438 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Board of Cattle Commissioners, 



Commonwealth Building, 11 Mt. Vernon SSt., 



Boston, June 26, 1899. 



To All Persons whotn it may concern. 



By virtue of the power and authority iu us vested by law, and 

 esjiecially under the provisions of chapter 408 of the Acts of the 

 year 1899, you are hereby notified that tuberculosis, which is a 

 contagious disease, and is so recognized under tlie laws of this 

 Commonwealth, exists among cattle of the several States and 

 Territories of the United States, the District of Columbia and 

 Canada, and such localities are, in the opinion of this Board, in- 

 fected districts. 



You are hereby further notified that, iu order to prevent tlie im- 

 portation of diseased animals, and as a means of suppressing such 

 diseases within this Commonwealth, this Board has passed the fol- 

 lowing order : — 



First. — No neat cattle brought from any State or Territory of the 

 United States, the District of Columbia, Canada or any other country 

 without the limits of this Commonwealth, shall be brought within the 

 limits of this Commonwealth, except for delivery directly to the Union 

 stock yards in the town of Watertown, the Boston & Albany stock yards 

 in Brighton, within the city of Boston, or the premises of the New Eng- 

 land Dressed Beef and Wool Company in the city of Somerville, except 

 upon a permit signed by the Board of Cattle Commissioners or some 

 one of its members ; and no neat cattle so brought for delivery at any 

 of said points shall be unloaded, except in case of accident, at any point 

 other than the said Boston & Albany stock yards in Brighton, the Union 

 stock yards in Watertown, or the New England Dressed Beef and Wool 

 Company in Somerville. 



Second. — All neat cattle brought within the limits of this Common- 

 wealth from any place designated in paragraph 1 hereof, excei^t for 

 delivery as provided in the preceding paragraph, must be accompanied 

 by a permit issued by this Board or some member thereof; and you are 

 hereby forljidden to receive for transportation animals other than those 

 designated in such permit. 



Tliird. — If, for any cause, any such neat cattle are received by any of 

 your agents within the limits of this Commonwealth at any place other 

 than the Union stock yards in Watertown, the Boston & Albany stock 

 yards in Brighton or the New England Dressed Beef and Wool Com- 

 pany in Somerville, not accompanied by a permit, as provided in para- 

 graph 2 hereof, you will immediately notify this office, giving the place 

 where said animals were received for shipment, the name of the con- 

 signee and destination of said animals. You will not remove said 

 animals or permit them to be removed from the car or vehicle in which 



