shall be appraised except those affected with contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character, or such as have been exposed thereto.

SEC. 9. [Quarantine - Proclamation of governor.] - When the agents shall have determined the quarantine and other regulations necessary to prevent the spread among domestic animals of any malignant, contagious, or infectious disease found to exist among the live stock of the state, and given its orders as herein before provided, prescribing quarantine and other regulations, they shall notify the governor thereof, who shall issue his proclamation proclaiming the boundary of such quarantine, and the orders, rules, regulations, prescribed by the live stock agents, which proclamation may be published by written or printed hand-bills, posted within the boundaries or on the lines of the district, premises, places or grounds, quarantined; Provided, That if the agents decide that it is not necessary by reason of the limited extent of the district in which such disease exists that a proclamation should be issued, then none shall be issued, but the agents shall give such notice as may to them seem best to make the quarantine established by them effective.

Sec. 10. [Employees-supplies.]-The agents provided for in this act shall have power to employ at the expense of the state such persons, and purchase such supplies and material as it may be necessary to carry into effect all orders by them given, as herein before provided; Provided, That no labor shall be employed, nor labor material or supplies purchased by the agents, except such labor material as may be necessary to carry into effect the experimentation, quarantine and other regulations prescribed by the live stock agents; And provided, further, The agents may in their discretion upon the recommendation of the veterinarian employ such expert's assistance as may from time to time, be required, and such assistant shall have power to execute all orders and instructions given them by the live stock agents.

SEC. 11. [Railways to disinfect cars.1-It shall be the duty of the railway corporations doing business in this state, to clean and disinfect the cars used by them in transporting stock in this state at such times and places, and in such manner as the live stock agents may designate, whenever in their opinion any such order may be necessary to prevent the spread of infectious or contagious diseases; and any such corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500), for each offense, to be recovered in civil action to be prosecuted under the directions of the attorney general, in the name of the state of Nebraska.

SEC. 12. [Payment for animals killed.]-When any animal or animals are killed under the provisions of this act by order of the agents, the owner thereof, shall be paid therefor the appraised value as fixed by the appraisement as herein before provided for; Provided, The rights of indemnity on account of animals killed, by order of the live stock agents, under the provisions of this act, shall not extend to the owner of animals which have been brought into the state in a diseased condition, or from a state, county, territory or district, in which the disease, with which the animal is infected, or to which it has been exposed, exists; nor shall any animal be paid for by the state which may have been brought into the state in violation of any law or quarantine regulation thereof, or the owner thereof shall have violated any of the provisions of this act, or disregarded any rule, regulation, or order of the live stock agents, or any member thereof; nor shall any animal be paid for by the state which came into the possession of the claimant with the claimant's knowledge that such animal was diseased, or was suspected of being diseased, or having been exposed to any contagious or infectious disease; nor shall any animal belonging to the United States be paid for by the state; Provided, further, That in no case shall compensation be allowed to the owner of any animal or animals, when by reasonable diligence, he, his proper agent, or employe, could have protected said animal or animals from being exposed, or to any owner who in person, or by agent, conceals the ex

istence of any contagious or infectious disease among his stock; And provided, further, That no remuneration shall be paid by the state for animals slaughtered for contagious or infectious disease, in any case where the owner or his representative is not the first to notify the proper authorities of the existence of such a disease or a suspicion of the same, among his stock; that no remuneration shall be paid for horses or mules found diseased or suspected of glanders, when such horse or mule have been imported into the state and have not been in the state over six months.

SEC. 13. [Duty of owner of animals.]-It shall be the duty of any owner or person in charge of any domestic animals, who discovers, suspects or has reason to believe that any of his domestic animals, or domestic animals in his charge, are affected with any contagious or infectious disease, to immediately report such fact, belief or suspicion to the live stock agents, or any member thereof and to the sheriff and county clerk of the county in which such domestic animal is found, and it shall be the duty of any person who discovers the existence of any contagious or infectious disease among the domestic animals of another, to report the same at once to the sheriff and county clerk of the county in which such domestic animal is found.

SEC. 14. [Duty of sheriff.-The sheriff to whom the existence of any infectious or contagious disease of domestic animals is reported, shall forthwith proceed to the place where such domestic animal is and examine the same, and forthwith report the result of such examination to the live stock agents or any member thereof, and shall prescribe such temporary quarantine regulation as will prevent the spreading of the contagion or infection, until the live stock agents can provide and order suitable quarantine rules and regulations. Said sheriff shall receive for such services mileage fees as in other cases, and in each case of quarantine ordered, a further fee of two dollars ($2.00), all of which fees shall be paid by the county where such services were rendered.

SEC. 15. [Importation of diseased animals.]-Any person who shall knowingly bring into this state any domestic animal which is affected with any contagious or infectious disease, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00), nor more than four thousand dollars ($4,000.00).

SEC. 16. [Obstructing officers in discharge of their duties.]— Any person who owns or is in possession of live stock which is, or which is suspected or reported to be affected with any infectious or contagious disease, who shall refuse to allow the veterinarian, or other authorized officer or officers, in any examination of, or in an attempt to examine such stock, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).

