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the commonwealth, such isolation to continue so long as the existence of such 

 disease or other circumstances renders the same necessary. 



Sec. 2. Said selectmen and mayor and aldermen, when any such animal is 

 adjudged, by a veterinary surgeon or physician by them selected, to be infected 

 with the disease called pleuro-pneumonia, or any other contagious disease, may, 

 in their discretion, order such diseased animal to be forthwith killed and buried 

 at the expense of such town or city.^ 



Sec. 3. Si|ch selectmen and mayor and aldermen shall cause all cattle which 

 they shall so order to be killed to be appraised by three competent and disin- 

 terested men, under oath, at the value thereof at the time of the appraisal, and 

 the amount of the appraisal shall be paid as provided in the first section. 



Sec. 4. Said selectmen and mayor and aldermen are hereby axithorized to 

 prohibit the departure of cattle from any enclosure, or to exclude cattle therefrom. 



Sec. 5. Said selectmen and mayor and aldermeil may make regulations in 

 writing to regulate or prohibit the passage from, to, or through their respective, 

 cities or towns, or from place to place within the same, of any neat cattle, and 

 may arrest and detain, at the cost of the owners thereof, all cattle found passing 

 in violation of such regulations, and may take all other necessary measures for 

 the enforcement of such prohibition, and also for preventing the spread of any 

 such disease among the cattle in their respective towns and cities, and the im- 

 mediate vicinity thereof. 



Sec. 6. Whenever cattle exposed to contagious diseases are killed by order 

 of the commissioners, and upon post mortem examination shall be found to have 

 been entirely free from disease, it shall be the duty of the commissioners to 

 cause the same to be sold under their direction, first giving the purchaser notice 

 of the fact, and if the said purchaser or any other person shall sell said slaughtered 

 cattle, or any part thereof, they shall in like manner give notice to the parties 

 to whom the same is sold, and the proceeds of the sales made by order of the 

 commissioners shall be applied in payment of the appraised value of said cattle. 



BEET-SUGAR. 



THE PROGRESS OF ITS MANUFACTURE IN FRANCE AND GERMANY. 



In publishing the subjoined letter from H. Kreismann, our consul at Berlin, 

 relative to the manufacture of beet-sugar in the Zollverein, we preface it with 

 some remarks on the rise and progress of its manufacture in France. The his- 

 tory of beet- sugar is not only interesting in itself, but furnishes a useful political 

 lesson in showing the necessity of encouraging a new product, Avhen exposed to 

 foreign competition, by a protective duty. 



Although the manufacture of beet-sugar was first established in France, yet 

 the fact that the beet yielded sugar was first ascertained by Margraff, a Prus- 

 sian, in 1747. But no practical good was accomplished by him. Twenty-five 

 years afterwards, another chemist of Berlin, Archard, renewed the investigation 

 of the subject, under the encouragement of Frederick the Great, but it was not 

 until 1795 that he published anything in reference to it. In theory he main- 

 tained the utility of the manufacture, not only for the sugar that the beet would 



