Any recorded 
 brand or mark may be conveyed to another by a bill of 
 sale executed by the vendor which shall be properly 
 acknowledged, but said conveyance shall not be com- 
 plete nor snail the title to said brand or mark vest in 
 tne vendee until tne Bill of Sale shall have been filed 
 for record in the ofhee of the State Board of Live Stock 
 Commissioners; Providing, that the Bill of Sale shall 
 not transfer tlie right to use such brand, brands or 
 mark from the county or counties in which they were 
 originally recorued to any otner county or counties 
 wnere the same brand or mark or one in conflict tnere- 
 wltfa; may be recorded in the name of another party 
 under a previous law. All such certificates of transfer 
 must contain tne permission of the Secretary of tne 
 State Board of Live Stock Commissioners to such 
 transfer. 
 
 See. 2. Location of brands. It is hereby made the 
 duty of tne Secretary of the State Board of Live Stock 
 Commissioners, at any convenient time he may choose 
 before tne nr&t day ot January, 1915, to notify all per- 
 sons, associations, companies or corporations, who 
 ha\re aaopteu and recorued a brand or mark as pro- 
 vided in section iii>01, and wao have not designated tlie 
 particular place wnere such brand or mark is to be 
 placed on nis- live stock, and also all persons, com- 
 panies, associations or corporations, who have hereto- 
 fore adopted and recorded a brand or mark, designat- 
 ing tiiat such brand or mark may be used on any part 
 of tne animal, or upon one or more than one part of 
 the animal, to select and designate one particular part 
 upon wnicn said brand shall thereafter be placed. 
 
 Sec. 2610. Record of brands. The Board of Live 
 Stock Commissioners shall keep an accurate record of 
 all the stock brands and the names of the owners, and 
 their postoffice addresses, of all the brands certified to 
 it, as provided in this chapter, which record shall be 
 open to the inspection of the public. 
 
 Sec. 2611. Stock drover defined. Any person driv- 
 ing live stock through any county in Wyoming is a 
 stock drover. 
 
 Sec. 2612. Stools drover to brand stock. Every 
 stock drover must have all live stock by him driven 
 branded. If he turns loose for grazing purposes any 
 of such live stock, he shall lay before the Secretary 
 of the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners a 
 statement of the brands on such live stock, and if 
 in the judgment of the secretary of the said board such 
 brands conflict with any brand previously recorded in 
 the office of the State Board of Live Stock Commis- 
 sioners, the owner of said live stock shall brand them 
 with a brand that the said secretary shall consider 
 different from all brands then recorded in said office. . 
 
 Sec. 2613. Stock drover shall keep stock sepa-* 
 rated. Every stock drover shall keep his live stock 
 separate and distinct from other live stock, and if by 
 any chance his livestock becomes mixed with other 
 live stock the stock drover shall forthwith separate 
 the same; and every stock drover shall prevent his live 
 stock from trespassing upon the property of another, 
 and from injuring any irrigating ditch or any public 
 ■works. 
 
 Sec. 2614. Unlawful to drive from home ranse. It 
 shall be unlawful for any person to drive live stock 
 away from its home range without authority from the 
 owner of- said live stock. 
 
 See. 2615. Only branded cattle to be slaughtered. 
 No person shall purchase or slaughter any head of 
 neat cattle until the same is distinctly branded. Ev- 
 ery person engaged in slaughtering cattle shall keep 
 a record of all cattle so slaughtered, naming the per- 
 sons of whom such cattle were purchased, his place 
 of residence, the age, sex and brands of the neat cattie 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 so slaughtered, which record shall at all times be 
 open for the inspection of any parson. 
 
 Sees. 2616, 2617, 2618. Repealed by chapter 111 
 Session Laws 1913. 
 
 Chapter 111 Session Laws 1913 as amended and 
 re-enacted by Chapter 103 Session Laws 1915. 
 
 Sec. 1. Beef peddler's license. Any person or per- 
 sons hereafter engaged in tne business of peddling beef 
 in this state shall first obtain from the County Clerk, 
 Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff, a peadler's licence to carry 
 on such business, and snail pay tnerefor the sum of 
 one dollar, said payment to ue made annually in ad- 
 vance, and said license fee wnen collected snail be, 
 covered into the general fund of the county. This 
 provision of this section shall not apply to any pel son 
 who may kill beef in good faith for nis own use. 
 
 See. 2. Peddling- without license. Any person 
 found peddling beef without first having outained t.ie, 
 license provided for in Section 1 of this Act shall, upon 
 conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty - 
 five dollars ($25.00) nor more than two hundred and 
 fifty dollars ($250.00). 
 
 See. 3. Record of inspection of hides. Said ped- 
 dler shall have the hide of each beef tagged with a 
 numbered metal tag by the inspector or nis deputy, 
 or the sheriff or his deputy, before the beef -is peddled 
 or offered for sale and upon demand, must produce 
 such hide or inspector's certificate of inspection. Said 
 inspector or sheriff shall keep a record of the ped- 
 dler's name, the number on the tag or tags used, tne 
 brands on the hide or hides, and the date of inspection, 
 and the officer making such inspection shall roi'warl 
 a record of all inspections made, on or before tne first 
 day of each month, to the Secretary of the State Board 
 of Live Stock Commissioners and the County Clerk of 
 his county, which said record of inspection shall be 
 placed on file with the Secretary of the Board of Live 
 Stock Commissioners, and with the County Clerk, and 
 must be advertised in conformity with the rules and 
 regulations of the Board of Live Stock Commissioners 
 and in the official paper of the county. 
 
 Sec. 4. Hides of cattle slaughtered for beef. Any 
 person who may kill cattle for beef must produce on 
 demand (of any person) either the hide of such ani- 
 _mal or animals so killed for beef, or a certificate of 
 inspection of the hide issued- by the live stock inspec- 
 tor or his agent, or the sheriff or deputy sheriff. Any 
 person convicted of violating the provisions of this 
 section shall be guilty of a felony and shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars 
 ($25.00) or more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). 
 
 Sec. 5. Repeal. Chapter 111 of the Session Laws 
 of 1913, and all acts in conflict therewith are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Approved February 26, 1915. 
 
 Sec. 2619. Inferior staliion not to run at large. 
 No mustang or other inferior stallion over the age of 
 twenty-four months shall be permitted to run at large, 
 nor shall any stallion over the age of twenty-four 
 months be permitted to run at large within three miles 
 of any town, city or village. It shall be lawful for 
 any person to castrate or cause to be castrated, any 
 such animal or animals found running at large con- 
 trary to the provisions of this section. Stallions pos- 
 sessing one-fourth mustang or broncho blood shall be 
 deemed mustang or inferior stallions. 
 
 Sec. 2620. Inferior stallions may be taken up— 
 When. Any person who shall find any stallion run- 
 ning at large, as described in the next preceding sec- 
 tion may take up such animal and keep the same in 
 some secure enclosure, and take good care of such 
 animal; and it shall be the duty of such person to 
 immediately notify the owner of such animal, if such 
 owner is known, and if said owner is unknown to said 
 person, to immediately give notice by publication in 
 some newspaper in the county in which such animal 
 shall have been taken up, for a period of four succes- 
 sive weeks, and which notice shall contain a full de- 
 scription of all marks and brands, if any there be on 
 such animals, and that unless the owner of such ani- 
 mal makes claim for the same within six weeks from 
 the date of its first publication, said animal will be 
 castrated. The notice shall be signed by the person or 
 persons having taken up the same. Said notice, keep- 
 ing and caring for such animal shall be paid for by 
 the owner of such animal, and until paid the person 
 taking up the same shall have a lien upon such animal 
 for his or their claims; and in case of said owner re- 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 19 
 
 fusing or failing- to pay for such notice, keeping and 
 caring for, witnin a reasonable time, the person having 
 such claim shall be entitled to recover the same in tne 
 same manner as an agistor's lien. 
 
 Sec. 2621. Unlawfully castrating stallions. If any 
 person snail castrate any stallion and it shall, on 
 proper evidence before a competent court, be proven to 
 tne satisfaction of said court tnat such animal was 
 not of a class of stock prohibited from running at 
 large by tne next two preceding- sections,, said persons 
 snail be liable for damages to tne amount of treDle tne 
 value of said animal so castrated," and costs of suit. 
 
 sec. 2022. bogs running live stock. Dogs run- 
 ning live stock against the wish of the owner of such 
 live stock, may be killed in cases where the live stock 
 has been injured or is threatened with injury thereby; 
 and the person killing any such dog shall not be 
 liable to the owner thereof where the vicious charac- 
 ter of the dog, or the damage or danger of damage, is 
 shown; Provided, however, that when live stock is 
 trespassing- upon property, the owner thereof may use 
 dogs to drive and keep off live stock from said prop- 
 erty. 
 
 See. 2323. Penalty. Any person violating or fail- 
 ing to comply "with any of the. foregoing provisions of 
 this chapter shall be imprisoned in the county jail not 
 exceeding- sixty days, or shall be fined not exceeding- 
 one hundred dollars, or both. 
 
 See. 2o'24. Unlawful to obtain service from bull — 
 When. It shall be unlawful for any person, without 
 the consent of the owner, to take possession of any 
 bull found running at large upon the open range and 
 to confine the same in any enclosure for the purpose 
 of obtaining service therefrom, where there is no in- 
 tent on the part of said person so taking said bull to 
 steal the same. And in any trial for violation of the 
 provisions of this section, upon proof on the part of 
 tne state that any person has taken possession of such 
 bull, upon the open range, and has confined the said 
 bull in any enclosure with cows, such -fact may be 
 considered by the jury as bearing upon the question of 
 the intent of such person, to secure unlawfully the ser- 
 vice of such bull. Any person violating any of the 
 ■ provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor and fined not to exceed one hundred 
 dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars, or impris- 
 oned ill' the county jail not to exceed three months, or 
 both. 
 
 CHAPTER 5, LAWS 1913. 
 
 Sec. 1. Number of bulls required. Any person al- 
 lowing or permitting cows of which he is the owne:, 
 or agent of the owner, to run at large upon the public 
 ranges of the state shall provide, and furnish at least 
 one (1) bull to turn on range not later than July 1st 
 of each year and to take said bull off range not later 
 than January 1st of the following year, of not less than 
 eighteen months of age, or registered or high grade, 
 of the beef breed except in communities where dairy 
 cows predominate, for every twenty-five (25) head 
 she cattle one year of age or over, or fraction thereof, 
 over ten head so permitted to run at large in this 
 state; Provided, however, that this provision shall not 
 apply to any person owning or permitting to run at 
 large less than twenty (20) cows. 
 
 See. 2. Penalty. Any person violating any of the 
 provisions of this act. shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined 
 in a sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more 
 than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense. 
 
 Approved February 13, 1913. 
 
 CHAPTER 174. 
 LIVE STOCK COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 Sec. 2625. Board — How appointed. The governor, 
 at each session of the legislature, shall nominate, and 
 by and with the advice and consent of the senate, ap- 
 point a board of commissioners to be known as the 
 "Board of Live Stock Commissioners of Wyoming." 
 
 Sec. 2626. Number of members — Qualifications. 
 Said board of live stock commissioners shall be com- 
 posed of three members who shall be actual owners 
 of live stock, or the owners of stock in a company or 
 corporation, having live stock running at large upon 
 the public lands of the state, and who shall be resi- 
 dents of the state. 
 
 See. 2627. Term of office. Said live stock commis- 
 sioners shall hold their offices for the terrrr of two 
 years, and until their successors shall lie duly ap- 
 pointed and shall have qualified. 
 
CHEYENNE'S 
 
 GoldenAnniversary 
 
 and 
 
 The Twenty -First Annual 
 
 Frontier Days 
 Celebration 
 
 Cheyenne, aged 50, and her Frontier 
 Days Show, 2 1 , will celebrate their birth- 
 days together on July 23rd to 28th inclu- 
 
 REMEMBER THE DATES! 
 
 July 23 to 28, Inc. 1917 
 
 GREATER AND GRANDER, BIGGER AND 
 
 BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE! 
 
 SIX BIG DAYS 
 
 Cowboys, Cowgirls, and Indians galore! 
 Every kind of animal that bucks! Cow- 
 pony races, relay races, novelty races, wild 
 horse races, steer roping, steer bulldogging, 
 and hundreds of thrills. Spectacular pa- 
 rades. Hundreds of contestants. The big- 
 gest show of its kind in the world. 
 
 RESERVE ROOMS 
 
 Contestants, get in your entries early. 
 Plenty of money in purses. Day money in 
 the steer roping, — other new features that 
 will interest you. Remember the dates — 
 JULY 23rd to 28th inclusive, 1917. 
 
 For detailed information wire or write T. 
 Joe Cahill, Secretary Frontier Committee, 
 Cheyenne, Wyoming. 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 21 
 
 Sec. 2628. Oath. Said commissioners shall, before 
 entering upon their duties, take the oath of office pre- 
 scribed by. the state constitution. 
 
 Sec. 2629. Vacancies — How fiiled. Any vacancy 
 which shall occur in such board of live stock commis- 
 sioners, during- the recess of the legislature, snail be 
 filled by appointment by the governor, which appoint- 
 ment shall be for the unexpired term. 
 
 Sec. 2630. Officers of board. The board of live 
 stock commissioners shall elect a president ana a sec- 
 retary. The president shall be elected from the mem- 
 bers of the commission. The office of secretary may 
 be filled by a person not a memoer of the commission, 
 who may be elected by the commission, and whose 
 salary shall be fixed by the board in any sum not to 
 exceed the amount hereinafter specified. 
 
 Sec. 2631. Rules. Said commission may make such 
 rules and regulations for the transaction of its busi- 
 ness, and for the government of its employees and ap- 
 pointees, not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
 chapter, as may be deemed necessary and expedient. 
 
 Sec. 2632. Quorum. A majority, of such ooard of 
 live stock commissioners shall constitute a quorum 
 for the transaction of business, and a full record of its 
 proceedings shall be kept by the secretary thereof. 
 
 Sec. 2633. Meetings. It shall be the duty of the 
 live stock commissioners to hold at least two regular 
 meetings each year, one upon the first Monday in April, 
 and the other at such time as the commission may 
 direct. No session or meeting of the said board of 
 live stock commissioners shall exceed in duration five 
 conseutive days. 
 
 "Sec. 2634. As amended Wyoming Session Laws 
 1917. Members of said board shall receive the sum of 
 six dollars ($6.00) per day while actually engaged in 
 the performance of their duties, together with their 
 actual expenses. The said Board of Live Stock Com- 
 missioners shall pay its expenses out of such sum as 
 may be from time to time appropriated therefor, 
 in the same manner and under the same restrictions as 
 other liabilities of the state are paid." 
 
 ''Sec. 26S5. As amended Session Laws 1917. The 
 Secretary of the Commission shall receive for his ser- 
 vices as such secretary, a yearly salary to be fixed by 
 the said commission not to exceed twenty-four hun- 
 dred dollars ($2400.00) to be paid to him in twelve 
 monthly installments, out of any appropriation made 
 tty law for that purpose. 
 
 Sec. 2636. Eond of Secretary. The Secretary of 
 the Board of .Live Stock' Commissioners shall give a 
 bond to the state in the penal sum of ten thousand 
 dollars, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be ap- 
 proved by the governor, conditioned upon the faithful 
 discharge of his duties, which bond shall be filed in the 
 office of- the secretary of state. 
 
 Sec. 2637. Term of Secretary. The Secretary of 
 the commission shall hold his office for the period of 
 two years subject to removal at any time by the board 
 of commissioners, or a majority of them, for neglect, 
 incompetency or failure to perform his duties, or for 
 such other cause as may be deemed sufficient by the 
 commission. In case of a vacancy arising in the office 
 of secretary, the commission shall select a secretary 
 for the balance of the unexpired term. 
 
 Sec. 2638. Seal. The board of live stock commis- 
 sioners shall have a seal upon which shall be engraved 
 the words, "Board of Live Stock Commissioners of 
 Wyoming." 
 
 Sec. 2639. Uuty of board. The'board of live stock 
 commissioners shall exercise a general supervision 
 over, and so far as may be, protect the live stock of 
 the state from theft and disease, and shall recommend 
 from time to time such legislation as in their judgment 
 will foster said industry. 
 
 Sec. 2640. Annual meeting of stock owners. It 
 shall be the duty of said live stock commissioners to 
 call a meeting at the capital of the state of all stock 
 owners of the state on the first Tuesday of April of 
 each year for the purpose of recommending to the said 
 commissioners the laying out of several round-up dis- 
 tricts, and the time and place of beginning the round- 
 uos upon the same, and to recommend the appointment 
 of persons for commissioners for the round-up dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 See. 2641. Meeting for creating round-up districts. 
 It shall be the duty of the board of live stock commis- 
 sioners, on or before the first Wednesday after the 
 first Tuesday of April for each year, and before ten 
 o'clock a. m. of that day, to set apart, designate and 
 
22 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 divide the state into round-up districts, describing: 
 each by number and giving- its boundaries. 
 
 Sec. 2642. Round-up commissioner. The board of 
 live stock commissioners is hereby authorized, and it 
 is made their duty, on or before the first Wednesday 
 after the first Tuesday of April of each year, to ap- 
 point one commissioner for each of the several round- 
 up districts, so set apart, described and designated by 
 the live stock commissioners, winch commissioner .shall 
 be known as round-up commissioner, and snail be 
 an owner of live stock, or of stock in a company or 
 corporation having cattle running at large within such 
 district, and who shall also be a resident of such 
 district. 
 
 See. 2643. Inspection fund. It shall be the duty of 
 the state treasurer to keep a separate accovint of all 
 moneys received by him under this .chapter, J;o be 
 known and designated as an "inspection fund," and to- 
 pay all warrants properly drawn as provided in this 
 chapter out of said fund, and said fund shall not be 
 used for any other purpose than the expenditures con- 
 templated by this chapter. 
 
