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passing in violation of such regulations, and may take all 

 other necessary measures for the enforcement of such prohi- 

 bition, and for preventing the spread of any such disease 

 among the cattle in their towns, and the immediate vicinity 

 thereof. 



Sec, 42. Such regulations shall be recorded in the records 

 of their towns, and shall be published in such towns in such 

 manner as such regulations provide. 



Sec. 43. Any person who sells or disposes of any animal 

 infected or known to have been exposed to infection within 

 one year at^er such exposure, without the knowledge or con- 

 sent of the municipal officers, shall be punished by fine not 

 exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceed- 

 ing one year. 



Sec. 44. Any person disobeying the orders of said muni- 

 cipal officers, made in conformity with the fortieth section, 

 or driving or transporting any neat cattle contrary to the 

 regulations made, so recorded and published, shall be punished 

 as provided in section forty-three. 



Sec. 45. Whoever knows or has reason to suspect the ex- 

 istence of any fatal contagious disease among the cattle in his 

 possession or under his care, shall forthwith give notice thereof 

 to the municipal officers, and for failure to do so, shall be 

 punished as provided in section forty-three. 



Sec. 46. Any town whose officers shall neglect or refuse 

 to carry into effect the provisions of section thirtj^-seven, 

 thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-one, forty-two and forty- 

 three, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars 

 for each day's neglect. 



Sec. 47. All appraisals made under the provisions of sec- 

 tion thirty-nine shall be in writing and signed by the aj^prais- 

 ers, and shall be certified by the numicipal officers to the 

 governor and council, and to the treasurers of their towns. 



Sec. 48. The municipal officers of towns may, when they 

 deem it necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this 

 chapter, take and hold possession for a term not exceeding 

 one year, of any land within their towns without buildings 