SEC. 17. [Running at large, etc.]-Any person who shall have in his possession any domestic animal affected with any contagious or infectious disease, knowing such animal to be so affected, or after having received notice that such animal is so affected, who shall permit such animal to run at large, or who shall keep such animal where other domestic animals, not affected by or previously exposed to such disease, may be exposed to its contagion or infection, or who shall sell, ship, drive, trade or give away such diseased animal or animals which have been exposed to such infection or contagion, or who shall move or drive away any domestic animal in violation of any direction, rule, regulation, or order establishing and regulating quarantine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined, in any sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each of such diseased or exposed domestic animals which he shall permit to run at large, or keep or sell, drive, trade or give away, in violation of the provisions of this act; Provided, That any owner of any domestic animal which has been affected with

or exposed to any contagious or infectious disease, may dispose of the same after having obtained from the veterinarian a bill of health for such animal.

SEC. 18. [Certificate for stock killed.]-When any live stock shall be appraised and killed by order of the live stock agents they shall issue to the owner of the live stock so killed a certificate showing the number, and kind, and general description of animals killed, and the amount to which holder is entitled, and report the same to the auditor of state, and upon presentation of such certificate to the auditor, he shall draw his warrant on the treasurer for the amount therein stated, payable out of any money appropriated for the live stock indemnity fund.

SEC. 19. [Live stock diseased-Transportation prohibited.]— Whenever the governor of the state shall have good reason to believe that any dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease has become epizootic in certain localities in other states or territories or counties, or that there are conditions which render such domestic animals from such infected districts liable to convey such disease, he shall by proclamation prohibit the transportation of any live stock of the kind diseased into the state, except under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the live stock agents; and all such animals arriving in this state shall be examined without delay by the veterinary surgeon, or the live stock agents.

SEC. 20. [Duties of owners of stock yards.]-The owners of any public stock yards doing business in this state, when requested by the live stock agents, shall appoint, and keep constantly in their employ, at their expense, a competent inspector of live stock, whose duty it shall be to daily inspect, with care, all animals brought into the stock yards, in whose employ any such inspector may be, under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the live stock agents; and upon the discharge by such inspector, in such yards, of any animals affected with any malignant, contagious or infectious disease, he shall direct the manner in which any such diseased animals shall be disposed of, so as to prevent the spread of any such contagious or infectious disease, and for this purpose may cause any such diseased animals to be killed and the carcasses to be disposed of at the expense of the owner thereof; but in no event shall any such diseased stock be permitted to be driven, or shipped out of any such stock yards, except to some rendering establishment, or other suitable place for killing or disposing of such diseased animal, as hereinbefore provided for, and then under such regulations and restrictions as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the disease, on account of which any such animals have been condemned; Provided, That the owner of any animal or animals, ordered to be destroyed by any inspector, shall have the right to appeal from any decision of such inspector to the veterinarian or live stock agents, and during the pendency of such appeal the condemned animals shall be kept in strict quarantine, unless the veterinarian shall decide such stock is not so diseased, then said expenses shall be paid by the owner of such stock yards; And provided further, That no compensation shall be made by the state to the owners of diseased live stock found in public stock yards, and destroyed as herein provided. The inspector of live stock in any public stock yards in this state shall, on demand of the owner of any live stock passing through any such stock yards, furnish to said owner a bill of health for any live stock by him inspected, as hereinbefore required, and found to be healthy.

SEC. 21. [Power of agents.]-The live stock agents, or veterinarian, shall have the power to call upon any sheriff, under sheriff, deputy sheriff, or constable, to execute their orders; and such officers shall obey the orders of said agents, or veterinarian, and the officers performing such duties as provided for by this act shall receive compensation therefor, prescribed by law for like services, to be paid as other expenses of said commission, as hereinbefore provided; and any officer may arrest without a warrant, and take before any magistrate of the

county, any person found violating the provisions of this act, and such officers shall immediately notify the county attorney of such arrest, and he shall prosecute the person so offending according to law.

SEC. 22. [Penalty.]-Except as otherwise provided in this act, any person who shall violate, disregard, or evade, or attempt to violate, disregard, or evade any of the provisions of this act, or who shall violate, disregard, or evade any of the rules, regulations, orders or directions of the live stock agents, establishing and governing quarantine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred ($100), nor more than five thousand ($5,000) dollars.

SEC. 23. [Taxes.]-There shall be levied and assessed upon the assessed value of all taxable property in the state in each year, one-fourth (4) of one (1) mill, on each and every dollar thereof, to be known as the live stock indemnity fund tax. Said tax to be assessed and collected in the same manner, and at the same time as is now or may be prescribed by law for the assessment and collection of state revenue.

SEC. 24. [Same.]-It shall be the duty of the county treasurers of the several counties to preserve the fund thus provided for as a separate fund, and to transmit the same as now required by law to the state treasurer, who shall keep the same in a fund to be known as the live stock indemnity fund.

