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Sec. 4. Said selectmen and mayor and aldermen are hereby autborized to proLibit 

 the departure of cattle li-om any inclosure or to exclude cattle therefrom. 



Sec. 5. Said selectmen and uiayor and aldermen may make regulations in writing 

 to regulate or prohibit the passage Irom, 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 regrila- 

 tions, and may take all other necessary measures for the enforcement of such prohibi- 

 tion, and also for preveuting the spread of any such disease among the cattle in their 

 respective towns and cities and the immediate vicinity thereof. 



Sec. G. The regidations made by selectmen and mayor and aldennen in pursuance 

 of the foregoing section shall be recorded upon the records of their towns and cities 

 respectively, and shall be published in such towns and cities in such manner as may 

 be provided in such regulations. 



Sec. 7. Said selectmen and mayor and aldermen are authorized to cause all cattle 

 infected with such disease, or which have be«n exposed thereto, to be forthwith 

 branded upon the rump with the letter P, so as to distinguish the animal from other 

 cattle ; and no cattle so branded shall be sold or disposed of except with the knowledge 

 and consent of such selectmen and mayor and aldermen. Any person, without such 

 knowledge and consent, selling and disposing of an animal known to be efiected with 

 such disease, or known to have been exposed thereto within one year from such sale 

 or disposal, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by im- 

 prisonment not exceeding one year. 



Sec. 8. Any person disobeying the orders of the selectmen or mayor and aldermen, 

 made in conformity with the fourth section, or tlriving or transporting any neat cattle 

 contrary to the regulations made, recorded, and published as aforesaid, shall be piin- 

 ished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollai's, or by imprisonment not exceeding 

 one year. 



Sec. 9. Whoever knows, or has reason to suspect, the existence of any such disease 

 among the cattle in his possession or under his care, shall forthwith give notice to the 

 selectmen of the town or mayor and aldermen of the city where such cattle may be 

 kept, and for failure so to do shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year. 



Sec. 10. Any tovra or city whose officers shall neglect or refuse to carry into effect 

 the provisions of section one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, shall forfeit a sum 

 not exceeding five hundred dollars for each day's neglect. 



Sec. 11. All appraisals made under the pro%asions of this act shall be in writing, 

 and signed by the appraisers, and the same shall be certified to the governor and 

 councS, and to the treasurer of the several towns and cities wherein the cattle appraised 

 belong, by the selectmen and mayors and aldermen respectively. 



Sec. 12. The selectmen of the towns and mayor and aldermen of the cities are here- 

 by authorized, when in their judgment it shall be necessary to cany into efiect the 

 purjioses of this act, to take and hold possession, for a term not exceeding one year, 

 within their respective towns and cities, of any lands, without buildings other than 

 bams thereon, upon which it may bo necessary to enclose and isolate any cattle, and 

 they shall cause the damages sustained by the owners in consequence of such taking 

 and holding to be appraised by the assessors of the town or city wherein the lands so 

 taken are situated, and they shall fiuther cause a description of such land, setting 

 forth the boundaries thereof, and the aiea as nearly as may be estimated, together 

 with said appraisal 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 respectively may order. 

 If the owner of any land so taken shall be dissatisfied with the appraisal of said as- 

 sessors, he may, by action of contract, recover of the town or city wherein the lands 

 he, a fair compensation for the damages sustained by him ; but no cost shall be taxed 

 unless the damages recovered in such action, exclusive of interest, exceed the appraisal 

 of the assessors. And the commonwealth shall reimburse any town or city four-fifths 

 of any sum recovered of such town or city in any 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 hun- 

 dred and sixty, the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council, ia 

 hereby authorized to appoint two additional persons to constitute, with those now in 

 office, a board of commissioners upon the subject of plcuro-pueumonia, or any other 

 contagious disease now e.^istiug among the cattle of the commonwealth. 



Sec. 2. When said commissioners shall make and pubhsh any regulations concern- 

 ing the extirpation, cure, or treatment of cattle infected with, or which have been ex- 

 posed to the disease of pleuro-pneumonia, or other contagious disease, such regulations 

 shall supersede the regulations made by selectmen of towns and mayors and aldermen 

 of cities, upon the same subject-matter, and the operation of the -regulations made by 

 such selectmen and mayors and aldermen shall be suspended diuing the time those 



