No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 435 



missioners or any of its members, in the discharge of its or their 

 duties. 



Your attention is specially called to section 4 of the law herewith, 

 which is section 1 of chapter 496 of the laws of this year. This law 

 extends your duties in relation to inspection beyond that of last year. 

 Under tbe previous law it was your duty to make regular inspections 

 of all neat cattle within the limits of your city or town. This duty 

 still remains in force. You will make this inspection in accordance 

 with General Order No. 6, issued by this Board, March 25, 1895, 

 which is as follows : — 



General Order No. 6. 



Hereafter inspectors will make one thorough, regular examination of all 

 neat stock in each year. This examination shall commence in October, or 

 as soon thereafter as animals shall be in from pasture, and be continued 

 with all proper dispatch until finished. Carefully made reports of the re- 

 sults of this examination, upon the proper blanks (Form No. 1), must reach 

 this office on or before the first day of May in each year. Inspectors are 

 also ordered to make further inspections of any herds or of any animals 

 within their district whenever any emergency arises, or whenever in their 

 judgment, because of numerous changes or otherwise, it is better for the 

 service for them to do so. 



The law further requires you to make regular and thorough inspec- 

 tions of sheep and swine, as well as neat cattle. You will make this 

 inspection at the same time that you make the inspection of neat 

 cattle, under General Order No. 6. The Board has no special in- 

 structions to give you in regard to the inspection of sheep. It has no 

 knowledge that tuberculosis exists in sheep, nor can the Board point 

 out to you any particular method which it desires to have you follow 

 to assist you in detecting tuberculosis in swine when alive. 



Under section 5 it is your duty to keep a complete record of all in- 

 spections made by you upon the stub accompanying form No. 1, '95. 

 In making this record you will be careful to make it complete both 

 in the stub and in the return of such inspection, which should be 

 made regularly to this commission, upon the proper blank (No. 1, 

 '95), being careful to state particularly as to each animal. A sepa- 

 rate page of these returns should be mailed to this office, correspond- 

 ■ ing with each certificate of inspection which you deliver to the owner. 

 There should be one of these certificates returned for each owner or 

 herd. Under the provisions of section G it is made your duty to 

 deliver to the owner, or person in charge, a certificate covering the 

 animals inspected by you where you fail to find any contagious dis- 

 ease present. This certificate, under the present law, includes not 

 only neat cattle but also sheep and swine. You should impress upon 



