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the town paying the damage may recover such damage and compensa- 

 tion from the town or towns where such owners, keepers or harborers 

 reside, unless such owners, keepers or harborers, or such town or 

 towns shall, on notice, pay to the treasurer of the town which paid said 

 damage the amount of such damage and compensation; and any town 

 which shall be obliged to pay any damage as aforesaid may recover 

 the amount thereof from the owners, keepers or harborers of the dogs 

 doing such damage. When any town shall have paid such damages to 

 the owners of sheep, lambs, Angora goats, Angora kids, horses, hogs, 

 cattle or other domestic animals or poultry as provided in this section, 

 and the amount of such damage cannot be collected from the owners, 

 keepers or harborers of said dogs, or shall have paid dog wardens for 

 dogs killed as provided by section 3401 of the general statutes, or 

 whenever any town, city or borough shall have paid expenses for 

 Pasteur treatment as provided by section 3417 of the general statutes, 

 the selectmen of such towns where damages have been paid to owners 

 of animals as hereinbefore mentioned, or the treasurer of any town, city 

 or borough who shall have paid for such Pasteur treatment, shall 

 forward to the state treasurer a statement of the facts in each case, 

 showing the amount so paid, and the state treasurer shall reimburse- 

 such town to the amount of such damage or expense from the funds 

 received by the state under the provisions of chapter 186 of the general 

 statutes. When the identity of the dogs by which the damage was done 

 shall be established to the satisfaction of the selectmen of the town in 

 which such dogs are owned, kept or harbored, the selectmen shall 

 order that such dogs shall be killed forthwith. When in the opinion of 

 the selectmen the damage shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, 

 the selectmen may call on the commissioner of domestic animals to as- 

 sess such dama.ge. 



CHAPTER 168. 



An Act Amending an Act Concerning Inspection and Trans- 

 portation of Cattle. 



Section 1. Section 2093 of the general statutes is amended to read 

 as follows: No person shall, except in accordance with the provisions 

 of this section and under a permit as provided for herein, ship or cause 

 to be shipped, or bring or cause to be brought, into this state any neat 

 cattle over six months of age unless a certificate of the health of such 

 cattle has been obtained from the authority having jurisdiction of the 

 diseases of domestic animals in the state from which such cattle are 

 brought or shipped and the owner of any cattle so brought into this 

 state or his agent shall, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of 

 such cattle at their destination, give notice thereof in writing to the 

 commis-sioner on domestic animals. Such animal shall be held in 

 quarantine until the certificate of health has been approved by the 

 commissioner. The commissioner may, in his discretion, grant to any 

 person making application therefor a permit in writing authorizing 

 such person to ship or bring neat cattle into this state, without having 

 obtained the health certificate provided for in this section, conditioned 

 that any such cattle shall be placed in quarantine at the place of their 

 final destination or such other place as shall be designated by such 

 commissioner. All cattle so placed in quarantine shall be examined by 

 the commissioner or his agent, either by physical examination or by 

 the tuberculin test, as said commissioner may determine, and shall 

 not be released from such quarantine until the commissioner shall 

 have ordered such release. The commissioner may cause any cattle> 