 Sec. 2044. Fund controlled by board. The inspec- 
 tion fund created by this chapter shall ae under the- 
 control of the board of live stock commissioners, to 
 be expended by it in such a manner as shall best pro- 
 mote and protect the live stock interests at the state; 
 and in conformity with the provisions of law, and for 
 no other purpose. 
 
 Sec. 2645. Incidental expenses — How paid. All 
 necessary expenses incurred by the commission in the 
 matter of advertising-, books, maps, stationery, office 
 rent, fuel, telegraphing, and incidental office expendi- 
 tures, not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars 
 in any one year, shall be paid out of the inspection- 
 fund by the state treasurer, upon warrants drawn by 
 said auditor upon duly sworn bids certified to by the 
 : secretary and under the seal of the commission, which 
 certificate shall state the items of such indebtedness or 
 expenses, that the same are just and were necessarily* 
 incurred, and have not been paid. 
 
 j Sec. 2646. Warrants of auditor for indebtedness or 
 expense. For any indebtedness for expense incurred 
 by the board of live stock commissioners in carrying- 
 out the provisions of chapters 174 and 175, the state 
 auditor shall draw his warrant on the state treasurer 
 in the name of the person or persons to -whom such 
 money is due and payable, upon a statement or sworn- 
 bill of account rendered by such person or persons, 
 when duly audited and accompanied by- a certificate 
 signed by the president and secretary, and under the 
 seal of the commission, which certificate shall state 
 that such items of indebtedness or expense were neces- 
 sarily incurred, that the same are just and have not 
 been paid; ,the warrants so issued shall state that the 
 same be paid out of the inspection fund. 
 
 Sec. 2647. Duty of person slii'twiii'-; estrays. 
 It shall be the duty of all persons shipping- estrays at 
 once upon the sale thereof to remit to the secretary of 
 the live stock commission the proceeds received for 
 each and every estray, the ownership of which shall 
 be unknown to the inspector, to whom a receipt for 
 the same was given. If any inspector shall at any time 
 sell an estray shipped from this state, he shall imme- 
 diately remit the proceeds thereof to the secretary of 
 the live stock commission. 
 
 Sec. 2648. Estray fund. All moneys received by 
 the secretary of live stock commission from the sale 
 of estrays shall be*;ept by such secretary in his hands 
 separate from any other fund, and shall be known as 
 the "estray fund," and shall be so held by said secre- 
 tary until so paid over to the owners of such estrays, 
 or paid over to the state treasurer as hereinafter pro- 
 vided. 
 
 Sec. 1. The secretary of the live stock commission 
 shall semi-annually, during- the last week of June and 
 December of each year, send two lists of all unclaimed 
 estrays, for which he has received payment, to the 
 county clerk of each county, who shall post one copy 
 in a conspicuous place in the court house, and place 
 one copy on file in his office. It shall also be the duty 
 of said secretary to cause such estray list to be adver- 
 tised in the official paper of the board of live stock 
 commissioners during the month of June and Decem- 
 ber of each year. 
 
 Sec. 2. Section 2649 of chapter 174 Compiled Stat- 
 utes of Wyoming for 1910 is hereby repealed. All a"ts 
 and parts of acts in conflict with the provision of this; 
 act are hereby repealed. (S. L. of Wyo., 1917.) 
 
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LIVE STOCK LAWS, WI'OMING 
 
 Sec. 2650. Payment to owner for estray sold. The 
 
 secretary of the live stock commission, upon satisfac- 
 tory proof of the ownership of any estray sold as 
 above provided, and for which he has received the 
 money, shall pay such owner the amount received from 
 the sale of such estray or estrays; Provided, that such 
 ownership shall be proven within one year after the 
 publication of the notice of sale of said estray or es- 
 trays, as above provided. Proof of the ownership shall 
 be by affidavit of the owner with at least one creaiole 
 corroborating witness. 
 
 See. 2051. When money in estray fund paid iJtto 
 treasury. On the first Monday of January and the 
 first Monday in July of each year, all moneys remain- 
 ing- in the estray fund in the hands of the secretary of 
 the live stock commission, which shall have been in 
 the hands of said secretary for more than one year 
 after the publication of a notice as above provided for, 
 shall be paid to the treasurer of the state", and shall go 
 to the general fund of the state. 
 
 See. 2652. Report of board. It shall be the duty 
 of the commission, at least ten days prior to each reg- 
 ular session of the legislature, to make a full and com- 
 plete report to the governor of all proceedings, and 
 of all the receipts and expenditures, and of the condi- 
 tion of the live stock interests of the state. 
 
 Sec. 2653. Treasurer to give duplicate receipts for 
 money. Whenever any money shall be paid into tne 
 state treasury, under the provisions of chapters 174 and 
 175, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to issue dupli- 
 cate receipts therefor, one of which snail be immdei- 
 ately deposited with the state auditor by the secretary 
 of the commission, and thereupon the auditor shall 
 charge the treasurer with the money so paid into the 
 treasury. 
 
 Sec. 2654. Fees and salaries paid out of inspection 
 fund. All fees, salaries, compensation and expenses 
 incurred under the provisions of chapters 174 and 175, 
 shall be paid out of the inspection fund, as hereinbe- 
 fore provided; and no fee, salary, compensation or ex- 
 pense incurred under the provisions of said chapters* 
 shall ever, under any circumstances, be paid out of 
 any fund other than the said inspection fund. 
 
 Sec. 2855. Unlawful to ship stock of others — 
 Where. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons 
 to drive or ship, or cause to be driven or shipped, or 
 to consign, or to cause to be consigned, any estray 
 cattle (without authority from tie owner thereof) from 
 any place within this state, except through or to a 
 point or place where an inspector or inspectors are 
 located, by the said board of live stock commissioners. 
 CHAPTER 175. 
 STOCK INSPECTORS. 
 
 Sec. 2H56. Appojutmeut of inspectors. The board 
 of live stock commissioners is hereby authorized, and 
 it is made its duty to appoint such stock inspectors as 
 it may deem necessary for the better protection of tiie 
 live stock interests of the state, and to distribute them 
 at such point or places within or without the state as 
 will, in their judgment, most effectually prevent the 
 violation of any and all laws of the state for the pro- 
 tection of stock. 
 
 Sec. 2657. Bond of inspectors. Said inspectors 
 shall each make and execute a bond, with two suffi- 
 cient sureties, to the state in the sum of one thousand 
 dollars, conditioned for the full and faithful perform- 
 ance and discharge of their duties, said bond to be 
 approved by the board of live stock commissioners 
 and to be filed in the office of the secretary of state. 
 
 Sec. 265S. Compensation of inspectors. Said in- 
 spectors shall receive for their time of actual service 
 such salary or compensation as shall be fixed by the 
 board of live stock commissioners, in no case to ex- 
 ceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per 
 month to any one person, to be paid by the treasurer 
 out of any appropriation made by law for that purpose 
 as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 2659. Penalty for receiving bribe. Any in- 
 spector or other employee who shall receive any 
 bribe, or who shall receive for the services required 
 of him any compensation or reward other than is 
 provided in this chapter, shall be immediately dis- 
 charged and forever barred from employment by the 
 commission, and be subject to the punishment pro- 
 vided for bribery. 
 
 See. 2660. Inspectors to be furnished with brand 
 record. The secretary of the live stock commission 
 shall keep a brand record in a book in wnicn ne shall 
 enter all brands sent him for record by the owners of 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 25 
 
 live stock within the state. He shall send or deliver 
 to eacn inspector a full and complete list o£ such 
 brands. 
 
 Sec. 2661. Record of estrays to be kept by inspec- 
 tors. .All inspectors snail Keep a record oiT ail estrays 
 wnich tney may nnd in any suipment of cattle or 
 horses in transit from tnis state, and snail take a re- 
 ceipt for tne same from the snipper, or ni default ol 
 sucn receipt, shall take such estray from such ship- 
 ment, giving' tne shipper, a receipt for tne same on 
 benaif of tne live stock commission. 
 
 Sec. 2662. fieport. Said inspector shall make a 
 report every thirty days of all sucn estrays not here- 
 totore reported to the secretary of the live stock com- 
 mission, giving a description of the same, stating any 
 brands or otner marks by which tne same may be 
 identified, fcjaid secretary shall keep a record of all 
 such estrays reported to nim as aforesaid, which shall 
 at all times be open to the public for inspection. 
 
 Sec. 2663. as amended by Cnapter 58, Session 
 Laws, 1915. Swine, Elk and Goats. 
 
 Sec. 1. Not to run at large. That Section 2663 of 
 Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1910, be amended and 
 re-enacted to read as follows: 
 
 See. 2663. It shall be unlawful for any owner or 
 owners of any swine, goats or domestic eik to allow 
 the same to run at large within the State of Wyoming. 
 
 Sec. 2. Pena.ty tor violation. fnat Section z6ol 
 of the Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1910, ue amended 
 and re-enacted to read as follows: 
 
 See. 2664. Any person violating the preceding 
 section, after twenty-four hours' written notice by a 
 proper officer, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in 
 any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each 
 offense, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 3. Notice to owner. Taat Section 2665 of the 
 Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1910, be amended and 
 re-enacted to read as follows: 
 
 See. 2665. It shall be the duty of every sheriff, 
 deputy sheriff, constable, marshal or policeman in tnis 
 state, upon ascertaining by his own Knowledge, or by 
 notice, verbally or otherwise given, that any swine, 
 g-oats, or domestic elk are running at large, to imme- 
 diately give said written notice to the owner or own- 
 ers of said swine, goats or domestic elk, or to the 
 agent or manager of the business of said owner or 
 owners, and if the owner or owners of said swine, 
 goats or domestic elk are to said officer unknown, said 
 officer may impound said swine, goats or domestic elk 
 until claimed by the owner thereof, and may charge a 
 fee of twenty-five cents per day for the keeping of 
 each and every swine, goat or domestic eiK, and ten 
 cents each for impounding, but such impounding shall 
 not exonerate from the said penalty. 
 
 Sec. 2666. Repealed by Chapter 58, Session Laws. 
 1915. 
 
 Sec. 2667. As amended by Chapter 58, Session 
 Laws, 1915. Duty of sheriffs, constables, marshals, 
 and policemen. It shall be unlawful for any owner or 
 owners of swine, goats, or domestic elk to allow the 
 same to run at large within the limits of any county, 
 city or town within the State of Wyoming. And it 
 shall be the duty of every sheriff, deputy sheriff, con- 
 stable, marshal or policeman in said state, upon no- 
 tice that any swine, goat or domestic elk are so run- 
 ning at large, to immediately give written notice as- 
 certaining by his own knowledge, or by notice verbally 
 or otherwise given to the owner or owners of said 
 swine, goats or domestic elk, or to the agent or man- 
 ager of the business of the owner or owners; or if the 
 owner or owners of said swine, goats or domestic elk 
 are to the said officers unknown, then in either case 
 said officers shall impound said swine, goats or domes- 
 tic elk, until claimed by the owner thereof, and may 
 charge a fee of twenty-five cents per day for the 
 keeping of each and every swine, goat or domestic 
 elk, and ten cents each for impounding; but such im- 
 pounding shall not exonerate from the said penalty. 
 
 Sec. 2f?6S. As amended by Chapter 58, Session 
 Laws, 1915. Sale of impounded animals. If said 
 swine, goats or domestic elk, are not claimed within 
 seven days, the impounding officer shall nost at leasl 
 three notices in conspicuous places within the city, 
 town or village, or settlement where they are im- 
 pounded, stating that the said swine, goats or do- 
 mestic elk will be sold to the highest bidder at public 
 sale, such notices to specify a day of sale not less 
 than three days later than the day of posting such no- 
 
26 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 tices, and the said swine, goats or domestic elk shall 
 be sold at such time, and the proceeds of such sale, 
 after deducting lawful expenses, shall be paid into tne 
 public school fund; Provided, that the owner may at 
 such sale claim and receive such net proceeds of sale, 
 or that he may at an earlier date prove property and 
 receive the same on paying the accrued charges ac- 
 cording to the terms of this and preceding section. 
 
 Sec. 2660. As amended by Chapter 58, Session 
 Laws, 1915. Bill of sale. The impounding officer shall 
 make the sale provided in the preceding section, and 
 shall furnish the purchaser a bill of sale for such ani- 
 mal or animals sold, which bill of sale shall constitute 
 valid title to the same. 
 
 CHAPTER 28. 
 PROVIDING FOR SELLING OF IMPOUNDING ANI- 
 MALS; PROHIBITING THE RUNNING AT 
 LARGE OF LIVE STOCK, ETC. 
 
 Sec. 1, S. L. 1911. Additional powers granted to 
 cities and towns. That in addition to the powers pro- 
 vided and given by law to the various cities and towns 
 in the State of Wyoming, each and every city or town 
 in the State of Wyoming, whether incorporated under 
 a special chatter or act, or under the general law for 
 the incorporation of cities or towns, shall have power 
 to regulate, restrain and prohibit the running at large 
 within the limits of said city or town, of cattle, horses, 
 hogs, mules, sheep, goats, dogs and other animals, and 
 to provide for the empounding of any such animals 
 that may be running at large contrary to any ordi- 
 nance of such city or town, and that such animals 
 may be sold to discharge the cost and penalty pro- 
 vided for the violation of such prohibition or regula- 
 tion and the expense of empounding and keeping the 
 same and of such sales; to provide for the erection of 
 all needful pens and pounds for the use of such city 
 or town within or without the town or city limits; to 
 appoint and compensate keepers thereof, and to es- 
 tablish and enforce rules governing the same. 
 
 Chanter 177. Estrays. 
 
 Chapters 2670, 2671, 2672, 2673, 2674, 2675, 2676, 
 2677, 2678, 2679 of the Wyoming Compiled Statutes of 
 1910. Repealed by Chapter 125, Session Laws 1913. 
 
 Chapter 125, Session Laws 1913. Estrays. 
 
 Sec. 1. Definition of estray. An}' bovine animal, 
 horse, mule or ass, found running at large upon pub- 
 lic or private lands, either fenced or unfenced in the 
 State of Wyoming, whose owner is unknown in the 
 section where found, or the owner of which cannot 
 with reasonable diligence be found, or that is branded 
 with two or more brands the ownership of which is 
 disputed, neither party holding a Bill of Sale, shall be 
 known as an Estray, and it shall hereafter be unlaw- 
 ful for any person, persons, firm, company, association 
 or corporation or their employees or agents to take 
 up any such estray and retain possession of same, ex- 
 cept as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 2o How taken uu. No person shall take up 
 an estray animal except in the county where he re- 
 sides and is a freeholder, nor unless the same be 
 found in the vicinity of his residence. When any per- 
 son shall take up an estray, he, she, or they, shall 
 thoroughly inspect the brand or brands of such estray 
 or estrays in the presence of two witnesses, and shall 
 within five days thereafter make out a written de- 
 scription of such animal or animals as the case may 
 be, setting forth all marks or brands, and other marks 
 of identity, such as color, age, sex, and forward same 
 by mail to the Secretary of the Board of Live Stock 
 Commissioners. Nothing in this section shall be con- 
 strued so as to amend Section 2647, Chapter 174 of 
 the Revised Statutes of 1910. 
 
 Sec. 3. Penalty for taking- up estrays. Any per- 
 son, persons, firm, company, association or corporation 
 who shall take up or retain in his or their possession 
 any estray as provided in Section 1 of this Act, with- 
 out the owner's knowledge or consent, or who shall 
 in any manner restrain from liberty for the puprose 
 or purposes of using or making use of any such ani- 
 mal or animals without the knowledge and consent of 
 the owner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
 conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten 
 ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), 
 or may be punished by imprisonment in the county 
 jail not exceeding sixty days, or punished by both such 
 fine and imprisonment for each offense, in the discre- 
 tion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 4. Board may return to owner., Upon re- 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 27 
 
 ceiving notice of the taking up of any estray animal 
 or animals, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of 
 the Board of Live Stock Commissioners to make, or 
 cause to be made, an examination of the State Brand 
 Records, and if from this record the name of the 
 owner or probable owner can be determined, he shall 
 forthwith notify him of the taking- up of such estray 
 or estrays and upon said owner proving- to the satis- 
 faction of the Board of Live Stock Commissioners 
 that the estray animal or animals are lawfully his, the 
 said Board, shall issue to him an order to receive 
 same, upon payment of any reasonable charges which 
 may have been incurred in the care of said animal or 
 animals so taken up; Provided, however, that no 
 charge of more than ten cents per day, per head, 
 shall be made or allowed for the care of any estray 
 animal; and provided, further, that upon receipt of 
 notice of the taking up of any estray animal or ani- 
 mals, the Secretary of the Board of Live Stock Com- 
 missioners may require a closer examination of the 
 brands and marks, as set forth, in the notice, and may 
 require a State Inspector to examine same before ad- 
 vertising. 
 
 Sec. 5. Chapter 125, Session Laws 1913, amended 
 and re-enacted by Chapter 59, Session Laws 191&. 
 
 If the Secretary of the Board of Live Stock Com- 
 missioners shall be unable to determine from the rec- 
 ords and description who is the owner or probable 
 owner of such estray or estrays, he shall at once cause 
 an advertisement to be published in the official news- 
 paper of the county and in the newspaper published 
 nearest the place where estray was taken up, once 
 each week, for four consecutive weeks, and for one 
 issue in the official paper of the Board of Live Stock 
 Commissioners, giving a description of said animal or 
 animals, stating when and -where the same were taken 
 up, and giving notice that unless the same are claimed 
 by the legal owner within ten days after the last pub- 
 lication of said notice, then the same shall be sold by 
 the Board of Live Stock Commissioners for the bene- 
 fit of the owner if found within the time now specified 
 by law. Within ten days after the first publication of 
 said notice, three copies thereof shall be posted in 
 three public places in the vicinity of the place where 
 said animal or animals were taken up. 
 
