442 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



"Whenever you find the carcasses of any neat cattle, sheep or swine 

 to be infected with tuberculosis or other infectious disease, you will 

 proceed as directed in sections 10 and 11. 



You will also note the provisions of section 22 as to penalties 

 incurred by persons who fail to cause their animals to be properly 

 inspected, or who deal in meats of animals not so properly inspected. 



Your attention is further especially called to the provisions of sec- 

 tions 29, 30 and 35, and you will call the attention of all veterina- 

 rians within the limits of your city or town to the requirements of law 

 contained in these sections. 



You will note the provisions of sections 38, 39 and 40, relating to 

 regulations issued by this Board, and you will be governed by the 

 requirements in such regulations. 



Under the provisions of section 45, this Board, or any of its mem- 

 bers, are authorized to kill animals which they deem to be affected 

 with a contagious disease, when they deem that the public good re- 

 quires it. Animals will be killed upon written orders issued by this 

 Board, or one of its members, which orders may be directed to some 

 agent of this Board, or to you or such other person as may be therein 

 designated. In case you are named therein, it is your duty to strictly 

 obey all directions contained in such order, both in the killing and in 

 the disposal made of the carcasses. You will see that all orders of 

 this Board, or of your board of health, regarding the cleansing and 

 disinfecting of premises are promptly and thoroughly carried out. 

 Whenever you receive any such order to destroy any animal, you 

 will kill it yourself, or cause it to be killed by some other person 

 in your presence ; and in such case you will return a proper certifi- 

 cate to this office that such animal has been properly killed and dis- 

 posed of. The majority of such animals so ordered killed will be 

 neat stock destroyed as tuberculous. If such order is directed to 

 you, you will see that all the requirements of said order, and of the 

 certificate of ownership and valuation of the animal accompanying 

 the same, are fully complied with. Full directions as to the same 

 will be sent you with the order of killing. In case such order of 

 killing is directed to an agent of this Board or other person, it will 

 be your duty to accompany such agent or person, pointing out the 

 animal called for in the order, and otherwise assisting him in the per- 

 formance of his duty. 



No compensation is to be paid to any person for any animal killed, 

 except in the case of cattle affected ivith tuberculosis, and then only ivhen 

 such animals have been killed by order of this commission or one of its 

 members, and tohen same has been owned within the State six months 

 continuously prior to the order of killing. 



