[Form 46 B]—6-1-1886-1000 
HEALTH LAWS 
OF THE 
STATE OF IOWA, 
COMPILED BY THE 
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 
1SS6. STATUTORY REGULATIONS. 
STATE BOABD OF HEALTH. 
[Chapter 151, Laws of 1880.] 
An Act to establish a State Board of Health in the State of Iowa, to provide for collecting vital statist- 
ics, and to assign certain duties to local boards of health, and to punish neglect of duties. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, 
That the Governor, with the approval of the executive council, shall appoint 
nine (9) persons, one of whom shall be the Attorney-General of the State (by 
virtue of his office), one a civil engineer, and seven (7) physicians, who shall 
constitute a State board of health. The persons so appointed shall hold 
their offices for seven (7) years; provided, that the term of office of the seven 
physicians first appointed shall be so arranged by lot that the term of one shall 
expire on the thirty-first (31st) day of January of each year; and that vacan- 
cies thus occasioned, as well as all other vacancies otherwise occurring, shall 
be filled by the Governor, with the approval of the executive council. 
Sec. 2. The State board of health shall have the general supervision of 
the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the State. They shall 
have charge of all matters pertaining to quarantine; they shall supervise a 
State registration of marriages, births and deaths, as hereinafter provided; 
they shall have authority to make such rules and regulations and such san- 
itary investigations as they may from time to time deem necessary for the 
preservation or improvement-of the public health; and it shall be the duty of 
all police officers, sheriffs, constables, and all other officers of the State, to en- 
force such rules and regulations, so far as the efficiency and success of the 
board may depend upon their official co-operation. 
Sec. 3. The clerk of the district and circuit courts of each of the several 
counties in the State shall be required to keep separate books for the regis- 
tration of the names and post-office address of physicians and midwives, for 
births, for marriages, and for deaths, which record shall show the names, date 
of birth, death or marriage; the names of parents and sex of the child when a 
birth; and when a death, shall give the age, sex and cause of death, with the 
date of the record and the name of the person furnishing the information. 
Said books shall always be open for inspection without fee; and the clerks of 
said courts shall be required to render a full and complete report of all births, 
marriages and deaths to the secretary of the board of health annually on the 
first day of October of each year, and at such other times as the board may 
direct. [For which service the clerk shall receive, in addition to the compensa- 
tion already allowed him by law, the sum of ten cents for each birth, marriage 
or death so recorded by him, and the further sum of ten cents for each one 4 
hundred words of written matter contained in said report, the same to be paid 
out of the county fund.]—Chapter 140, Section 1, Laws 1882. 
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the board of health to prepare such forms 
for the record of births, marriages and deaths as they may deem proper; the 
said forms to be furnished by the secretary of said board to the clerks of the 
district and circuit courts of the several counties, whose duties it shall be to 
furnish them to such persons as are herein required to make reports. 
Seo. 5. It shall be the duty of all physicians and midwives in this State to 
register their names and postoffice address with the clerk of the district and 
circuit courts of the county where they reside; and said physicians and mid- 
wives shall be required, under penalty of ten dollars ($10), to be recovered in 
any court of competent jurisdiction in the State at suit of the clerk of the 
court, to report to the clerk of the courts, within thirty (80) days from the date 
of their occurrence, all births and deaths which may come under their super- 
vision, Avith a certificate of the cause of death, and such other facts as the 
board may require, in the blank forms furnished, as hereinafter provided. 
Sec. 6. When any birth or death shall take place, no physician or midwife 
being in attendance, the same shall be reported by the parent to the clerk of the 
district and circuit courts within thirty days from the date of its occurrence, 
and if a death, the supposed cause of death, or, if there be no parent, by the 
nearest of kin not a minor; or, if none, by the resident householder where the 
birth or death shall have occurred, under penalty provided in the preceding 
section of this act. Clerks of the district and circuit courts shall annually, on 
the first day of October of each year, send to the secretary of the state board 
of health a statement of all births and deaths recorded in their offices for the 
year preceding said date, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars ($25) in case of 
failure. 
Sec. 7. The coroners of the several counties shall report to the clerk of the 
courts all cases of death which may come under their supervision, with the 
cause or mode of death, etc., as per form furnished, under penalty as provided 
in section 5 of this act. 
Sec. 8. All amounts recovered under the penalties of this act shall be ap- 
propriated to a special fund for carrying out the objects of this law. 
Seo. 9. The first meeting of the board shall be within twenty days after its 
appointment, and thereafter in May and November of each year, and at such 
other times as the board shall deem expedient. The November meeting shall 
be in the city of Des Moines. A majority of the members of the board shall 
constitute a quorum. They shall choose one of their number to be President, 
and shall adopt rules and by-laws for their government, subject to the provis- 
ions of this act. 
Sec. 10. They shall elect a secretary; who shall perform the duties pre- 
scribed by the board and by this act. He shall receive a salary, which shall be 
fixed by the board, not exceeding SI,200 per annum. He shall with the other 
members of the board, receive actual traveling and other necessary expenses 
incurred in the performance of official duties; but no other member of the 
board shall receive a salary. The president of the board shall [monthly*] cer- 
tify the amount due the secretary, and on presentation of said certificate the 
*As amended by Chapter 173, Acts of 20th G. A. 5 
Auditor of State shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer of [for] the 
amount. 
Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the board of health to make a biennial re- 
port, through their secretary or otherwise, in writing, to the Governor of the 
State, on or before the first (1st) day of December of each year preceding that 
in which the General Assembly meets; and such report shall include so much 
of the proceedings of the board, such information concerning vital statistics, 
such knowledge respecting diseases, and such instruction on the subject of hy- 
giene as may be thought useful by the board, for dissemination among the peo- 
ple, with such suggestions as to the legislative action as they may deem neces- 
sary. 
Sec. 12. The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, or so much 
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the salary of the 
secretary, meet the contingent expenses of the office of secretary and the ex- 
penses of the board, and all costs of printing, which together shall not exceed 
the sum hereby appropriated. Said expenses shall be certified and paid in the 
same manner as the salary of the secretary. The Secretary of State shall pro- 
vide rooms suitable for the meetings of the board and office room for the sec- 
retary of the board. 
Sec. 13. The mayor and aldermen of each incorporated city, the mayor and 
council of any incorporated town or village in the State, or the trustees of any 
township, shall have and exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of a 
board of health within the limits of the cities, towns and townships of which 
they are officers. 
Sec. 14. Every local board of health shall appoint a competent physician to 
the board, who shall be the health officer within the jurisdiction and shall hold 
his office during the pleasure of the board. The clerks of the townships and 
the clerks and recorders of cities and towns, shall be clerks of the local 
boards. The local boards shall also regulate all fees and charges of persons 
employed by them in the execution of the health laws and their own regula- 
tions. 
Sec. 15. It shall be the duty of the health physician of every incorporated 
town, and also the clerk of the local board of health in each city or incorpo- 
rated town or village in the State, at least once a year to report to the State 
board of health their proceedings and such other facts required on blanks 
and in accordance with instructions received from said State board. They 
shall also make special reports whenever required to do so by the State board 
of health. 
Sec. 16. Local boards of health shall make such regulations respecting 
nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness within their jurisdiction and 
on board any boats in their ports or harbors as they may judge necessary for 
the public health and safety; and if any person shall violate any such regula- 
tions he shall forfeit a sum of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) for every 
day during which he knowingly violates or disregards said rules and regula- 
tions, to be recovered before any justice of the peace or other court of compe- 
tent jurisdiction. 
Sec. 17. The board of health of any city or incorporated town or village 
shall order the owner of any property, place or building (at his own expense) 
to remove any nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness found on private 6 
property, within twenty-four (24) hours, or such other time as is deemed reas- 
onable after notice served as hereinafter provided; and if the owner or occu- 
pant neglects to do so, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars ($20) 
for every day during which he knowingly and wilfully permits such nuisance 
or cause of sickness to remain after the time prescribed for the removal 
thereof. 
Sec. 18. If the owner or occupant fails to comply with such order, the 
board may cause the nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness to be re- 
moved, and all expenses incurred thereby shall be paid by the owner, occupant 
or other person who caused or permitted the same, if he has had actual notice 
from the board of health of the existence thereof, to be recovered by civil ac- 
tion in the name of the State before any court having jurisdiction. 
Sec. 19. The board, when satisfied upon due examination that any cellar, 
room, tenement, or building in its town, occupied as a dwelling place has be- 
come by reason of the number of occupants, or want of cleanliness, or other 
cause, unfit for such purpose, and a cause of nuisance or sickness to the occu- 
pants or the public, may issue a notice in writing to such occupants, or any of 
them, requiring the premises to be put in a proper condition as to cleanliness, 
or, if they see fit, requiring the occupants to remove or quit the premises with- 
in such time as the board may deem reasonable. If the persons so notified, or 
any of them, neglect or refuse to comply with the terms of the notice, the board 
may cause the premises to be properly cleaned at the expense of the owners, or 
may remove the occupants forcibly, and close up the premises, and the same 
shall not again be occupied, as a dwelling place, without permission in writing 
of the board. 
Sec. 20. Whenever the board of health shall think it necessary for the pres- 
ervation of the lives or health of the inhabitants to enter a place, building or 
vessel in their township, for the purpose of examining into and destroying, re- 
moving or preventing any nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness, and 
shall be refused such entry, any member of the board may make complaint, 
under oath, to any justice of the peace of his county, whether such justice be a 
member of the board or not, stating the facts of the case, so far as he has 
knowledge thereof. Such justice shall thereupon issue a warrant, directed to 
the sheriff or any constable of the county, commanding him to take sufficient 
aid, and being accompanied by two or more members of said board of health, 
between the hours of sunrise and sunset, repair to the place where such nuis- 
ance, source of filth, or cause of sickness complained of may be, and the same 
destroy, remove, or prevent, under the direction of such members of the board 
of health. 
Sec. 21. When any person coming from abroad, or residing within any city, 
town or township within this State, shall be infected, or shall lately have been 
infected with small-pox, or other sickness dangerous to the public health, the 
board of health of the city, town or township where said person may be, shall 
make effectual provision, in the manner in which they shall judge best, for the 
safety of the inhabitants, by removing such sick or infected person to a sepa- 
rate house, if it can be done without damage to his health, and by providing 
nurses and other assistance and supplies, which shall be charged to the person 
himself, his parents or other person who may be liable for his support, if able, 
otherwise at the expense of the county to which he belongs. 7 
Sec. 22. If any infected person cannot be removed without damage to his 
health, the board of health shall make provision for him, as directed by the 
preceding section, in the house in which he may be, and in such case they may 
cause the persons in the neighborhood to be removed, and may take such other 
measures as may be deemed necessary for the safety of the inhabitants.* 
Sec. 23. Any justice of the peace, on application, under oath showing cause 
therefor by a local board, or any member thereof, shall issue his warrant, under 
his hand, directed to the sheriff or any constable of the county, requiring him, 
under the direction of the board of health, to remove any person infected with 
contagious diseases, or to take possession of condemned houses and lodgings, 
and to provide nurses aDd attendants, and other necessaries for the care, safety 
and relief of the sick. 
Sec. 24. Local boards of health shall meet for the transaction of business 
on the first Monday of May and the first Monday in November of each year, 
and at any other time that the necessities of the health of their respective 
jurisdictions may demand, and the clerk of each board shall transmit his an- 
nual report to the secretary of the State board of health within two weeks after 
the November meeting. Said report shall embrace a history of any epidemic 
disease which may have prevailed within his district. The failure of the clerk 
of the board to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and forward such report as 
above specified, shall be considered a misdemeanor, for which he shall be sub- 
ject to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars ($25.) 
Sec. 25. All laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. 
ADULTERATION OF FOOD, DRINK, AND MEDICINE. 
An Act to Prevent and Punish the Adulteration of Articles of Food, Drink, and Medicine, and the 
sale thereof when adulterated. 
[Chapter 170, Laws Nineteenth General Assembly.] 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, 
That no person shall mix, color, stain, or powder, or order, or permit any other 
person to mix, color, stain, or powder any article of food with any ingredient 
or material so as to render the article injurious to health with the intent that 
the same may be sold, and no person shall sell or offer for sale any such articles 
so mixed, colored, stained, or powdered. 
Sec. 2. No person shall, except for the purpose of compounding, jin the 
necessary preparation of medicine, mix, color, stain, or powder, any drug or 
medicine with any ingredients or material so as to affect injuriously the quality 
or potency of such drug or medicine, with the intent to sell the same, or shall 
*The statute, however, above cited [Secs. 21 and 22], makes it the imperative duty of the local board 
of health to provide for such person, regardless of his settlement, and if no county can be charged there 
is no provision in the statute in question for the payment of their expenses. It appears to us that where 
there is no settlement the sick or i nfected person must be deemed to belong to the eounty where the re- 
lief becomes necessary. ****** In our opinion, they are to be construed as if the provisions 
of both sections had been embraced in one section, and the provision as to charging had been placed at 
the close. If we are correct, then the sick person is properly chargeable with all the expenses which 
may properly be incurred under either section, including the expenses of removal, if that is adopted, 
and the expense of isolation, if that is adopted; and we think that the county is ultimately liable for the 
same, if the sick person, and those 1 iable for his support, are unable to pay.—Supreme Courts City of 
Clinton v. County of Clinton, June, 1883. 8 
offer for sale any such drug or medicine so mixed, colored, stained, or powdered. 
Sec. 3. No person shall mix, color, stain, or powder any article of food, 
drink, or medicine, or article which enters into the composition of food, drink, 
or medicine, with any other ingredient or material, whether injurious to health 
or not, for the purpose of gain or profit, or sell or offer for sale, the same, or 
order or permit any other person to sell or offer for sale any article so mixed, 
colored, stained, or powdered, unless the same be so manufactured, used or 
sold, or offered for sale, under its true and appropriate name, and notice that 
the same is mixed or impure is marked, printed, or stamped upon each pack- 
age, roll, parcel, or vessel containing the same, so as to be and remain at all 
times readily visible, or unless the person purchasing the same is fully in- 
formed by the seller of the true names of the ingredients (if any than such as 
are known by the common name thereof) of such articles of food, drink, or 
medicine, at the time of making the sale thereof, or offering to sell the same. 
Provided, nothing in this section shall prevent the use of harmless coloring 
material used in coloring butter and cheese. 