 Sec. 6. Sale of estvay. If said animal or animals 
 shall not be claimed within ten days after the last 
 publication of said advertisement they shall be sold 
 by the sheriff or other person acting as agent of the 
 Board of Live. Stock Commissioners in such manner- 
 's the Board may direct. It shall be the duty of the 
 person making such sale to give a bill of sale to the 
 purchaser from the Board of Live Stock Commission- 
 ers, signed by himself as agent of said Board, which 
 bill of sale shall be legal evidence of the owners-hip 
 of said animal or animals by the purchaser thereof, 
 and shall be a legal and valid title to said animal or 
 animals. 
 
 Sec. 7. Proceeds of sale in estray fund. The per- 
 son making the sale of such estray or estrays shall 
 return the proceeds of such sale to the Board of Live 
 Stock Commissioners, who shall pay the expenses in- 
 curred in taking up, holding, advertising and selling 
 such animal or animals, and place the balance in the 
 estray fund of the said Board, making a record of 
 same, showing the marks and brands and other means 
 of identification of said animal or animals, and giving 
 the amount realized from the sale of same, which said 
 record shall be open to the inspection of the public 
 and shall also be advertised as is now provided by 
 law for advertising estrays. Should the lawful owner 
 of any estrays which have been sold as provided 
 herein be found within one year after the sale of such 
 animal or animals, the net amount received from the 
 sale of such estray or estrays less the sum of one 
 dollar for each estray, to be retained by the Board ot 
 Live Stock Commissioners, shall be paid to said owner 
 upon his proving ownership to the satisfaction of the 
 said Board of Live Stock Commissioners. If at the 
 end of one year the proceeds from the sale of estrays 
 remain unclaimed, same shall be disposed of as is now 
 provided by law. 
 
 Sec. S. Taker up must hold. Upon taking up any 
 estray animal or animals and sending description of 
 the same to the Board of Live Stock Commissioners, 
 as provided in Section 2 of this Act, said taker up 
 shall be entitled to hold the same lawfully until re- 
 lieved of their custody by the said Board of Live 
 Stock Commissioners. Should a claimant for said ani- 
 
2& LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 mal or animals apply to the taker up for possession, 
 of the same the said taker up shall at once notify the 
 said Board of Live Stock Commissioners in writing 
 of such application, and should the said Board be sat- 
 isfied that said applicant is the lawful owner, it shall 
 forthwith issue an order by the Secretary, authorizing 
 said taker up to deliver said estray or estrays to the 
 owner who may be required to pay the charges made 
 by the taker up as provided in Section 4. 
 
 Sec. 9. Penalty for not repoitiug. It shall be un- 
 lawful hereafter for any person other than an autnor- 
 ized agent of the Board of Live Stock Commissioners 
 to take up or retain possession of any estray animal 
 or animals, except as herein provided, and any person 
 who shall take up and retain possession of any estray 
 or estrays, without notifying the Board of Live Stock 
 Commissioners, within the time as provided by this 
 Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
 viction may be fined not more than one hundred dol- 
 lars ($100.00) or by sixty days' imprisonment in the 
 county jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment 
 for each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 10. Animals that escape from custody. II 
 any animal, after having been taken up by any per- 
 son under the provisions of this Act shall escape, or 
 be taken from the possession or custody of such per- 
 son before the same shall have been disposed of under 
 the provisions of this Act, then such person shall have 
 the right to recover the same wherever the same may 
 be found, to be held by., him until disposed of as pro- 
 vided for in this Act. 
 
 Sec. 2680. Estray stallions and packs. If any 
 horse or ass not gelded, two years old or upwards, 
 shall be found running at large, it shall be lawful for 
 any person to take up such horse or ass, and forth- 
 with give notice to the owner or keeper, if he be 
 known to the taker up, and if the owner or keeper 
 do not appear within six days thereafter and pay to 
 the said taker up, five dollars, as compensation for 
 his trouble, the taker up shall proceed to advertise 
 said horse or ass, and the same proceedings shall " 
 be had in every respect as hereinbefore provided in 
 the case of estray horses and mules; Provided, That 
 the taker-up may, after the expiration of thirty days 
 from the time of advertising, geld, or procure to be 
 gelded, the said horse or\ass, which shall be done at 
 the risk and expense of the owner, except when such 
 horse or ass is in the owner's herd, or in care of the 
 owner's herder. 
 
 Sec. 2681. Liability for death of estray. Should 
 any animal taken up as an estray, die while in the 
 possession of the person taking it up, he shall not 
 be liable for the loss, unless its death was the result 
 of mistreatment or wilful neglect. 
 CHAPTER 178. 
 STATE BOARD OF SHEEP COMMISSIONERS. 
 See. 2682. As amended by Chapter 68, Session 
 Laws 1917. Appointment — Qualifications. The gov- 
 ernor with the consent of the senate, is hereby di- 
 rected and empowered to appoint a board of sheep 
 commissioners, to consist of three members. Two 
 members to be appointed for a term of two years and 
 one member to be appointed for a term of four years, 
 and every . two years hereafter one member shall be 
 appointed for a term of two years and one member for 
 a term of four years. They shall hold office as here- 
 tofore specified or until their successors are appointed, 
 and qualified, and in case of a vacancy in said board 
 from death, resignation or otherwise, the governor 
 must fill the vacancy by appointment. Each member 
 of said board shall be a qualified elector of the 
 county from which he is chosen, and an owner of 
 sheep within the state, and must reside during his 
 term of office within such county which must be a 
 part of the district from which he was appointed. 
 
 See. 2683. Oath — Term of office. Members of said 
 board before entering upon their duties shall each 
 take the oath of office prescribed by the constitution, 
 which must be filed in the office of the secretary of 
 state. They shall hold office for a term of two years, 
 or until their successors are appointed and qualified. 
 and in case of a vacancy in said board from death, 
 resignation or otherwise, the governor must fill such 
 vacancy by appointment. 
 
 Sec. 2684. As amended by Chapter 107, Session 
 Laws 1915. Organization — Secretary's bond. The 
 board must organize by electing one of its members 
 as president, and the board is authorized to appoint 
 
Tagg Bros. & 
 Moorhead 
 
 Live Stock Commission Agents 
 
 UNION STOCK YARDS 
 OMAHA 
 
 Especially Experienced in Handling & Selling 
 RANGE STOCK 
 
 Education and Service 
 
 Wyoming's stock interests look to the 
 
 Agricultural College 
 Experiment Station 
 Extension Division 
 
 UNIVERSITY of WYOMING 
 
 For information see your County Agricul- 
 tural Agent, or write to the Dean of the 
 Agricultural College, Laramie, Wyoming. 
 
Gold-Stabeck Loan and 
 Credit Company 
 
 Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
 Established 1893. 
 
 Capital & Surplus $650,000.00 
 
 Ioney to Loan on Ranches and Live Stock. 
 
 George W. Daiber 
 
 The Store for Men and Young Men 
 
 1 7th and Carey, Cheyenne 
 
 Our Windows Tell the Styles 
 
 PERFECT IDENTIFICATION 
 
 There can never be any question about owner- 
 ship, when an animal shows a "PERFECT" 
 EAR TAG, with number of animal and name 
 and address of owner stamped thereon. And 
 any owner who neglects to so identify his stock, 
 has no one to blame for losses except himself. 
 The return of one good steer will pay for "Per- 
 fect" tagging- 2000 nead. 
 
 The "PERFECT" TAG should be.,used be- 
 cause it is the ligiitest tag manufactured; ma ie 
 of aluminum; non-corrosive and non-poisonous. 
 It can be attached to an animal's ear instan- 
 taneously, in one operation. No danger of 
 scpieezing the ear or causing inflammation. This 
 ear tag is endorsed by stockmen all over the 
 United States. 
 
 Send for FREE sample tag and prices today. 
 
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 Salt Lake Utah 
 
 BEST BUYERS-SELLERS o^ cattle I 
 
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Denver 
 
 The Live Stock 
 Market of 
 the West 
 
 Denver is showing greatest growth in re- 
 ceipts of live stock of any market in the 
 United States, having handled in the year 
 1916, 602,000 cattle, 1,409,000 sheep and 
 lambs, 466,000 hogs and 52,000 horses. 
 
 Denver has proven an 
 especially good market for 
 a'l classes of live stock 
 from Wyoming and it is 
 hoped that receipts from 
 Wyoming will continue to 
 if crease as they have in 
 the past few years. 
 
 Extensive improvements in stock yard and 
 packing house facilities have been made in 
 the last year and more are being added for 
 
 1917. 
 
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 By Shipping to Denver 
 
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 A. E. deRicqles, Gen'l Mgr. 
 
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 American Live Stock 
 
 and Loan Company 
 
 Capital and Surplus - $1,000,000 
 
 (Incorporated 1901) 
 
 819 17th Street Denver, Colorado 
 
 Loans money on Live Stock and loans 
 money on improved ranches, in connection 
 with Live Stock. Also furnishes young 
 steers for spring delivery for Northwestern 
 Ranches. 
 
 —the— 
 
 American Commission Co. 
 
 at the Denver Union Stock Yards 
 
 Owned by The American Live Stock and 
 
 Loan Company. A high class concern 
 
 for selling live stock on commission. 
 
A. W. French, D. V. S. E. F. Kinsley, D. V. S. 
 
 State Veterinarian Deputy State Veterinarian 
 
 state veterinarian office at star stables 
 
 n , w, • Phone 56 RED 
 
 Lheyenne - - Wyoming Residence Phone 26S 
 
 J. R. Bond, D. V. M. 
 
 Assistant 
 State Veterinarian 
 
 Gardiner B. Jones 
 
 Veterinarian 
 Phone 78 Buffalo, Wyo. 
 
 H. R. Millard, D. V. M. Dr. H. C. Hughes 
 
 Secretary State Board of 
 
 Sheep Commissioners 
 Deputy State Veterinarian 
 Cheyenne - - - Wyoming 
 
 Graduate Veterinarian 
 
 Wyoming- Deputy 
 Office 4 and K St. 
 Scottsbluff. Nebr. 
 
 Dr. S. W. Service 
 
 Late Senior Veterinary 
 Surgeon United States 
 Army, has located and 
 opened a veterinary in- 
 firmary at Spring Hill 
 Ranch — near A r v a d a, 
 Wyoming. 
 
 B. F. Davis, D. V. S. 
 
 Graduate Veterinary Phy- 
 sician and Surgeon 
 Denuty Commission No. 85 
 
 State License No. 20 
 Consulting Veterinarian; 
 
 Douglas 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 Dr. H. C. Eliot 
 
 Veterinary Surgeon 
 Office and Hospital 33" 
 
 East Brundage St. 
 Phone 230 Sheridan, Wyo. 
 
 B. J. Baker, D. V. S. 
 
 Wyoming License i\o. .26 
 
 Deputy State Veterinarian 
 
 of Wyoming 
 
 Mitchell - - - Nebraska 
 
 Wm. F. Pflaeging, 
 D. V. S. 
 
 Veterinary Surgeon 
 
 Office— Allen's Barn 
 
 Douglas - - Wyoming 
 
 W. A. Robertson, 
 M. D. C. 
 
 Deprty State Veterinarian 
 
 Lander, Wyoming 
 
 Phone 173- P or 69-W 
 
 Dr. W. L. Scofield W. B. Hobson, V. M. D. 
 
 Deputy State Veterinarian 
 Cody, Wyoming 
 
 Cheyenne, Wyo. 
 
 Denutv State Veterinarian 
 
 Phone 18 & 731-W 
 
 H. D. Port 
 
 Graduate Licensed Vet- 
 erinarian 
 State Deputy 
 Sundance - - Wyoming 
 
 Good & Carroll, D.V.M. 
 
 Graduate Veterinarians 
 Office Phone 29 
 
 Wheatland 
 
 Wyoming 
 
30 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 a secretary-treasurer, which secretary-treasurer shall 
 receive sucn compensation as may be allowed by said 
 boaru. rue members of said board snail receive tne 
 sum of si ^ uoiia-rs per uay while actually engaged in 
 tne periuniiiUKe 01 tneir duties, togetner wim tneir 
 actual expenses. Tne secretary-treasurer shall give a 
 bond to tne State of wyoming in tne sum 01 nve 
 tnousand dollars, with good anu sunicient sureties. 
 
 sec. 2t>%5. as amended by Cnapter 10 (, Session 
 Laws 191o. districts — inspection. Tne state is Hereby 
 divided into tnree aistricts for inspection and' other 
 purposes, as tonows: District No. l, or tne southern 
 district, snail comprise the counties of Platte, Gosnen, 
 Laramie, Albany, Carbon, bweetwater, Uinta and Lin- 
 coln; District mo. z, or the central district, shall com- 
 prise tne counties of Fremont, Hot Springs, Wash- 
 akie, Natrona, Converse and Niobrara; .District No. 
 3, or the northern district, shall comprise the counties 
 of Crook, Weston, Campbell, Sheridan, jonnson, Big 
 Horn and Park. The board may appoint such inspec- 
 tors as it may deem necessary, in tne manner and as 
 the said board may provide by its rules and regula- 
 tions, which said inspectors shall be subject at all 
 times to tne command of tne said board. Tne board 
 snail exercise an exclusive supervision over, and do 
 and cause to be done all tilings practicable to protect 
 tne sheep interests of the state from theft and uisease, 
 and it snail prepare and promulgate in pampnlet or 
 circular form such rules and regulations as it may 
 deem necessary for the quarantining and dipping of 
 sneep infected with scab and all otner contagious and 
 infectious diseases, detrimental to sheep, or tnat nave 
 in any manner been exposed to such infectious and 
 contagious diseases, and for the speedy and effective 
 suppression and extirpation of disease among sheep 
 as are not in conflict with the provisions of this 
 enactment. It shall be the duty of tne board to devise 
 and recommend from time to time such legislation, as 
 snail foster and develop the sheep industry of the 
 state. The board is also given power to subpoena wit- 
 nesses* in prosecutions of alleged violations of tnis 
 enactment. Tne board shall convene at least once a 
 year, or as frequently as it shall deem necessary. The 
 manner of the transaction of its business and the 
 duties of its officers shall be prescribed by the board 
 by appropriate by-laws. 
 
 Sec. 2086. Expenses of administration. It is the 
 duty of the board to audit all bills for expenses in- 
 curred in the protection or fostering of the sheep in- 
 dustry incurred under the provisions of this enact- 
 ment, and if found correct to certify the same to the 
 state auditor, who shall draw a warrant on the state 
 treasurer in favor of the party or parties ^entitled to 
 such compensation in the sum so certified, payable out 
 of the "Sheep Inspection and Indemnity Fund," or 
 any other funds at the disposition of the board. 
 
 Sec. 2(58?'. Report. The board must make an an- 
 nual report, in writing, to the governor, on the thir- 
 tieth day of November of each year. Such report 
 must give a complete statement of the transactions of 
 the board during the year. 
 
 See. 268S. Expenses of board — How paid. The 
 said board of sheep commissioners shall pay its ex- 
 penses out of such sums as may be from time to time 
 appropriated therefor, or said expenses shall be paid 
 from the sheep inspection and indemnity fund, in the 
 same manner and under the same restrictions as other 
 liabilities of the state are paid. 
 
 Sec. 2<>8JJ. Sheep inspectors — Oath — Bond. Each 
 sheep inspector shall, before entering upon the duties 
 of his office, take the' oath required by the constitution 
 for other officers, unless he be a representative of the 
 bureau of animal industry of the United States, and 
 shall give a bond to the State of Wyoming in the sum 
 of five thousand dollars, with good and sufficient sur- 
 eties, which shall be approved by the commissioners 
 of the district from which tire said inspector is ap- 
 pointed, also by the president of the board of sheep 
 commissioners, and which bond shall be conditioned, 
 that such sheep inspector shall well and faithfully 
 perform the duties of his office, as prescribed by law, 
 and faithfully account for and turn over to the secre- 
 tary-treasurer of the state board of sheep commission- 
 ers all funds collected by the said inspector. 
 
 See. 2690. Bond may he sued upon Xry injured 
 person. Such bond with the oath endorsed thereon, 
 shall be recorded in the office of the state board of 
 sheep commissioners, and shall also be recorded and 
 filed in the office of the secretary of state, and such 
 
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 bond may be sued upon by any person injured by the 
 unfaithful performance of duty of such inspector, and 
 a copy of said oath and bond certified by the secretary 
 of state shall be received as evidence of its contents 
 in all courts of the state; Provided, however, Tnai 
 where, in the enforcement of quarantine regulations, 
 owners of property are injured tnereoy, the person, 
 corporation or company responsible for the necessity 
 of such quarantine, and all tnose exercising owner- 
 ship over the sheep so quarantined shall be liable for 
 all damages and injuries occasioned thereby. 
 
