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DOGS ON BOAED U. S. VESSELS. 



Copies of correspondence addressed to the commanding officer at the 

 naval station at Pearl Harbor, to the commander of the Honolulu naval 

 yard and to the officer in charge of the U. S. transport service are ap- 

 pended for the Board's information. 



Eespectfully submitted, 



VICTOR A. NOEGAAED, 



Territorial Veterinarian. 



Territory of Hawaii, Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and For- 

 estry, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 8, 1920. 



Dr. V. A. Norgaard, Territorial Veterinarian, Honolulu. 



Dear Sir: — President Eice has directed that you take the necessary 

 steps concerning the dogs on board the destroyers and cruisers now ir 

 port. 



Very truly yours, 



(Sgd.) C. S. JUDD, 



Executive Officer. 



April 7, 1920. 



From: The Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 



To: Officers in Charge of the U. S. Transport Service, Port of Hono- 

 lulu. 



Subject: Bringing Dogs" into the Territory on IT. S, Transport in Con- 

 travention of the Eegulations of this Board. 



Sir: — Your attention is called to th^ following facts: 



1. Eabies or hydrophobia remains prevalent among dogs and other 

 animals on the mainland of the United States, and especially in the 

 Pacific Coast and Nevada. 



2. Eabies can only gain entrance into this Territory, where it has 

 never yet occurred, by means of dogs and other animals, generally re- 

 ferred to as ''mascots," introduced in contravention of Eule A^III of 

 this Board (copy enclosed) and which requires that such animals be 

 quarantined for one hundred and twenty (120) days before admission to 

 the Territory, 



3. Within the past year officers of this Board have twice apprehend- 

 ed dogs on transports (transport Sherman, April 13, 1919, and the trans- 

 port Logan, February 15, 1920), which undoubtedly would have gained 

 entrance here except for unofficial information reaching said officers, 

 leading to the apprehension and quarantine of the animals. 



4. In both cases neither the Master nor the quartermaster agent on 

 board had any knowledge of the presence of these animals on board. 



5. In the case of the transport Sherman the quartermaster agent on 

 board stated that it was impossible for him to enforce the department 

 quartermaster's regulations forbidding the presence on board of dog? 

 or other animals on the transport. 



6. The Territorial Veterinarian and his assistant and inspectors have 

 reason to believe that the two cases specified above constitute but a 

 fraction of similar attempts which have succeeded. 



7. Your attention is called to the correspondence on the same sub- 

 ject between your office and that of the Territorial Veterinarian of 