Sec. 4. No person shall mix any glucose, or grape sugar with syrup or 
sugar intended for human food; any cheese manufactured from skim milk, or 
from milk that is partly skimmed, shall be branded as skimmed milk cheese, 
when the same is offered for sale ; or any oleomargarine, suine, beef fat, lard, or 
any other foreign substance, with any butter or cheese intended for human food; 
or shall mix or mingle any glucose, grape sugar, or oleomargarine with any 
article without distinctly marking, stamping, or labeling the article or the 
package containing the same, with the true and appropriate name of such art- 
icle, and the percentage in which glucose or grape sugar, oleomargarine, or 
suine, enters into its composition. Nor shall any person sell, or offer for sale, 
or permit to be sold or offered for sale, any such food, into the composition of 
which glucose or grape sugar, oleomargarine, or suine has entered, without at 
the same time informing the buyer of the fact, and the proportions in which 
glucose or grape sugar, oleomargarine, or suine, has entered into the composi- 
tion. 
Sec. 5. Any person or persons convicted of violating any of the provisions 
of any of the foregoing sections of this act, shall for the first offense be fined 
not less than ten dollars ($10), nor more than fifty dollars ($50). For the 
second offense they shall be fined not less twenty-five [dollars] ($25) nor more 
than ©ne hundred dollars ($100), or confined in the county jail not more than 
thirty days. And for the third, and all subsequent offenses, they shall be fined 
not to exceed five hundred (500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), 
and imprisonment [ed] in the State prison not less than one year nor more than 
five years. 
Sec. 6. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act 
are hereby repealed. 
Approved, March 25, 1882. 
Sec. 4086. If any person fraudulently adulterate, for the purpose of sale, 
any drug or medicine, in such manner as to lessen the efficacy, or change the 
operation of such drugs or medicine, or to make them injurious to health ; or 
sell them knowing that they are thus adulterated, he shall be punished by im- 9 
prisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding 
five hundred dollars, and such adulterated drugs and medicines shall be for- 
feited and destroyed.—Code of 1873. 
Sec. 4037. If any person fraudulently adulterate, for the purpose of sale, 
any substance intended for food, or any wine, spiritous or malt liquor, or other 
liquor intended for drinking, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the 
county jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding three hundred 
dollars, and the article so adulterated shall be forfeited and destroyed.—Code 
of 1873. 
Sec. 4038. If any apothecary, druggist or other person, sell and deliver any 
arsenic, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid, or any poisonous liquid or substance, 
without having the word “ poison ” and the true name thereof written or print- 
ed upon the label attached to the vial, box or parcel containing the same, he 
shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty, 
or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. Any person who may dispose of 
at retail, any poisonous substance or liquid to any one, for any purpose, is here- 
by required to enter in a book, to be kept by such apothecary, druggist or oth- 
er person so disposing, the name of the poison, when bought, by whom, and for 
what purpose; and if the person who calls for such poison is not personally 
known to the vendor, then such person shall be identified by some one known 
to the vendor, whose name shall also be entered in such book. Any failure to 
comply with the requirements of this provision shall subject the party so fail- 
ing to imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days, or a fine not 
exceeding one hundred dollars.—Code of 1873, 
Sec. 4040. If any person wilfully sell, or keep for sale intoxicating, malt or 
vinous liquors, which have been adulterated or drugged by admixture with any 
deleterious or poisonous substance, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and 
upon conviction thereof, he shall be punished by a tine not exceeding five hundred 
dollars, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding two years.— 
Code of 1873. 
FRAUDULENT BUTTER AND CHEESE. 
[Chapter 52, Laws of 1886.] 
An Act to prevent deception in the manufacture and sale of imitations of Butter and Cheese. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. That for the purposes of this act every article, substance or 
compound other than that produced from pure milk or cream from the same 
made in the semblance of butter and designed to be used as a substitute for 
butter made from pure milk or cream from the same is hereby declared to be 
imitation butter; and that for the purposes of this act every article, substance 
or compound other than that produced from pure milk or cream from the same 
made in the semblance of cheese and designed to be used as a substitute for 
cheese made from pure milk or cream from the same is hereby declared to be 
imitation cheese; provided that the use of salt, rennet, and harmless matter 
for coloring the product of pure milk or cream, shall not be construed to ren- 
der such product an imitation. Sec. 2. Each person who manufactures imitation butter or imitation cheese 
shall mark by branding, stamping or stenciling upon the top and sides of each 
tub, firkin, box or other package in which such article shall be kept and in 
which it shall be removed from the place where it is produced, in a clear and dura- 
ble manner, in the English language, the name of the contents thereof as herein 
designated, in printed letters of plain Roman type each of which shall be not 
less than one inch in length by one-half of one inch in width. Every person 
who by himself or another violates the provisions of this section shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined 
not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county 
jail not to exceed sixty days. 
Sec. 3. No person by himself or another shall knowingly ship, consign or 
forward by any carrier whether public or private any imitation butter or imita- 
tion cheese, unless the same be marked as provided by section two of this act; 
and no carrier shall knowingly receive for the purpose of forwarding or trans- 
porting imitation butter or imitation cheese, unless it shall be marked as 
hereinbefore provided, consigned, and by the carrier receipted for by its name 
as designated by this act; provided that this act shall not apply to any goods 
in transit between foreign States and across the State of Iowa. 
Sec. 4. No person shall knowingly have in his possession or under his con- 
trol any imitation butter or imitation cheese unless the tub, firkin, box or other 
package containing the same be clearly and durably marked as provided by 
section two of this act; provided, that this section shall not be deemed to ap- 
ply to persons who have the same in their possession for the actual consump- 
tion of themselves or family. 
Sec. 5. No person by himself or another shall knowingly sell or offer for 
sale imitation butter or imitation cheese under the name of, or under the pre- 
tense that the same is pure butter or pure cheese; and no person by himself or 
another shall knowingly sell any imitation butter or imitation cheese unless he 
shall have informed the purchaser distinctly at the time of the sale, that the 
same is imitation butter or imitation cheese as the case may be and shall have 
delivered to the purchaser at the time of the sale a statement clearly printed in 
the English language which shall refer to the article sold and which shall con- 
tain in prominent and plain Roman type the name of the article sold as fixed 
by this act and shall give the name and place of business of the maker. 
Sec. 6. No keeper of a hotel, boarding house, restaurant or other public 
place of entertainment shall knowingly place before any patron for use as food 
any imitation butter or imitation cheese unless the same be accompanied by a 
placard containing the name in English of such article as fixed by this act, 
printed in plain Roman type. Each violation of this section shall be deemed a 
misdemeanor. 
Sec. 7. No action, can be maintained on account of any sale or other con- 
tract made in violation of or with intent to violate this act by or through any 
person who was knowingly a party to such wrongful sale or other contract. 
Sbo. 8. Every person having possession or control of any imitation butter 
or imitation cheese which is not marked as required by the provisions of this 
act shall be presumed to have known during the time of such possession or 
control the true character and name as fixed by this act of such imitation pro- 
duct. Sec. 9. Whoever shall deface, erase, cancel or remove any mark provided 
for by this act with intent to mislead, deceive or to violate any of the provis- 
ions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
Sec. 10. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of the third, fourth and 
fifth sections of this act shall, for the first offense, be punished by a fine of not 
less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonmen t 
not exceeding thirty days, and for each subsequent offense shall be punished 
by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hun- 
dred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days nor 
more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion 
of the court. 
Sec. 11. The governor shall within thirty days from the taking effect of this 
act by and with the advise [advice] and consent of the executive council ap- 
point an officer who shall be known as the State Dairy Commissioner, who 
shall have practical experience in the manufacture of dairy products, the term 
of office of such commissioner shall commence on the first day of May, A. D. 
1886, and shall continue two years. Said commissioner shall give an official 
bond conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office in the 
sum of ten thousand dollars with sureties to be approved by the governor. 
He may be removed from office by the governor with the approval of the exec- 
utive council for neglect or violation of duty. Any vacancy shall be filled by 
the appointment of the governor by and with the advice and consent of the ex- 
ecutive council. 
Sec. 12. The State dairy commissioner shall receive a salary of fifteen hun- 
dred dollars per annum, payable monthly, and the expenses necessarily incurred 
in the proper discharge of the duties of his office, provided that a complete 
itemized statement of all expenses shal] be kept by the commissioner and by 
him filed with the auditor of state after having been duly verified by (him) 
before receiving the same. He shall be furnished a room in the agricultural 
department of the capitol at Des Moines, in which he shall keep his office and 
all correspondence, documents, records and property of the State pertaining 
thereto all of which shall be turned over to his successor in office. He may, if 
it is found to be necessary, employ a clerk whose salary shall not exceed the 
sum of fifty dollars per month. Said salaries and expenses to be paid from 
the appropriation provided for in section seventeen of this act. The commis- 
sioner provided for by this act shall hold no other official position under the 
laws of Iowa or a professorship in any of the State institutions. 
Sec. 13. It shall be the duty of the State dairy commissioner to secure, so 
far as possible, the enforcement of this act. He shall collect, arrange and pre- 
sent in annual reports to the governor on or before the first day of November 
of each year, a detailed statement of all matters relating to the purposes of this 
act, which he shall deem of public importance, including the receipts and dis- 
bursements of his office, such reports shall be published with the reports of the 
State agricultural society. 
Sec. 14. The State dairy commissioner shall have power in all cases where 
he shall deem it important for the discharge of the duties of his office, to ad- 
minister oaths, to issue subpoenas for witnesses and to examine them under 
oath, and to enforce their attendance to the same extent and in the same man- ner as a justice of the peace may now do, and such witnesses shall be paid by 
the commissioner the same fees now allowed witnesses in justices’ courts. 
Sec. 15. Whoever shall have possession or control of any imitation butter or 
imitation cheese contrary to the provisions of this act shall be construed to 
have possession of property with intent to use it as a means of committing a 
public offense within the meaning of chapter 50 of title XXV, of the code; 
provided, that it shall be the duty of the officer who serves a search warrant is- 
sued for imitation butter or imitation cheese, to deliver to the State dairy com- 
missioner or to any person by such commissioner authorized in writing to re- 
ceive the same, a perfect sample of each article seized by virtue of such war- 
rant, for the purpose of having the same analyzed and forthwith to return to 
the person from whom it was taken, the remainder of each article seized as 
aforesaid. If any sample be found to be imitation butter or imitation cheese 
it shall be returned to and retained by the magistrate as, and for, the purpose 
contemplated by section 4648 of the code, but if any sample be found not to be 
imitation butter or imitation cheese, it shall be returned forthwith to the 
person from whom it was taken. 
Sec. 16. It shall be the duty of the court in each action for the violation of 
this act to tax as costs in the cause, the actual and necessary expense of anal- 
yzing the alleged imitation butter or imitation cheese which shall be in contro- 
versy in such proceeding provided that the amounts so taxed shall not exceed 
the sum of twenty-five dollars. It shall be the duty of the district or county 
attorney upon the application of the dairy commissioner, to attend to the pros- 
ecution in the name of the State of any suit brought for violation of any of 
the provisions of this act within his district, and in case of conviction he shall 
receive twenty-five per cent of the fines collected, which shall be in addition to 
any salary he may receive to be taxed as costs in the case. 
Sec. 17. There is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act the sum 
of twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as shall be necessary, not more 
than one-half of which shall be drawn from the State treasury prior to the 
first day of July, A. D. 1887. The amount hereby appropriated shall be ex- 
pended only under the direction and with the approval of the executive coun- 
cil. And all salaries, fees, costs and expenses of every kind incurred in the 
carrying out of this law shall be drawn from the sum so appropriated. 
Sec. 18. Chapter 39 of the acts of the Eighteenth General Assembly of Iowa, 
and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 19. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect 
and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and 
Iowa Homestead, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. 
Approved March 27, 1886. 
Sec. 4036. If any person knowingly sell to another, or knowingly deliver or 
bring to be manufactured, to any cheese or butter manufactory in this State 
any milk diluted with water; or in any way adulterated; or milk from which 
any cream has been taken, or milk commonly known as “ strippings ” with in- 
tent to defraud, or shall knowingly sell the milk, the product of a diseased ani- 
mal or aiJlmals, or shall knowingly use any poisonous or deleterious material 
in the manufacture of cheese or butter, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be 
fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred 
dollars, and be liable in double the amount of damages to the person or per- sons, firm, association, or corporation, upon whom such fraud shall be commit- 
ted.—Code of 1873. 
FRAUDULENT CANNED GOODS. 
[Chapter 174, Laws of Twenty-First General Assembly ] 
An Act in Relation to Canned or Preserved Food. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ioiva: 
Section 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful in this State for any packer of or 
dealer in hermetically sealed, canned or preserved fruits, vegetables, or other 
articles of food to knowingly offer such canned or preserved articles for sale 
for consumption in this State after October 1st, 1886, unless the cans or jars 
which contain the same shall bear the name, address and place of business of 
the person, firm or corporation that canned or packed the articles so offered, or 
the name of the wholesale dealer in the State who sells or offers the same for 
sale; together in all cases with the name of the State, city, town or village, 
where the same were packed, plainly printed thereon, preceded by the words 
“ Packed at,” such name, address and place of business shall be plainly printed 
on the label, together with a mark or term indicating clearly the grade or qual- 
ity of the articles contained therein. 
Sec. 2. All packers of and dealers in soaked goods or goods put up from 
products dried or cured before canning shall, in addition to complying with 
provisions of section one of this act, causes to be plainly branded on the face 
of the label in good legible type, one half of an inch in heighth and three- 
eighths of an inch in width the word “ soaked.” 
Sec. 3. All goods packed prior to the passage of this act are exempted from 
the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 4. Any packer or dealer who shall violate any of the provisions of this 
act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not 
more than fifty dollars for each offense in the case of retail dealers, and in case 
of wholesale dealers and packers by a fine of not less than five hundred dol- 
lars nor more than one thousand dollars for each offense. The term “ Packer ” 
and “ Dealer,” as used in this act, shall be deemed to include any firm or cor- 
poration doing business as a dealer in or packer of the articles mentioned in this 
act. It shall be the duty of any board of health in this State, cognizant of 
any violation of this act, to inform the district attorney whose duty it shall 
be to institute proceedings against any person who is charged with a violation 
of the provisions of this act, and in case of conviction shall receive twenty- 
five per cent, of the fines actually collected which shall be in addition to any 
salary he may now receive under the law. 
Sec. 5. The provisions of this act shall not apply to canned or condensed 
milk or cream. 
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect October first, eighteen hundred and eighty- 
six. 
Approved April 13, 1886. FKAUDULENT LARD. 
[Chapter 137, Laws of 1880.] 
An Act to Prevent Fraud in the Sale of Lard in Certain Cases. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, 
That all persons or associations who shall engage in the business of selling 
lard rendered from swine that have died of hog-cholera, or other diseases, 
shall, before selling, or offering to sell any such lard, plainly stamp, print, or 
write upon the cask, barrel, or other vessel containing such lard, the words 
“lard from hogs which have died from disease”; or, if sold without such cask, 
barrel, or other receptacles, the purchaser shall be informed that the lard is 
fromhogs which have died of disease. 
