26 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



April 23, 1881, visited the horses with Dr. A. H. Rose of 

 New Haven. He pronounced the horses glandered, and with 

 us reported to Messrs. Henry Davis and L. M. Leach, select- 

 men of Durham, that the horses were glandered. 



At our request he took virus from hoth mares. With the 

 matter from one mare he inoculated a horse at New Haven, 

 which contracted the glanders. 



These reports are appended marked No. 1 and No. 2. 



April 19th, we visited the horses with Dr. J. W. O'Sulli- 

 van, and after a very minute examination he was confirmed 

 in his former diagnosis, and with us reported to Selectman 

 L. M. Leach that the horses were glandered. 



May 6th, visited the horses with Dr. Parkinson, who sus- 

 tained his previous opinion that the horses were glandered. 



Oct. 15, visited the horses with Dr. Liautard of New York, 

 and Dr. Law of Cornell University. Their reports, giving 

 their unqualified opinion that the horses are glandered, are 

 appended marked 3 and 4. With such a weight of veterinary 

 authority we could give little heed to the claims of Mr. Mer- 

 win that the horses were not glandered and should be released, 

 which claims were not supported by a single competent veter- 

 inarian, and in like manner we could not admit his claim 

 that we should act under the general law and cause his horses 

 to be appraised and slaughtered, to be paid for by the State 

 rather than under the specific law for glanders, for we have 

 acted according to the advice of the most . eminent legal 

 authorities in the State. We refer to the opinion of E. H. 

 Hyde, Jr., endorsed by others and reprinted from last report. 

 This opinion has received the verbal support of the late Hon. 

 0. S. Seymour, member of the last General Assembly, Ex- 

 Gov. R. D. Hubbard, and of the Hon. Jeremiah Halsey of 

 Norwich, and is also endorsed by Ex-Gov. Charles R. Ingersoll. 

 See No. 5. 



Aug. 16, 1880, we applied for instructions to the Chief 

 Executive Gov. Charles B. Andrews, without whose approval 

 no bills for compensation for animals slaughtered under the 

 general act could be paid, referring to the claim of Mr. Mer- 

 win for compensation and calling his attention to both laws, 



