498 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



ties of Great Britain, in relation to rinderpest, is similar to that 

 taken by the present Board of Commissioners in Massachusetts, 

 in relation to pleuro-pneumonia. 



"Prof. Siinonds further says that a focus of the disease still 

 exists; consequently the law passed by Congress, preventing the 

 landing of any cattle from foreign seaports, should be continued 

 in force. 



"We append to this report, a statement of the entire expendi- 

 ture, by the State of Massachusetts, for the extirpation of the 

 disease, since its commencement in I860, obtained from the treas- 

 urer's books, which is $67,511.08. In addition to this amount, 

 the several towns where the disease has been found, have paid 

 one-fifth of the cost of isolation, and of the appraised value of 

 all the cattle killed, amounting to a sum which we estimate at 

 $10,000. (There is no printed report of the number of cattle 

 killed by order of the selectmen of towns in 1863.) 



"The amount paid from the treasury on account of pleuro- 

 pneumonia, is as follows: 



Thus, it will be seen, that the disease in Massachusetts was 

 effectually "stamped out" by the energetic, relentless action of 

 the Commissioners appointed by the State for that purpose. 



We do not find in this report any account of the workings of 

 the disease, and for that omission, we are enabled to supply them 

 from a report of the Commissioners appointed by a law of the 

 Legislature of the State of Nejv York, passed in the year 1866, 

 immediately after the passage of the law by Congress prohibit- 

 ing the further importation of foreign cattle into this country. 

 We cannot do better, perhaps, than to copy the "circular," 



