No. 4.] 



CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 



467 



Cattle Commissioners have expended, during the year end- 

 ing Dec. 16, 1901, as follows : — 



For cattle condemned, killed and found tuberculous, 1,341 



head, 



For cattle condemned, killed and no lesions found, 21 head, 



For quarantine expenses, 7 head, . 



For expenses of killing and burial, 



For expenses of arbitration, . 



For salaries of commissioners, 



For expenses of commissioners, 



For services of agents, .... 



For expenses of agents, .... 



For services of clerks and stenographers, 



For books and blanks for annual inspection, 



For blanks for quarantine stations, etc., . 



For rent of office, ten months, . 



For postage, express, stationery and general office expenses, 



For animals for investigating outbreak of symptomatic 



anthrax, 



For care and keeping of same, 



For examinations, tests and expert investigations on account 



of symptomatic anthrax, ....... 



For examinations and tests for rabies, 



For other laboratory and experimental work, 



For tuberculin, mallein and implements, .... 



For expenses of quarantine stations, Brighton, Somerville 



and Watertown, 



For expenses of work in the suppression of glanders, . 

 For expenses of killing and burial of glandered horses, 



Total, 



Of this amount, $7,857.25 was paid on account of claims 

 outstanding at the beginning of the year, leaving $45,393.02 

 chargeable to the appropriation of $50,000 for 1901, and 

 an unexpended balance of $4,606.98, which it is expected 

 will be sufficient to meet all unsettled accounts. 



The $50,000 appropriated for 1900 being insufficient to 

 meet the expenses of that year, appropriations were made 

 by the Legislature to supply the deficiency; $2,597.13 by 

 chapter 122, and $810.98 by chapter 490, Acts of 1901. 



The average price paid for the 1,362 condemned cattle 

 was $20.36, and less than the previous year by $1.30 per 

 head. 



