Time 1. Time deducted from term of 2. Time of taking effect. AN ACT relating to the sentences of persons convicted of crime and confined Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of SECTION 1. That all persons heretofore or hereafte from term of convicted of crime within this territory and sentence deducted sentence for good behavior. to be imprisoned therefor in the penitentiary, shall b entitled to such deduction for good behavior, from hi sentence, as is allowed by the laws of the state i which is situated the penitentiary in which he is con fined. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be i force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 6, 1897. SECTION. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. CHAPTER XXXI. QUARANTINE REGULATIONS. Sanitary commission named. Governor to proclaim line, or- Appointment of inspectors, their qualifications, duties and compensation. Authority and powers of inspector. 8. Inspector to enforce federal and territorial regulations, and to make inspections when notified. 9. Inspector's power to seize stock, to call sheriff to aid, and to enforce liens for charges against stock. 10. Power of sheriff to restrain stock in enforcement of sani- AN ACT to provide for the protection of domestic animals, for the creation Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of commission SECTION 1. That the agricultural and mechanical Sanitary college board of regents of the Territory of Oklahoma named. be, and the same are hereby constituted, ex-officio, the live stock sanitary commission of the Territory of Oklahoma. Whenever a vacancy in the membership of the agricultural and mechanical college board of regents shall occur by reason of death, resignation, expiration of term of, or removal from office, the person selected and appointed by the governor to fill said vacancy shall, upon qualifying as a member thereof, and during his term of office as such, be exofficio a member of the live stock sanitary commission of the Territory of Oklahoma. The chairman of said board of regents shall be chairman of said commission, and one of the members thereof shall be selected as secretary of said commission to act when sitting as such. Powers and meetings of board. Duties of board, and quarantine line described. SECTION 2. A majority of the members of said commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and shall have power while in session as an agricultural and mechanical college board of regents to transact any business before them within the provisions of this act, and in addition thereto, to hold meetings at any place within the Territory of Oklahoma, under the call of the chairman thereof: Provided, however, That in addition to the time allowed by law for meetings as the agricultural and mechanical college board of regents, said commission may meet at various times not to exceed twelve days in any one year, and shall receive as compensation when meeting as said live stock sanitary commission alone, five dollars per day and five cents per mile for every mile necessarily traveled in attending said meeting, to be paid out of the territorial treasury upon warrants drawn by the territorial auditor on the vouchers of said board. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the commission provided for in the first section of this act, to protect as far as practicable the live stock of this territory from all contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character, whether said disease exists in this territory or elsewhere, and for this purpose they are hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain and enforce such quarantine lines and lines established by law and to make sanitary rules and regulations as they may deem necessary, and tó provide rules and regulations for the enforcement and execution of the same, and to prevent the importation and exportation of diseased live stock and the spread of infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals. It shall also be the duty of said commission to co-operate with the live stock sanitary commissioners, boards and officers of other states and territories, and with the United States secretary of agriculture, in establishing such quarantine lines, rules and regulations as shall in their judgment best protect the live stock industry of this territory against contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character; said rules to be uniform with those of the secretary of agriculture of the United States in regard to the prohibited period, when it shall be unlawful to cross the quarantine lines established by the secretary of agriculture and by this act; and they are hereby empowered and authorized to make a thorough investigation as to the best manner of disinfecting animals, pens, shipping pens and railway cars that are liable to communicate or convey contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character to live stock, and to adopt such rules and regulations to enforce their disinfection as they may deem necessary. That the quarantine line of the Territory of Oklahoma is established as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a point where the Arkansas river crosses the Kansas state line; thence south along the Arkansas river to the northeast corner of the Ponca reservation; thence west along the north boundary line of the Ponca reservation to the Indian meridian; thence south on said Indian meridian, to the southwest corner of the Otoe and Missouri reservation; thence east, on a line between Noble county and said reservation, to the southeast corner of said reservation; thence north, on a line between said reservation and Pawnee county, to the Arkansas river; thence down said river to the north boundary line of the Creek nation; thence west along the line between the Creek nation and the Territory of Oklahoma to the northwest corner of the Creek nation; thence south, on a line between the Creek nation and the Territory of Oklahoma to the north fork of the Canadian river; thence west along the meanders of said river to the northwest corner of the Seminole nation; thence south on the boundary line between the Territory of Oklahoma and said Seminole nation to the South Canadian river; thence up along the the meanders of said river to the northeast corner of the Wichita reservation; thence up said river to the northwest corner of the Wichita reservation; thence south along a line between the Wichita reservation and Custer county and Washita county to the southeast corner of Washita county; thence west along the line between Washita county and the Kiowa and Comanche reservation to the north fork of the Red river; thence down and along said north fork of the red river to a point of confluence with the Red river; Governor to proclaim and rules fixed by board. thence up said Red river to a point where said Red river is intersected by the United States quarantine line. SECTION 4. When said commission shall have deline; orders termined quarantine lines and made rules and regulations to maintain and enforce the same to prevent the communicating or conveying of contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character to live stock within this territory as heretofore provided, the Governor of the Territory of Oklahoma, whenever advised and directed by said commission, shall issue his proclamation setting forth and proclaiming the boundary and location of said quarantine line or lines, the orders, rules and regulations so prescribed by said commission, and the issuance of said proclamation shall be due and public notice of its provisions, and no further notice or publication of the same shall be necessary. Districts formed, and inspectors assigned for each. Appointment of inspectors; cations, duties and compensation. SECTION 5. The said live stock sanitary commission shall divide the Territory of Oklahoma into three separate districts and define the boundaries thereof, and shall assign the inspectors appointed under this act, one to each respective district. Said inspectors shall have power to act throughout the Territory, and it shall be their duty to communicate any information or aid in any manner the inspectors of the other districts in the performance of their duties. Each inspector shall have a fixed or permanent address within his district, which said address, together with the boundaries of his district and the full name of the inspectors, shall be published in the proclamation of the Governor as herein before provided. SECTION 6. There shall be appointed by said comtheir qualifi- mission three live stock inspectors, one of same from each one of the three political parties of this territory, one to be a democrat, one a member of the peoples' party, or populist, and one a republican, and should the place of any inspector be made vacant by death, resignation, or otherwise, his successor shall be appointed from the same political party of which he was a member. They shall be qualified and learned in the diseases of domestic animals, and shall |