Sec. 2. For a violation of the provisions of the foregoing section, the of- 
fender shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than five 
dollars, nor exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail 
not exceeding thirty days. 
PROTECTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 
Section 4035. If any person knowingly sell any kind of diseased, cor- 
rupted, or unwholesome provisions, whether for meat or drink, without mak- 
ing the same fully known to the buyer, he shall be imprisoned in the county 
jail not more than thirty days, or by fine not exceeding one hunlred dollars. 
[Chapter 10, Title 24, Code of 1873.] 
Sec. 4039. If any person inoculate himself or any other person, or suffer 
himself to be inoculated with small-pox within this State, or come within the 
State with the intent to cause the prevalence, or spread of this infectious dis- 
ease, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than 
three years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment 
in the county jail not exceeding one year. [Or if any person shall place, or, 
put or aid or abet, in placing or putting any person upon any railroad car, 
steamboat, or other public conveyance, knowing such person to be infected 
with diphtheria, small-pox, or scarlet fever, he shall be punished by a fine of 
not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not 
more than thirty days.] Code of 1873 as amended by Chap. 102, Laws of 1884. 
Sec. 4041. If any person throw, or cause to be thrown, any dead animal in- 
to any river, well, spring, cistern, reservoir, stream or pond, he shall be punish- 
ed by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten nor more than thirty 
days, or by fine not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars.—Code of 
1873. 
Sec. 1539. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give away, by agent 
or otherwise, any spiritous or other intoxicating liquors, including wine or beer 
to any minor for any purpose whatever, unless upon the written order of his 
parent, guardian or family physician, or to sell the same to any intoxicated 
person, or to any person who is in the habit of becoming intoxicated.—Code of 
1873. 15 
Sec. 4064. If any person run any threshing machine in this State without 
having two lengths of tumbling-rods next the machine, together with the 
knuckles, or joints and jacks of the tumbling-rods safely boxed and secured 
while the machine is running, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and be punished by fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, for 
every day or part of a day he shall violate this section ; and any person who 
shall knowingly, permit either his own grain, or any that may be in his pos- 
session, or under his control, to be threshed by a machine the rods, knuckles, 
or joints of which are not boxed in accordance with the requirements of this 
section, shall be liable to a like fine, as that prescribed for the person running 
such machine, both of which fines may be recovered in an action brought be- 
fore a court of competent jurisdiction.—Code of 1873.—(1) 
No person shall place in any of the waters of this State any lime, ashes, drug, 
or medicated bait, with intent thereby to injure, poison, or catch fish. Any 
person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than five 
or more than fifty dollars for the first offense, and for the second, or any subse- 
quent offense, not less than twenty dollars, and shall stand committed until 
such fine be paid.—Sec. 8, Chap. 50, Laws 1874. 
Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of any person owning or operating steam boil- 
ers in this State, to provide such boilers with steam guage, safety-valve, and 
water-guage, and keep the same in good order. 
Sec. 2. Any person neglecting to comply with the provisions of this act 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not 
less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.—Chapter 14, Laics of 1874. 
Sec. 3869. If any person, with intent to produce the miscarriage of any 
pregnant woman, willfully administer to her any drug, or substance whatever, 
or with such intent use any instrument, or other means whatever, unless such 
miscarriage shall be necessary to save her life, he shall be imprisoned in the 
State prison for a term not exceeding five years, and be fined in a sum not 
exceeding one thousand dollars. (2).—Code of 1873, as amended by Cliap. 19, 
Laws of 19th General Assembly. 
Sec. 3877. If any person mingle any poison with any food, drink, or medi- 
cine, with intent to kill or injure any human being, or willfully poison any 
spring, well, cistern, or reservoir of water, he shall be punished by imprison- 
ment in the penitentiary not exceeding ten years, and by fine not exceeding 
ten thousand dollars.—Code of 1873. 
(1) This statute does not change the rule that a plaintiff cannot recover for injuries resulting from 
the negligence of another person, if his own negligence in any degree contributed directly to the injury. 
32 Iowa 14b. 
(2) To cause death by abortion is in this State murder, independent of as well as under the statute, 
though there was no intent to cause the death ol the woman. 
The crime of attempting to produce miscarriage of a pregnant woman, is complete if the attempt is 
made at any time during pregnancy. 
The jurisdiction is with the county in which the medicine intended to produce the miscarriage was 
administered, and not in that where the miscarriage took place —23Iowa, 128; 36 Iowa. 112; 4b Iowa, 
2bo, [Chapter 78, Laws of Twentieth General Assembly.] 
An Act to Prohibit the Selling or Giving Fire Arms to Minors. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
TOY PISTOLS. 
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, pre- 
sent or give any pistol, revolver or toy pistol to any minor. 
Sec. 2. Any violation of this act shall be punishable by a fine of not less 
than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the 
county jail of not less than ten nor more than thirty days. 
Approved March 29,1884. 
EFFECT OF ALCOHOL AND STIMULANTS UPON THE HUMAN 
SYSTEM. 
An Act to Provide for the Teaching and Study of Physiology and Hygiene with special reference to 
the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants and Narcotics upon the Human System, in the Public 
Schools and Educational Institutions of the State. 
[Chapter 1, Laws of 1886,] 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. That physiology and hygiene, which must in each division of 
the subject thereof include special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, 
stimulants and narcotics upon the human system, shall be included in 
the branches of study now and hereafter required to be regularly taught to 
and studied by all pupils in common schools and in all normal institutes, and 
normal and industrial schools and the schools at the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, 
and Home for Indigent Children. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of all boards of directors of schools and of 
boards of trustees, and of county superintendents in the case of normal insti- 
tutes, to see to the observance of this statute and make provision therefor and 
it is especially enjoined on the county superintendent of each county that he 
include in his report to the superintendent of public instruction the manner 
and extent to which the requirements of section one of this act are complied 
with in the schools and institutes under his charge, and the secretary of school 
boards in cities and towns is especially charged with the duty of reporting to 
the superintendent of public instruction as to the observance of said section 
one hereof, in their respective town and city schools, and only such schools 
and educational institutions reporting compliance, as above required, shall re- 
ceive the proportion of school funds or allowance of public money to which 
they would be otherwise entitled. 
Seo. 3. The county superintendent shall not after the 1st day of July, 1887, 
issue a certificate to any person who has not passed a satisfactory examination 
in physiology and hygiene with especial reference to the effects of alcoholic 
drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the human system, and it shall be the 
duty of the county superintendent as provided by section 1771 to revoke the 
certificate of any teacher required by law to have a certificate of qualification 
from the county superintendent if the said teacher shall fail or neglect to com- 
ply with section one of this act, and said teacher shall be disqualified for teach- 
ing in any public school for one year after such revocation, and shall not be 
permitted to teach without compliance. 
Approved February 17, 1886. BARBED WIRE AROUND SCHOOL HOUSES. 
An Act to Prohibit the Use of Barb Wire in Enclosing Public School Grounds. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
[Chap. 103, Laws of 1884.] 
Section 1. It is hereby made the duty of the board of directors of every 
independent district, and of every district township, to remove before the first 
day of September, 1884, any barb wire fence enclosing in whole or in part any 
public school grounds in such district, and it is also made the duty of any per- 
son owning or controling any barbed wire fence within ten feet of any public 
school grounds to remove the same within the time herein named. 
Sec. 2. Hereafter barb wire shall not be used in enclosing in whole or in 
part any public school building or the grounds upon which the same may 
stand ; and no barbed wire shall be used for a fence or other purpose within 
ten feet of any public school grounds. 
Sec. 3. For failure or neglect on the part of any board of directors of any 
independent district or of any district townships to carry out the provisions of 
this act any member of such board shall be fined on conviction not exceed- 
ing twenty-five dollars, any person violating the provisions of this act shall on 
conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
Approved March 29, 1884. 
TO PREVENT RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. 
[Chapter 148, Laws of 1876.] 
An Act to Diminish Liability to Railroad Accidents, and to Punish Interference with, and Injury to, 
the Property of Railroad Companies: 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
If any person shall throw any stone, or any other substance of any nature 
whatever, or shall present or discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire-arm at 
any railroad train, cars or locomotive engine, he shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and be punished accordingly. 
Sec. 2. If any person not employed thereon, or not an officer of the law 
in the discharge of his duty, without the consent of the person having the 
same in charge, shall get upon, or off, any locomotive engine or car of any 
railroad company, while said engine or car is in motion; or elsewhere than at 
the established depots of such company, or who shall get upon, cling to, or 
otherwise attach himself to any such engine or car, for the purpose of riding 
upon the same, intending to jump therefrom when such engine or car is in 
motion, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by fine not 
exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. 
[Chapter 112, Laws of 1882.] 
An Act to Further Diminish Liability to Railroad Accidents, etc. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
If any person shall wilfully and maliciously uncouple or detach the locomo- 
tive or tender, or any of the cars of any railroad train, or shall in any manner 
aid, abet or procure the doing of the same, such person shall be punished by 
imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding five years, or by fine not 
exceeding one thousand dollars, or both, at the discretion of the court. Sec. 2. If any person shall unlawfully seize upon any locomotive, with, or 
without any express, mail, baggage, or other car attached thereto, and run the 
same upon any railroad, or shall aid, abet or procure the doing of the same, 
such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not 
exceeding ten years, or by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both, at 
the discretion of the court. 
Sec. 3. If any person shall, without permission from the proper authority, 
wrongfully take, or run any hand-car upon any railroad in this State, he shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and od conviction thereof shall be fined 
not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days 
at the discretion of the court; provided, that if by such unlawful use of any 
hand-car, any locomotive or car is thrown from the track, or a collision be pro- 
duced, or any person injured thereby, he shall on conviction, be imprisoned in 
the penitentiary for a term of not more than five years; and provided further, 
that if by reason of such unlawful use of any hand-car, any person is killed, 
such person, so offending shall be deemed guilty of manslaughter. 
Sec. 4. If any person, not an employe upon the railroad shall wrongfully 
interfere with any automatic brake or bell rope upon any railroad car, or use 
the same for the purpose of stopping or in any way controlling the movement 
of the train [he] shall be subject to the penalty provided in section three of this 
act for the unlawful running of a hand-car on any railroad; and any railroad 
conductor or brakeman on a railroad train shall have power to arrest such per- 
son so offending, and deliver him to some peace officer on the line of the rail- 
road. 
[Chapter 104, Laws of 1884.] 
An Act Concerning Bells and Steam Whistles on Locomotives. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. That a bell and a steam whistle shall be placed on each locomo- 
tive engine operated on any railway in this State, and said whistle shall be 
twice sharply sounded at least sixty rods before a highway crossing is reached, 
and after the sounding of the whistle the bell shall be rung continuously until 
the crossing is passed; provided, that at street crossings within the limits of 
incorporated cities or towns, the sounding of the whistle may be omitted unless 
required by the council of the city or town, and the company shall also be lia- 
ble for all damages which shall be sustained by any person by reason of such 
neglect. 
Sec. 2. Every officer or employe of any railroad company who shall violate 
any of the provisions of this act, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one 
hundred dollars for each offense. 
Approved March 29, 1884. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa 
[Chapter 163, Laws of 1884.J 
Section 1. All trains run upon any railroad in this state, which intersects 
or crosses, or is intersected or crossed, by any other railroad upon the same 
level, shall be brought to a full stop at a distance not less than two hundred 
feet, nor more than eight hundred feet from the point of intersection or cross- 
ing of such road, before such intersection or crossing is passed by any such 
train. Sec. 2. Every engineer violating the provisions of the preceding section 
shall for each offense forfeit one hundred dollars to be recovered in an action 
in the name of the State of Iowa, for the benefit of the school fund, and the 
corporation on whose road such offense is committed, shall forfeit for each of- 
fense so committed, the sum of two hundred dollars to be recovered in a like 
manner. 
Approved April 5,1884. 
REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. 
An Act to Regulate the Practice of Medicine and Surgery in the State of Iowa. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
[Chapter 104, Laws of 1886.] 
Section 1. That every person practicing medicine, surgery or obstetrics, in 
any of their departments, within this state, shall possess the qualifications re- 
quired by this act. If a graduate in medicine such person shall present his or 
her diploma to the state board of examiners, for verification as to its genuine- 
ness. If the diploma is found genuine, and is issued by a medical school legal- 
ly organized and of good standing, of which the State board of examiners 
shall determine, aud if the person presenting and claiming such diploma be 
the person to whom the same was originally granted, then the State board of 
examiners shall issue its certificates to that effect signed by not less than five 
physicians thereof, representing one or more physicians of the schools on the 
board, and such certificate shall be conclusive as to right of the lawful holder 
to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics within this State. If not a graduate 
the person practicing medicine or surgery within this State, unless he or she 
shall have been in continuous practice in this State for a period of not less 
than five years, of which he or she shall present to the State board of examin- 
ers satisfactory evidence in the form of affidavits, shall appear before said State 
board of examiners, and submit to such examination as said board may re- 
quire. All examinations shall be conducted in writing, and all examination 
papers, together with the reports, and action of the examiners thereon, shall be 
preserved as the records of said board for a period of five years, during which 
time they shall remain open for inspection at the office of the said State board 
of examiners. Such examinations shall be in anatomy, physiology, general 
chemistry, pathology, therapeutics and the principles and practice of medicine, 
surgery and obstetrics. Provided, that each applicant upon receiving from the 
secretary of the board an order for an examination shall receive also a confi- 
dential number, which he or she shall place upon his or her examination papers 
so that when said papers are passed upon by the examiners, the latter shall not 
know by what applicant said papers have been prepared. That upon each day 
of examination all candidates be given the same set or sets of questions. It is fur- 
ther provided that the examination papers shall be marked upon the scale of one 
hundred (100), and that in order to secure a license it shall be necessary for the 
applicant to attain such average as shall hereafter be determined by the State 
board of examiners, and if such examination be satisfactory to at least five 
physicians of said board, representing the different schools of medicine on the 
board, the board shall issue a certificate which shall entitle the lawful holder 
thereof to all the rights and privileges herein provided, and the physicians and the secretary of the State board of health shall constitute and be deemed a 
board of examiners for the purpose of this act. 
Sec. 2. The State board of examiners shall procure a seal within sixty days 
after the passage of this act, and through the secretary of said board shall re- 
ceive applications for certificates and examinations. The president, or any 
member of the board, shall have the authority to administer oaths and take 
testimony in all matters relating to their duties as examiners aforesaid. The 
board shall provide three forms of certificates; one for persons in possession of 
genuine diplomas, one for candidates examined by the board, and one for per- 
sons who have practiced medicine or surgery in any of its departments for five 
years as provided in this act. Said certificates shall be signed by not less than 
five physicians of the board, and this number may act as an examining board 
in the absence of the full board: Provided that one or more members of the 
different schools of medicine represented in the State board of health shall 
also be represented in the board of examiners. The board of examiners shall 
hold meetings at such places as will best accommodate applicants residing in 
different portions of the State, and at any such time as they shall deem best, 
and due notice of the time and place of such meetings shall be published. 
