No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 439 



If you cannot find either the owner or anybody in charge, you will 

 post the order of notice upon some conspicuous place upon the barn 

 or building where the animal is quarantined. This should not be 

 done, however, except where it is practically impossible to find the 

 owner or person in charge. In delivering the original order of quar- 

 antine to the owner, you should call his attention to the importance 

 of his observing the quarantine, and especially to the section of the 

 law bearing upon the matter which is printed upon the back of the 

 order of quarantine. 



You will note that the orders of quarantine are printed in dupli- 

 cate, the original and duplicate following each other in the book. 

 This duplicate should be filled out to exactly correspond ivith the origi- 

 nal. This duplicate is to be sent to the office of this Commission, 

 52 Village Street, Boston, and must be sent at once upon imposing 

 the quarantine (see section 9). The duplicate contains a form of re- 

 turn of service upon the back, which it is your duty to carefully fol- 

 low. Accurate instructions are given under the return, stating how 

 you should fill out the same, and these must be strictly complied 

 with. Be sure to fill out and sign this return on the back of dupli- 

 cate before mailing it to this office. At the same time that you send 

 this to the Board of Cattle Commissioners you should detach and 

 deliver to the board of health of your city or town the notice of 

 quarantine which is printed by the side of the duplicate order of 

 quarantine. The same rules are to be followed as to all the several 

 forms of quarantine, except that the blank spaces to be filled in on 

 these quarantines differ slightly. 



Besides the quarantine imposed by your orders, you may receive, 

 from time to time, orders of quarantine issued by this Board, sent 

 to you for service. In such case the order of quarantine will be 

 filled out at this office. It will be simply your duty to serve the 

 same. In doing this you will proceed in the same manner as in the 

 case of quarantines imposed by you. 



You have no power to remove any quarantine imposed by you 

 except upon the written order of this Board, or one of its members, or 

 of the board of health of your city or town. When you have for- 

 warded notice to this Board and to the board of health of quarantines 

 imposed by you, and have served the order upon the owner or person 

 in charge, or posted the same as above directed, it will be your duty 

 to refrain from giving any information regarding the matter to any 

 person whatsoever. While it is your duty to obey all orders issued 

 by the board of health of your city or town, such orders are super- 

 seded by orders issued by this Board, in so far as they refer to the 

 same matter ^see section 40) . 



