No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 433 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Board of Cattle Commissioners, 

 Secretary's Office, 52 Village Street, Boston, April 9, 1895. 



To Inspectors of Animals and Provisions. 



Gentlemen : — Inasmuch as the temporary appropriation made 



for the uses of this commission by the present Legislature is nearly 



exhausted, we cannot at present carry on the work of examining 



such neat stock as you may see fit to place in quarantine, and pay 



for it if found diseased, until further appropriation is made. You 



are therefore hereby notified that any neat stock that you have 



already quarantined, and which has not yet been condemned by the 



Board, or that you may hereafter quarantine as being iu your opinion 



tuberculous, will have to so remain until such time as sufficient 



money is so appropriated. When such further appropriation is made, 



you will be promptly notified of the fact by us. 



Frederick H. Osgood, Chairman, 



Charles P. Lyman, Secretary, 



Maurice O'Connell, 



Leander F. Herrick, 



Charles A. Dennen, 



Board of Cattle Commissioners. 



After issuing this order the Board ceased to make further 

 examinations of animals placed in quarantine until after June 

 4, when a further appropriation was made. 



Upon April 9, at the time this order was issued, nine ani- 

 mals were in quarantine. Upon June 4 there w r ere in quaran- 

 tine, awaiting examination, eighty-six animals. The cost of 

 keeping these animals in quarantine from April 9 to June 4 

 fell entirely upon their owners, and was the occasion of a con- 

 siderable amount of complaint and hardship. The commission, 

 however, was unable to remedy this, because under the law it 

 had no authority to pay the expense of maintaining such ani- 

 mals in quarantine until after they had been examined ; and it 

 had no authority to incur the expense attendant upon the mak- 

 ing of these examinations. 



The passage of the law of 1895, while not making material 

 changes as to the general administration, did change, in cer- 

 tain details, a large number of sections of the law relating to 

 the administration of the work of the commission, which in- 

 volved an entire alteration of the system under which the work 