 See. 2691. As amended by Chapter S-U, Session 
 Laws 1917. Duty of inspector. Scab quarantine. 
 Whenever, upon examination by a sheep inspector, any 
 flock of sheep, kept or herded in the State of Wyo- 
 ming, shall be found to be infected with scab or any 
 other contagious or infectious disease detrimental to 
 sheep, or that have been exposed in any manner to 
 any such disease, such inspector shall forthwith take 
 charge of and treat said sheep by dipping or other- 
 wise for said diseases, as soon as possible, and witnin 
 a period of not less than ten days, nor more than 
 fifteen days immediately succeeding said first dipping 
 or treatment, to again dip such sheep; also to keep 
 said sheep from contact with other sheep by such 
 means as he may specify, until such time as such in- 
 spector is satisfied of the complete eradication of such 
 scab, or other infectious or contagious disease, and 
 such inspector shall then in writing issue a permit to 
 the owner or controller of said sheep releasing said 
 sheep from quarantine, and such inspector shall have 
 the power to give such notice as in his judgment the 
 conditions in each case may require that such sheep 
 are quarantined within certain limits to be by him. 
 fixed and specified, and that such other sheep owners 
 shall not enter upon such quarantine grounds with 
 their flocks of sheep until further notice; and should 
 any flock of sheep free from scab or any other infec- 
 tious or contagious disease enter or intrude upon 
 any ground embraced within the limits set apart for 
 such quarantine, or upon any ground or within any 
 enclosure where infected, diseased or exposed sheep 
 have been, then such sheep shall be subject to the 
 same regulations and treatment as sheep infected with 
 scab or other infectious or contagious diseases detri- 
 mental to sheep. Where sheep must be dipped in the 
 immediate vicinity of said quarantine and no prep- 
 arations have been made upon the part of the owner 
 or owners thereof to provide suitable dipping works, 
 inspector is authorized to prepare such dipping works 
 as may be necessary at the expense of the owner. If 
 the said sheep cannot subsist upon range forage until 
 they have been treated, the inspector shall then pro- 
 vide feed at the owner's expense. All expenses for so 
 doing, including the expenses and per diem of such 
 inspector as hereinafter provided, for every day or 
 part of a day in which the inspector may be engaged 
 in treating such sheep, shall become and be a lien 
 upon the said sheep until the 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 cost and expenses of collection, by advertis- 
 ing 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; 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 any year, but all such ewes with lambs in- 
 fected with scab or other infectious or contagious dis- 
 eases, or that have in any manner been exposed to any 
 such disease, must be held in quarantine and kept 
 separate from sound sheep. It shall also be the duty 
 of the inspector to require the owner or owners of 
 such ewes with lambs while held in quarantine, dur- 
 ing the above periods of exemption to spot and hand 
 dress all sheep in the flock that show scab or any 
 infectious or contagious disease, with some of the 
 dips recognized by the Bureau of Animal Industry; 
 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. All sheep 
 which are kept or herded within the limits of the 
 State of Wyoming, shall, between the fifteenth day of 
 April and the first day of November of each year, be 
 dipped under the supervision of an authorized sheep 
 inspector in one of the dips which have been recom- 
 
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 mended by the state board of sheep commissioners, 
 said dip to be used at a strength sufficient to eradi- 
 cate scabies. The owner or controller of said sheep 
 so dipped, shall, within twenty days after the comple- 
 tion of such dipping file with the authorized sneep 
 inspector or the state board of sheep commissioners 
 the afndavit of two persons who were present and 
 assisted in said dipping, which affidavit shall state tne 
 number of sheep or bucks dipped, kind of dip used, 
 and the manner, time and place of such dipping. Tiie 
 per diem and expenses of the inspector to be paid by. 
 the owner or controller of tne sheep so dipped. 
 
 "The state board of sheep commissioners is hereby 
 authorized and empowered to take charge of and dip 
 as soon as possible after the first day of November 
 of each year, all sheep kept or herded witnin the 
 limits of the State of Wyoming, not previously dipped 
 within the period required by this section, and all tne 
 expenses for so doing, including the per diem and ex- 
 penses of an authorized sheep inspector, shall be paid 
 by the owner of said sheep and the same shall become 
 and be a lien upon such sheep until paid and snail be 
 collected within the time and in the manner heretofore 
 provided in this section for the collection of the ex-- 
 penses and per diem of such inspector incurred in 
 the dipping or treating of diseased or tick-infested 
 sheep. All loss or damage which results from the 
 enforcement of this section is to be paid by the owner 
 of the sheep. 
 
 "The state board of sheep commissioners is hereby 
 authorized and empowered to make such rules and 
 regulations as they deem necessary relative to the 
 administration of this section. 
 
 "Any person who is the owner or controller of any 
 sheep within the State of Wyoming violating tne pro- 
 visions of this section, shall be guilty of a misde- 
 meanor and shall be subject to a fine of not more than 
 two thousand dollars ($2,000.00)." 
 
 Sec. 20U2. Governor may issue Quarantine procla- 
 mation — Penalty. Whenever the governor of the state 
 shall have good reason to beneve tnat any disease 
 covered by tnis enactment has become epidemic in a 
 certain locality in any state or territory, or tnat con- 
 ditions exist tnat render sheep liable to convey dis- 
 ease, or whenever the coard of sheep commissioners 
 snail certify to tne governor tnat conditions exist that 
 render sneep likely to convey disease, the governor 
 shall forthwith by proclamation schedule such locality 
 or localities and prohibit the importation from them 
 of any sheep into this state until such time_ as the said 
 quarantine proclamation shall be raised by the gover- 
 nor. Any person, company or corporation or any agent, 
 servant or employe thereof, who after the publication 
 of such proclamation shall knowingly receive in charge 
 of any sheep from any of the prohibited districts and 
 transport, convey or drive the same within the bound- 
 aries of any county of this state, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction 
 thereof, be punished by imprisonment in a county jail 
 for a term of not more than one year, or by a fine of 
 not more than five thousand dollars, or by both, and 
 further, shall become liable for any and all damages 
 and loss that may be sustained by any person or per- 
 sons by reason of the importation or transportation of 
 such prohibited sheep; Provided, however, That noth- 
 ing herein contained shall prohibit the transportation 
 of sheep from such district through the state by rail- 
 road trains; Provided, Such sheep are not unloaded 
 within this state. 
 
 See. 26S)3. Unlawful to bring: infected sheep into 
 the state. It shall be unlawful for any person, com- 
 pany or corporation or any agent, servant or employe 
 thereof, to bring into this state any sheep infected 
 with scab or other infectious or contagious disease, 
 or that have in any manner been exposed to such dis- 
 ease. Any person, company or corporation, or any 
 agent, servant or employe thereof, violating the pro- 
 visions of this section, shall be guilty of a misde- 
 meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished 
 by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not 
 more than one year, or by a fine of not more than five 
 thousand dollars, or by both. 
 
 Sec. 2694. As amended by Chapter 1?2, Session 
 Laws 1913. Provisions — Penalty. Any person, com- 
 pany or corporation, or any agent, servant or employe 
 thereof, intending to bring or cause to be brought from 
 any other state or territory, the District of Columbia, 
 or from any foreign country, any sheep or bucks into 
 the State of Wyoming, in any manner, except by ship- 
 
34 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WSTOMING 
 
 ping the same through the state by railroad train, 
 snail, ten days beiore crossing tne state line, notuy 
 tne secretary-treasurer of tne state board of sheep 
 commissioners at Cueyenne, Wyoming, of such pro- 
 posed action, wnicli notice snail set forth the numoer 
 of sneep or bucks, the urands or marks tnereon, the 
 name of the owner thereof, and tne locality from wnicu 
 sneep came and through which they have been driven, 
 and accompany such notice with a tee equal to the 
 sum of three cents per head for tne total number of 
 sneep and twenty-five cents for tne total number of 
 Iducks embraced witnin the notice, and all fees so col- 
 lected shall ue paid into the state treasury to tne credit 
 of sneep inspection and indemnity fund, wnich fund is 
 hereby created, and shall be available for any of 
 the lawful expenses of tne board; Provided, however, 
 That sheep trailing into the state from adjoining- 
 states for immediate interstate shipments and sheep 
 and bucks shipped or trailed into tins state for show 
 and exhibition purposes, sheep and bucits grazing 
 along and across state lines, and sheep snipped from 
 any part of this state to feed yards in any other part 
 of the state, when shipment is made by inter-state 
 route, shall be governed by the rules and regulations 
 of the state board of sheep commissioners. If any 
 person, company, or corporation, or any agent, ser- 
 vant or employe thereof, snail be guilty of violation 
 or evasion of the provisions of this section, said per- 
 son, company, or corporation, or any agent, servant, 
 or employe thereof, shall upon conviction, be punished 
 by imprisonment in a county jail for a term of not 
 more than one year, or by a fine of not more than five 
 thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprison- 
 ment. 
 
 Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage and approval. 
 
 Approved March 1, 1913. 
 
 Sec. 2<li)7i. As amended by Chapter 64, Session Laws 
 1911. Imported sheep must be dipped. All sheep or 
 bucks imported to Wyoming from any state, territory 
 oi' tne .District of Columbia, or from any foreign 
 country, shall upon entering tne state, irrespective of 
 tiie time of such entry, be dipped twice by an inspector 
 of the board of sheep commissioners, the first dipping 
 to be performed immediately after the said sheep or 
 bucks arrive in the state, and within a period of not 
 less than ten days, or more than fifteen days after tne 
 said first dipping, the said sheep or bucks shall again 
 be dipped, and after the said second dipping, if the 
 said sheep or bucks are free from disease, tney shall 
 be released and shall thereupon become subject to the 
 laws, rules and regulations governing otner sheep 
 within the state. Provided, however, That the state 
 board of sheep commissioners may make reasonable 
 rules and regulations, under which sneep or i.uuks, 
 free from the disease, may enter the state without 
 dipping, or by being dipped only once. 
 
 Sec. 2096. Laws governing sheep in transit thrown It 
 the state. Any sheep in transit through this state 
 upon any railroad train shall not be unloaded from 
 such train for any purpose except for feeding, and 
 shall be held in the feed yards or in grazing grounds 
 to be provided by the railroad company carrying such 
 sheep and shall not be allowed to leave the same. All 
 expenses of enforcing the provisions of this section 
 shall be paid by the owner, or owners, of said sheep. 
 Any person, company or corporation, or any agent, 
 servant or employe of such, who shall he gudty vi 
 violation or evasion of the provisions of this Section, 
 shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by impris- 
 onment in a county jail for a term of not more than 
 one year, or by a fine of not more than five thousand 
 dollars or by both. 
 
 Sec. 26!)7. Traveling permit — Penalty. Any per- 
 son, company, corporation or association, or any agent, 
 servant or employe of such, desiring to move his or 
 their sheep which are not sound, or which are infected 
 with scab or any infectious or contagious disease, or 
 which have been exposed in any manner to any such 
 disease, shall obtain from the inspector a traveling 
 permit, but such permit shall only be granted for the 
 purpose of moving said sheep to the nearest practic- 
 able 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, corpora- 
 tion or association, or agent, servant or employe of 
 such, who shall violate the provisions of this section, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 
LJVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 3,5 
 
 conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment in a 
 county jail tor a term of not more tnan one year, or 
 by a line of not more uian nve tnousand dollars, or Dy 
 bum, ana any party injured, or damaged my reason Qi. 
 u±e moving of said sneep snail be entitled to recover 
 iiuiii said person, company or corporation, by civil 
 action, tiie amount of damage that said party may have 
 (sustained by reason tnereof. 
 
 See. 2ti»8. iieports of scab. It shall be the duty 
 of every person, company, corporation, or any agent, 
 servant, or employe tnereof, owning- or having under 
 his or tneir control any sheep or nock of sneep, wiiicli 
 have become infected witn scao or otner infectious or 
 contagious diseases, or wnicn have been exposed in any 
 manner to such diseases, to forthwith report sucn fact 
 in writing to the commissioner of the district in which 
 said sneep are located, and to the secretary-treasurer 
 of the board of sneep commissioners, and if any sucn 
 person, company or corporation, or any agent, servant, 
 or employe tnereof, shall fail, neglect, omit or refuse 
 to so report such fact for a period of fifteen days, 
 said person shall, upon conviction thereof, be punisned 
 by imprisonment in a county jail for a term of not 
 more tnan one year, or by a line of not more than five 
 tnousand dollars, or by both. 
 
 See. 2699. Who deemed owners. In any action or 
 proceeding, civil or criminal, arising under this chap- 
 ter, all persons having an interest in sneep and con- 
 trolling the same, concerning which such action or 
 proceeding is had, shall be deemed the owners of such 
 sheep and shall be liable severally and jointly for a 
 violation of this chapter. Any herder or other person 
 in charge of sheep who shall wilfully refuse to give 
 an inspector information as to the condition of sheep 
 in his. charge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 shall upon- conviction thereof be punished by imprison- 
 ment in a county jail for a term of not more than one 
 year, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dol- 
 lars, or by both. In criminal actions against corpora- 
 tions or individuals under this chapter, no arrests shall 
 be necessary except in cases of nonresident persons, 
 companies or corporations, 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 com- 
 menced, shall be served in the same manner and for 
 the length of time provided by law for the service of 
 summons in civil cases. 
 
 Sec. 2700. Action — Where brought. The provi- 
 sions of this chapter requiring the sheep inspector to 
 prosecute for violation of its provisions shall not be 
 construed as to prevent such prosecution from being 
 commenced and prosecuted by other persons as crim- 
 inal actions are commenced and prosecuted in other 
 actions. 
 
 Sec. 2701. Compensation of inspectors. Such sheep 
 inspector shall receive such compensation as the board 
 shall from time to time order, provided such sum does 
 not exceed the sum of five dollars per diem, and shall 
 not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars per month 
 and all actual .necessary traveling expenses. 
 
 Sec. 2702. U. S. Bureau Animal Industry — Rules. 
 The board of sheep commissioners of Wyoming is 
 hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the state, the 
 rules and regulations prepared by the secretary of 
 agriculture of the United States under and in pursu- 
 ance of section numbered 3 of any act of congress, ap- 
 proved May 29, 1884, entitled, "An Act for the estab- 
 lishment of the bureau of animal industry to prevent 
 the exportation of diseased sheep, and to provide 
 means for the extirpation and suppression of infectious 
 and contagious diseases among sheep," and to co-op- 
 erate with the authorities of the United States in the 
 enforcement of the provisions of said Act; Provided, 
 however, That all action taken by the employes of the 
 United States while acting under the provisions of 
 this chapter as state inspectors of sheep and bucks, 
 shall be exercised under instruction from the board of 
 sheep commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 2703. Authority of U. S. Bureau of Anii>»a1 In- 
 dustry. The state hereby gives its consent and indi- 
 cates its willingness that the Bureau of Animal Indus- 
 try of the United States and its employes shall come 
 within the State of Wyoming for all purposes con- 
 nected with the exportation of diseased sheep and for 
 the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia 
 and other contagious and infectious diseases among- 
 domestic animals. 
 
 Sec. 2704. Inspectors may call for assistance. All 
 
36 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 federal authorities authorized as aforesaid, and the 
 various inspectors of this state, shall have the power 
 to call upon any constable, sheriff or peace officer in 
 any county in Liis state to assist tnem in the discharge 
 of their duties in carrying' out the provisions of this 
 chapter, and of the act of congress aforesaid, and it 
 is hereby made the duty of said officers to assist them 
 when so requested, and the said federal inspector shall 
 have the same power to enforce the laws of this state 
 as the various inspectors of the state when authorized 
 as aforesaid and engaged in the discharge of their 
 official duties; Provided, That any person, company or 
 corporation refusing to comply with the orders of such 
 officer or federal inspector, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be 
 punished by imprisonment in a county jail for a term 
 of not less than thirty days, or more than six months, 
 or by a fine of not less than fifty dollars or more than 
 five hundred dollars, or by both. 
 
 See. 2705. Board may employ attorneys. When- 
 ever the board of sheep commissioners shall deem it 
 necessary they may employ special attorneys to assist 
 in the prosecution of violators of any of the sections 
 of this chapter, and to render such other assistance 
 as the board may deem necessary, such services to be 
 paid out of any funds in the state treasury available 
 for the use of the board. 
 
 Sec. 2706. Board may call on state veterinarian lor 
 assistance. Whenever the board of sheep commission- 
 ers shall deem it necessary it may call upon the state 
 veterinarian for his assistance in the examination and 
 investigation of specific infectious diseases of sheep, 
 and while engaged in such services, the state veteri- 
 narian shall at all times act under the direction and 
 control of the said board of sheep commissioners. 
 CHAPTER 179. 
 INSPECTION OF CATTLE. 
 
 Sec. 2707. Road brands. Any person or persons 
 engaged in buying cattle to oe driven out of Liis stale 
 shall, before driving or removing said cattle from the 
 piaee of purchase, properly idenUfy them with a suffi- 
 cient and proper road brand made with hot iron or 
 paint. 
 
 Sec. 2708. Notice requesting- inspection. Any per- 
 son or persons engaged in buying cattle to be driven 
 out of the state, shall, before driving said cattle from 
 this state, report to the nearest jubtice of the peace 
 his or their intention so to do, and request the ap- 
 pointment of an inspector to inspect said cattle. 
 
 Sec. 2709. Justice to appoint inspector. It shall 
 be the duty of every justice of the peace to whom such 
 application is made, to immediately appoint a capable 
 person to inspect said cattle, and said inspector shall 
 thereupon inspect the said cattle, and if satisfied that 
 the person claiming ownership thereof is entitled to 
 the possession of said cattle, shall give to the agent in 
 charge thereof a certificate of inspection, and shall 
 make due return to the justice of the peace by whom 
 he was appointed, showing the number of cattle in- 
 spected, the brands thereon, the ownership thereof, 
 and the date of such inspection, together with such 
 other facts as he deems necessary. 
 
 Sec. 2710. Owner shall pay lees. The fee for ap- 
 pointment of inspector shall be one dollar, which shall 
 be paid to the justice of the peace by the person ap- 
 plying for such appointment. The fee for inspecting 
 cattle shall be ten cents per head, which shall be paid 
 to the inspector for his services, and which shall, until 
 pai.d, be a lien on the cattle inspected; Provided, how- 
 ever, That the minimum fee for inspecting any herd 
 of cattle shall be two dollars and fifty cents, and the 
 maximum fee shall be ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 2711. Penalty. Any person or persons en- 
 gaged in buying cattle and driving the same out of 
 this state, who shall violate any of the provisions of 
 this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not more 
 than two hundred dollars, or confined in the county 
 jail for not more than sixty days, or both, in the discre- 
 tion of the court; Provided, however, That nothing in 
 this chapter contained shall be construed as in any 
 manner affecting the laws now in force respecting t^e 
 larceny of live stock; and, provided further, that this 
 chapter shall not be construed to apply to persons 
 ranging or herding cattle on lands along, adjacent to, 
 or traversed by state lines, where such persons are 
 not engaged in buying cattle in this state to be driven 
 out. 
 
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 CHAPTER. 180. 
 
