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cattle down here, making Massachusetts virtually a border 

 State, and entailing upon us the disastrous results. In this 

 emergency, as a measure of self-interest and protection, the 

 Commissioners would earnestly recommend to the legislature 

 the enactment of a law forbidding all persons to bring into 

 this State any Texas or Cherokee cattle, between the first day 

 of June and the first day of October, and with such pro- 

 visions that the same may be effectually enforced. 



Levi Stockbridge, 

 L. F. Thayer, 



Commissioners on Contagious Diseases among Cattle, 



Boston, January 6, 1876. 



A]^]:^UAL meeti:ng of the board. 



The Board met at the office of the Secretary, in Boston, on 

 Tuesday, the first of February, 1876, at twelve o'clock. His 

 Excellency, Governor Rice, in the chair. 



Present : Messrs. Baker, Bates, Bennett, Dwight, Graves, 

 Goessmann, Hadwen, Ilawes, Holland, Kellogg, Knox, Ladd, 

 Loring, Moore, Perry, Peirce, Phinney, Rice, Saltonstall, 

 Sargent, Sessions, Shepley, Stone, Vincent, Wakefield, L. P. 

 Warner, W. L. Warner and Wilder. 



The reading of the records having been dispensed with, a 

 committee, consisting of Messrs. Wilder, Kellogg and Salton- 

 stall, was appointed to consider and report upon the order of 

 business. 



The committee subsequently submitted the following re- 

 port : — 



1 . Reports of Delegates. 



2. Report of Committee on Agricultural College. 



3. Reports on Subjects assigned for Essays. 



4. Miscellaneous Business. 



5. Appointment of Delegates. 



Marshall P. Wilder. 

 Leverett Saltonstall. 

 E. H. Kellogg. 