Sec. 3. The board shall examine all diplomas submitted to them for such 
purpose to determine their genuineness and the rightful ownership of the per- 
son presenting the same. The affidavit of the applicant and holder of any di- 
ploma that he or she is the person therein named, and is the lawful possessor 
thereof, shall be necessary to verify the same, with such other testimony of [as] 
the board may require. Diplomas and accompanying affidavits may be presented 
in person or by proxy. If the diploma shall be found genuine, and in possess- 
ion of the person to whom it was issued, the State board of examiners shall, 
upon the payment of a fee of two dollars, to the secretary of the board, issue a 
certificate to the holder of such diploma, and no further fee or sum shall be 
demanded or collected from said applicant by said board for such certificate. 
If the diploma shall be found to be fraudulent, or not lawfully in possession 
of the holder or owner thereof the person presenting such diploma or holding 
or claiming possession thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
on conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not 
less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
Sec. 4. Every person holding a certificate issued by the State board of exam- 
iners, shall, within sixty days after the date of such certificate, have the same 
recorded in the office of the county recorder in the county wherein he resides, 
and should he remove from one county to another to practice medicine, sur- 
gery or obstetrics, his certificate must be recorded in the county to which he 
removes. The county recorder shall endorse upon the certificate the date of 
record, and he shall be entitled to charge and receive a fee of fifty cents for his 
services, the fee to be paid by the applicant. 
Sec. 5. The county recorder shall record in a book provided for that pur- 
pose, a complete list of the certificates presented for record, and the date of 
their issue by the State board of examiners. If the certificate is issued by rea- 
son of a diploma, the name of the medical college conferring the same, and the 
date when conferred shall be recorded; and when such certificate shall have 
been granted upon the examination of the board, or because of five years’ practice in the State, such fact shall be recorded. Said records shall be open 
for inspection during business hours. 
Sec. 6. Candidates for examination shall pay in advance to the secretary of 
the State board of examiners, a fee of ten dollars, which fee, together with the 
fees received for certificates, shall defray the entire expense of the aforesaid 
board of examiners, and the balance shall be turned over to the State treasurer 
for the benefit of the school fund, except such an amount as will pay each 
member of the board ten dollars ($10) per day during the time he is in actual 
attendance upon the session of the said board for the purpose of performing 
the duties required of him under this act, and, as will pay the secretary of the 
board such a salary as they may allow, not to exceed five dollars per day dur- 
ing the time he is actually engaged io performing the work of the board under 
this act, and each member of the board of examiners shall also receive a suffi- 
cient amount to defray his actual and necessary expenses while in the dis- 
charge of the duties herein provided. Any one failing to pass the required 
examination shall be entitled to a second examination within twelve months 
without fee, provided that any applicant for examination by notice in writing 
to the secretary shall be entitled to ah examination within three months from 
the time of said notice and a failure to give such opportunity, shall entitle such 
applicant to practice without the certificate required by this act until the next 
regular meeting of said board. 
Sec. 7. The State board of examiners may refuse to grant a certificate to 
any person who has been convicted of a felony committed in the practice of his 
profession or in connection therewith or may revoke certificates for like cause, 
or for palpable evidence of incompetency, and such refusal or revocation shall 
prohibit such person from practicing medicine, surgery or obstetrics, provided, 
such refusal or revocation of a certificate can only be made with the affirmative 
vote of at least five physicians of the state board of examiners, in which num- 
ber shall be included one or more members of the different schools of medi- 
cine represented in said board; and provided further, that the standing of a 
legally chartered medical college, from which a diploma may be presented, shall 
not be questioned except by a like vote. 
Sec. 8. Any person shall be deemed as practicing medicine, surgery or ob- 
stetrics or to be a physician -within the meaning of this act, who shall publicly 
profess to be a physician, surgeon or obstetrician, and assume the duties, who 
shall make a practice of prescribing or of prescribing and furnishing medi- 
cines for the sick, or who shall publicly profess to cure or heal, by any means 
whatsoever, but nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit students 
of medicine, surgery or obstetrics from prescribing under the supervision of 
preceptors, or gratuitous service in case of emergency, nor shall this act extend 
to prohibit women who are at this time engaged in the practice of midwifery 
nor to prevent the advertising, selling or prescribing natural mineral waters 
flowing from wells or springs nor shall this act apply to surgeons of the United 
States army or navy, marine hospital service, nor to physicians as defined here- 
in who have been in practice in this State for five consecutive years, three years 
of which time shall have been in one locality; provided, such physician shall 
furnish the State board of examiners satisfactory evidence of such practice, 
and shall procure the proper certificate, as provided in this act, and 
for which certificate such physician shall pay the secretary of the State board 
of examiners a fee of two dollars, and said board shall issue to the applicant such certificate, nor shall this apply to registered pharmacists when filling 
prescriptions, nor shall it be construed to interfere with the sale of patent or 
proprietary medicines in the regular course of trade. 
Sec. 9. Any person who shall practice medicine or surgery within this State, 
without having complied with the provisions of this act, and who is not em- 
braced in any of the exceptions or after being prohibited from so doing as pro- 
vided in section 7 of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
shall on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor 
more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than ten days nor more than thirty days. 
Sec. 10. Any person who shall file, or attempt to file, with the State board 
of examiners, as his or her own, the diploma of another person, or who shall 
file, or attempt to file with the county recorder the certificate of another per- 
son, as his or her own, or who shall file or attempt to file a diploma or certifi- 
cate with the true name erased therefrom and the claimant’s name inserted, or 
who shall file or attempt to file any forged affidavit or identification, shall be 
deemed guilty of the crime of forgery. 
Seo. 11. The penalties, as provided in this act, or violations thereof, shall 
not be enforced prior to first day of January, A. D. 1877. 
Sec. 12. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re- 
pealed. . 
DRAINS, DITCHES AND WATER COURSES. 
Sec. 1207. The board of supervisors of any county having a population of 
five thousand inhabitants, as shown by the last preceding census, may locate 
and cause to be constructed ditches or drains, or change the direction of any 
water-course in such county, whenever the same will be conducive to the pub- 
lic health, convenience, or welfare.—Code of 1873. [This section was amended 
by the Seventeenth General Assembly, so as to authorize the drains to pass 
through two or more counties, and the appointment of commissioners from 
each county. The Eighteenth General Assembly further amended the law, 
providing that the work should be done under the supervision of a competent 
engineer.! 
[Chapter 139, Laws of 1886.] 
An Act to Repeal Section 1214, Chapter 2, Title 10 of the Code, in relation to Drains and Ditches and 
to Enact a Substitute therefor. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. That section 1214 of chapter 2, title 10 of the Code, be and the 
same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof. 
Sec. 1214. Whenever any such ditch, drain or change in the direction of 
any water course, shall have been located and established, as provided in the 
preceeding section, or when it shall be necessary, to cause any such ditches, 
drains or water courses to be reopened and repaired, the auditor shall commis- 
sion and appoint six disinterested freeholders of the county, not interested in 
a like question, who shall within twenty days after such appointment, person- 
ally inspect and classify as “dry,” “low,” “wet” or “swamp,” all land benefit- 
ted by the location and construction of such ditch, drain or water course, or 
the repairing or reopening of the same and shall make an equitable apportion- 23 
ment of the cost, expenses, costs of construction, fees and compensation for 
property appropriated or damages sustained by the construction of any such 
ditch, drain, change of direction of such water course or of repairing and re- 
opening the same and make report thereof in writing to the board of super- 
visors, which apportionment shall accrue and be assessed among the owners of 
the land benefitted by the location, construction or the reopening and repair- 
ing of such ditch, drain or water course, in proportion to the benefit to each of 
them through along the line or in the vicinity of whose lands the same may 
be located, constructed or reopened and repaired respectively and the same 
may be levied upon the lands of the owners so benefitted, in said proportions 
and collected in the same manner that other taxes are levied and collected for 
county purposes and the amounts so assessed and collected shall be paid out 
of the county treasury, from the funds collected for that purpose on the order 
of the county auditor and said commissioners shall receive for each day’s ser- 
vice when so engaged, two dollars to be paid out of the funds so collected. 
Any such ditch, drain or water course, which is now or may hereafter be con- 
structed, so as to prevent the surplus and overflow waters from the adjacent 
land from entering the same, is hereby declared a nuisance and the same may 
be abated as provided in title 20, chapter 5, of the Code of Iowa, and the 
diverting, obstructing, impeding or filling up of such drains, ditches, or water 
courses in any manner by any person, without legal authority is hereby de- 
clared a nuisance and any person convicted of such crime, shall be punished as 
provided in title 24, chapter 15, of the Code for the punishment of nuisances. 
Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed so as to prohibit any land 
owner from appealing from the order of the board in assessing his land, for 
any of the purposes mentioned in this section, to the circuit court of the 
county, in the same manner that appeals are taken in the location of highways, 
nor shall the same be construed so as to prohibit the maintenance of an action 
for the recovery of any taxes erroneously or wrongfully assessed, for any of the 
purposes mentioned in this section and in order to show that such assesss- 
ment was erroneous or wrongful, it shall only be necessary to prove that such 
lands so assessed were not benefitted by the location, construction or main- 
tenance, of such ditch, drain or water course. 
An Act to allow Underground Tile Drain across Public Highway, and Defining the Du: ies of Road 
Supervisors relative to the same, and Repeal Section 1225, Chapter 2, Title 10, of Code of Iowa. 
[Chapter 55, Laws of 1886,] 
Be it enacted try the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. When any water course or natural drain crosses any public 
highway in the State of Iowa, and the adjoining or abutting land owner wishes 
to cross said highway with an underground tile drain for an outlet, or to con- 
nect with another underground tile drain, they shall notify the road super- 
visor having supervision over that public highway to be crossed, in writing, 
specify the depth of drain and size of tile to be used in crossing said highway, 
and give the road supervisor twenty days time to construct said underground 
tile drain. 
Sec. 2. When the road supervisor receives said written notice, he shall order 
said underground tile drain constructed across said highway, and pay for the 
tile and construction of the same out of any money or fund in his command. Sec. 3. If the supervisor fails to construct said underground tile drain with- 
in the twenty days time, then the abutting or adjoining land owner may go 
upon the highway and construct said underground tile drain across said high- 
way, and he shall receive pay for constructing the same, including tile used in 
crossing said highway, out of any money or fund belonging to such road dis- 
trict, provided he shall leave the highway in as good condition as it was before 
the drain was constructed. 
Sec. 4. That section 1225, chapter 2, title 10, of the Code of Iowa, is hereby 
repealed. 
Approved March 30, 1886. 
STATE MINE INSPECTORS. 
[Chapter 104, Laws of 1886.] 
An Act to.repeal sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Chapter 21, Acts of the Twentieth General Assembly, 
and Enact Substitutes therefor Providing for Mine Inspectors, their Manner of Appointment, com- 
pensation and Defining their Duties and Terms or Office. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. That there shall be appointed by the governor with the a Ivice 
and consent of the senate, three inspectors of mines who shall hold their office 
for two years. The said inspectors subject however to be removed by the gov- 
ernor for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. Said term of office shall 
commence on the first day of April of each even numbered years. Said in- 
spectors shall have a theoretical and practical knowledge of the different sys- 
tems of working and ventilating coal mines, and of the nature and properties 
of the noxious and poisonous gases of mines and of mining engineering; and 
said inspectors before entering upon the discharge of their duties shall take 
an oath or affirmation to discharge the same faithfully and impartially, which 
oaths or affirmations shall be endorsed upon their commissions, and their com- 
missions so endorsed shall be forthwith recorded in the office of the sec- 
retary of state, and such inspectors shall each give bonds in the sum of two 
thousand (2,000) dollars, with sureties to the approval of the governor, condi- 
tioned for the faithful discharge of their duties. The governor shall divide 
the State into inspection districts and shall assign the inspectors to duty in 
such place or districts as he shall deem proper. 
Sec. 2. Said inspectors shall give their whole time and attention to the du- 
ties of their office respectively and shall examine all the mines in this State as 
often as their duties will permit, to see that the provisions of this act are 
obeyed, and it shall be lawful for such inspectors to enter, inspect and examine 
any mine in this State, and the works and machinery belonging thereto, at all 
reasonable times by night or by day, but so as not to unnecessarily obstruct 
or impede the working of the mines, and to make inquiry and examination into 
the state and condition of the mine as to ventilation and general security as 
required by the provisions of this act. The inspectors shall make a record of 
all examinations of mines inspected by them, showing the date when made, 
the condition in which the mines are found, the extent to which the laws relat- 
ing to mines and mining are observed or violated, the progress made in the im- 
provement and security of life and health sought to be secured by the provis- 
ions of this chapter, number of accidents, injuries or deaths in or about the 
mines; the number of mines visited, the number of persons employed in or 25 
about the mines, together with all such facts and information of public interest 
concerning the condition of mines as they may think useful and proper, or so 
much thereof as may be of public interest to be included in their biennial re- 
port. The owner and agents of all coal mines are hereby required to furnish the 
means necessary for such inspection, and it shall be the duty of the person having 
charge of any mine, whenever any loss of life shall occur by accident connect- 
ed with the workings of such mine to give notice forthwith by mail or other- 
wise to the inspector of mines of his district and to the coroner of the county 
in which such mine is situated, and the coroner shall hold an inquest on the 
body of the person or persons whose death has been caused, and inquire care- 
fully into the cause thereof and shall return a copy of the verdict and all testi- 
mony to the said inspector. No person having a personal interest in or em- 
ployed in a mine where a fatal accident occurs shall be qualified to serve on the 
jury empaneled on the inquest and the owner or agent of all coal mines shall 
report to the inspector all accidents to miners in and around the mines, giving 
cause of same, such report to be made in writing and within ten days from the 
time any accident occurs. 
f Chapter 21, Laws of 1884.] 