 HORSE AND MULE INSPECTION. 
 Sec. 2712. Duty of shippers. It shall be the duty 
 of every person or persons, firm, corporation, or asso- 
 ciation, shipping- or driving- any horses or mules out 
 of the state, to hold the sane at so.ne convenient 
 place for inspection as hereinafter provided by this 
 chapter, and it shall be unlawful for any person or 
 persons, firm, corporation or association to ship, trans- 
 port, drive, or in any manner remove beyond the. 
 boundaries of this state any herd, band or carload of 
 horses or mules until the same shall have been duly 
 inspected as hereinafter provided for. 
 
 Sec. 2713. Liability of railroads — Penalty. It shall 
 be unlawful for any railroad or transportation com- 
 pany to receive for transportation beyond the hound - 
 aries of this state any herd, bard, or carload of horses 
 or mules, until such railroad or transportation com- 
 pany shall have been furnished with a certificate by a 
 duly authorized inspector of the county from which the 
 shipment is to be made, showing that the brands upon 
 such horses or mules have been duly' inspected as re- 
 quired by this chapter, and any railroad or transporta- 
 tion company, or any officer, agent or servant of any 
 railroad or transportation company who shall violate 
 the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall 
 be fined not less than one hundred dollars, and not 
 more than five hundred dollars, in the discretion of 
 the court. 
 
 Sec. 2714. Sheriffs are inspectors. The sheriff of 
 each county shall be an inspector of horses and mul°s 
 under the provisions of this chapter, and it is hereby 
 made the duty of the sheriff of each county to perform 
 the duties hereinafter provided as such inspector, and 
 he shall keep a record of all inspection made, sriving 
 the name of the owner and shipper of any horses or 
 mules, the several brands, the number of the car. and 
 the destination of the shipment. He shall file with tbe 
 hoard of county commissioners of his county On the 
 first day of each month a complete report of all inspec- 
 tions made during the month and shall also furnish a 
 copy of each inspection as soon as made to the official 
 newspaper of the county, which report shall he pub- 
 lished once at the expense of the county, in the first 
 issue of said newspaper published after its rec:ipt and 
 the publisher of such paper shall forward a copy of 
 his paper containing such report to each of the sheriffs 
 of the state free of charge. 
 
 Sec. 2j'15. Horses iriul mules must be inspected. 
 Every person, firm, association or corporation or their 
 or either of their agents, servants c'r employes having 
 charge of any horses or mules destined for transporta- 
 tion by rail or to be driven beyond the limits of this 
 state, shall make application to the sheriff of the 
 county in which such stock is located, or to his duly 
 authorized agent, to inspect the brand or brands of 
 any such horses or mules, stating- in such application 
 the time and place when and where said horses or 
 mules will be ready for inspection, and it shall be the 
 duty of such sheriff or his deputy so notified, to attend 
 without unnecessary delay, at the time ard place desig- 
 nated in such application and inspect said norses, or 
 mules, make the necessary record and give the neces- 
 sary certificates required by the provisions of this 
 chapter, the actual and necessary expenses of the sher- 
 iff or his deputy in making such inspection to be al- 
 lowed and paid by his county. In all cases where 
 horses or mules are to be shipped out of the state by 
 rail, the place of inspection shall be at some stock 
 yard near the proposed point of shipment of said 
 horses or mules from the state, and if the owner or 
 person in charge of said horses or mules shall cause 
 any unreasonable delay or loss of time to a sheriff or 
 his deputy so notified to attenrt, such owner or person 
 in charge of any such horses or mules shaM pay the 
 expense and sala" v of such sheriff or his deputy during 
 such delay or lo?s of time not to exceed five dollars 
 per day. 
 
 Sec. 2710. "Duty of sheriff. It shall be the duty of 
 the sheriff or his deputy to demand proof of ownership 
 from the person, persons, or corporation presenting 
 horses or mules for inspection, by brand ^e^orri. 1 ill of 
 sale, or t.ir> vouchers of at least two responsible per- 
 sons residing in the state and said ' nroof of Qwnorsh'p 
 must be at the satisfaction of the inspecting sheriff or 
 his deputy. 
 
 Sec. 2717. False certificate — Penalty. Any shv iff 
 
38 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 or his deputy who shall knowingly make any false 
 certificate under the provisions of this chapter, and 
 who snail knowingly swear falsely as to the truth of 
 any report made by him to the board of county com- 
 missioners, or wno shall accept any bribe or compensa- 
 tion for tne performance or failure to perform the 
 duties prescribed by this chapter, shall upon conviciton 
 thereof, be guilty of a felony, and be fined in a sum 
 not exceeding- one tnousand dollars or imprisonment 
 in the state penitentiary not exceeding Ave years, or 
 both, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 See. 2718. Failure to inspect — Felony. Any person 
 or persons who snail violate any of the provisions of 
 sections 2712, 2715, 2716, or who shall remove any 
 band, herd, or carload of horses or mules beyond the 
 limits of this state without having the same inspected 
 as required by the provisions of this chapter, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, 
 shall be fined in any sum not less than five hundred 
 dollars, and not more than five thousand dollars, or 
 be imprisoned in the state penitentiary of this state 
 for a period not less than one year nor more tnan 
 three years, or both such fine and imprisonment. But 
 nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed as 
 in any manner affecting the laws now in force respect- 
 ing the larceny of live stock. 
 
 See. 2219. Inspection fee — Paid by owner. A fee 
 of fifteen cents per head shall be charged on all horses 
 or mules inspected under the provisions of this chap- 
 ter, which fee shall be paid by the owner or person in 
 charge of such horses or mules, and shall be a lien 
 upon the horses or mules inspected until the same 
 snail be paid. Said fee shall be collected by the sher- 
 iff or his deputy performing the service, and shall be 
 in full compensation for the service rendered in mak- 
 ing such inspection, and all fees so collected for such 
 inspection shall be paid into the county treasury to 
 tne credit of the general fund of the county at the 
 time of tne filing of the monthly report hereinbefore 
 provided for; Provided, however, tnat said sheriffs 
 are hereby authorized to seize and sell all unclaimed 
 horses or muies which shall come into tneir posses- 
 sion while in the discharge of tiieir duties as such 
 inspectors, such sale to be conducted in tne manner 
 and form now prescribed for tne advertising and saie 
 of estrays and the proceeds of any such sale, less the 
 actual expense of advertising, care, and keeping of 
 such unclaimed horses or mules shall be paid into tne 
 county treasury to the credit of the general fund of 
 the county; Provided, further, that if the ownership 
 of such estrays shall be establisned to the satisfaction 
 of the board of county commissioners of the county in 
 which such animals are sold within one year after 
 date of notice of sale of such unclaimed animals, it 
 shall be the duty of the board of county commission- 
 ers to cause a county warrant to be issued against 
 the general fund of the county in favor of the owner 
 or owners of such unclaimed horses or animals in the 
 amount of the net pr/jceeds derived from such sale. 
 Proof of ownership shall be by affidavit of the owner 
 or owners corroborated by at least two creditable 
 witnesses. 
 
 CHAPTER 73, LAWS 1915. 
 LIVE STOCK INSPECTION. 
 
 Sec. 1. Section 1 of Chapter 73 of the Session 
 Laws of 1915 is hereby amended and re-enacted to 
 read as follows: (Chap. 43, S. L. 1917.) 
 
 "See. 1. It shall be tne duty of every person or 
 persons, firm, corporation, or association, shipping any 
 horses, mules, or cattle interstate or intrastate, to hold 
 the same at some convenient place for inspection, 
 until inspected, as provided by this chapter; and it 
 shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, 
 corporation, or association, to ship, trail, or in any 
 other manner remove, interstate, or intrastate from 
 their natural home ranges, any horses, mules, or cat- 
 tle, until the saem shall have been duly inspected as 
 hereinafter provided for; Provide:!,' That the provi- 
 sions of this chapter shall not apply to cattle con- 
 signed to any market at whit[c]h there now is an 
 inspector commissioned by the board of live stock 
 commissioners of this state; and provided further, 
 that cattle billed to feed in transit to markets where 
 an inspector is commissioned as provided above, if 
 sold or in any other manner disposed of before reach- 
 ing- such market center, that the shipper or owner 
 must notify by telegraph or letter the county live 
 stock inspector at the original loading point. Any 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 3D 
 
 person or corporation violating the provisions of this 
 section shall ue guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one 
 hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, 
 in the discretion of the court.". 
 
 Sec. 2. Violations by transportation companies. 
 It shall be unlawful for any railroad or transporta- 
 tion company to receive for transportation, interstate 
 or intrastate, any horses, mules or cattle, excepting 
 such as are consigned to a market at which there now 
 is an inspector commissioned by the board of live 
 stock commissioners of this state, until such railroad 
 or transportation company shall have been furnished 
 with a certificate of a duly authorised inspector, from 
 the county from which the shipment is originally 
 made, showing that the brands upon such horses, 
 mules or cattle, have been inspected as required by 
 this chapter; and any railroad or transportation com- 
 pany, or any officer, agent or servant of any railroad 
 or transportation company who violates the iDrovisions. 
 of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not 
 less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thou- 
 sand dollars, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 3. County inspector — Unties. The county live 
 stock inspector hereinafter provided for, shall be an 
 inspector of horses, mules or cattle under the provi- 
 sions of this chapter and it is hereby made the duty of 
 the inspector hereinafter provided for, if such a one 
 shall be appointed in any county, to perform the 
 duties hereinafter provided, and said officer making 
 such inspections shall forward a record of all inspec- 
 tions made, giving the name of the owner and shipper 
 of any horses, mules, or cattle; the number of the 
 same together with all brands, the number of the car 
 and the destination of the shipment, on or before the 
 first day of each month, to the secretary of the state 
 board of live stock commissioners and to the county 
 clerk of his county, which said record of inspections 
 shall be placed on file with the secretary of tie board 
 of live stock commissioners and with the county elTk, 
 ami must be advertised in the official paper of the 
 board of live stock commissioners, and in a paper of 
 general circulation in the county. 
 
 Sec. 4. Application to inspector. Every person, 
 persons, firm, corporation or association-, or their or 
 either of their agents, servants, or employes having 
 charge of any horses, mules, or cattle, destined for 
 transportation by rail or otherwise re.noved interstate 
 or intrastate, except those consigned to market cen- 
 ters having an inspector commissioned by the board 
 of live stock commissioners of this state shall make 
 application to the live stock inspector hereinafter 
 provided for, if there be such a one in the county in 
 which the said stock is located, or his duly authorized 
 agent, to inspect the brand or brands of any such 
 horses, mules, or cattle, stating the time and place, 
 when and where said horses, mules or cattle will be 
 ready for inspection; and it shall be the duty of said 
 live stock inspector or his deputy so notified to attend 
 without unnecessary delay and inspect said cattle, 
 horses or mules, making the necessary record and 
 giving the necessary certificate required by the pro- 
 visions of this law; the actual and necessary expenses 
 of the inspector or his deputy in making such inspec- 
 tion to be allowed and paid by his county. 
 
 ?ec. 5. Drty of inspector.. It shall be the duty 
 of the live stock inspector, or his deputy, making such 
 inspections, to demand proof of ownership from the 
 person, persons, firm, corporation, or association pre- 
 senting horses, mules, or cattle for inspection, by 
 brand record, bill of sale, or the vouchers of at least 
 two responsible persons residing in the state, and 
 said nroof of ownership must be to the satisfaction of 
 the inspecting officer before he shall issue the cer- 
 tificates, as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 See. 6. False certificates — Bribery. Any officer 
 who shall knowingly make f»iy false certificate under 
 the provisions of this chapter and who shall know- 
 ingly swear falsely as to the truth of any report made 
 by him, to the secretary of the board of live stock 
 commissioners or the county clerk, or who shall accept 
 any bribe or compensation for the performance or 
 failure to perform the duties prescribed by this chap- 
 ter, shall, imon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of 
 a felony and be fined in a sum not exceeding one thou- 
 sand dollars or imprisonment in the state penitentiary 
 not exceeding five years, or both, in the discretion of 
 the court. 
 
40 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 See. 7. County live stock inspector — Appointment. 
 
 When a petition, signed by twenty-live or more tax 
 paying stockmen in any county as appears from the 
 last assessment roll, snail be presented to the county 
 commissioners of any county, the said commissioners 
 may appoint a county live stock inspector, whose ap- 
 pointment to be in force shall be confirmed by tne 
 state board of live stock commissioners, and whose 
 duties shall be as hereinafter defined; provided, that 
 wiienever the county commissioners of two or more 
 counties deem it advisable they may co-operate in tne 
 employment of 'one 'inspector and shall equally bear 
 the expense. In counties not employing- a live stock 
 inspector, the sheriff or his deputy shall perform the 
 duties set forth in this enactment. 
 
 Sec. 8. Qualifications of inspector. The person to 
 be appointed by the said board shall have had actual 
 experience in the live stock industry and shall satisfy 
 the said commissioners that he knows and can read 
 brands. 
 
 Sec. J). Terra of ottice — Deputy. Said inspector so 
 appointed by the said board snail hold ottice for a 
 period of two years, unless sooner removed by the 
 Loard of county commissioners, and the board of 
 county commissioners shall have power to appoint a 
 deputy inspector if necessary. Said deputy inspector 
 shall be paid while so employed at the rate of three 
 dollars a day, from the same source and in the same 
 manner as county officers are now or hereafter ma.y 
 be paid. 
 
 Sec. 10. Authority of inspector. Said inspector so 
 appointed and his deputy shall have the power and 
 authority to make an a>rest as now conferred upon 
 sheriffs in this state. He snail also act as special live 
 stock inspector for the state board of live stock com- 
 missioners. 
 
 see. II. Dt ties of inspector. Tne duty of said 
 inspector shall be to ride the ranges and pastures 
 w itnin. tne boundaries of the county in wuich he is 
 appointed anu to protect the live stock of such county 
 from depredation and tneft and to arrest any person 
 or persons found guilty of committing such depreda- 
 tions or thefts. Re shall also enforce all laws of the 
 state relating to and for the protection of the live 
 stock industry and shali inspect ri.eat cattle before be- 
 ing slaughtered at any local slaughter nouse. 
 
 Sec. 12. Salary. Tne person appointed inspector, 
 as hereinbefore provided, shall be paid a salary of 
 not to exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per 
 annum, payable monthly, from the sa.ne source and 
 in the same manner as county officers are now or 
 hereafter may be paid; provided that the said person 
 so appointed inspector shall provide such horses or 
 other transportation as may' be necessary to carry out 
 the duties imposed upon him by the law; and he shall 
 receive no other for further compensation by way of 
 salary or reimbursement for expenses incurred, ex- 
 cept that the said live stock inspector shall receive bis 
 actual and necessary traveling expenses when called 
 to inspect any horses, mules, or cattle, as provided in 
 sections four and five of this Act — said amount to be 
 paid by this county in the same manner and from the 
 same source as such expenses are now paid by the 
 county to county officers; provided, that before enter- 
 ing upon the duties of his ottice the said inspector 
 shall give good and sufficient bond in the sum of two 
 thousand dollars, to be approved by the board of 
 county commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 1S5. May hold suspected shipment for inspec- 
 tion. The ' provisions of this Act, shall not be con- 
 strued as limiting the power and authority of any 
 inspector of live stock, when he has knowledge or 
 information, that a theft of live stock has been or is 
 about to be committed, and in such cases he may re- 
 quire any shipment of live stock to be held for inspec- 
 tion before loading, whether the same is being shipped 
 to markets where state inspectors are commissioned 
 or not. 
 
 CHAPTER 181, 
 DOGS. 
 
 See. 2720. Dogs irade personalty. Dogs shall be 
 deemed to be personal property and the subject of 
 larceny, the same as other personal property, the value 
 thereof in any criminal prosecution to be determined 
 as in other cases, but in all such prosecutions the evi- 
 dence of the assessor or collector of taxes,, as to the 
 amount for which dogs are returned, shall be admiss- 
 ible in evidence as tending to show- va-lue, but the 
 same shall not be conclusive thereof. Every person 
 
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 keeping or harboring a dog shall be deemed the owner 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 2721. Measure of damages for loss of dog'. 
 
 The owner of any dog, listed for taxation, killed or 
 maliciously injured, contrary to law, or carried or en- 
 ticed away from the premises of the owner, or har- 
 bored for the purpose of being- killed, injured, or 
 stolen, may recover from the person so killing, injur- 
 ing or stealing the same, as exemplary damages, any 
 sum not exceeding that sum for -which such dog stands 
 returned for taxation. 
 
 CHAPTER 2. 
 PROHIBITING THE CHASING OF CATTLE BY DOGS. 
 See. 1, S. L. 1913. Misdemeanor aud penalty. Any 
 
 person who shall permit or direct any dog owned by 
 him or in his possession or in the possession of any 
 employee of such person to chase or run any cattle or 
 other live stock of which he is not the owner and of 
 which he is not in control, farther than one hundred 
 yards from his land, upon government lands, or away 
 from any watering place upon the open range, shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction there- 
 of shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER 30. 
 REGULATING MEASURING OF HAY TO DETER- 
 MINE TONNAGE. 
 
 See. 1, S. L.. 1911. Legal measurement for hay in 
 stags. That from and after the passage of this law, 
 unless otherwise agreed to between the contracting 
 parties, the following shall constitute the legal meas- 
 urement for hay in stack in the State of Wyoming: 
 
 Four hundred and twenty-two (422) cubic feet 
 shall constitute a ton of clean, native, blue joint hay, 
 after thirty (30) days up to three (3) months settle- 
 ment in stack. As to all other kinds of hay, after 
 the same shall have been settled in stack from sixty 
 (60) days and up, five hundred and twelve (512) cubic 
 feet shall constitute a ton of alfalfa or rough slough 
 grass, after the same shall have been in the stack 
 thirty (30) days and up to one (1) year, four nundred 
 and fifty (450) cubic feet shall constitute a ton of 
 clean timothy and clover, after the same shall have 
 been in the stack thirty (30) days, and up to one.(l) 
 year. 
 
