LAWS OF NEW YORK.—By Authority, 
[Every law, unless a different time shall be prescribed therein, shall commence 
and take effect throughout the State, on and not before the twentieth day after 
the day of its final passage, as certified by the Secretary of State. Sec. 12, title 4, 
chap. 7, part 1, Revised Statutes.] 
Chap. 53. 
AN ACT to provide for the destruction of animals affected 
with the disease known as glanders. 
Approved by the Governor March 14, 1888. Passed, three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
Assembly do enact as follows: 
Section 1. It shall be the duty of the local boards of health in this 
State to destroy, or cause to be destroyed, all animals found within 
their jurisdiction affected with the disease called glanders. The pro- 
ceedings of said boards of health under this act shall be controlled 
and directed by such rules and regulations as the State Board of Health 
shall from time to time prescribe. 
§ 2 This act shall take effect immediately. 
state of New Yoke, 
Office of the Secretary of State, 
ss.: 
I have compared the preceding with the original law on die in this office, and 
do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole 
of said original law. • 
FREDERICK COOK, 
Secretary of State.