Sec. 8. It shall be unlawful for the owner or agent of any coal mine worked 
by a shaft, to employ or permit any person to work therein unless there are to 
every seam of coal worked in sucn mine, at least two separate outlets, separa- 
ted by natural strata of not less than one hundred feet in breadth, by which 
shafts or outlets distinct means of ingress and egress are always available to 
the persons employed in the mine, but in no case shall a furnace shaft be used 
as an escape shaft, and if the mine is a slope or drift opening, the escape shall 
be separated from the other openings by not less than fifty feet of natural stra- 
ta; and shall be provided with safe and available traveling ways, and the trav- 
eling ways to the escapes in all coal mines shall be kept free from water and 
falls of roof; and all escape shafts shall be fitted with safe and convenient 
stairs at an angle of not more than sixty degrees descent, and with landings at 
easy and convenient distances, so as to furnish easy escape from such mine, 
and all air shafts used as escapes where fans are employed for ventilation, shall 
be provided with suitable appliances for hoisting the underground workmen; 
said appliances to be always kept at the mine ready for immediate use; and in 
no case shall any combustible material be allowed between any escape shaft 
and hoisting shaft, except such as is absolutely necessary for operation of the 
mine; provided, that where a furnace shaft is large enough to admit of being 
divided into an escape shaft and a furnace shaft, there may be a partition 
placed in said shaft, properly constructed so as to exclude the heated air and 
smoke from the side of the shaft used as an escape shaft, such partition to be 
built of incombustible material for a distance of not less than fifteen feet up 
from the bottom thereof; and provided, that where two or more mines are con- 
nected underground, each owner may make joint provisions with the other 
owner for the use of the other’s hoisting shaft or slope as an escape, and in 
that event the owners thereof shall be deemed to have complied with the re- 
quirements of this section. And provided further, that in any case where the 
escape shaft is now situated less than one hundred feet from the hoisting 
shaft there may be provided a properly constructed underground traveling 
way from the top of the escape shaft, so as to furnish the proper protection 26 
from fire, for a distance of one hundred feet from the hoisting shaft; and in 
that event the owner or agent of any such mine shall be deemed to have com- 
plied with the requirements of this section; and provided further, that this 
act shall not apply to mines operated by slopes or drift openings where not 
more than five persons are employed therein. 
Sec. 9. In all mines there shall be allowed one year to make outlets as pro- 
vided in section eight when such mine is under two hundred feet in depth, and 
two years when such mine is over two hundred feet in depth; but not more 
than twenty men shall be employed in such mine at any one time until the 
provisions of section eight are complied with, and after the expiration of the 
period above mentioned should said mines not have the outlets aforesaid, they 
shall not be operated until made to conform to the provisions of section 
eight. 
Sec. 10. The owner or agent of every coal mine, whether it be operated by 
shaft, slope, or drift, shall provide and maintain for every such mine an amount 
of ventilation of not less than one hundred cubic feet of air per minute for 
each person employed in such mine, and not less than five hundred cubic feet 
of air per minute for each mule or horse employed in the same, which snail be 
distributed and circulated throughout the mine in such manner as to dilute, 
render harmless and expel the poisonous and noxious gases from each and ev- 
ery working place in the mine. And all mines governed by the provisions of 
this act, shall be provided with artificial means for producing ventilation, such 
as exhaust or forcing fans, furnaces or exhaust steam, or other contrivances of 
such capacity and power as to produce and maintain an abundant supply of 
air for all the requirements of the persons employed in the mine; but in case a 
furnace is used for ventilating purposes it shall be built in such manner as to 
prevent the communication of fire to any part of the works by lining the up- 
cast with incombustible material for a sufficient distance up from said furnace 
to ensure safety. 
Sec. 11. The owner or agent of every coal mine operated by a shaft or 
slope, in all cases where the human voice cannot be distinctly heard, shall 
forthwith provide and maintain a metal tube, or other suitable means for com- 
munication from the top to the bottom of said shaft or slope, suitably calcula- 
lated for the free passage of sound therein, so that communication can be held be- 
tween persons at the bottom and top of the shaft or slope. And there shall be 
provided a safety catch of approved pattern and a sufficient cover overhead on 
all carriages used for lowering and hoisting persons, and on the top of every 
shaft an approved safety gate, and also approved safety spring on the top of 
every slope, and an adequate brake shall be attached to every drum or machine 
used for raising or lowering persons in all shafts or slopes, and a trail shall be 
attached to every train used on a slope, all of said appliances to be subject to 
the approval of the inspector. 
Sec. 12. No owner or agent of any coal mine operated by shaft or slope shall 
knowingly place in charge of any engine used for lowering into or hoisting out 
of such mine persons employed therein, any but experienced, competent and 
sober engineers, and no engineer in charge of such engine shall allow any per- 
son except such as may be deputed for that purpose by the owner or agent, to 
interfere with it or any part of the machinery; and no person shall interfere or 
in any way intimidate the engineer in the discharge of his duties; and the maximum number of persons to ascend out of or descend into any coal mine 
on one cage shall be determined by the inspector, but in no case shall such 
number exceed ten, and no person shall ride upon or against any loaded cage 
or car in any shaft or slope except the conductor in charge of the train. 
Sec. 13. No boy under twelve years of age shall be permitted to work in any 
mine; and parents or guardians of boys shall be required to furnish an affida- 
vit as to the ages of their boys when there is any doubt in regard to their age 
and in all cases of minors applying for work the agent or owner of the mines 
shall see that the provisions of this section is [are] not violated. ♦ 
Sec. 14. In case any coal mine does not, in its appliances for the safety of 
the persons working therein, conform to the provisions of this act, or the owner 
or agent disregards the requirements of this act for twenty days after being no- 
tified by the inspector, any court of competent jurisdiction, while in session or 
the judges in vacation, may, on application of the inspector, by civil action in 
the name of the State, enjoin or restrain by writ of injunction, the said agent 
or owner from working or operating such mines with more than ten persons at 
once, except as provided in sections eight and nine, until it is made to conform 
with the provisions of this act, and such remedies shall be cumulative and 
shall not take the place of, or affect any other proceedings against such owner 
or agent authorized by law, for the matter complained of in such action; and 
for any wilful failure or neglect to comply with the provisions of this law by 
any owner, lessee, or operator of any coal mine or opening whereby any one is 
injured, a right of action shall accrue to the party so injured for any damage 
he may have sustained thereby; and in case of loss of life by reason of such 
willful neglect or failure aforesaid, a right of action shall accrue to the widow 
if living, and if not living, to the children of the person whose life shall 
be lost, for like recovery of damages for the injury they shall have sustained. 
Sec. 15. Any miner, workman or other person who shall knowingly injure or 
interfere with any air-course or brattice, or obstruct, or throw open doors, or 
disturb any part of the machinery, or disobey any order given in carrying out 
the provisions of this act, or ride upon a loaded car or wagon in a shaft or 
slope except as provided in section twelve, or do any act whereby the lives and 
health of the persons, or the security of the mines and machinery is endan- 
gered; or if any miner or person employed in any mine governed by the pro- 
visions of this act, shall neglect or refuse to securely prop or support the roof 
and entries under his control, or neglect or refuse to obey any order given by 
the superintendent in relation to the security of the mine in the part of the 
mine under his charge or control, every such person shall be deemed guilty of 
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not ex- 
ceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 
thirty days. 
Sec. 18. The owner, agent or operator of any coal mine shall keep a suffi- 
cient supply of timber to be used as props, so that the workmen may at all 
times be able to properly secure the workings from caving in, and it shall be 
the duty of the owner, agent or operator to send down all such props when 
required. 
Sec. 19. Any person wilfully neglecting or refusing to comply with the pro- 
visions of this act when notified by the mine inspector to comply with such 
provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 28 
thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or im- 
prisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, except when different 
penalties are herein provided. 
INSPECTION OE KEROSENE OIL* 
An Act to provide for the inspection and to regulate the sale of petroleum and its products, and to re- 
peal Chapter 172 of the Acts of the Seventeenth General Assembly, and Section 3901 of the Code, as 
amended by Chapter 149, Laws of the Twenty-first General Assembly. 
[Chapter 185—Acts of Twentieth General Assembly.] 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. That the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the 
senate, shall appoint a suitable person, resident of the State, who is not in- 
terested in manufacturing, dealing in, or vending any illuminating oils manu- 
factured from petroleum, as State inspector of oils, whose term of office phall 
commence on the first day of April of each even-numbered year, and continue 
for the term of two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. It 
shall be the duty of such State inspector, by himself or his deputies, herein- 
after provided for, to examine and test the quality of all such oils offered for 
sale by any manufacturer, vender, or dealer ; and if upon such testing or ex- 
amination the oils shall meet the requirements hereafter specified, he shall 
fix his brand or device. “Approved flash test—degrees ” (inserting the number 
of degrees), with the date over his official signature, upon the package, barrel 
or cask containing the same. And it shall be lawful for the State inspector, or 
his deputies, to enter into or upon the premises of any manufacturer, vender 
or dealer of said oils, and if they shall find or discover any kerosene oil, or any 
other product of petroleum kept for illuminating purposes, that has not been 
inspected and branded according to the provisions of this act, they shall pro- 
ceed to inspect and brand the same. It shall be lawful for any manufacturer, 
vender or dealer to sell the oil so tested and approved as an illuminator ; but if 
the oil or other product of petroleum so tested shall not meet said require- 
ments, he shall mark in plain letters on said package, barrel or cask, over his 
official signature, the words: “Rejected for illuminating purposes, flash, test— 
degrees” (inserting the number of degrees). And it shall be unlawful for the 
owner thereof to sell such oil or other product of petroleum for illuminating 
purposes. And if any person shall sell or offer for sale any of such rejected 
oil or other product of petroleum for such purpose, he shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a penalty 
not exceeding three hundred dollars. 
Seo. 2. The -State inspector provided for in this act is authorized to appoint 
a suitable number of deputies, which deputies are empowered to perform the 
duties of inspection, and shall be liable to the same penalties as the State in- 
spector ; provided, that the State inspector may remove any of said deputies 
for reasonable cause. It shall be the duty of the inspector and his deputies to 
provide themselves at their own expense with the necessary instruments and 
apparatus for testing the quality of said illuminating oils, and when called 
upon for that purpose to promptly inspect all oils heretofore mentioned, and to 
*This law is here given as ameded by the Twenty-first General Assembly, and as it is in force at the 
present time. 29 
reject for illuminating purposes all oils which will emit a combustible vapor at 
a temperature of one hundred and five degrees standard Fahrenheit thermome- 
ter, closed test, provided the quality of oil used in the flash test shall not be 
less than one half pint. The oil tester adopted and recommended by the Iowa 
State board of health shall be used by the inspector and his deputies in all 
tests made by them. And said board shall prepare rules and regulations as to 
the manner of inspection, which rules and regulations shall be in effect and 
binding upon the inspector and deputies appointed under this act. 
Sec. 3. The State inspector before he enters upon the discharge of the 
duties of his office shall take the oath or affirmation provided by law, and file 
the same in the office of the secretary of State, and execute a bond to the 
State of Iowa in a penal sum of not less than twenty thousand dollars with 
sureties thereto, to be approved by the secretary of State, who shall justify as 
provided by law, and in addition thereto state under oath that they are not in- 
terested, directly or indirectly, in manufacturing, dealing in, or vending any 
illuminating oils, manufactured from petroleum ; such bond to be conditioned 
for the faithful performance of the duties imposed upon him by this act, and 
which shall be for the use of all persons aggrieved by the acts of said inspec- 
tor, or his deputies, and the same shall be filed with the secretary of State. 
Every deputy inspector shall take a like oath or affirmation prescribed herein 
for the State inspector, and execute to the State a bond in the penal sum of five 
thousand dollars with like conditions and for like purpose s, and with sureties 
thereto who shall justify and have like qualifications as herein provided for the 
sureties for State inspector and such sureties shall be approved by the clerk of 
the district court of the county in which such deputy inspector resides, and 
said bond and oath shall be filed in the office of such clerk and such deputy 
inspector shall before entering upon the discharge of his duties forward said 
clerk’s certificate of such filing to the secretary of State to be placed on file. 
Sec. 4. All inspections herein provided for shall be made within the State 
of Iowa, and the inspector and deputy inspectors shall be entitled to demand 
and receive from the owner or party calling on him or for whom he shall per- 
form the inspection the sum of ten cents per barrel, and for the purposes of 
this act, a barrel shall be deemed fifty-five gallons. 
Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the St ate inspector and every deputy inspec- 
tor to keep a true and accurate record of all oils so inspected and branded by 
him, which record shall state the date of inspection, the number of gallons re- 
jected, the number of gallons approved, the number of gallons inspected, the 
number and kind of barrels, casks or packages, the name of the person for 
whom inspected and the amount of money received for such inspection, and 
such record shall be open to the inspection of all persons interested ; and every 
deputy inspector shall return a true copy of such record at the beginning of 
each month to the State inspector. It shall be the duty of the State inspector 
to make and deliver to the State auditor for the fiscal period ending the thirtieth 
day of June, 1885, and every two years thereafter a report of the inspections 
made by himself and deputies for such period, containing the information and 
items required in this act to be made of record, and the same shall be laid be- 
fore the General Assembly. 
Sec. 6. If any person or persons, whether manufacturer, vendee[er] or 
dealer shall sell or attempt to sell to any person in this State any illuminating oil, the product of petroleum, whether manufactured in this State or not, 
which has not been inspected as provided in this act, he shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor and subject to a penalty in any sum not exceeding three 
hundred dollars, and if any manufacture!’, vender or dealer in either or any of 
said illuminating oils shall falsely brand the package, cask or barrel contain- 
ing the same, as provided in this act, or shall refill-packages, casks or barrels 
having the inspector’s brand thereon, without erasing such brand, having the 
oil inspected, and such packages, casks or barrels rebranded, he shall be deem- 
ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding 
three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six 
months or both in the discretion of the court. 
Seo. 7. Any person selling or dealing in illuminating oils produced from 
petroleum who shall pure hase, sell or dispose of any empty kerosene barrel, 
cask or package, before thoroughly canceling, removing or effacing the inspec- 
tion brand on the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction 
thereof, shall pay a fine of one dollar for each barrel, cask or package thus sold 
or disposed of ; and any person who shall knowingly use any illuminating oil, 
the product of petroleum for illuminating purposes, before the same has been 
approved by the State inspector of oils, or his deputy, shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall pay a fine in any sum not exceed- 
ing ten dollars, for each offense. 
Sec. 8. No person shall adulterate with parafine or other substance, for the 
purpose of sale or for use, any coal or kerosene oils to be used for lights, in 
such a manner as to render them dangerous to use ; nor shall any person know- 
ingly sell or offer for sale, or knowingly use any coal or kerosene oil, or any 
product of petroleum, for illuminating purposes, which, by reason of being 
adulterated, or for any other reason, will emit a combustible vapor at a tem- 
perature less than 105 degrees of standard Fahrenheit’s thermometer, tested as 
provided in this act; provided, that the gas or vapor from said oils may be 
used for illuminating purposes when the oils fr om which said gas or vapor is 
generated are contained in closed reservoirs ou tside the building illuminated 
or lighted by said gas. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be pun- 
ished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or by fine not 
exceeding $500, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the 
court; provided, further, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to 
prevent the sale for and use in street lamps of lighter products of petroleum, 
such as gasoline, benzine, benzole, naptha, or to prevent the use of machines or 
generators constructed on the principal of the ‘‘Davy safety lamp.” 