 Making measurements of hay in stack, the follow- 
 ing is hereby made the legal method of measurements, 
 to-wit: The width and length of the stack snail be 
 measured, and the distance from the ground against 
 one side of the stack to the ground against the other 
 side of the stack, directly over and opposite, shall be 
 taken in linear feet and inches, and then the width 
 shall be subtracted from the measurement over the 
 stack, as above indicated, the result divided by two, 
 and the result so obtained multiplied by the width, 
 and the result thus obtained multiplied by the length, 
 which will give the number of cubic feet contained in 
 the stack, and the tonnage shall thereupon be deter- 
 mined by dividing the total number of cubic feet by 
 the number of cubic feet allowed under the provisions 
 of this act for a ton. 
 
 CHAPTER 21. 
 RELATING TO SALE OF LIVE STOCK AT AUCTION. 
 
 Sec. 1, S. L,. 1911. That Section 2839 of- Chapter 
 187, Compiled Statutes of Wyoming, of 1910, be amend- 
 ed and re-enacted to read as follows: 
 
 "Sec. 2839. No auctioneer, peddler or other person 
 or persons, company or corporation, shall be permitted 
 to sell, vend, barter or retail, either at private sale 
 or public auction, any wares, goods or merchandise 
 without first having obtained a license therefor; pro- 
 vided, that no license shall be required of auctioneers 
 for the sale of live stock at auction in cities and towns, 
 or public sales of live stock, implements and agricul- 
 tural products, held upon the farm. 
 
 CHAPTER 202. 
 
 PROTECTION OF ANIMALS. 
 Sec. 2086. Cruelty — Penalty. Every person who 
 overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, over- 
 works, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sus- 
 tenance, unnecessarily or cruelly beats, or needlessly 
 mutilates or kills, or carries in or upon any vehicle, or 
 otherwise in a cruel or inhuman manner any animal, 
 or causes or procures it to be done; or who, having 
 the charge and custody of any animal, unnecessarily 
 fails to provide it with the proper food, drink or pro- 
 tection from the weather, or cruelly abandons it shall 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 43 
 
 upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the 
 county jail not exceeding one year or Dy tine not less 
 than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, 
 or by both. 
 
 Sec. 30S7. Animals must be fed while impounded. 
 Every person who shall impound, or cause to be im- 
 pounded in any pound or corrai, under tiie laws of this 
 state, any animal, shall supply to the same during 
 such confinement a sufficient quantity of good and 
 wholesome food and water, and in default thereof 
 shall be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding 
 thirty days oi> fined not less than five nor more than 
 fifty dollars, or both. 
 
 Sec. 3088. Food niay be furnished. In case any 
 animal shall be at any time impounded as aforesaid, 
 and shall continue to be without necessary food or 
 water for more than twelve successive hours, it shall 
 be lawful for any person from time to time and as 
 often as it shall be necessary, to enter into and upon 
 any pound or corral in which any such animal shall be 
 confined, and to supply it with necessary food and 
 water so long as it shall remain so confined; such per- 
 son shall not be liable to any action for such entry, 
 and the reasonable cost of such food and water may 
 be collected by him of the owner of such animal; and 
 the said animal shall not be exempt from levy and 
 sale upon execution issued upon a judgment therefor. 
 
 Sec. 3089. Keeping' fowls or animals together for 
 sport. Every person who shall keep any place where 
 any fowls or any animals, by his consent, are suffered 
 to fight upon exhibition, or for sport upon any wager, 
 shall be imprisoned in the county jail not more than 
 thirty days or fined not less than five nor more than 
 twenty-five dollars, or both. 
 
 Sec. 3090. Fine to be paid to treasurer of Wyo- 
 ming Humane Society. Any justice of the peace in the 
 county in which any of the offenses defined in this 
 chapter is committed, may, upon his own knowledge, or 
 upon the oath of any competent person, issue a war- 
 rant to any proper officer of his county ror the arrest 
 of any person charged with such offense, and upon the 
 arrest of such person, the justice of the peace before 
 whom such person is brought for trial shall have jur- 
 isdiction to hear and determine the cause, and, if he 
 find the accused guilty, shall assess the fine or fix the 
 term of imprisonment, or both, as prescribed in this 
 chapter; Provided, The accused may have a trial by a 
 jury of six lawful jurors, or, if he shall insist on a full 
 jury, by twelve, who shall be summoned to try the 
 cause; and if the jury shall find the accused guilty, 
 they shall assess and state the amount of the fine, or 
 the term of imprisonment, or both; upon which the jus- 
 tice of the peace before whom the trial shall be had, 
 shall give judgment accordingly, and proceed to collect 
 such fine and the costs of trial; and when such fine 
 shall be collected, the same shall be paid to the treas- 
 urer of the Wyoming Humane Society, who shall give 
 his receipt therefor, which said receipt shall be filed 
 with the justice of the peace, after which the said fine 
 shall be subject to the control of said society in aid 
 of the benevolent objects for which it was incor- 
 porated. 
 
 Sec. 3091. Officers of Humane Society. Any officer 
 or any agent of the Wyoming Humane Society may 
 lawfully interfere to prevent the perpetration of any 
 act of cruelty upon any animal in his presence, and 
 every person who shall interfere with or obstruct or 
 resist any such officer or agent in the discharge of 
 his duty, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than 
 ten nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned in the 
 county jail not more than thirty days. 
 
 Sec. 3092. L.ien of agent of Humane Society on 
 animals and vehicles. When any person arrested un- 
 der any of the provisions of this chapter is, at the 
 time of such arrest, in charge of any vehicle drawn 
 by or containing any animal cruelly treated, any agent 
 of said humane society, having been authorized by the 
 sheriff of the county to make arrests in such cases, 
 may take charge of such animal and of such vehicle 
 and its contents, and the animal or animals drawing 
 the same, and shall give notice thereof to the owner 
 if known, and shall provide for them until their owner 
 shall take charge of the same, and such agent shall 
 have a lien on such animals and on said vehicle and 
 its contents for the expense of such care and provi- 
 sion; or fie said expense of any part thereof remain- 
 ing unpaid may be recovered by such agent in a civil 
 action. 
 
 Sec. 3093. Expenses for care of aninwl taken. 
 
44 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 Any officer or agent of the said humane society may 
 lawfully take charge of any animal found abandoned, 
 neglected or cruelly treated, and shall thereupon give 
 notice to the owner thereof, if known, and may care 
 and provide for such animal until the owner snail take 
 charge of the same, and the expenses of such care 
 and provision shall be a charge against the owner of 
 such animal and collectible from such owner by said 
 humane society in an action therefor. 
 
 See. 3084. Further iien of Humane Society. When 
 said humane society shall provide neglected and aban- 
 doned animals with proper food, shelter ana care, it 
 may detain such animals until the expense of such 
 food, shelter and care is paid, and shall have a lien 
 upon such animals therefor. 
 
 See. 30S>5. Destruction of diseased animals. Any 
 agent or officer of said humane society may lawfully 
 destroy or cause to be destroyed any animal in nis 
 cnarge when, in the judgment of such officer or agent, 
 and by the written certificate of two reputable citi- 
 zens called to view trie same in his presence, one of 
 whom may be selected by the owner of said animal if 
 he shall so request, such animal appears to be injured, 
 disabled, diseased past recovery or unflit for any 
 useful purpose. 
 
 Sec. 30SMS. .Liens — How enforced. Any person or 
 corporation entitled to a lien under any of the provi- 
 sions of this chapter may enforce the same by selling 
 the animals and other personal property upon vviiicn 
 such lien is given, at public auction, upon giving 
 written notice to the owner, if he be known, of the 
 time and place of such sale, at least five days previous 
 thereto, and by posting three notices of the time and 
 place of such sale in three pu lie places within trie 
 county, at least five days previous thereto; and if the 
 owner be not known, then such notice shall be posted 
 at least ten days previous to such sale. 
 
 See. 3097. Certificate for officers and assents of 
 Humane Society. Officers and' agents of said humane 
 society shall be provided with a certificate by said 
 society that they are such officers or agents, in such 
 form as the directors of said society may choose, or 
 with a badge bearing the name or seal of sa.d society, 
 and shall, if requested, show such certificate or badge 
 when acting officially. 
 
 Sec. SODS. Authority of members of the Wyoming 
 Humane Society. Any memoer of the Wyoming hu- 
 mane Society may require the sheriff of ar.y county, 
 the constable of any precinct, or the marshal or any 
 policeman of any town or city, or any agent of said 
 society authorized by the sheriff to make arrests for 
 the violation of this chapter, to arrest any person 
 found violating any of the provisions of this chapter, 
 and to take possession of any animal cruelly treated 
 in their respective counties, cities or towns, and de- 
 liver the same to proper officers of said society, and 
 for such service, and for all services rendered in car- 
 rying out the provisions of this chapter such officers 
 and agents of said society shall be allowed and paid 
 such fees as are allowed for like services in other 
 cases, which shall be charged as costs and reim- 
 bursed to the society by the person convicted. 
 
 Sec. 30£'». Definitions. In this chapter the word 
 "animal" shall be held to include every living dum.j 
 creature; the words "torture," "torment," and "cruelty" 
 shall be held to include every act, omission or neglect 
 whereby unnecessary or unjustifiable pain or suffer- 
 ing is caused, permitted or allowed to continue when 
 there is a reasonable remedy or relief; and the words 
 "owner'" and "person" shall be held to include cor- 
 porations, and the knowledge and acts of agents and 
 employes of corporations in regard to animals trans- 
 ported, owned, employed by or in custody of a cor- 
 poration shall be held to be the knowledge and acts 
 of such corporation. 
 
 See. 3100. Dehornhisc eattle. Nothing in this 
 chapter contained shall be construed so as to prohibit 
 the dehorning of cattle. 
 
 See, 3464. Protection of live stock from miuini; 
 shafts — Penalty for failure to protect. Every person, 
 persons, company or corporation, who have already 
 sunk mining shafts, pits, holes, inclines, upon any 
 mining claim, or on any mineral property, ground or 
 premises, or who may hereafter sink such openings 
 aforesaid, shall forthwith secure such shafts and open- 
 ings against the injury or dest-uctiin of live stock 
 rim ring at large upon the public domain, by securely 
 covering such shafts and other oneniners, as aforesaid, 
 in a manner to render them safe against the possi- 
 
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 bility of live stock falling into them, or in any manner 
 becoming injured or destroyed thereby; or by forth- 
 with making a strong, secure and ample fence around 
 such shafts and other openings aforesaid. Any per- 
 son, persons, corporation of company that shall fail 
 or refuse to fully comply with the provisions of this 
 section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 
 viction thereof, shall be liable for any damages sus- 
 tained by injury or loss of live stock thereby. 
 
 Sec. 3754. Agistors and stable keepers. Any 
 ranchman, farmer, agistor, or herder of cattle, tavern 
 keeper, or livery stable keeper, to whom any horses, 
 mules, asses, cattle or sheep, shall be entrusted, for 
 the purpose of feeding, herding, pasturing, or ranch- 
 ing, shall have a lien upon said horses, mules, asses, 
 cattle or sheep, for the amount that may be due, for 
 such feeding, herding, pasturing or ranching, and shall 
 be authorized to retain possession of such horses, 
 mules, asses, cattle, or sheep, until the said amount is 
 paid; Provided, That the provisions of this section 
 shall not be construed to apply to stolen stock. 
 
 Sec. 755. Stable keeper not to use animals with- 
 out consent of owner. If any person keeping a public 
 ranch or stable, shall use, or allow to be used, without 
 the consent of the owner, any horse, ox, mule, or ass, 
 that shall be left with him to be ranched, or fed, he 
 shall forfeit to the owner, all ranch or stable fees that 
 may be due upon such animal used, and the additional 
 s.um of five dollars for each day such animal may have 
 been used: to be collected in the same manner as other 
 debts. 
 
 CHAPTER 252. 
 BREEDERS' LIENS. 
 
 Sec. 771. Cn mare and co.t. The owner of a stal- 
 lion shall have a lien upon any 'mare bred to such 
 stallion, and also upon any colt begotten by such 
 stallion, for the sum stipulated to be paid for such 
 service. 
 
 Sec. 3772. Form of notice. A notice of such lien 
 shall, within six months after the day of such service, 
 be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county 
 in which the mare or colt is held or pastured, or sua- 
 ject to taxation, and said notice shall be in the fol- 
 lowing form, to-wit: 
 
 NOTICE OP BREEDER'S LIEN. 
 The State of Wyoming County of , ss. 
 
 I, being first duly sworn, 
 
 upon my oath depose and say that I am the lawful 
 
 owner (or duly authorized agent of 
 
 the lawful owner) of (description of 
 
 Stallion.) 
 
 That on (or between) the day «f , 
 
 A. D. 19 . . . and the day of 
 
 A. D...., the services of said stallion were had upon 
 the following described mare or mares, to-wit: 
 
 That said services were rendered at the request of 
 
 (for and on behalf of 
 
 . . ), the lawful owner. . . of said 
 
 mares: 
 
 That the fee agreed upon for said service was 
 dollars. 
 
 That there is now due to 
 
 from said for said services, 
 
 the full and complete sum of dollars. 
 
 That six months have not elapsed since the dati 
 
 of such services, and claim a 
 
 breeder's lien on said property for said amount. 
 
 Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me 
 this day of A. D. 19 . . . 
 
 Notary Public. 
 My commission expires 
 
 The County Clerk, on presentation, shall ' file 
 such instrument in his office, and index the same in 
 the chattel mortgage index in the same manner as 
 chattel mortgages are required to be indexed, and he 
 shall collect therefor a fee of twenty-five cents. 
 
 All breeders' lien shall be released in the same 
 manner as chattel mortgages, and the county clerk 
 shall collect therefor a fee of fifteen cents tor each 
 release. If the owner of the stallion does not wish 
 to take advantage of Sec. 3774, he may renew said lien 
 in the same manner in which chattel mortgages are 
 renewed, and the county clerk shall collect therefor 
 a fee of fifteen cents for each renewal. 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 Sec. 3773. Takes precedence of all other incum- 
 brances except for taxes. The lien herein g-iven shall 
 be prior to and take precedence of any lien or in- 
 cumbrance given or arising - subsequent to such ser- 
 vice, except the lien for taxes. 
 
 Sec. 774. Taking' possession by lieu holder. At 
 any time after default of payment of such service, and 
 within one year after sucn service, the owner of sucn 
 lien may take possession of any mare or colt upon 
 which lien exists in accordance with law, and sell tne 
 same as is hereinafter provided. 
 
 Sec. 377 5. Sale of property under lien. Such sale 
 shall be made at public auction, tne lien holder first 
 giving ten days' notice thereof in some newspaper 
 published in the county wnere tne notice of lien is 
 filed, and if no newspaper be published in such county, 
 then said notice shall be posted for two weess in at 
 least tiiree public places in the county, one of whicn 
 shall be at the front door of the bunaing used as a 
 court house; such notice shall describe tne animal or 
 animals to be sold, and state the amount of money 
 claimed to be due thereon and when the services weve 
 rendered; the exact time and place of such sale shah 
 also be stated. If for any good reason it shall be 
 necessary to adjourn the sale, new notices shall be 
 given as in the first instance required. A lien holder 
 shall not be debarred from purchasing at sucn sale, 
 because of his owning the lien on tne animal sold. 
 The purchaser shall take from the person selling such 
 mare or colt a bill of sale w T iiich shail contain the 
 substance of the notice of sale and the date of sale 
 and consideration therefor, and such bill of sale shall 
 be filed in the office of the county clerk where the no- 
 tice of lien was filed. 
 
 Sec. 3776. Colt shall be sold first. In case a mare 
 and her colt are taken under a lien, the colt shall be 
 sold first and if the proceeds thereof are sufficient to 
 pay the expense incurred in taking possession under 
 the lien and the filing fee and costs of notices, then 
 the mare shall not te sold. After deducting tne said 
 expense from the proceeds of any sale, the residue, if 
 any, shall be returned to the person entitled thereto. 
 The lien herein given shall not debar any nolder of 
 a lien from abandoning the same and recovering the. 
 amount due him for such service, by an action at law. 
 
 Sec. 3777. Consent of lien holder to sell property. 
 Any owner of a mare, or colt, upon which a lien exists 
 under this lhapter, who shall sell or otherwise dispose 
 of such mare or colt before said lien expires or is sat- 
 isfied, or who shall remove such mare or colt out of 
 the county in which said notice of lien is filed, with 
 intent to deprive such lien holder of his lien, or with 
 intent to damage an innocent purchaser, without first 
 having obtained the consent of the lien holder to such 
 disposition or removal, shall be deemed g'ulity of a 
 misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof he shall be 
 fined in a sum not less than ten dollars, nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the 
 county jail not more than three months. 
 
 Sec. 4206. Company to notify owner of injury to 
 stock. Any such corporation injuring or killing 'any 
 live stock by running any engine, car or cars, over or 
 against any such live stock, shall within ten days 
 thereafter, notify the owner or owners of such live 
 stock, so killed or injured, of the fact; Provided, That 
 if the ownership of such stock so killed or injured, 
 is unknown, such corporation shall file in the office 
 of the county clerk of the county in which such live 
 stock was so killed or injured a full description, in- 
 cluding the number, classes and brands, of such live 
 stock, naming the locality where such stock was so 
 killed or injured; and such corporation shall also 
 cause a notice of the injuring or killing of any such 
 live stock to be immediately posted up in a conspicu- 
 ous place on the station house or section house which 
 is nearest to the place of killing or injuring, which 
 notice shall specify the date and place of such injury 
 or killing, the kind and number of animals killed or 
 injured, the colo^- and brands or marks of such ani- 
 mals, and the owner's name, if known. The carcass 
 of any animal so killed shall not be buried until three 
 days after the posting of such notice. A copy of the 
 notice so posted shall, in all cases, be immediatelv 
 mailed bv the section foreman to the owners of such 
 animal, if such owner be known to him. and this 
 notice s^ail be in addition to that named in the first 
 part of tMs section. And any corporation failino- to 
 comnly with the requirements of this section shall be 
 liable to the owner or owners of such live stock, so 
 
48 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 killed or injured, in double the amount of the damages 
 sustained by the owner or owners of such stock, by 
 reason of the said killing or injuring. 
 
