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praisal by the assessors, to be entered upon the records of the town or city. 

 The amount of said appraisal shall be paid, as provided in the first section, in 

 such sums and at such times as the selectmen or mayor and aldermen respect- 

 ively may order. If the owner of any land so taken shall be dissatisfied with 

 the appraisal of said assessors, he may, by action of contract, recover of the 

 town or city wherein the lands lie a fair compensation for the damages sustained 

 by him ; but no costs shall be taxed, unless the damages recovered in such ac- 

 tion, exclusive of interest, exceed the a'ppraisal of the assessor. And the com- 

 monwealth shall reimburse any town or city four-fifths of an^ sum recovered 

 of such town or city in such action. 



AN ACT in addition to an act concerning contagious diseases among cattle. 



Section 1. In addition to the commissioners appointed under the provisions 

 of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the acts of the year one thousand 

 eight hundred and sixty, the governor, by and with the advice and consent of 

 the council, is hereby authorized to appoint two additional persons to consti- 

 tute, with those now in otfice, a board of commissioners upon the subject of 

 pleuro-pneumonia, or any other contagious disease now existing among the cattle 

 of the commonwealth, • 



Sec. 2. When said commissioners shall make and publish any regulations 

 concerning the extirpation, cure, or treatment of cattle infected with or which 

 Lave been exposed to the disease of pleuro-pneumonia, or any other contagious 

 disease*, such regulations made by such selectmen and mayors and aldermen 

 shall be suspended during the time, and those made by the commissioners as 

 aforesaid sliall be in force. And said selectmen and mayors and aldermen shall 

 carry out and enforce all orders and directions of said commissioners, to them 

 directed, as they shall from time to time issue. 



Sec". 3. In addition to the power and authority conferred on the selectmen of 

 towns and mayors and aldermen of cities by tlie act to which this is an addition, 

 and which are herein conferred upon said commissioners, the same commissioners 

 shall have power to provide for the establishment of a hospital or quarantine in 

 some suitable place or places, with proper accommodations of buildings, land, 

 &c., wherein may be detained any cattle by them selected, so that said cattle 

 so infected and exposed may be there treated as such scientific practitioners of 

 the healing art as may be there appointed to treat the same. And for this pur- 

 pose Sf^id commissioners may take any lands and buildings in the manner pro- 

 vided in the twelfth section of the act to which this is an addition. 



Sec. 4. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council, is 

 hereby authorized to appoint three competent persons to be a board of examiners 

 to examine into the disease called pleuro-pneumonia, and who shall attend at 

 the hospital at c^uarantine established by the commissioners mentioned in the 

 foregoing section, and there treat and experiment upon such number of cattle, 

 both sound and infected, as will enable Wiem to study the symptoms and laws 

 of the disease, and ascertain, so far as they can, the best mode of treating cattle 

 in view of the prevention and cure of the disease, and who shall keep a full rec- 

 ord of their proceedings, and make a report thereon to the governor and council 

 when their investigations shall have been concluded : Provided, That the expense 

 of said board of examiners shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. 



Sec. 5. The selectmen of the several towns, and the mayors and aldermen of 

 the several cities, shall, within twenty-f.)ur hours after they shall have notice 

 that any cattle in their respective towns and cities are infected with or have been 

 exposed to any such disease, give notice in writing to said commissioners of the 

 same. 



