248 CONTAGIOUS LUNG FEVER OF CATTLE. 



made by tlic commissioners as aforesaid shall bo in force. And said selectmen and 

 mayors and aldermen shall carry ont and enforce all orders and directions of said com- 

 missioners, to thena directed, as they shall from time to time issne. 



Sec. 3. In addition to the jiower and authority conferred on the selectmen of towns 

 and mayors and aldermen of cities, by the act to which this is in addition, and which 

 are herein conferred upon said commissioners, the same commissioners shall have jiower 

 to provide for the establishment of a hospital or quarantine in some suitable place or 

 places, with proper accommodations of buildings, laud, &c., wherein may be detained 

 any cattle by them selected, so that said cattle so infected and exposed may be there 

 treated by such scientilic i^ractitioners of the healing art as may be there appointed 

 to treat the same. And for this purpose said commissioners may take any lands and 

 buildings in the manner proA^ided in the twelfth section of the act to which this is an 

 addition. 



Sec. 4. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby 

 authorized to appoint three competent persons to be a board of examiners to examine 

 into the disease called pleuro-pneumouia, and Avho shall attend at the hospital at quar- 

 antine established by the commissioners mentioned in the foregoing section, and there 

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

 enable them to study the symptoms and laws of the disease, and ascertain, so far as 

 they can, the best mode of treating cattle in view of the prevention and cure of the 

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

 to the governor and council, when their investigation shall have been concluded: 

 Provided, That the expense of said board of examiners shall not exceed ten thousand 

 dollars. 



Sec. 5. The selectmen of the several towns, and the mayors and aldermen of the 

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

 cattle in their respective towns and cities are infected with, or have been exposed to, 

 any such disease, give notice in writing to said commissioners of the same. 



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 mayors and aldermen of cities to enforce and cany into eifect all such regulations 

 as may, from time to time, be made for that end ; and any such officer refusing or neg- 

 lecting to enforce and carry out anyregulation of the commissioners, shall be punished 

 by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars for every such otfense. 



Sec. 7. The commissioners may, when in their j udgment 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 ap- 

 praised 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 in which said cattle 

 are kept, and the remainder by the commonwealth. 



Sec. 8. Whoever shall drive or transport any cattle from any jiortion of the common- 

 wealth east of the Connecticut Eivor toanyjiart west of said river before the first day 

 of April next without consent of the commissioners, shall bo punished by fine not ex- 

 ceeding five hundi'ed 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 com- 

 monwealth into any other State before the first day of April next, Avithout the consent 

 of the commissioners, shall bo 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 regulations made, or with any order 

 given, by the commissioners, he shall bo punished by fine not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year. 



Sec. 11. Prosecutions under the two preceding sections may bo 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 govcrnnor and council, and to the treasurers of the several cities and towns 

 wherein th(s 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 re^jeal shall not all'ect the validity of 

 the proceedings heretofore lawfully had under the iirovisions of said chapter. 



Sec. 14. The conuuissionci's and examiners shall keep a full record of their doings, 

 and make report of the same to the next legislature, on or before the 10th day of Jan- 

 uary next, unless sooner required by the governor; and the said record, or an abstract 

 of the same, shall bo 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. 