 Sec. 4207. Owner to make sworn statement of 
 value. Any person or persons owning any live stock 
 which shall be killed or injured snail, within six 
 months after the said person or persons is, or are, 
 notified of the said killing or injuring, as provided 
 in the last preceding section, furnish the corporation 
 having so killed or injured live stock, through its 
 nearest agent, sworn evidence of the value of said 
 live stock. 
 
 Sec. 5832. Stealing- live stock. Whoever steals 
 any horse, mule, sheep or neat cattle, of value, or re- 
 ceives, buys or conceals any such horse, mule, sheep 
 or neat cattle which have been stolen, knowing the 
 same to have teen stolen, shall be deemed guilty of 
 a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be impris- 
 oned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor 
 more than ten years. 
 
 Sec. 5833. Misbranding- live stock. Whoever 
 brands or alters or defaces the brand of any horse. 
 mule, sheep or neat cattle, of value, the property of 
 another, with intent thereby to steal the same or to 
 prevent the identification thereof, is guilty of a felony 
 and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more 
 than five years. 
 
 Sec. 5834. Killing live stock. Whoever wilfully 
 and maliciously kills any horse, mule, sheep, goat, or 
 neat cattle, the same being the property of another, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction 
 thereof shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not 
 more than fourteen years. 
 
 Sec. 5870. Injuring live stock. Whoever mali- 
 ciously or mischievously injures in any manner any 
 horse, jack, mure, ass, sheep, goat, neat cattle, dog or 
 hog, of another, shall be fined in any sum not more 
 than one hundred dollars, to which may be added im- 
 prisonment in the county jail not more than three 
 months. 
 
 Sec 5872. Taking and using property without 
 consent of owuer. Every person who shall unlawfully 
 take without the consent of the owner, any horse, 
 mare, gelding, foal or filly, ass or mule, or any buggy 
 or other vehicle or otner personal property from the 
 stable, lot, house, premises or pasture of another, or 
 from a hitching post or rack, or any other place as 
 aforesaid, having been lawfully placed there, with in- 
 tent to set at large, injure or wrongfully use the 
 animal or vehicle so taken, shall be guilty of crim- 
 inal trespass, and upon conviction fined in any sum 
 not more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned 
 in the county jail for a term" not more than three 
 months, or both, and shall also be liable to the party 
 injured in double the amount of damages sustained. 
 
 Sec. 5885. Unlawful appropriation or itorse or 
 mule on open range. Any person who shall wilfully 
 and without the consent of the owner take possession 
 of any horse or mule found running at large upon the 
 open range for the purpose, or with the intent of 
 working, riding or driving the same, where there is 
 no intent on the part of said person to steal the same; 
 or shall drive any horses or mules not his own, off 
 or away from any range where the same may be 
 found, except to the nearest corral for the purpose of 
 separating them from horses or mules belonging to 
 such person, and who shall nexlect, after so separat- 
 ing the same, to drive such horses or mules back to 
 the locality where they were found irisimediately after 
 separating them, whenever such animals have been 
 so driven for more than five miles, shall be guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be 
 fined not more than one hundred dollars, and not less 
 than twenty-five dollars, or imprisoned in the county 
 jail not more than three months, or both. 
 
 Sec. 588S. Neglect to close gates. Every person 
 who opens and who wilfully or carelessly neglects to 
 close gates or replace bars in fences which cross pri- 
 vate roads, passing over lands owned or leased by any 
 resident, citizen, company or corporation, shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction, shall be 
 sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $5.00 nor 
 more than $25.00. 
 
 Sec. 5J>82. Failure of owner to remove or bury 
 dead animal. It shall be the duty of the owner, or 
 person having charge of any animal which may die 
 in this state, to remove the carcass to a distance of 
 not less than half a mile from the nearest human 
 habitation, or to bury it with not less than two feet 
 
Casper Oil Brokerage Company 
 
 OIL SECURITIES 
 Lynch Building Casper, Wyoming 
 
 When in need of high class 
 
 Hereford Bulls at Reasonable Prices 
 
 Address 
 
 John E. Painter & Sons, Roggen, Colo. 
 
 who have the leading herd of Herefords 
 in the West. 
 
 OTTO FULSCHER, Holyoke, Colo. 
 
 (Quality My Aim — Inspection Invited) 
 Beau Aster No. 412145 heads the herd, 
 
 assisted by Prince Domino No. 499611. 
 
 120 Breeding cows with quality and size. 
 
 Breeder of Pure Bred Hereford Cattle 
 
 SEND US YOUR HIDE FOR TANNING 
 
 Ede Safety Tan makes larger robes — 
 lighter coats. Guaranteed for life. Write 
 for catalog. 
 
 Dubuque. Iowa. St. Paul, Minn. Omaha. Nebr. 
 Des Moines, Iowa. Sioux Falls, S. Dak. 
 
 EDES ROBE TANNING CO. 
 
 CHEYENNE STEAM LAUNDRY 
 
 and 
 
 HAWKEYE CLEANING COMPANY 
 
 Parcels Post Business Solicited. 
 Phones 20 and 21 510-518 W. 18th S t. 
 
 To get Full Market Value for your 
 
 HIDES, PELTS OR WOOL 
 
 Communicate with 
 
 CHICAGO HIDE, FUR & WOOL HOUSE 
 
 "The Square Deal House" at 
 DOUGLAS, WYOMING 
 
 The Lowell Pure Bred Cattle Company 
 
 Carload Lots a Specialty 
 
 Registered Hereford and Shorthorn Bulls 
 
 and Heifers 
 
 Room 9 Exchange Bldg., Union Stock Yards 
 
 DENVER. COLO. 
 
 The Intermountain Poultry Advocate 
 
 COLORADO SPRINGS 
 tells, you reliable information about care and 
 management of Poultry and Pet Stock for 
 Profit or Pleasure, mention this ad and get free 
 sample copy. 50c a year. 
 
50 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 of soil over it; and every person failing to remove or 
 bury such carcass for more than forty-eight hours 
 shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not more 
 than one hundred dollars. And should such animal 
 be the property or in charge of some person passing 
 through this state, then any peace officer may (with- 
 out warrant) detain the owner or person in charge of 
 such animal or of the hock or herd from which it 
 died, as soon as such owner or person shall have 
 shown an intention not to so bury or remove said car- 
 cass, by removing from it, or removing such liock or 
 herd from it a distance of half a mile or more, a rea- 
 sonable time, not more than two days, until a warrant 
 can issue upon an information duly sworn to. 
 
 * See. 5959. Cruelty to animals. Any person or 
 persons who may be deemed guilty of over-driving or 
 riding, except in cases of sickness or necessity, any 
 mare, gelding, mule or ass, or other domestic animal, 
 or by over-loading the same, or abuse by beating or 
 otherwise punishing the above animals, whereby dam- 
 age is done or sickness or death may ensue, the said 
 person or persons, upon conviction thereof before any 
 justice of the peace (or any other court of justice) of 
 this, state shall be fined not less than twenty-five 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each 
 and every offense, or imprisoned in the county jail for 
 not less than one month, nor more than three months 
 or both. 
 
 See. 6021. Registration of false pedigrees. Ev- 
 ery xjerson who, by false pretenses, shall obtain from 
 any club, association, society or company for improv- 
 ing the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine or other 
 domestic animals, the registration of any animal in 
 the herd register or other register of any such club, 
 association, society or company, on a transfer of any 
 such registration, and every person who shall know- 
 ingly give a false pedigree of any animal and thereby 
 injure or defraud any person, corporation or associa- 
 tion shall be punished by imprisonment in the county 
 jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not 
 more than one thousand dollars, or both.- 
 
 Sec. (5040. '"Neat cattle" defined. The words 
 "horse" and "mule" and "neat cattle," in addition to 
 severally including the plural and singular, shall also 
 severally include animals of both sexes and of all 
 ages. 
 
 Sec. 6177. Ownership of lie stock. In any in- 
 dictment the description of any kind or class of neat 
 cattle shall be deemed sufficient, if described as neat 
 cattle, and the proof of the brand thereon shall be 
 deemed sufficient to identify all classes of live stock, 
 and proof of the ownership of such brand shall be 
 prima facie evidence of the ownership of such live 
 stock. 
 
 A bill for an Act to submit to the qualified voters 
 cf the State of Wyoming an amendment to the Consti- 
 tution, to be known as Section Fifteen or Article Fif- 
 teen, providing for the levying of a special tax on the 
 live stock of the state for the purpose of raising fun'ds 
 for stock inspection, stock protection and stock in- 
 demnity. 
 
 Jan. 31, 1917. Read first time. Referred to Com- 
 mittee No. 2. 
 
 Jan. 31, 1917. Referred to Printing Committee. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
 Wyoming. 
 
 Sec. 1. The following constitutional amendment 
 shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the 
 State of Wyoming at the next general election, for 
 their approval or rejection, and when ratified by a 
 majority of the voters voting at said election the 
 same shall be valid as a part of the constitution, 
 and shall be known as Section Fifteen of Article 
 Fifteen, to-wit: 
 
 "Sec. 15. It shall be lawful for the legislature to 
 provide for a special tax to be levied exclusively upon 
 all the live stock of the state for the purpoes of rais- 
 ins money to aid in stock inspection, stock protection 
 and stock indemnity." 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 19, 1917. 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 51 
 
 INDEX TO WYOMING STOCK LAWS. 
 
 bee. 
 
 Agistors and Stable Keepers 3 V 54 
 
 May Not. Use Animal Without Owner's 
 
 Consent 3755 
 
 Animals, Orueity to — 
 
 Definitions 3099 
 
 Diseased, Destruction of 309 5 
 
 Expenses for Care 3093 
 
 Fighting Animals for Sport, Penalty 3089 
 
 Fines, .Disposition of 3090 
 
 Food May Be Furnished 3088 
 
 Humane Society Members, Authority 3098 
 
 Humane Society Officers 3091 
 
 Humane teociety Officers' Certificates. ... 3097 
 
 Liens, How Enforced 3096 
 
 Lien on Animals Seized 3092 
 
 Must Be Fed While Impounded 3087 
 
 Penalty , 30S6 
 
 Arbitrators Shall Receive Pay 201 
 
 Beef Peddler's License 1 
 
 Failure to Obtain, Penalty for 2 
 
 Breachy Animals — 
 
 Damage by 2581 
 
 Notice to Owners 2582 
 
 Owner Unknown, Proceedings When 2o85 
 
 Proof and Judgment 2584 
 
 Retention of to Secure Payment 2583 
 
 Breeders' Liens — 
 
 Colt Shall Be Sold First 3776 
 
 Form of Notice 3772 
 
 Holder's Consent Necessary to Sell 3777 
 
 On Mare and Colt 3771 
 
 Possession May Be Taken by 3774 
 
 Precedence of Other Incumbrances 3773 
 
 Sale of Property Under 3775 
 
 Bulls — 
 
 Number Required 1 
 
 Service from Unlawfully, When 2624 
 
 Cattle — 
 
 Branded Only May Be Slaughtered 2615 
 
 Dehorning 3100 
 
 Inspection of, Road Brands 2707 
 
 Inspector, How Appointed 2709 
 
 "Neat" Denned 6040 
 
 Notice Requesting Inspection 2708 
 
 Owner Shall Pay Fees 2710 
 
 Penalty for Violation 2711 
 
 Claims- 
 Approved of. Arising from. Slaughter of 
 
 Diseased Animals 200 
 
 To Be Arbitrated When Rejected by Vet- 
 erinarian 203 
 
 Cruelty to Animals 5969 
 
 Dead Animals, Failure to Remove and Bury.. 5962 
 Dogs- 
 Loss of, Measure of Damages for 2721 
 
 Made Personalty 2720 
 
 May Not Chase Cattle 1 
 
 Running Live Stock 2622 
 
 Penalty for 2623 
 
 Drover — ■ 
 
 Denned _, 2611 
 
 Liability ' 2546 ' 
 
 Must Brand Stock 2612 
 
 Shall Keep Stock Separated 2613 
 
 Emergency Fund — • 
 
 Stock Diseases Chap. 42, 1917 
 
 Estrays; — ■ 
 
 Advertising of 5 
 
 Animals That Escape from Custody 10 
 
 Definition of 1 
 
 Duty of Person Shipping 2647 
 
 Funds from Sale Kept Separate 2648 
 
 Liability for Death 2681 
 
 Lists of 2649 
 
 Payment to Owner for Estray Sold 2650 
 
 Penalty for Not Reporting 9 
 
 Penalty for Taking Up 3 
 
 Proceeds of Sale of 7 
 
 Return to Owner, Manner of 4 
 
 Sale of 6 
 
 Stallions and Jacks 2680 
 
 Taker Up Must Hold 8 
 
 Unlawful to Ship 2655 
 
 Examination of Animals — Seizure of Diseased 199 
 
 False Pedigrees, Registration of 6021 
 
 Federal Co-Operation— 
 
52 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 Stock Diseases Chap. 100, 1917 
 
 Fences — 
 
 Destroying, Penalty for 2586 
 
 Lawful, Denned - 25 < 8 
 
 Lawful, l 1 ailure to Make 258 t 
 
 Partition, Maintenance of 2580 
 
 Plat of, County Surveyor Shall Pile 2592 
 
 Railroad Rights -of -Way 2593 
 
 Liaoility in Damages 25y4 
 
 Roads, on Public 2591 
 
 Unlawful, Liability for 2588 
 
 H.ay, Legal Measurement of 1 
 
 home rtMge, Unlawful to Drive from 2614 
 
 Horses and Mules — 
 
 Duty of Snippers 2 712 
 
 False Certificate, Penalty 2717 
 
 Felony for Failure to Inspect 2718 
 
 Inspection Fee Paid by Owner 2719 
 
 Inspectors Shall Be Sneriffs 2714 
 
 Liability of Railroads, Penalty 2713 
 
 iv_ust he Inspected 2715 
 
 Ownership, Duty of Sheriff 2716 
 
 . Unlawful Appropriation of 588u 
 
 Importation of Stock May Be Restricted 197 
 
 Inspection of Hides, Record of 3 
 
 Must Produce Record on Demand 4 
 
 Live Stock — ■ 
 
 Application for Inspection 4 
 
 County Inspector, Duties 3 
 
 How Appointed 7 
 
 Term of Office — Deputy 9 
 
 Qualifications 8 
 
 Duty of Inspector 5, 11, 438 
 
 False Certificates, Bribery 6 
 
 May Not Run at Large 1 
 
 Killing of 5870 
 
 Misbranding of 58o3 
 
 Must Be Inspected Before Shipment 1 
 
 Violations 2 
 
 Ownership of 6177 
 
 Protection of 3464 
 
 Salary of Inspector 12 
 
 Saie at Auction of 2839 
 
 Shipment Suspected May Be Held 13 
 
 stealing of 5832 
 
 Live Stock Commission — 
 
 Annual Meeting .2640 
 
 Appointed, How 2625 
 
 bond of Secretary 2636 
 
 Commissioner for Each Round-Up-District 2642 
 
 Compensation of Board 26o4 
 
 Duties 2639 
 
 Expense Shall Be Paid by Warrant 2646 
 
 Fees and Salaries, How Paid 2654 
 
 Incidental Expenses 2645 
 
 Inspection Fund 2643 
 
 Meetings- 2633 
 
 Number of Members 2 826 
 
 Oath of Office 2628 
 
 Officers of 2630 
 
 _ Quorum 2 632 
 
 Report Shall Be Made to Legislature 2652 
 
 Round-Up Districts 2641 
 
 Rules 263i 
 
 Salary of Secretary 1 
 
 Term of Office 2627 
 
 Term of Secretary 2637 
 
 Vacancies, How Filled 2629 
 
 Live Stock, Injury to — • 
 
 Company to Notify Owner- 4206 
 
 Owner Must Swear to Value 4207 
 
 Penalty 5870 
 
 Live Stock — ■ 
 
 Tax on — Const. Amendment Chap. 86, 1917 
 
 Neglect to Close Gates 5888 
 
 Ov ner Defined 2579 
 
 Ownership, Branding and Ranging — ■ 
 
 Brand Book, Secretary Shall Keep 2599 
 
 Disposition of Fees. 2 
 
 State Board Shall Publish 2605 
 
 Brand, Certified Copy of 2602 
 
 Evidence of Ownership 2 
 
 Unlawful for County Clerk to Record. 2603 
 Brand, Failure to Record Deemed Aban- 
 donment 2605 
 
 Brand. Fee for Re-Recording 2608 
 
 Brand, Location of 2 
 
 Franrt, Mav Be Assigned or Sold 2604 
 
 Brand, May Be Sold 2609 
 
Kreso Di 
 
 (Standardized) 
 
 The Dependable Dip 
 
 Easy to Use — Efficient — Economical. 
 FOR SHEEP AND ALL LIVE STOCK 
 
 KILLS SHEEP TICKS, 
 
 Lice, Mites, Fleas, Etc. 
 
 For the treatment of Sheep Scab, Mange, 
 Ringworm and other skin troubles. 
 
 Helps the rapid healing of Shear Cuts, 
 Scratches and Wounds. 
 
 A Dip That Does the Work Without Injury 
 to the Animal or Fleece. 
 
 No burning of the Wool Fibres, no Stain- 
 ing, no Poisoning, no Sickening. Lambs go 
 to the mother immediately after dipping. 
 
 Equally Good for AH Live Stock. A Sani- 
 tary Protection Against Hog Cholera 
 and Other Contagious Diseases. 
 
