No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 447 



I hereby certify that during the entire period of quarantine I was the 

 owner or person in possession of the cow in milk described as follows : 

 ; that said cow was duly quarantined upon the day of 



189 , by , upon which day the proper order of quarantine 



was duly delivered to me ; that said cow remained in quarantine continu- 

 ously thereafter until the day of ; that during all said time 

 I did not remove said cow from quarantine or in any way break the same 

 or disobey any order lawfully issued in regard to said animal or quarantine. 



I further certify that I did not sell, dispose of or use for food the milk or 

 any other product of said cow during all the time that said cow was in 

 quarantine, and that since the day of 189 , being the tenth 



day after the date when said cow was quarantined, I actually expended in 

 maintaining said cow in quarantine the sum of $ as follows : — 



I further certify that all said expenses were reasonable, and were neces- 

 sary for the proper maintenance of said cow. 



^Yitness, Owner. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



SS. 



City or town of 189 . 



Then personally appeared the above-named to me personally 



known to be the person subscribing the same, and made oath that the fore- 

 going statement by him subscribed is true, except as to such matters as are 

 alleged on information and belief, and as to those, that he believes them to 

 be true. Justice of the Peace. 



Seventeen claims have been received by this commission for 

 the expense of quarantine under this section. In the majority 

 of these the price charged was deemed reasonable, and has 

 been approved by the commission. The remaining claims 

 have been held for further investigation. 



The commission would further state that in all other cases 

 where animals have been placed in quarantine the length of 

 time during which they have been held has been less than ten 

 days. 



The Board is now only beginning to be in receipt of returns 

 of quarantine imposed, as the result of the animal examina- 

 tion; but between the fifteenth day of November and the 

 fifteenth day of December 1,011 animals have been so quar- 

 antined, and, at the present writing, these quarantine orders 

 arc being received at an average rate of about sixty per day. 



