No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' BEPORT. 443 



In cases where the carcasses of any animals are destroyed by your 

 order or that of the board of health, upon inspection at the time of 

 slaughter, no compensation is paid for the same. 



In case you act as appraiser in determining the value of any neat 

 stock destroyed as tuberculous, your attention is called to the pro- 

 vision relating to this matter contained in section 45, which is section 

 10 of chapter 496 of the Acts of 1895. The requirements of law of 

 last year, which provided that the animal was to be valued at the 

 time of slaughter, "for food or milk purposes, and without taking 

 into consideration the existence of the disease," have been repealed, 

 and the present law requires you to value the animal at its actual 

 value at the time of condemnation. 



If you have any reason to believe that any person whose cattle are 

 killed as tuberculous has, prior thereto, by wilful act or neglect, con- 

 tributed to the spread of tuberculosis, you will notify the commission 

 of this fact, giving, so far as possible, your reasons for so believing. 



Forms for records to be kept by you, and of returns to be made, 

 will be furnished you from time to time. These forms will cor- 

 respond in a general way to those required last year. You are hereby 

 directed to immediately deliver to the board of health of your city or 

 town books of record heretofore furnished, being forms Nos. 1 and 2, 

 relating to inspections and returns, form No. 3 being blank forms 

 of quarantine, and blanks of form No. 6, being returns of inspection 

 of slaughtered animals ; and upon the Board receiving notice from 

 the board of health of the return of such forms, new books, con- 

 taining the forms for this year, and new forms will be furnished you 

 in place thereof ; and you are hereby directed not to use any of the 

 forms of last year after the issue of this order. 



At the expiration of your term of office as inspector it is your duty to 

 immediately surrender all your books and blanks to the board of health 

 of your city or town, to be delivered by them to the new appointee. 



You are directed to carefully examine the provisions of this law 

 and of the records and forms furnished you, and see that you 

 thoroughly understand the same. You will see that these records are 

 all carefully and thoroughly kept ; and they must be at all reasonable 

 times open to the inspection of the board of health or any member of 

 this commission. 



Frederick H. Osgood, Chairman, 

 Charles P. Lyman, Secretary, 

 Maurice O'Connell, 

 Leander F. Herrick, 

 Charles A. Dennen, 



Board of Cattle Commissioners. 



Address all communications to 52 Village Street, Boston. 



