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judged free from disease, and were appraised and paid for. 

 Measures were taken for the safe disposition of the carcasses 

 of the diseased animals, and the disinfection of the premises j 

 and there have been no cases on the adjoining farms. That 

 the disease was the dreaded swine-plague of the West, and 

 that it was communicated to JNIr. Hawkes's stock by the ani- 

 mals taken from the cars, there is not a shadow of doubt. 

 'Through no fault of his own (for the hogs from the cars 

 were taken to his yards in his absence, and without his 

 consent) Mr. Hawkes met with a great pecuniary loss. The 

 result should lead all to great caution against similar expos- 

 ure. The last appropriation for the purposes of the commis- 

 sion was 12,000. 



There have been allowed and paid bills to the amount of 

 $1,949, and there are now outstanding bills to the amount of 

 $600 ; leaving a deficiency to be provided for of $549. The 

 expenses incurred by the Board the past year have been un- 

 usually large, caused by the greater number of calls for aid, 

 the distance travelled, and the peculiar character of some 

 of the cases. The eradication of glanders from one centre of 

 infectiori at Taunton was effected only by an expenditure of 

 $500. With the facts of the past year before us, if the work 

 of the Board is to be continued, we recommend an appropria- 

 tion for the ensuing year of $2,500 in addition to the defi- 

 ciency now existing. 



Levi Stockbridge, 

 E. F. Thayer, 

 H. W. Jordan, 



Commissioners on Contagious Diseases among Cattle.. 

 Boston, Jan. 10, 1882. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD. 



The Board met at the office of the secretary, in Boston, 

 on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 1882, Mr. Wilder, chairman of the 

 Executive Committee, in the chair. 



Present : Messrs. Anderson, Baker, Bird, Bowditch, Farns- 

 worth, Fay, Gaylord, Gleason, Grinnell, Goodrich, Hadwen, 

 Haskell, Herrick, Hersey, Hill, Jewett, Lane, Lynde, May- 



