county court clerk of the county in which he or she resides, stating his or her name, place of residence, post office address, height, color, color of eyes and hair, number of seines to be used or possessed and the fact whether he or she can write his or her name, and paying the said county court clerk the sum of five dollars and twenty-five cents for each license and one tag for each seine of one hundred feet in length and two dollars additional for each one hundred feet or fraction thereof, when it exceeds one hundred feet in length. When metal tag mentioned in this act is attached to seine, the licensee shall be entitled to possess or use it in any of the streams mentioned in section two of this act, but nothing herein contained shall authorize any one to go upon the private property of another without the owner's consent.

Section Eleven. Non-Resident Fishing License for Nets and Seines and Tags Therefor-How Ob'tained. Any non-resident or person who has not been a resident of this state for one year may procure a fisherman's license for nets or seines from any county court clerk in the state the same as a resident, provided however, that he or she pay double the fees charged residents for a like net or seine license and tags. Said non-resident when he has complied with the provisions as here set out shall entitle him or her to fish in any of the streams mentioned in section two of this act, when the metal tag herein described is attached to the net or seine, but nothing herein contained shall entitle such persons to go upon the private property of another without the owner's consent.

Section Twelve. Duties of Game and Fish Wardens and Certain Peace Officers.-It shall be the duty of the Game and Fish Wardens or such other

person or persons appointed by the Game and Fish Commission, sheriff or his deputies, constable or his deputies and all peace officers within the state to enforce the provisions of this act for the protection, preservation and propagation of fish. They may arrest on sight without warrant any persons detected by them, or any of them in the act of violating any of the provisions of this act. They shall have the same right as sheriff to require aid in arresting without process or with process any person or persons found by them in the act of violating the provisions of this act, or they or any of them shall have authority to seize without process any nets or seines found in the possession of any one, when said nets or seines do not bear a license tag or tags, and it shall be their duty to destroy any and all nets or seines found in the water within one quarter of a mile of the mouth of any streams mentioned in section two of this act, or within one quarter of a mile of any lock or dam, and no liability shall be incurred by any person so charged and directed.

Section Thirteen. Blanks and All Other Printed Matter Provided for. The blank licenses, metal tags and other printed matter necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, shall be printed under the directions of the commission, and shall be paid for in a like manner and upon the same terms as other public printing.

Section Fourteen. Penalty for Violating.-Any person violating any provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifteen ($15.00) nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars.

Section Fifteen. Emergency Declared.-As there is now a great demand for more and reasonable food, this act shall be in full force and effect when signed

by the Governor on and after the first day of April one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

Approved March 27, 1918.

CHAPTER 68.

AN ACT to put into effect the amendment to Section 201 of the Constitution, being Chapter 125 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1916, adopted by the voters of the Commonwealth at the November election 1917; to give to the Railroad Commission jurisdiction over the purchase or lease of one telephone company by another as required by such amendment. Whereas the General Assembly at its regular session, 1916, proposed an amendment to Section 201 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, said amendment being Chapter 125 of the Acts of 1916, and

Whereas said amendment was submitted to the voters of the Commonwealth at the November election, 1917; and at said election said amendment was adopted by a large majority, and has since, as provided by law, been proclaimed a part of the constitution by the Governor, now,

Therefore, in order to give the Railroad Commission jurisdiction of the subject matter of said amendment:

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That telephone companies may acquire by purchase or lease, or otherwise and operate, parallel or competing exchanges, lines and structures, and the property of other telephone companies, if the railroad commission or such other State commission as may have jurisdiction over such matters shall first consent thereto, and if, further, each municipality wherein such property or any part thereof is located shall also first consent thereto as to the property within its limits, but under any such acquisition and operation toll line connections with the property so acquired shall be continued and maintained under

an agreement between the purchasing company and the toll line companies then furnishing such service, and in the event they are unable to agree as to the terms of such an agreement the Railroad Commission or such other State commission as may have jurisdiction over such matters, shall fix the terms of such agreement. "This act is not intended to deprive any governmental agency of any power now invested in it by law to regulate and supervise such companies, and their exchanges, lines, rates, and tolls."

§ 2. The Railroad Commission shall have jurisdiction of the matters set out in section one of this act, and shall keep a record of its acts in relation thereto to be entered in the minutes of said Commission.

3. This act shall take effect from its passage and approval by the Governor, and all acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 20, 1918.

CHAPTER 69.

AN ACT to suppress, prevent, control and eradicate communicable diseases in live stock, to provide the necessary officers and define their duties and powers, and to appropriate funds necessary for its enforcement, and repealing Section 63a of Article 2, Chapter 5, Carroll's 1915 edition, Kentucky Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

$ 1. a. Whenever the word "Board" is used in this act, it shall be construed to mean the State Live Stock Sanitary Board of Kentucky;

b. Whenever the word "communicable disease" is used in this act, it shall refer to any one of the

following: Anthrax, black leg, catarrhal influenza of horses or cattle, contagious pleuro-pneumonia, foot and mouth disease or aptheous fever, glanders, hemorrhagic septicaemia, hog cholera, maladie ducoit or dourine, mange of cattle or horses, necrobacillosis or foot rot in sheep, rabies or hydrophobia, rinderpest, scabies in cattle or sheep, Texas' tick or Southern cattle fever, tuberculosis, or any other disease now or hereafter proclaimed by the board to be of a transmissible character;

C.

Whenever the word "owner" appears in this act, it shall be construed to mean any person owning or leasing from another, or having in charge any domestic animal or animals;

d. Whenever the word "premises" is used in this act, it shall be construed to mean any part or portion of land, or any structure erected on land, and any vehicle, or vessel used in the transportation of passengers, goods or animals whether by land or

water;

e. Whenever the word "person" is used in this act, it shall be construed to mean any individual, copartnership, association or corporation.

§ 2. That, it shall be the duty of every practitioner of veterinary medicine, surgery or dentistry, owner or person having knowledge of the existence of any communicable disease of live stock within the State, to immediately report same to the county live stock inspector of the county, in which the disease exists, or to the State Veterinarian. This report shall be in writing and shall include a description of the animal or animals, the name and exact postoffice address of the owner, location of animal or animals, the number of susceptible animals exposed to the disease and the number of animals having died of the disease. Failure on the part of the