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selectmen Mild mayors and aldermen shall carry out and enforce ;i!l order* and diree- 

 !ioii> ot' said commissioners to them directed, as they shall from time to time issue. 



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

 t.ow us and mayors and aldermen of cit ies h\ the act to which this is in addition, and 

 which are herein conferred upon said commissioners, t he same commissioners shall 

 ha\e power to provide for the establishment of a hospital or <|iiarant ine in some 

 .smtalde place or places, with proper accommodations of buildings, laud, Ac., 

 wherein may he detained any cattle by them selected, so that said cattle so infected 

 01 exposed may he there treated by such scientific pracrit ioners of 1 he healing art 



as maybe appointed to treat the same. And for t his purpose said coinmissi -is 



ma\ take any lands and buildings in t he manner provided in t he t welfl h sect ion of 

 the act to which this is in addition. 



-it. 1. The governor, by and \\ it h t he ad\ ice and consent of t he council, is hereby 

 au.hori/ed to appoint three competent persons to lie a hoard of examiners to exam- 

 ine into the disease called pleuro-pnennionia. w ho shall attend at the hospital or 

 <|iiarantine established by the commissioners mentioned in the foregoing section and 

 treat and experiment upon such number of cattle, both sound ami infected, as 

 will enable them to study the symptoms and laws of tile disease, and ascertain, so 

 far as they can. the best mode of treating cattle in \ ie\\ of the prevention and cure 

 of the disease, and who shall keep a full record of their proceedings and make report 

 "ii to the governor and council, when their in\ est igat ions shall have been con- 

 cluded: rrovldni. That the expense of said board of examiners shall not exceed tea 

 thousand dollars. 



SKC. 5. The selectmen of the several towns, and mayors and aldermen of the s- \ - 

 eral cities, shall, within twenty-four hours after they shall have, notice, that any cat- 

 t heir respective towns and cities are infected with, or have been exposed to any 

 such disease, give not ice in writ ing to said commissioners of the same. 



. ti. The commissioners are authori/ed to make all necessary regulations for 

 the treatment, cure, and extirpation of said disease, and may direct the select men of 

 towns and mayors 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 re- 

 fusing or neglecting to enforce and carry out any regulation of the commissioners 

 shall be punished by tine not exceeding five hundred dollars for every such otfence. 



SKC. 7. The commissioners may. when in their judgment the public good shall re- 

 quire it. cause to be killed and buried any cattle which are infected with, or which 

 ha\e been exposed to. said disease: and said commissioners shall cause said cattle to 

 be appraised in the same i. ..aner provided in the act to which this is in addition, and 

 the appraised value of such cattle shall be paid, one-fifth by the towns in which said 

 cattle were kept, and The remainder by the Commonwealth. 



SK.( . >. Whoever shall drive or transport any cattle from any portion of the Com- 

 monwealth 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 punished by line not 

 exceeding live hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 

 ear. 



SKC. l. AYhoever shall drive or transport any cattle from any portion of the Com- 

 monwealth into any other State before the first day of April next, without the con- 

 sent of the commissioners, he shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred 

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



- . Hi. 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. ,r by imprisonment not exceeding one year. 



SKC. 11. Prosecutions under the two preceding sections may be prosecuted in any 

 county in this Commonwealth. 



SKC. 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 

 tiie cattle appraised were kept. 



M.c. 13. The provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of" the acts of the 

 \ear one thousand eight hundred and sixty, except so far as the authorize the appoint- 

 ment of commissioners, are hereby repealed; but this repeal shall not affect the valid- 

 ity of any proceedings heretofore lawfully had under the provisions of said chapter. 



M.c. 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 iii the annual volume of trail-actions of the 

 >>'.ite Hoard of Agriculture. 



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

 power to terminate the commission and board of examiner^ win-never in his judgment 

 the public safety may permit. 



SKC. 16. This act .shall take effect from its pas-, 



(June 12, 1860.) 