Sec. 9. It shall be the duty1 of the State inpsector, and of any deputy in- 
spector, who shall know of the violation of any of the provisions of this act, 
to prosecute before a court of competent jurisdiction any person so offending. 
And in case the State inspector, or any deputy inspector, having knowledge of 
the violation of the provisions of this act, shall neglect to prosecute as required 
herein, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished accordingly, 
and, upon conviction, shall be removed from office. 
Seo. 10. No oil, nor fluid, whether composed wholly or in part of petroleum 
or its products, or of other substance or material, which will ignite and burn 
at a temperature of 300 degrees of the standard Fahrenheit thermometer, open test, shall be carried as freight, nor shall the same be burned in any lamp, or 
vessel, or stationary fixture of any kind, in any passenger, baggage, mail or ex- 
press car on any railroad, nor on any passenger boat moved by steam power, 
nor in any street railway car, stage coach, omnibus or other public conveyance 
in which passengers are carried, within the State. Any violation of the pro- 
visions of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and the offender shall, 
on conviction thereof, be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than 
one thousand dollars, and shall be liable for all damages resulting therefrom. 
Sec. 11. If any inspector or deputy shall falsely brand or mark any barrel, 
cask or package, or be guilty of any fraud, deceit, misconduct or culpable neg- 
ligence in the discharge of his official duties, or shall deal in, or have any 
pecuniary interest, directly or indirectly, in any oils or fluids used or sold for 
illuminating purposes while holding such office, he shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not execeeding one 
hundred dollars, or imprisoned not; exceeding thirty days, and be liable to the 
party injured for all damages resulting therefrom. 
Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of the governor to remove from office, and to 
appoint a competent person in the place of, any inspector who is unfaithful 
in the duty of his office. 
Sec. 13. Any person who shall knowingly or negligently sell or cause to be 
sold any of the oils mentioned in this act for illuminating purposes, except for 
the purposes herein authorized, which are below the standard and test required 
in this act, shall be liable to any one purchasing said oil, or to any person in- 
jured thereby for all damages resulting from any explosion of said oil. 
Sec. 14. Within sixty days after the passage of this act the State board of 
health shall make and provide the necessary rules and regulations for the in- 
spection of illuminating oil, and for the government of the inspector and de- 
puty inspectors provided for in this act, and as contemplated by the provisions 
of this act, which shall be approved by the governor of the State, and when so 
approved shall be furnished by said board to the inspector and his deputies. 
When written complaint shall be presented to the governor charging the in- 
spector or any deputy with a failure or a refusal to comply with or carry out 
said rules and regulations, or any provision of this act, he shall investigate 
such charge, and if well founded and sustained, the person against whom said 
charges were made shall be removed from office by the governor without delay. 
Said rules and regulations may be changed or modified by said board, subject 
to approval of the governor, not oftener than once a year. 
Sec. 15. Chapter 172 of the acts of the Seventeenth General Assembly, 
and section 3901 of the Code, are hereby repealed. 
DISEASED ANIMALS. 
[Chapter 189, Laws of 1884.] 
An Act for the Appointment of a State Veterinary Surgeon and Defining his Duties. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. The governor shall appoint a State veterinary surgeon, who 
shall hold his office for the term of three years unless sooner removed by the 
governor; he shall be a graduate of some regular and established veterinary 
college, and shall be skilled in veterinary science; he shall be a member of the State board of health, which membership shall be in addition to that now pro- 
vided by law. When actually engaged in the discharge of his official duties he 
shall receive from the State treasury as his compensation the sum of five dol- 
lars per day and his actual expenses, which shall be presented under oath and 
covered by written vouchers before receiving the same. 
Sec. 2. He shall have general supervision of all contagious and infectious 
diseases among domestic animals within or that may be in transit through the 
State, and he is empowered to establish quarantine against animals thus dis- 
eased, or that have been exposed to others thus diseased, whether within or 
without the State, and he may with the concurrence of the State board of 
health, make rules and regulations such as he may deem necessary for the pre- 
vention, against the spread, and for the suppression of said disease or diseases, 
which rules and regulations, after the concurrence of the governor and execu- 
tive council, shall be published and enforced, and in doing said things he shall 
have power to call on any one or more peace officers, whose duty it shall be to 
give him all assistance in their power. 
Sec. 3. Any person who wilfully hinders, obstructs or resists said veterinary 
surgeon or his assistants, or any peace officer acting under him or them when 
engaged in the duties or exercising the powers herein conferred, shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor and punished accordingly. 
Sec. 4. Said veterinary surgeon shall on or before the 30th of June of each 
year, make a full and detailed report of all and singular his doings since his 
last report to the governor, including his compensation and expenses, and the 
report shall not exceed one hundred and fifty pages of printed matter. 
Sec. 5. Whenever the majority of any board of supervisors, city council, 
trustees of an incorporated town or township trustees, whether in session or 
not, shall in writing notify the governor of the prevalence of, or probable dan- 
ger from, any of said diseases, he shall notify the State veterinary surgeon who 
shall at once repair to the place designated in said notice and take such action 
as the exigencies may demand, and the governor may in case of emergency ap- 
point a substitute or assistants, with equal powers and compensation. 
Sec. 6. Whenever in the opinion of the State veterinary surgeon the public 
safety demands the destruction of any stock under the provisions of this act, 
he shall, unless the owner or owners consent to such destruction, notify the 
governor, who may appoint two competent veterinary surgeons as advisers, and 
no stock shall be destroyed except upon the written order of the State veteri- 
nary surgeon countersigned by them and approved by the governor, and the 
owners of all stock destroyed under the provisions of this act, except as here- 
inafter provided, shall be entitled to receive a reasonable compensation there- 
for; but not more than its actual value in its condition when condemned, which 
shall be ascertained and fixed by the State veterinary surgeon and the nearest 
justice of the peace, who if unable to agree shall jointly select another justice 
of the peace as umpire, and their judgment shall be final when the value or the 
stock does not exceed one hundred dollars, but in all other cases either party 
shall have the right to appeal to the circuit court, but such appeal shall not de- 
lay the destruction of the diseased animals. The State veterinary surgeon 
shall, as soon thereafter as may be, file his written report thereof with the gov- 
ernor, who shall, if found correct, endorse his findings thereon, whereupon the 
auditor of state shall issue his warrant therefor upon the treasurer of state 33 
who shall pay the same out of any moneys at his disposal under the provisions 
of this act; provided, that no compensation shall be allowed for any stock de- 
stroyed while in transit through or across the State, and that the word stock, 
as herein used, shall be held to include only neat cattle and horses. 
Sec. 7. The governor of the State, with the State veterinary surgeon, may 
co-operate with the government of the United States for the objects of this act, 
and the governor is hereby authorized to receive and receipt for any moneys 
receivable by this State under the provisions of any act of congress which may 
at any time be in force upon this subject, and to pay the same into the State 
treasury to be used according to the act of congress and the provisions of this 
act as nearly as may be. 
Sec. 8. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys not otherwise ap- 
propriated the sum of ten thousand dollars for use in 1884 and 1885, and three 
thousand dollars annually thereafter, or so much thereof as may be necessary 
for the uses and purposes herein set forth. 
Sec. 9. Any person, except the veterinary surgeons, called upon under the 
provisions of this act shall be allowed and receive two dollars per day while 
actually employed. 
Approved April 14,1884. 
[Chapter 156, Laws of 1886.] 
An Act to amend Chapter 11, Title 24 of the Code, Relating to Contagious diseases in Domestic Ani- 
mals. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. That sections 4058, and 4059 in chapter 11, title 24 of the code 
be hereby repealed, and sections 2 and 3 of this act be substituted therefor, 
and be known hereafter as sections 4058 and 4059 of the code. 
Sec. 2. Be it enacted, “section 4058. Any person or persons driving any cattle 
into this State, or any agent, servant or employe of any railroad or other corpora- 
tion who shall carry, transport or ship any cattle into this State, or any railroad 
company, or other corporation or person who shall carry, ship or deliver any cat- 
tle into this State, or the owners, controllers, lesees, or agents or employes of 
any stock yards, receiving into such stock yards or in any other enclosures for 
the detention of cattle in transit, or shipment, or re-shipment or sale, any cat- 
tle brought or shipped in any manner into this State, which at the time they 
were eitherdriven, brought, shipped or transported into this State were in such 
condition as to infect with or to communicate to other cattle, pleuro pneumo- 
mfnija, or splenitic or Texas fever, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than three 
hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars, or by both fine and 
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months in the discretion of 
the court. 
Sec. 3. Be it enacted; Section 4059, Any person who shall be injured or 
damaged by any of the acts of the persons named in section 4058, and which 
are prohibited by such section, in addition to the remedy therein provided, 
may bring an action at law against any such persons, agents, employes or cor- 
porations mentioned therein, and recover the actual damages sustained by the 
person or persons so injured, and neither said criminal proceeding nor said 
civil action, in any stage of the same be a bar to a conviction or to a recovery 
in the other.” 
Approved April 10,1886. 34 
S ec. 4055. If the owner of sheep, or any person having the same in charge, 
knowingly import or drive into this State, sheep having any contagious dis- 
ease; or turn out, or suffer any sheep having any contagious disease, knowing 
the same to be so diseased, to run at large upon any common highway, or un- 
enclosed lands; or sell or dispose of any sheep, knowing the same to be so dis- 
eased, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine in 
any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.—Code 
of 1873. 
Seo. 4056. If any person knowingly import or bring within this State, any 
horse, mule or ass, affected by the disease known as nasal gleet, glanders or 
button-farcey, or suffer the same to run at large upon any common highway or 
uninclosed land, or use or tie the same in any public place, or off his own 
premises, or sell, trade, or offer for sale or trade, any such horse, mule or ass, 
knowing the same to be so diseased, he shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty 
dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars; and in default of payment shall be 
imprisoned for any period not exceeding twelve months, or by both fine and 
imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.—Code of 1873. 
Sec. 4057. If any horse, mule or ass, reasonably supposed to be diseased 
with nasal gleet, glanders or button-farcey, be found running at large without 
any known owner, it shall be lawful for the finder thereof to take such horse, 
mule or ass, so found, before some justice of the peace, who shall forthwith 
cause the same to be examined by some veterinary surgeon, or other person 
skilled in such diseases, and if, on examination, it is ascertained to be so dis- 
eased, it shall be lawful for such justice of the peace to order such diseased 
animal to be immediately destroyed and buried; and the necessary expense ac- 
cruing under the provisions of this act shall be defrayed out of the county 
treasury. (1 )—Code of 1873. 
Sec. 1484. The sheriff, constable, police officer, officer of any society for the 
prevention of cruelty to animals, or any magistrate, shall destroy any horse or 
other animal having the disease called and known as glanders, or any disabled 
creature unfit for other use.—Code of 1873. 
PHARMACY AND THE SALE OF MEDICINE AND POISONS. 
An Act to Regulate the Practice of Pharmacy, and the Sale of Medicines and Poisons. 
[Chapter 75, Laws of 1878, as amended by.Chapter 137, Laws of 1882.] 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, 
(1) As to whether or not animals affected with a contagious disease, may bo summarily destroyed, 
the general rule seems to be that so long as the owner restrains the animal upon his own premises no 
person has the right to kill them; but if they are suffered to go at large, or if they escape from their 
owner’s custody, the owner of the paemises upon which they escape may kill them if necessary for the 
protection of his own animals. (2) In the case of a horse or other animal affected with glanders, 
which is recognized by the courts as an incurable disease, (3) and one which may communicate all its 
loathsomeness and fatality to human beings. A board of health would unquestionably be sustained by 
the courts in destroying them wherever found, if they deemed it necessary to protect the public health, 
after giving notice to the owner, if he can be found. 
(2) Wood on Nuisances, Sec. 837. 
(3) Hanover’s Law of Horses, p. 76. 35 
not a registered pharmacist within the meaning of this act, to conduct any 
pharmacy, drug store, apothecary shop or store for the purpose of retailing, 
compounding or dispensing medicines or poisons for medicinal use, except as 
hereinafter provided. 
Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for the proprietor of any store or pharmacy 
to allow any person, except a registered pharmacist, to compound or dispense 
the prescriptions of physicians, or to retail or dispense poisons for medical use, 
except as an aid to, and under the supervision of, a registered pharmacist. Any 
person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than 
twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, for each and every 
such offense. 
Sec. 3. The governor, with the advice of the executive council, shall ap- 
point three persons from the most competent pharmacists of the State, all of 
whom shall have been residents of the State for five years, and of at least five 
years practical experience in their profession, who shall be known and styled 
as Commissioners of Pharmacy, for the State of Iowa ; one of whom shall hold 
his office for one year, one for two years, and the other for three years, and 
each until his successor shall be appointed and qualified; and each year thereafter 
another commissioner shall be so appointed for three years, and until a suc- 
cessor be appointed and qualified. If a vacancy occur in said commission, 
another shall be appointed, as aforesaid, to fill the unexpired term thereof. 
Said commissioners shall have power to make by-laws and all necessary regu- 
lations for the proper fulfillment of their duties under this act, without ex- 
pense to the State. 
Sec. 4. The commissioners of pharmacy shall register in a suitable book, 
a duplicate of which is to be kept in the secretary of State’s office, the names 
and places of residence of all persons to whom they issue certificates, and dates 
thereof. Druggists and pharmacists who were registered without examination 
forfeit their registration when they have voluntarily sold, parted with, or sev- 
ered their connection with the drug business for a period of two years at the 
place designated in certificate of registration; should such. party who has 
thus forfeited his resignation wish to re-engage in the practice of pharmacy, 
he is required to be registered by examination as per section 5. Every regis- 
tered pharmacist who desires to continue his profession shall, on or before the 
22d day of March of each year, pay to the commission of pharmacy the sum of 
one dollar, for which he shall receive a renewal of his certificate, unless his 
name has been stricken from the register for violation of law. It shall be the 
duty of each registered pharmacist, before changing his locality as designated 
in his certificate of registration, to notify the secretary of the commission of 
pharmacy of his new place of business, and for recording the same and certifi- 
cation thereto the secretary shall be entitled to receive fifty cents for each cer- 
tificate. It shall be the duty of every registered pharmacist to conspicuously 
post his certificate of registration in his place of business. Any person con- 
tinuing in business, who shall fail or neglect to procure his annual renewal of 
registration, or who shall change his place of business without complying with 
this section, or who shall fail to conspicuously post his certificate of registra- 
tion in his place of business, shall for each such offense be liable to a fine of 
ten dollars for each calendar month so delinquent. 36 
Sec. 5. That the said commissioners of pharmacy shall, upon application, 
and at such time and place and in such manner as they may determine examine, 
either by a schedule of questions, to be answered and subscribed to under oath, 
or orally, each and every person who shall desire to conduct the business of 
selling at retail, compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines or chemicals for 
medicinal use, or compounding and dispensing physicians’ prescriptions as 
pharmacists, and if a majority of said commissioners shall be satisfied that 
said person is competent and fully qualified to conduct said business of com- 
pounding and dispensing drugs, medicines, or chemicals for medicinal use, or 
to compound and dispense physicians’ prescriptions, they shall enter the name 
of such person as a registered pharmacist in the book provided for in section 4 
of this act; and all graduates in pharmacy, having a diploma from an incorpor- 
ated college or school of pharmacy, that requires a practical experience in phar- 
macy of not less than four years before granting a diploma, shall be entitled to 
have their names registered as pharmacists by said commissioners of phar- 
macy, without examination. 
