No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 439 



they are contained without a permit from this Board or some member 

 thereof; exce})t that if, by reason of tlie crowded condition of the car or 

 because of the long confinement of said animals within the same, or for 

 accident or otherwise, it is deemed expedient by you or your agent to 

 unload the same, such animal or animals may be removed by you from 

 said car or vehicle without such permit; but in such case you will 

 notify this office, and you will not allow said animal or animals to go 

 out of the possession of your agent or off of your j^remises where said 

 animals are unloaded except upon obtaining such permit. 



Fourth. — All neat cattle brought within the limits of the premises to 

 Brighton, Watertown and Somerville, designated in paragraph 1 hereof, 

 are hereby declared to be quarantined. 



Fifth. — Any person violating the provisions of this order will be pun- 

 ished as provided in section 36 of chapter 408 of the Acts of the year 

 1899. 



This oi'der shall take effect upon the twenty-sixth day of June, 

 1899. Austin Peters, Chairman, 



Leander F. Herrick, Secretary, 

 Charles A. Dennen, 



Board of Cattle Commissioners. 



The Board of Cattle Commissioners requires all persons 

 bringing cattle into this State, except calves under six 

 months old or beef cattle for immediate slaughter, to have 

 them tested with tuberculin prior to shipment or after arrival 

 in this State, unless special permission to tlie contrary is 

 given by this Board. All persons shipping or driving cattle 

 into Massachusetts must have a permit, unless sent by rail to 

 one of the quarantine stations at Brighton, Watertown or 

 Somerville. 



The examination of cattle coming from without the State 

 for sale in the markets of Brighton, Watertown and Somer- 

 ville has been continued throughout the year, and the follow- 

 ing tables show the numbers of animals received at the 

 several stations : — 



- Receipts of Stock at Watertown, from Dec. 15, 1898, to Dec. 



15, 1899. 

 Vermont cattle, 6,116 



New Hampshire cattle, 

 Massachusetts cattle, . 

 New York cattle, 

 Western cattle. 



6,403 



2,454 



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54,283 



