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that have been presented to tlieir attention, and as the 

 owners on receiving notification that their horses were glan- 

 dered liave promptly caused them to be killed according to 

 law, with one notable exception, it will be unnecessary to 

 enumerate these cases. 



The tedious case of the horses of H. S. Merwin still 

 remains on hand, and in order to a full understanding of it 

 we copy the report of last year, and continue its history to the 

 present date. 



About the middle of July, 1^80, we were informed that Mr. Merwin 

 had horses susjiected of glanders, recently brought from Vermont. July 

 20th, on information from Geo. H. Parkinson, a veterinary practitioner 

 of Middletown, that these horses in his opinion were glandered, we sent 

 notice of quarantine by him to Mr. Merwin, which was delivered July 

 21st. July 23d the commission visited the horses with Dr. O'Sullivan 

 of New Haven, but his report was -withheld till Mr. Merwin could also 

 call a veterinarian, and then one horse was pronounced by him as 

 glandered and the symptoms of the other such as "to demand close 

 quarantine." 



Thomas Bland, a veterinary practitioner of Waterbury, called by 

 Mr. Merwin, reported to us August 1st that the horses were glandered. 



August 4th, we again visited the horses and notified Mr. Merwin that 

 one horse was glandered, and called his attention to his duty under the 

 statute, and continued the quarantine of the other horse. 



Dr. Tibbals of New Haven also saw the horses and reported to us his 

 opinion that they were glandered. 



August 11th, we notified John Marshal, first selectman of Durham, of 

 the condition of the horses, and of the law. 



In August, as Mr. Merwin refused to admit that the horses were 

 glandered, and claimed that if glandered they should be appraised and 

 slaughtered by the commission, and paid for by the State, the commis- 

 sion offered him to have the horses appraised and slaughtered, and if 

 found glandered to be his loss, he also paying the veterinary expense, 

 but if not glandered the ■commission would pay for the horses and 

 expenses. This offer substantially was repeated at other times. 



October 1st, Dr. Noah Cressy examined the horses at our call, and 

 reported the existence of glanders as "decidedly doubtful," but says 

 that "under such a doubtful condition they cannot be relieved from 

 quarantine." 



October 30th, we again examined the horses, and at this time with- 

 drew the notice that required Mr. Merwin, according to the statute, to 

 slaughter one of the horses, and quarantined them both. 



December 1st, Dr. O'Sullivan made a second visit and sustained his 

 previous opinion. 