Sec. 6. That the commissioners of pharmacy shall be entitled to demand 
and receive from each person whom they register and furnish a certificate as a 
registered pharmacist, without examination, the sum of two dollars ; and from 
each and every person whom they examine orally, or whose answers to a sche- 
dule of questions are returned subscribed to under oath, the sum of five dol- 
lars, which shall be in full for all services. And in case the exami nation of said 
person shall prove defective and unsatisfactory, and his name not be registered, 
he shall be permitted to present himself for re-examination within any period 
not exceeding twelve months next thereafter, and no charge shall be made for 
such re-examination. 
Sec. 7. Every registered pharmacist shall be held responsible for the qual- 
ity of all drugs, chemicals, and medicines he may sell or dispense, with the ex- 
ception of those sold in the original packages of the manufacturer, and also 
those known as “ patent medicines ”; and should he knowingly, intentionally, 
and fraudulently adulterate, or cause to to be adulterated, such drugs, chemi- 
cals, or medical preparations, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
upon conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dol- 
lars, and in addition thereto his name be stricken from the register. 
[Sec. 8. Pharmacists whose certificate of registration are in full force and 
effect, shall have the sole right to keep and to sell under such regulations as 
have been or may be established from time to time by the commissioners of 
pharmacy, all medicines and poisons, including intoxicating liquors only for 
the actual necessities of medicines: provided that such pharmacists shall have 
procured permits therefor as hereinafter prescribed. Provided further, that 
nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to slieild [shield] the person 
who in any wise abuses this trust, for the legitimate and actual necessities of 
medicine only, from the utmost rigors of the law, now or hereafter in force re- 
lating to intoxicating liquors, and in addition thereto, for a second violation 
thereof, his name shall be stricken from the register by the commissioners of 
pharmacy upon the receipt of transcript of conviction, which shall be trans- 
mitted by the court, or by order of the court before whom conviction is had. 
Twenty-five per cent of all moneys recovered as fines under the provisions of 
this act shall be paid into the State treasury, and reported to the State auditor, 37 
and held subject to the order of the commissioners of pharmacy as needed, to be 
by them used solely to defray the expenses of prosecutions, under, and the en- 
forcement of this act or acts to which this is amendatory. In order to procure a 
permit to sell intoxicating liquors as aforesaid and a shipping permit he shall 
present to such board of supervisors a petition signed by at least one-fourth of 
the freeholders having the qualification of electors of the township, town or ward 
wherein such business is located, certifying that the registered pharmacist apply 
ing is a person of good moral character, is not a minor and is, and for the six 
months last preceding has been lawfully conducting a pharmacy as proprietor in 
such township, town or ward, and that they believe him to be a proper person to 
buy and sell intoxicating liquors for the purposes named in this act. The board 
being satisfied that all the provisions of the law have been complied with, a 
permit shall be issued. Provided, however, that any resident of the township, 
town or ward, may appear and show cause why such perm it should not be 
granted, and the same shall be refused unless the board are fully satisfied that 
all the requirements of the law have been complied with, t en days notice of 
the time of granting such permit having been given by public ation in a news- 
paper published in the county or by posting notices in the township, town or 
ward in which the business is to be conducted. The county auditor shall issue 
to such pharmacist, his certificate of registration and his permit to buy and sell, 
being in full force and effect, a permit to receive intoxicating liquors within the 
county in which he does business, and the presentation of said permit to any rail- 
way company, express company or common carrier within the borders or trav- 
ersing the territory of the State, shall convey full authority to rec eive, trans- 
port and deliver, intoxicating liquors to the person named in such permit: pro- 
vided, that such permit shall be for specified packages and kinds of liquors, 
and that a certified copy of such permit shall be kept on file in the office of the 
auditor issuing the same. The commissioners of pharmacy shall, on the revo- 
cation or forfeiture of any certificate of registration, subsequent to their last 
biennial report or abstract of the State pharmacy register, report such revo- 
cation or forfeiture to the county auditor of the county wherein such certifi- 
cate was last in force. On or before the tenth day of each month said phar- 
macist shall make to the county auditor a complete report, verrified by his affi- 
davit specifically showing all sales of intoxicating liquors made during the pre- 
ceding calendar month, to whom sold, and the purpose for which the same was 
to be used as represented by duplicate applications executed by each pur- 
chaser. The registered pharmacist to whom application is made shall refuse 
to execute same, if he has reason to believe that the application is not made in 
good faith, and that the liquor would be used as a beverage. He shall not ac- 
cept an application from a minor or from any person who is in the habit of be- 
coming intoxicated, or when any relative of such person has given written 
notice to said pharmacist that such person uses intoxicating liquors as a bever- 
age. The drinking of intoxicating liquors in a pharmacy, whether under a 
permit or not shall be presumptive evidence that the same was sold or given 
away by such pharmacist contrary to law.] Chap. 83, Lazes 1886. 
Sec. 9. It shall be unlawful for any person from and after the passage of 
this act, to retail any poisons enumerated in schedules “ A ” and “ B,” except as 
follows: 38 
SCHEDULE A. 
Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red pre- 
cipitate, biniodide of mercu ry, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strych- 
nia, and all other poisonous vegetables alkaloids, and their salts; essential oil 
of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric, and other 
preparations of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce. 
SCHEDULE B. 
Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot, 
cotton root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical prepara- 
tions, croton oil, chloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, mineral acids, 
carbolic acid, oxalic acid, without distinctly labeling the box, vessel or paper 
in which said poison is contained, and also the outside wrapper or cover, with 
the name of the article, the word “ poison,” and name and place of business of 
the seller. Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poisons 
enumerated in schedules “ A” and “ B ” unless, upon due inquiry, it be found 
that the purchaser is aware of its poisonous character and represents that it is 
to be used for a legitimate purpose. Nor shall it be lawful for any registered 
pharmacist to sell any poisons included in schedule “ A ” without before deliv- 
ering the same to the purchaser, causing an entry to be made, in a book kept 
for that purpose, stating the date of sale, the name and address of the pur- 
chaser, the name of the poison sold, the purpose for which it is represented by 
the purchaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser; such book to be 
always open for inspection by the proper authorities, and to be preserved for at 
least five years. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispens- 
ing of poisons in not unusual quantities or doses, upon the prescriptions of 
practitioners of medicine. Nor shall it be lawful for any licensed or regis- 
tered druggist or pharmacist to retail, or sell, or give away, any alcoholic 
liquors or compounds as a beverage, and any violations of the provisions of 
this section shall make the owner or principal of said store of pharmacy liable 
to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dol- 
lars, to be collected in the usual manner; and in addition thereto, for repeated 
violations of this section his name shall be stricken from the register. 
Sec. 10. Any itinerate vender of any drug, nostrum, ointment or appliance 
of any kind, intended for the treatment of diseases or injury, who shall, by 
writing or printing, or any othermethod, publicly profess to cure or treat dis- 
eases, or injury or deformity, by any drug, nostrum, or manipulation or other 
expedient, shall pay a license of one hundred dollars per annum, to be paid to 
the treasurer of the commission of pharmacy, whereupon the secretary of said 
commission shall issue such license for one year. Any person violating this 
section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction 
pay a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars. 
All moneys received for licenses to be paid to the auditor of State. The sum 
of two thousand dollars per year, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 
hereby appropriated out of the moneys so received for licenses for the expenses 
of said commission, all exceeding said amount to be paid into the State treas- 
ury. 
Sec. 11. That any person who shall procure, or attempt to procure, regis- 
tration for himself or another under this act, by making, or causing to be 39 
made, any false representation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty- 
five, nor more than one hundred dollars, and the name of the person so fraud- 
ulently registered shall be stricken from the register. Any person not a regis- 
tered pharmacist, as provided for in this act, who shall conduct a store, phar- 
macy, or place for retailing, compounding, or dispensing drugs, medicines or 
chemicals, for medicinal use, or for compounding or dispensing physicians’ 
prescriptions, or who shall take, use or exhibit the title of registered pharma- 
cist, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, 
shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two 
hundred dollars. 
[“Sec. 12. Physicians dispensing their own prescriptions only, are not re- 
quired to be registered pharmacists. Provided, that nothing in this act shall 
prevent any person not a registered pharmacist or not holding a permit, from 
keeping and selling proprietary medicines, and such other domestic remedies 
as do not include any intoxicating liquors or poisons.”]—Chap. 83, Laivs 1886. 
TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY. 
[Chap. 36, Laws of 1882.] 
An Act to Insure the Better Education of Practitioners of Dentistry in the State of Iowa. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
That it shall be unlawful for any person who is not at the time of the passage 
of this act engaged in the practice of dentistry in the State, to commence such 
practice unless such person shall have received a license from the board of ex- 
aminers, or some member thereof as hereinafter provided, or a diploma from 
the faculty of some reputable dental college, duly authorized by the laws of 
the State, or by some other of the United States, or by the laws of some for- 
eign country in which college or colleges, there was at the time of the issue of 
such diploma, annually delivered a full course of lectures and instructions in 
dental surgery. 
Sec. 2. A board of examiners is hereby created, whose duty it shall be to 
carry out the purpose and enforce the provisions of this act. The members of 
such board shall be appointed by the governor, and shall consist of five prac- 
ticing dentists, who shall have been engaged in the continuous practice of den- 
tistry in the State for five years or over, at the time of or prior to the passage 
of this act. The term for which the members of said board shall hold their 
office shall be five years, except that the members of the board first appointed 
under this act shall hold their office for the term of one, two, three, four and 
five years, respectively, and until their successors shall be duly appointed. In 
case of vacancy occurring iD said board, such vacancy shall be filled by the 
governor. 
Sec. 3. Said board shall choose one of its members president, and one the 
secretary thereof, and it shall meet at least once in each year, and as much oft- 
ener and at such time and place as it may. deem necessary. A majority of said 
board shall at all times constitute a quorum, and the proceedings thereof shall 
at all reasonable times be open to public inspection. 
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of every person who is engaged in the practice 
of dentistry in the State, within six months from the date of the taking effect of 40 
this act, to cause his or her name and residence, or place of business, to be 
registered with the said board of examiners, who shall keep a book for that 
purpose, and every person who shall so register with said board as a practi- 
tioner of dentistry, may continue to practice the same as such without incurr- 
ing any of the liabilities or penalties of this act. 
Sec. 5. No person whose name is not registered on the books of said board as a 
regular practitioner of dentistry, within the limits prescribed in the preceding 
section, shall be permitted to practice denti stry in this State until such person 
shall have been duly examined by said board and regularly licensed in accord- 
ance with the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 6. Any and all persons, who shall so desire, may appear before said 
board at any of its regular meetings, and be examined with reference to their 
knowledge and skill in dental surgery, and if such person shall be found, after 
having been so examined, to possess the requisite qualifications, said board 
shall issue a license to such person to practice dentistry in accordance with the 
provisions of this act. But said board shall at all times issue to any regular 
graduate of any reputable dental college without examination, upon the pay- 
ment by such graduate to said board of a fee of one dollar. All licenses issued 
by said board shall be signed by the members thereof and be attested by the 
president and secretary; and such license shall he prima facie evidence of the 
right of the holder to practice dentistry in the State of Iowa. 
Sec. 7. Any m ember of said board shall issue a temporary license to any 
applicant upon the presentation by such applicant of the evidence of the nec- 
essary qualification to practice dentistry; and such temporary license shall re- 
main in force until the next regular meeting of said board, occurring after the 
date of such temporary license and no longer. 
Sec. 8. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall 
be liable to prosecution, before any court of competent jurisdiction, upon 
information, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dol- 
lars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense. 
Sec. 9. In order to provide the means for carrying out and maintaining the 
provisions of this act, the said board of examiners may charge each person 
applying to, or appearing before them for examination for license to practice 
dentistry, a fee of two dollars, and out of the funds coming into the possess- 
ion of the board from the fee so charged, the members of said board may re- 
ceive as compensation the sum of five dollars for each day actually engaged 
in the duties of their office. And no part of the salary or other expenses of 
the board shall ever be paid out of the State treasury. All moneys received in 
excess of said per diem allowance shall be held by the secretary of said board, 
he giving such bond as the board shall from time to time direct. The said 
board shall make an annual report of its proceedings to the governor, by the 
fifteenth of November of each year, together with an account or all moneys 
received and disbursed by them pursuant to this act. 
Sec. 10. Any person who shall be licensed by said board to practice dentist- 
ry, shall cause his or her license to be registered with the county clerk of any 
county or counties in which such person may desire to engage in the practice 
of dentistry; and the county clerks of the several counties in the State shall 
charge for registering such license a fee of twenty-five cents for each registra- 
tion. Any failure, neglect or refusal on the part of any person holding such 41 
license to register the same with the county clerk as above directed, for a pe- 
riod of six months, shall work a forfeiture of the license; and no license, when 
once forfeited, shall be restored except upon the payment to the said board of 
examiners of the sum of twenty-five dollars, as a penalty for such neglect, fail- 
ure or refusal. 
Sec. 11. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent persons from ex- 
tracting teeth. 
OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY. 
Section 4087. If any two or more persons conspire or confederate together 
with the fraudulent or malicious intent wrongfully to injure the person, char- 
acter, business or property of another; or to do any illegal act injurious to the 
public trade, health, morals, or police, or to the administration of public jus- 
tice; or to commit any felony, they are guilty of a conspiracy, and every such 
offender, and every person who is convicted of a conspiracy at common law, 
shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not more than three 
years.—Code of 1873. 
NUISANCES. 
Section 4098. “ The erecting, continuing, or using, any building, or other 
place, for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which by 
occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells, or other annoyances, becomes 
injurious to the public health, comfort, or property of individuals, or the pub- 
lic, the causing or suffering any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collec- 
ted or to remain in any place, to the predjudice of others, the obstructing or 
impeding, without legal authority, the passage of any navigable river, harbor or 
collection of water, or the corruption, or rendering unwholesome or impure the 
water of any river, stream or pond: * * * * are nuisances.” (1)—Code of 
1873. 