SEC. 25. [Oaths and affirmations.]-For the purpose of this act each one of the live stock agents and the veterinarian is hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths and affirmations.

SEC. 26. [Co-operation with general government.]-That the live stock agents be authorized and directed to co-operate with the commissioner of agriculture of the United States, or any officer or authority of the general government in the suppression and extirpation of any and all contagious diseases among domestic animals, and in the enforcement and execution of any and all acts of congress to prevent the importation or exportation of diseased cattle, and the spread of infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals.

SEC. 27. [Limitation.]—The liability of the state for carrying out the provisions of this act in any two years is limited by, and shall in no case exceed the amount especially appropriated for that purpose and that period.

CHAPTER 5.-APPORTIONMENT-LEGISLATIVE.

SECTION 1. [Number.]--That the senate shall consist of thirty-three members and the house of representatives shall consist of one hundred members. [1887, CH. 5.1

SEC. 2. [Districts.]-That the state of Nebraska shall be formed into senatorial and representative districts, and senators and representatives shall be apportioned as follows:

SENATORIAL DISTRICTS.

District No. 1 shall consist of the counties of Richardson and Pawnee, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 2 shall consist of the counties of Nemaha and Johnson, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 3 shall consist of the county of Otoe, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 4 shall consist of the county of Cass, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 5 shall consist of the counties of Saunders and Sarpy, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 6 shall consist of the county of Douglas, and be entitled to three senators. District No. 7 shall consist of the counties of Cuming and Burt, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 8 shall consist of the counties of Dixon, Dakota, Knox, Cedar and Thurston, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 9 shall consist of

"An act to district the state into senatorial and representative districts, and for the apportionment of senators and representatives and to fix the number of the same, and to repeal sections 1 and 2 of chapter 5 of the compiled statutes of Nebraska." Took effect July 1, 1887. [Laws 1887, chap. 5.]

the counties of Antelope, Boone and Greeley, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 10 shall consist of the county of Washington and Dodge, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 11 shall consist of the counties of Wayne, Stanton, Madison and Pierce, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 12 shall consist of the counties of Platte and Colfax, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 13 shall consist of the counties of Holt, Garfield, Wheeler, and the unorganized territory north of Holt and Keya Paha, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 14 shall consist of the counties of Brown, Keya Paha, Cherry, Sheridan, Dawes, Box Butte and Sioux, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 15 shall consist of the counties of Custer, Valley, Loup and Blaine, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 16 shall consist of the counties of Buffalo and Sherman, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 17 shall consist of the counties of Hall and Howard, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 18 shall consist of the counties of Polk, Merrick and Nance, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 19 shall consist of the counties of Butler and Seward, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 20 shall consist of the county of Lancaster, and be entitled to two senators. District No. 21 shall consist of the county of Gage, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 22 shall consist of the county of Saline, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 23 shall consist of the counties of Jefferson and Thayer, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 24 shall consist of the counties of York and Fillmore, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 25 shall consist of the counties of Clay and Hamilton, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 26 shall consist of the counties of Nuckolls, Webster and Franklin, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 27 shall consist of the county of Adams, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 28 shall consist of the counties of Kearney, Phelps and Harlan, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 29 shall consist of the counties of Furnas, Red Willow, Hitchcock, Dundy, Gosper, Frontier, Chase and Hayes, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 30 shall consist of the counties of Dawson, Lincoln, Keith, Cheyenne, Logan and the unorganized territory west of Blaine and Logan, and be entitled to one senator.

REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS.

District No. 1, shall consist of the county of Richardson and be entitled to three representatives. District No. 2, shall consist of the county of Pawnee and be entitled to two representatives. District No. 3, shail consist of the county of Nemaha and be entitled to two representatives. District No. 4, shall consist of the county of Johnson and be entitled to one representative. District No. 5, shall consist of the counties of Nemaha and Johnson and be entitled to one representative. District No. 6, shall consist of the county of Otoe and be entitled to two representatives. District No. 7, shall consist of the county of Cass and be entitled to two representatives. District No. 8, shall consist of the counties of Cass and Otoe and be entitled to one representative. District No. 9 shall consist of the county of Sarpy and be entitled to one representative. District No. 10 shall consist of the county of Douglas and be entitled to nine representatives. District No. 11 shall consist of the county of Washington and be entitled to one representative. District No. 12 shall consist of the county of Burt and be entitled to one representative. District No. 13 shall consist of the counties of Burt and Washington and be entitled to one representative. District No. 14 shall consist of the county of Dodge and be entitled to two representatives. District No. 15 shall consist of the county of Cuming and be entitled to one representative. District No. 16 shall consist of the counties of Cuming, Dakota and Thurston and be entitled to one representative. District No. 17 shall consist of the counties of Wayne and Stanton and be entitled to one representative. District No. 18 shall consist of the county of Dixon and be entitled to one representative. District No. 19 shall consist of the counties of Cedar and Pierce and be entitled to