 Blacklegoids 
 
 A PROTECTION FOR CATTLE AGAINST 
 BLACKLEG. 
 
 No dose to measure. 
 
 No liquid to spill. 
 
 No string to rot. 
 
 Just a little pill of vaccine ready to inject 
 under the animal's skin. 
 
 Write for Free Instructive Booklets. r 
 
 Parke-Davis & Co. 
 
 Dept. Animal Industry 
 DETROIT MICH. 
 
54 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 Brand, Record, Copy of, Where 2600 
 
 Brand, Recording- Fee 2601 
 
 Brand, Record of 2610 
 
 Brand, Shall Be Re-Recorded 2607 
 
 Live Stock Defined 2597 
 
 Live Stock on Open Range Shall Be 
 
 Branded 2598 
 
 Property Used Without Owner's Consent. .5872 
 Stock Owner Defined 2596 
 
 Quarantine — ■ 
 
 Expense of 206 
 
 May Be Requested 205 
 
 Scab in Sheep 2691 
 
 Proclamation, Governor May Make 2692 
 
 Sheep — - 
 
 Compensation of Inspectors 2701 
 
 Imported, Must Be Dipped 2695 
 
 Infected, Unlawful to Bring Into State. . . .2693 
 
 Penalty 2694 
 
 Inspectors May Call for Assistance 2704 
 
 In Transit, Laws Governing 2696 
 
 Owners, Who Deemed s699 
 
 Action, Where Brought 2700 
 
 Scab Reports 2698 
 
 Traveling Permit- — Penalty .2697 
 
 Sheep Commission — 
 
 Appointment — Qualifications 2682 
 
 Districts — Inspection 2685 
 
 Expenses of Administration 2686 
 
 Expenses of Board 2688 
 
 'May Employ Attorneys 2705 
 
 Oath — Term of Office 2683 
 
 Organization — Secretary's Bond 2684 
 
 Report to the Governor 2687 
 
 Rules 27 02 
 
 Sheep Inspectors — Oath — Bond 2689 
 
 Bond May Be Sued Upon 2690 
 
 State Veterinarian May Be Asked to 
 
 Assist ' 2706 
 
 Stallions — 
 
 Castrating Unlawfully, Liability for 2621 
 
 May Be Taken Up, When 2620 
 
 May Not Run at Large 2619 
 
 Stallion Registration Law Chap. 112, 1917 
 
 State, Liability Limited 204 
 
 Stock Inspectors — 
 
 Appointment of 2656 
 
 Bond of 2657 
 
 Bribe, Penalty for Receiving 2659 
 
 Compensation of 2658 
 
 Reports Shall Be Made by 2662 
 
 To Be Furnished With Brand Record 2660 
 
 To Keep Record of Estrays 2661 
 
 Swine, Elk and Goats — 
 
 Impounded Animals May Be Sold 2668 
 
 Notice to Owner 2665 
 
 Penalty . 2664 
 
 Running at Large Unlawful 2663 
 
 Tuberculin Test Law Chap. 77, 1917 
 
 Veterinarian — ■ 
 
 Annual Report 196 
 
 Appointment — Qualification 190 
 
 Authority to Quarantine 193 
 
 Compensation 202 
 
 Diseased Animals to Be Slaughtered 194 
 
 Burning of Carcass 195 
 
 Deputy 202 
 
 Notice of Disease to — Penalty for Conceal- 
 ment 198 
 
 Report to Governor 207 
 
 Term of Office 191 
 
 REftUIRMENTS FOR IMPORTATION OF LIVE STOCK. 
 
 The shipment or movement of any live stock into 
 the State of Wyoming from any other state, not under 
 federal quarantine for foot-and-mouth or other dis- 
 eases, and also from the free area of any state as in- 
 dicated by the orders of the United States secretary of 
 agriculture, is hereby permitted (except cattle from 
 states hereinafter enumerated); provided all such 
 shipments are made in strict compliance with the or- 
 ders of the United States secretary of agriculture as 
 far as foot-and-mouth or other diseases are concerned; 
 and provided further, that all shipments are made in 
 compliance with the health regulations of the State 
 of Wyoming, as follows: 
 
 Horses. 
 
 Horses, mules and asses will be admitted into 
 
LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 55 
 
 the State of Wyoming from any state in the Union, 
 when accompanied by proper health certificate. 
 
 Shipments of horses, mules or asses will be al- 
 lowed to stop in the State of Wyoming, en route from 
 one state to another, through Wyoming, for feed, 
 water or rest, in transit, if such shipments comply 
 with the health regulations of the state of destination. 
 Cattle. 
 
 Neat cattle must be accompanied by a health cer- 
 tificate. All dairy cattle and all bulls must be ac- 
 companied by a health certificate, including the tuber- 
 culin test. All female cattle, registered or pure-bred, 
 over six months old, must be accompanied by health 
 certificate, including the tuberculin test. (Bulls under 
 six months old, health certificate.) 
 
 All cattle originating in the states of New York 
 and Wisconsin must be accompanied by FEDERAL, 
 health certificate and tuberculin test chart. 
 Swine, 
 
 All swine imported into the State of Wyoming- 
 must be accompanied by a certificate of health, show- 
 ing that they are free from all infectious, contagious, 
 or communicable swine diseases, or exposures there- 
 to, — certifying that no swine disease has existed in the 
 locality from which said shipment originates, within a 
 period of six months; otherwise certificates must show 
 that they have been immunized by the Dorset-McBride- 
 Niles serum alone method, not more than thirty days 
 prior to date of shipment, and dipped or sprayed in a 
 3% solution of cresol compound U. S. P. Railroad 
 stock yards are considered infectious and no hogs 
 yarded or loaded through them will be accepted into 
 the State of Wyoming for any purpose other than im- 
 mediate slaughter (48 hours). Hogs for immediate 
 slaughter will be accepted into this state when ac- 
 companied by a letter or telegraphic permit issued by 
 the state veterinarian. 
 
 Hogs which have been simultaneously treated may 
 come into this state after the expiration of at least 
 thirty days from time of administration of such treat- 
 ment, and health certificate must bear notation to this 
 effect. 
 
 HOG CHOLERA SERUM. 
 
 All anti hog-cholera serum sold within the State 
 of Wyoming, or imported into the state for sale, dis- 
 tribution or use, shall be produced under license 
 granted by the United States Department of Agricul- 
 ture, Bureau of Animal Industry. 
 
 HOG CHOLERA VIRUS 
 
 All serum manufacturers are hereby prohibited 
 from shipping any virulent blood or hog cholera virus 
 into the State of Wyoming, unless written permission 
 to do so is granted by the state veterinarian. 
 
 WHO MAY INSPECT OR TEST LIVE STOCK. 
 Horses, Cattle and Swine. 
 
 Federal veterinarians, state veterinarians, assist- 
 ant state veterinarians, deputy state veterinarians and 
 other veterinarians; provided they are graduates of 
 veterinary schools or colleges recognized by the 
 United States Bureau of Animal Industry and their 
 competence and reliability are certified to by the au- 
 thorities in charge of live stock sanitary control work 
 in the state of origin of shipment. 
 
 HEALTH CERTIFICATES AND TEST CHARTS. 
 
 All health certificates and test charts must be 
 made within thirty days of date of stock entering 
 state. They must be made, in triplicate; the original 
 must be attached to waybill of shipment; the duplicate 
 must be sent to the state veterinarian of the' state of 
 origin of shipment; and the triplicate must be sent to 
 the state veterinarian, Cheyenne, Wyoming, in time 
 to reach him before the arrival of stock. Tuberculin 
 test charts must show that at least three pre-injection 
 temperatures were taken — two or three hours apart — 
 and five after-injection temperatures — two hours 
 apart — beginning- ten hours after injection of tubercu- 
 lin. All health certificates and test charts must show- 
 that animals are free from all infectious, contagious 
 and communicable diseases. 
 
 Official — State veterinarian, Cheyenne, Wyo. 
 SHEEP. 
 
 Send 10 days' notice to secretary state board of 
 sheep commissioners, Cheyenne, Wyoming, inclosing 3 
 cents for each sheep and 25 cents for each buck. All 
 sheep to be dipped twice at destination within 15 days 
 after arrival in a dip prescribed or recognized by the 
 state board of sheep commissioners for scabies. 
 
56 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 Who may inspect. — Federal or state inspectors. 
 Official. — Secretary-treasurer state board of sheep 
 commissioners, Cheyenne, Wyo. 
 
 QUARANTINE PROCLAMATION 
 
 To prevent the importation into the State of Wyo- 
 ming', of dogs or other animals of the canine species, 
 which may be infected with disease rabies. 
 
 WHEREAS, The fact has been determined by the 
 state veterinarian and he has informed me that the 
 disease rabies is now known to exist in many of the 
 western states to an alarming extent, and 
 
 WHEREAS, There is danger of this disease being 
 introduced into Wyoming through importations of ani- 
 mals of the canine species: 
 
 NOW, THEREFORE, Under ,the provisions of 
 Chapter 21, Section 197, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 
 1910, and for the protection of human health and the 
 live stock interests of the State of Wyoming. IT IS 
 ORDERED That no dogs or other animals of the 
 canine species originating in any of tne following 
 named States may be shipped or otherwise imported 
 into Wyoming, while this quarantine proclamation is 
 in effect: — 
 
 THE STATES OF UTAH, NEVADA, ARIZONA, 
 IDAHO, WASHINGTON, OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Dogs or other animals of the canine species may 
 be shipped or otherwise imported into the State of 
 Wyoming from all states other than the above, and 
 from the territories and the District of Columbia, if 
 accompanied by a statement from a state or federal 
 health officer or any state or federal veterinarian, to 
 the effect that the disease rabies has not existed for 
 the past nine months within the county of origin of 
 shipment; and also by a statement from the owner or 
 shipper of the animal or animals that such animal or 
 animals are to the best of their knowledge, free from 
 disease and have been in the locality from which 
 shipped, since birth or for a period of at least nine 
 months, prior to date of shipment from such locality. 
 A copy of these statements must be forwarded to the 
 state veterinarian, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 
 
 This regulation does not apply to animals for 
 show purposes or performing animals for temporary 
 stay in Wyoming. 
 
 TO RAILROAD AND EXPRESS COMPANIES: — 
 These regulations are adopted by authority of Chap- 
 ter 21, Section 197, Wyoming Compiled Statutes,- 1910, 
 which provides a penalty for violation of a fine of not 
 less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000 for each offense 
 and a further liability for any loss or damages which 
 may be sustained by reason of the importation of such 
 prohibited animals. 
 
 This quarantine proclamation shall take effect 
 and be in force from and after the twenty-fifth day 
 of February, A. D. 1917, to and including the first day 
 of April, A. D. 1918, unless sooner revoked. 
 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my 
 hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wyo- 
 ming to be affixed at Cheyenne, this 17th day of Feb-, 
 ruarv. A. D. 1917. 
 
 (SEAL) JOHN B. KENDRICK, 
 
 Governor. 
 
 By the Governor: 
 "FRANK L. HOUX, 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 Address all communications to the state veteri- 
 narian, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 
 
 STUD BOOKS AND ASSOCIATIONS 
 
 Recognized by the state veterinarian, for state regis- 
 tration of stallions and jacks used or advertised for 
 public service in the State of Wyoming. 
 
 Belgian Draft: 
 
 Studbook des Cheveaux des Trait Beiges. 
 Societe le Cheval de Trait Beiges; Chevalier G. 
 Hynderick, secretary, Brussels, Belgium. 
 Clydesdale: 
 
 Clydesdale Horse Society of the United Kingdom 
 of Great Britain and Ireland; Archibald Mac- 
 Neilage, secretary, 93 Hop street, Glasgow, 
 Scotland. 
 French Draft: 
 
 Studbook des de Trait Francais. 
 
 Society des Agricultures de France; Henri Jpha- 
 net, secretary, 8 Rue d' Athenes, Paris. France. 
 Hackney: 
 
 Hackney Studbook. 
 
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 Hackney Horse Society; Frank P.- Euren, secre- 
 tary, 12 Hanover South London, W. England. 
 Percheron: 
 
 Studtaook Percheron de Prance. 
 
 La Societe Hippique Percheronne de Prance; E. 
 Lamarie, secretary, Nogent de Rotrou, France. 
 Shetland Pony: 
 
 Shetland Pony Studbook.. 
 
 Shetland Pone Studbook Society; R. W. Walker, 
 secretary, 3 Golden Sq., Aberdeen, Scotland. 
 Shire: 
 
 Shire Horse Studbook. 
 
 Shire Horse Society; J. Sloughgrove, secretary, 12 
 Hanover Sq., London, W. England. 
 Suffolk: 
 
 Suffolk Studbook. 
 
 Suffolk Horse Society; Fred Smith, secretary, Ren- 
 delsham, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. 
 Thoroughbred: 
 
 Australian Studbook; General Studbook. 
 W. C. Yuille & Sons, Melbourne, Australia; Weath- 
 erby & Sons, 6 Old Burlington street, London, 
 W. England. 
 Welsh Pony and Cob: 
 
 Welsh Pony and Cob Studbook. 
 
 The Welsh Pony and Cob Society; John R. Bache, 
 secretary, Knighton, Randnorshire, Wales. 
 Belgian Draft 
 Canadian. 
 
 Canadian National, Records; Secretary, Ottawa, 
 Canada. 
 Clydesdale: 
 National. 
 
 Canadian National, Records; Secretary, Ottawa, 
 Canada. 
 Hackney: 
 
 Records. 
 
 Canadian National, Records; Secretary, Ottawa, 
 Canada. 
 Shire': 
 
 Canadian National, Records; Secretary, Ottawa, 
 Canada. 
 Suffolk: 
 
 Canadian National, Records; Secretary, Ottawa, 
 Canada. 
 Welsh Pony and Cob: 
 
 Canadian National, Records; Secretary, Ottawa, 
 
 Canada. 
 The studbooks and signatures of the authorized 
 officers of the following American Horse and Jack 
 Pedigree Registration Associations, Societies or Com- 
 panies: 
 Arabian: 
 
 ' Studbook of the Arabian Horse Club of America. 
 Arabian Horse Club of America; H. K. Bush- 
 Brown, secretary, Newburgh, N. Y. 
 Belgian Draft: 
 
 American Register of Belgian Draft Horses. 
 American Association of Importers and Breeders 
 of Belgian Draft Horses; J. G. O'Connor Jr., 
 secretary, Wabash, Ind. 
 Cleveland Bay: 
 
 American Cleveland Bay Studbook. 
 (Cleveland Bay Society of America; R. P. Stericker, 
 secretary, Oconomowoc, Wis. 
 French Draft: 
 
 National Register of French Draft Horses. 
 National French Draft Horse Association of Amer- 
 ica; G. E. Stubbs, secretary, Fairfield, Iowa. 
 Clydesdale: 
 
 American Clydesdale. 
 
 American Clydesdale Association; R. B. Ogilvie, 
 secretary, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. 
 Hackney: 
 
 American Hackney Studbook. 
 
 American Hackney Horse Society; Gurney C. Gue, 
 secretary, 308 W. 97th street, New York City. 
 French Coach: 
 
 French Coach Studbook. 
 
 French Coach Society of America; Duncan E. Wil- 
 lett, secretary, Maple Ave. and Harrison 
 street, Oak Park, 111. 
 German Coach Oldenburg: 
 
 German Hanoverian and Oldenburg Coach Horse 
 
 Studbook. 
 German Hanoverian and Oldenburg Coach Horse 
 Association of America; J. Crouch, secretary, 
 Lafayette, Ind. 
 
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 LIVE STOCK LAWS, WYOMING 
 
 Jacks and Jennets: 
 
 American Jack Stock Studbook. 
 
 American Breeders' Association of Jacks and Jen- 
 nets; J. W. Jones, secretary, Columbia, Tenn. 
 Percheron: 
 
 The American Breeders' and Importers' Percheron 
 
 Register. 
 The American Breeders' and Importers' Percheron 
 Registry Company; John A. Forney, secretary, 
 Plainfield, Ohio. 
 Percheron: 
 
 Percheron Studbook of America. 
 
 Percheron Society of America; Wayne Dinsmore, 
 secretary, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. 
 Percheron: 
 
 Percheron Register. 
 
 The Percheron Registry Company; Chas. G. Glenn, 
 secretary, 1319 Wesley Ave., Columbus, Ohio. 
 Shetland Pony: 
 
 American Shetland Pony Club Studbook. 
 American Shetland Pony Club; Miss Pulia M. 
 Wade, secretary, Lafayette, Ind. 
 Shire: 
 
 American Shire Horse Studbook. 
 
 American Shire Horse Association; Chas. Burgess 
 Sr., secretary, Wenona, 111. 
 Suffolk: 
 
 American Suffolk Horse Studbook. 
 American Suffolk Horse Association; Alexander 
 Galbraith, secretary, DeKalb, 111. 
 Thoroughbred : 
 
 American Studbook. 
 
 The Jocky Club; W. H. Rowe, registrar, 571 Fifth 
 Avenue, New York City, N. Y. 
 Welsh Pony and Cob: 
 
 Welsh Pony and Cob Studbook. 
 
 The Welsh Pony and Cob Society of America; 
 John Alexander, secretary, Aurora, 111. 
 American Trotter: 
 
 American Trotting Register. 
 
 American Trotting Register Association; Wm. H. 
 Knight, secretary, 137 South Ashland boule- 
 vard, Chicago, 111. 
 Morgan: 
 
 American Morgan Register. 
 
 American Morgan Register Association; T. B. 
 Boyce, secretary, Middlebury, Vermont. 
 Saddle Horse: 
 
 American Saddle Horse Register. 
 American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association; i. 
 B. Hall, secretary, Louisville, Ky. 
 Jacks and Jennets: 
 
 Standard Jack Studbook. 
 
 Standard Jack (and Jennet Registry; Wm. K. 
 Morton, secretary, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
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