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other than barns thereon, for inclosing and isolating any cat- 

 tle, and they shall cause the damages sustained by the owners in 

 consequence thereof, to be appraised by the assessors thereof, 

 and they shall further cause a description of such land, setting, 

 forth the boundaries thereof, and the area as nearly as may be 

 estimated, together with said appraisal, to be entered in the 

 records of the toAvn. The amount of said appraisal shall be 

 paid as provided in the thirty-seventh section in such sums 

 and at such times as they may order. If such owner is dis- 

 satisfied with the appraisal, he may, in an action of the case, 

 recover from the town a fair compensation for the damages 

 sustained b}^ him ; but no costs shall be taxed, unless the 

 damages recovered in such action, exclusive of interest, ex- 

 ceed the appraisal of the assessors. And the state shall reim- 

 burse any town four-fifths of any sum so recovered. 



Sec. 49. Whenever such disease exists in any town, the 

 municipal ofiicers shall forthwith give notice thereof to the 

 governor and secretary of the board of agriculture ; but if 

 commissioners have been appointed as hereinafter provided, 

 such notice shall be given to them. 



Sec. 50. The governor may, when he deems it expedient, 

 appoint commissioners who shall have full power to make all 

 necessary reguhitions, and to issue summary orders relative 

 thereto, for the treatment and extii'pation of any contagious 

 disease among cattle, and may direct the municipal ofiicers to 

 enforce and carry them into efiVjct ; and any such ofiicer or 

 Other person refusing or neglecting to enforce, carry out and 

 comply with any regulations of the commissioners shall be 

 punished by fine as provided in section forty-three. 



Sec. 51. AVhen said commissioners shall make and publish 

 any reguhitions, they shall supercede the regulations made 

 by the municipal oflScers, during the time those made by the 

 commissioners are in force. 



Sec. 52. All losses and damages and reasonable expenses 

 sustained in consequence of the execution of the orders of said 

 conmiissioners, shall l)e appraised as provided in the thirty- 

 ninth section, and as provided in the thirty-seventh section. 



