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Sec. 6. The commissioners are authorized to make all necessary regulations 

 for the treatment, cure and extirpation of said disease, and may direct the 

 selectmen of towns and majors and aldermen of cities to enforce and carry into 

 effect all such regulations as may, from time to time, be made for that end; and 

 any such officer refusing or neglecting to enforce and cany out any regulation 

 of the commissioners shall be punished by fine not exceeding fire hundred dol- 

 lars for every such offence. 



Sec. 7. The commissioners may, when'in their judgment the public good shall 

 require it, cause to»be killed and buried any cattle which are infected with or 

 which have been exposed to said disease, and said commissioners shall cause 

 said cattle to be appraised in the same manner provided in the act to which this 

 is an addition ; and the appraised value of such cattle shall be paid, one-fifth 

 by the towns iu which said cattle are kept, and the remainder by the common- 

 wealth. 



Sec. 8. Whoever shall drive or transport any cattle from any portion of the 

 commonwealth east of Connecticut river to any part west of said river before 

 the first day of April next, without consent of the commissioners, shall be pun- 

 ished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the 

 county jail not exceeding one year. 



Sec. 9. Whoever shall drive or transport any cattle from any portion of the 

 commonwealth into any other State bef.)re the first day of April next, without ■ 

 the consent of the commissioners, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five 

 hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. 



Sec. 10. If any person fails to comply with any regulation made, or with any 

 order given by the commissioners, he shall be punished by fine not exceeding 

 five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year. 



Sec. 11. Prosecutions under the two preceding sections may be prosecuted 

 in any county in this commonwealth. 



Sec. 12. All appraisals made under this act shall be in writing, and signed 

 by the appraisers and certified by the commissioners, and shall be by them 

 transmitted to the governor and council, and to the treasurers of the several 

 cities and towns wherein the cattle appraised were kept. 



Sec. 13. The provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the acts 

 of one thousand eight hundred and sixty (except so far as they authorize the 

 appointment of commissioners) are hereby repealed, but this repeal shall not 

 affect the validity of the proceedings heretofore lawfully had under the provisions 

 of said chapter. 



Sec. 14. The commissioners and examiners shall keep a full record of their 

 doings, and make report of the same to the next legislature on or before the 

 tenth day of January next, unless sooner required by the governor; and the 

 said record, or an abstract of the same, shall be printed in the annual volume 

 of transactions of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Sec. 15. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall have 

 power to terminate the commission and board of examiners whenever, in his 

 judgment, the public safety may permit. 



AN ACT concerning contagions diseases among cattle. 



Sec. 1. The selectmen of towns and the mayor and aldermen of cities, in 

 case of the existence in this commonwealth of the disease called pleuro-pneu- 

 monia, or any other contagious diseases among cattle, shall cause the cattle in 

 their respective towns and cities, which are infected, or which have been exposed 

 to infection, to be secured or collected in some suitable place or places, within 

 such city or town, and kept isolated; and when taken from the possession of 

 their owners, to be maintained, one-fifth of the expense thereof to be paid by 

 the town or city wherein the animal is kept, and four-fifths at the expense of 



