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Lawmakers said at the time that the law would also give counties a complete picture of the number of dogs entering their jurisdiction from outside California — a blind spot for local animal control officers as pet sales were increasingly made online, according to files in the State Archives.

Co-editor Bernard Wilkin, a historian at the State Archives of Belgium, talked to Science about the grisly trade.

Science talked to co-authors Bernard Wilkin, a historian at the State Archives of Belgium, and archaeologist Arne Homann, director of the City Museum of Salzgitter, about the historical trade and its implications.

They combed through dusty Department of Interior records at the National Archives, the Alaska and Oregon state archives, and old Alaska court records for any tidbit: the results of commitment trials, cemetery files, death certificates, old newspaper stories and U.S. marshals reimbursement records for the costs of escorting patients.

Gov. Denny Heck, who presides over the Senate, mentioned the 1889 state Constitution, on loan from the state archives and displayed on the dais to mark the opening of the session.