400 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sept. 22. Board visited Murray Street stable of railroad com- 

 pany, Cambridge, and examined 169 of the 184 horses kept there, 

 the others being on the road. 



Voted, to instruct the Secretary to send the following letter to 

 the superintendent of the railroad : — 



Boston, Mass, Sept. 22, 1887. 



To the Superintendent of the Cambridge Horse-railroad. 



Sir : — The undersigned Cattle Commissioners of Massachusetts have 

 this day examined 169 of the horses in the service of your railroad, 

 found in the so-called Murray Street stable, and having found glanders 

 existing among said horses, you are hereby ordered and directed to 

 strictly quarantine and keep off from the public streets, until further 

 notice from this Board, all the horses known by the following numbers, 

 namely: 2260, 1647, 271, 290, 1758,1648, 269, 2275, 2271, 2255, 2279, 

 2535, 2273, 2308, 2510, 2312, 2300, 2261, 2297, 2307, 2284, 1764, 2271, 

 2267, 2255 and 1918, — 26 animals. 



Levi Stockbridge, 

 A. W. Cheever, 

 J. F. Winchester, D. V. S., 

 Cattle Commissioners of Massachusetts. 



By A. W. Cheever, Secretary. 



It was also voted to send the following letter to the superintend- 

 ent by the Secretary : — 



Dedham, Mass., Sept. 22, 1887. 

 Col. Wm. A. Bancroft. 



Dear Sir : — According to my promise in reply to yours of the 19th 

 inst., I report the decision of the Board of Cattle Commissioners regard- 

 ing your request for permission to remove a part or all of the horses 

 recently ordered to quarantine to a vacant stable owned by the railroad 

 company, where better facilities for exercising them will bo afforded. 

 The decision is that such removal is permitted, provided the vacant 

 stable named is within the limits of the city of Cambridge, and that the 

 animals shall be removed at such times and in such manner as shall in 

 no way expose other horses to contagion, and that this Board shall 

 receive notice forthwith of the location of said stable. 



I am truly yours, 



A. W. Cheever, 

 Secretary of the Massachusetts Cattle Commissioners. 



Sept. 23. Board examined Cambridge Railroad horses in the 

 Beacon Street and Spring Street stables in Somervalle, Mass., and 

 voted to send the following letter to the superintendent : — 



Boston, Mass., Sept. 23, 1887. 

 To the Superintendent of the Cambridge Railroad, Cambridge, Mass. 



Sir: — The Cattle Commissioners have this day examined seventy- 

 one of the seventy-five horses kept in your horae-car stable on Beacon' 