(1) That boards of health may act understandingly in the removal of nuisances which are injuries to 
the public health, it is essential that they should have a clearly defined idea of what nuisances are, 
which they may remove or cause to be removed. A nuisance is said to be anything wrongfully done, or 
permitted, which injures or annoys another in the enjoyment of his legal rights. Cooley on Torts, page 
565; Rex vs. Watts, 2 C. & P. 486, slaughter-house; Rankett’s Case, 2 Rolle’s Abr., 140, 141, melting 
stinking tallow; Catlin vs. Valentine, 9 Paige’s Ch. (N. Y.) 576, slaughter-houses; Pickard vs. Collins 
23 Barb., (N. Y. S. C.) 444, barn; Wood on Nuisances, Sec. 494. 
Every person has the legal right to the fullest enjoyment of his life and health. Anything, then, 
which injures or annoys the public in the enjoyment of life or health is a nuisance, which it is the duty 
of the boards of health, as the guardians of the public health, to abate. — Code of 1873, Sec. 4098. 
Where an indictment charged that the defendant " unlawfully and injuriously did erect continue and 
use a certain enclosure or pen, in which cattle and hogs were confined, fed and watered and the excre- 
ment, decayed food, slops and other filth were retained ” whereby were occasioned " noxi 3U8 exhala- 
tions and offensive smells, greatly corrupting and infesting the air; and other annoyances dangerous to 
the public health, comfort and property of the good people residing in that immediate neighborhood,” it 
was held, that the acts charged constituted a public indictable nuisance, both under this section (4098) 
of the statute, and at the eommon law. ( The State vs. Raster, 35 Iowa Supreme Court Reports 221.) 
Any use of property, or any trade, that corrupts the atmosphere with smoke, noxious vapors, noisome 
smells, dust or othersubstanees or gases producing injury to property, or to health, or impairing the 
comfortable enjoyment of property, is a nuisance. (Wood on Nuisances, page 574, section 531.) 42 
If any board of health finds any decomposing or offensive matter upon private property, which in 
their opinion is injurious to health, they must first order the owner or occupant to remove it within 
twenty-four hours. If he neglects to do so, they may proceed summarily to cause such nuisance to be 
removed. If the danger to the public health is imminent, and safety requires immediate suppression or 
abatement of the nuisance, the board of health, or any individual affected thereby, would be protected 
if they proceeded at once to suppress it, for the safety of the people is the highest law. If any unhealthy 
nuisance is found in a public place, it would be the duty of the board of health to cause its immediate 
removal. Meeker v. Rensselaer, 14 Wend., 397. In the case ef City of Salem v. Eastern Railroad 
Company, the supreme court of Massachusetts (98, p 443), under a statute which is a verbatim copy of 
the Iowa statute, held th it the adjudication of the board that a nuisance exists is conclusive, and no 
appeal lies therefrom. The board should keep an accurate record of their proceadings, and all adjudi- 
cations should appear therein in clear and distinct language. It is not the purpose of the order to direct 
in what mode the person should proceed to remove the nuisance. It should direct the end to be accom- 
plished, leaving the party to adopt any effectual mode he may choose. If the owner, or occupant, neg- 
lects to remove the nuisance the board are at liberty to enter upon private property where it exists, and 
take such measures as they may see fit for its removal. 
The court further says, in relation to boards of health: “Their action is intended to be prompt and 
summary. They are clothed with extraordinary powers for the protection of the community from nox- 
ious influences affecting life and health, and it is important that their proceedings should be embarrassed 
and delayed as little as possible by the necessary observance of formalities. Although notice and oppor- 
tunity to be heard upon matters affecting private interests ought always to be given when practicable, 
yet the nature and object of those proceedings are such that it is deemed to be most for the general 
good that notice should not be essential to the right of the board to act for the public safety. Delay for 
the purpose of giving notice, involving either of public notice or of inquiry to ascertain who are the par- 
ties whose interest will be affected, and further delay for such hearings as the parties may think neces- 
sary for the protection of their interests, might defeat all beneficial results from an attempt to exercise 
the powers conferred upon boards of health. The necessity of the case, and the importance of the pub- 
lic interests at stake, justify the omission of notice to the individual.” 
“Notice must be given of general regulations prescribed by the board before parties can be held in de- 
fault for a disregard of their requirements. No previous notice to parties so to be affected by them, is 
necessary. They belong to that class of police regulations to which all individual rights of property are 
held subject, whether established directly by enactments of the legislature, or by its authori ty through 
boards of local administration.” 
If a pond, a slaughter-house, or a burial ground, or anything of a kindred nature, becomes offensive 
and unhealthy to the community, it is the duty of the board of health to proceed at once to abate the 
same. Whether a business or a thing, not in itself a nuisance, is so managed or suffered to exist as to 
be a nuisance, is a fact which must be determined by the board, upon investigation made by them. Al- 
though slaughter-houses are regarded by the courts asprima facie nuisances, a person engaged in car- 
rying on the business of slaughtering animals cannot be compelled to discontinue that business upon the 
judgment of any tribunal except that of a court of competent jurisdiction. In this way alone can a board 
of health legally determine whether such a business is a nuisance so as to authorize them to abate it. 
But any collection of offal or filth in or about the slaughter-house may be removed by the board of health, 
and the place may be required to be kept clean under the authority conferred by sections 17 and 18, 
chapter 151, laws of 1880, but the suppression of the business itself can only follow a judicial determina- 
tion that it is so conducted as to be injurious to the public health.—Schuster v. Met. Board of Health, 
49 Barb. (N. Y. S. C.), 450; Wood on Nuisances, Secs. 494, 504, 525. 
If the health officer of a local board of health declares a thing a nuisance and dangerous to the public 
health, it is the duty of the board to abate it.—Attorney-General, May 18, 1886. INDEX. 
Adulteration, of food, drugs and medicine, prevention of ... 7 
penalty for ...... 8 
water to kill fish, ........ 15 
Alcohol, effect of on human system, to be taught in public school, .... 16 
Animals, diseased, can not be brought into this state, ..... 33, 34 
may be killed, when, ....... 34 
disabled, may be destroyed, when, ...... 34 
Barbed wire, use of around school houses proh bited, 17 
Births, must be reported to county clerk, by whom, ..... 4 
penalty for neglect, ..... 4 
Board of Health, State, law creating, ....... 3 
powers of, . . . . _ _ 3 
duties of, ....... 4 
meetings of, ....... 4 
election of officers of, ..... 4 
must report to Governor, ..... 5 
appropriation for, ...... 5 
rules must be enforced by all public officers ... 3 
Butter, adulteration of.......... 9-12 
imitation of, .......... 10 
transportation of fraudulent prohibited ...... 10 
Canned Goods, sale of regulated ........ 13 
Cattle, importation of infected prohibited ....... 33 
Texas prohibited ....... 33 
Cheese, adulteration of.......... 9-12 
Clerk of District Court, required to register births, deaths, etc. ... 3 
fees of ........ 3 
must report to State Board of Health ... - 3 
Conspiracy to injure the public health, penalty for ...... 41 
Contagious Disease, powers of local boards respecting ..... 6 
spread of by innoculation ...... 14 
public conveyances ..... 14 
Coroners must report deaths to county clerk, when ..... 4 
penalty for neglect .... 4 
Dairy, commissioner .......... 11 
duties of. . . . . . . . . 11 
Dbntistry, regulations for practice of....... 39 
Diseased Animals, lard from prohibited ....... 14 
cannot be brought into the state ..... 33, 34 
powers of state veterinary surgeon relative to ... 32 
Drains, ditches and water courses, how located and constructed .... 22 
when through two or more counties ... 22 
apportionment of expenses of ... 22 
across public highways ..... 23 
Drink, adulteration of, penalty for . . . . . . . . 8 
Drugs, adulteration of.......... 7 
sale of poisonous . . . . . . . . 9, 34,36 
Fees for recording marriages, births and.deaths ...... 3 
physician’s certificate ......... 21 
examination ........ 21 Fish, killing of by poison . . _ . . _ ' _ . . . 15 
Food, adulteration of...... .... 8 
fraudulent canned goods, protection against ...... 13 
Glanders, importation of animals affected with ...... 34 
animals infected with may be destroyed . . . . . 5,33 
Health Officer, local boards must appoint ...... 5 
jurisdiction of. . . . . . . . . 5 
Hogs, diseased must not be made into lard ....... 14 
Inspection of mines, regulations for ...... . 24 
kerosene oil ........ 28 
canned goods by local boards of health ...... 13 
fraudulent butter ........ 9-11 
Intoxicating Liquors, adulteration of........ 9 
sale or gift to minors . . . . . . 14,37 
of by pharmacists ...... 36 
effect of on human system to be taught in public schools . 16 
Lard, sale of from diseased hogs prohibited ....... 14 
unwholsome prohibited ....... 14 
License, to teach in public schools, contingent upon, ...... 16 
practice medicine ........ 19 
sell medicines and intoxicating liquors ...... 34 
practice dentistry ........ 39 
practice medicine as itinerant ....... 38 
sell nostrums, or medical appliances ...... 38 
Local Boards of Health, who are ........ 5 
must appoint health officer ..... 5 
duties oi........ 5 
penalty for violation of rules of ... 5, 6 
may remove nuisance, when . . . . . 5, 6, 41 
enter buildings, when ..... 6 
duties regarding infectious diseases .... 6 
justice must issue warrants on order of, when . . 6, 7 
must hold meetings, when . 7 
have power to inspect canned goods .... 13 
to notify state veterinary surgeon of disease among animals . 32 
Liquors, adulteration of......... 9 
Marriages must be reported to county clerk, when ...... 4 
penalty for neglect ... 4 
Medicine, practice of regulated ......... 19 
what constitutes ........ 21 
Midwives must report to county clerk, when ....... 4 
penalty for neglect ..... 4 
Milk, adulteration of. . . - . - - - - . 8-12 
Mines, inspection of. ......... 24 
M inors, sale of toy pistols and revolvers to prohibited ...... 16 
cannot be employed in mines, when ...... 27 
sale of liquor to. ......... 24,37 
Miscarriage, producing by drugs ........ 15 
Nuisance, obstructing drains or ditches, is when ...... 23 
what is, and how abated . . . . . . . 5,6,41 
Oil, inspection of...-. - - . - .. 28 
Officers, of the peace, must enforce rules of state board of health ... 3 
may destroy diseased animals, when ..... 34 
disabled animals, when .... 34 
Penalty, for violating regulations of state board of health ..... 4 
local boards of health . . . . . 5, 6, 7 
4 adulterating food, drink or medicine ...... 8 
drugs ........ 8 
milk ......... 8-12 
wine or liquors 9 
butter and cheese ...... 10, 11, 12 Penalty for selling fraudulent canned goods _ • 23 
lard . . . 24 
liquors to minors - 44 
unwholsome food . . _ _ _ _ _ 24 
spreading small pox _ 24 
throwing dead animals into rivers or wells ...... 14 
running threshing machines in certain cases ..... 15 
killing fish by poison ....... 15 
contaminating rivers - 15 
neglect to protect steam boilers against explosion ..... 15 
producing miscarriage ........ 15 
attempting to poison food or drink . . . . . . . 15 
selling toy pistols, or revolvers to minors ..... 16 
using barb wire around school houses ...... 17 
getting on or off cars in motion ...... 17 
stealing hand cars . . . . . . . _ 28 
interferance with railroad trains ...... 17 
negl'Ct to hirnish locomotives with whistles ..... 18 
stop trains at crossings . . . . _ 18. 19 
of physicians to secure certificates ...... 22 
obstructing drains and ditches ....... 23 
violation of coal mining law ....... 27 
selling uninspected oil ....... 29 
violation of oil inspection law ....... 30 
obstructing state veterinary surgeon ...... 32 
allowing diseased sheep to run at large ...... 34 
bringing diseased animals into the state . . . . . 33,34 
selling drugs without license . . . . . . 35, 36, 37, 38 
violation of dentistry act ....... 40 
conspiracy against health of another . . . . . 41 
unlawful sale of poisons . . . . . . .9 35 39 
practicing medicine by itinerants ....... 37 
Pharmacists, government of ........ 34 
must be registered . . . . . . . 34 
fees for registering 33 
responsible for drugs sold ........ 36 
may sell intoxicating liquors, when ...... 36 
cannot sell liquor to minors or drunkards ..... 37 
may sell poisons, when ....... 37 
false registration punished ....... 38 
physicians may dispense there own prescriptions .... 39 
exempted from medical practice act ...... 22 
Pharmacy, regulation of.......... 34 
Physicians must report births and deaths ....... 3 
' register with the clerk of the district court ..... 4 
have certificate to practice ...... 19 
fees for certificate practice ........ 21 
examination ....... 21 
who are deemed ........ 21 
must record certificates to practice ...... 20 
itinerant must procure license . . .... 38 
may dispense their own prescriptions ...... 39 
Physiology and Hygiene must be taught in public schools ..... 16 
Public Officers required to enforce regulations of state board of health. . . 3 
Poisons, sale of. . . . . . . . . . 9 35 38 
use of to kill fish - 14 
Public Health, state board of health has supervision of .... 3 
local boards have power to protect ..... 5 
conspiracy to injure, punished ...... 41 
Quarantine, power to establish by state board of health ..... 3 
local boards of health ..... 5 Railroads, discharge of guns at trains punished ...... 17 
throwing stones at trains of ....... 17 
interferance with engines or cars of . . 17 
getting on or off trains in motion ....... 17 
running hand cars without authority ...... 18 
locomotives must have bells and whistles ...... 18 
trams must stop at crossings of railroads ..... 18 
whistle must be blown at all crossings ...... 18 
Recorder of County must register physicians certificates .... 20 
Rules of State Board of Health to be enforced by all peace officers ... 3 
Schools, physiology and hygiene to be taught in ..... 16 
teachers certificates denied, when ....... 16 
School House, use of barbed wire around prohibited ... . 17 
Sheep, diseased prohibited from the state . . . . . . . 34 
Small Pi x, spread of by public conveyance ...... 14 
State Board of Medical Examiners, powers and duties of . . . . . 20 
State Veterinary Surgeon, powers and duties of ..... 31 
may destroy stock, when ..... 32 
Steam Boilers, must have gauge, and safety valve ..... 15 
Threshing Machines, tumbling rods must be boxed ...... 15 
Toy Pistol, sale or gift of to minors prohibited ...... 16 
Water, throwing dead animals into wells, rivers, etc. . . . . . . 14 
contamination of a nuisance ....... 41 
Water Courses, how to be located for drainage ...... 21 
Wine, adulteration of.. .-..---. 9