A.BSTR^CT 



or 



Report of Commissioners on Contagious Diseases 



of Cattle— 1887. 



To His Excellency, S. S. Marble^ Governor of Maine : 



The Commissioners appointed by our late lamented Governor, 

 under an act entitled '' An Act to extirpate contagious diseases 

 among cattle," to be known and designated as the "State of Maine 

 Cattle Commission," beg leave to report that the Commissioners met 

 at Bangor on May 3d, 1887, for organization and the election of 

 officers as follows : 



F. O. Beal, Bangor, President ; W. W. Harris, Portland, Secre- 

 tary ; Greo. H. Bailey, V. S., Portland, Veterinary Inspector. 



Voted, To adopt the following rules and regulations : 



An Act to extirpate contagions diseases amonoj cattle, passed by the 

 last Legislature of Maine, is now in force, and the following rules and 

 regulations have been adopted. 



Chapter 138, sections 4, 5 and 7, are as follows : 



Section 4. That any person or persons who shall knowingly and wil- 

 fully refuse permission to said Commissioners, or either of them, to make, 

 or who knowingly and wilfully obstructs said Commissioners, or either of 

 them, in making all necessary examinations of animals supposed by 

 said Commifsioners to be diseased as aforesaid, or in destroying the 

 same, or who knowingly attempts to prevent said Commissioners, or 

 either of them, from entering upon the premises and other places herein- 

 before specified where any of said diseases are by said Commissioners 

 supposed to exist, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon 

 conviction thereof, or of either of the acts in this section prohibited, shall 

 be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprison- 

 ment, at the discretion of the court. 

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