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their animals were glandered. Notwithstanding the large 

 number of animals that have been thus disposed of, we do 

 not feel justified in saying that at this date there is any 

 abatement of the disease. In our work we have received* 

 the hearty co-operation of gentlemen of the veterinary pro- 

 fession, of municipal authorities, of boards of health, and 

 other organizations, but have quite often found the owners 

 of diseased horses engaged in schemes to conceal their ani- 

 mals, or thwart the action of the Board. Such conduct 

 serves only to perpetuate the disease without benefiting the 

 owner, is positively forbidden by law, and to prevent which 

 the penalty as provided, of five hundred dollars or a year's 

 imprisonment, appears not too severe. 



As by law four-fifths of the appraised value of the horses 

 slain, of the cost of isolation, of appraisal, killing, and burial, 

 is paid by the State, the drafts upon the treasury by our 

 year's work have been larger than was anticipated by the 

 last Legislature. Our work, and, consequently, expenses, 

 have been continued to date, and several recent items and 

 bills have not yet reached the Board. The aggregate of 

 those now approved amounts to the sum of $1,668.44. The 

 appropriation for this purpose by the Legislature of 1879 

 was 11,000; of this sum about $207 was used to meet the 

 deficiency of 1878, leaving but $783 to defray the expenses 

 of 1879. The deficiency of the present year, when all bills 

 now outstanding are presented, must aggregate the sum of 

 81.000, for the payment of which provision should be made ; 

 and if the work of combating glanders is to be continued, 

 as appears desirable, a sufficient appropriation should be 

 made to defray the expense. 



Levi Stockbridge, 

 E. F. Thayer, 

 H. W. Jordan, 



Commissioners on Contagious Diseases among Cattle. 

 Boston, Jan. 8, 1880. 



