No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 487 



If it is inexpedient to have the animals tested before shipment into 

 this State, we will grant you permit to bring them to your premises, 

 provided you will furnish us with certificate of test by an approved 

 veterinarian, without expense to us. Otherwise, cattle can enter the 

 Commonwealth only through the regular stations at Brighton, Water- 

 town or Somerville. 



Upon application, we will forward you the required number of du- 

 plicate blanks, to be filled out by your veterinarian. 

 Very truly yours, 



(Signed) F. H. Osgood, Chairman. 



In connection with the whole matter of the regulation of the 

 importation of cattle, the following order was issued to railroad 

 and transportation companies : — 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Board of Cattle Commissioners, 



52 Village Street, Boston, July 15, 1895. 



To railroads, corporations, common carriers, their managers, agents, ser- 

 vants and attorneys, owning, leasing, operating or transporting over 

 railroads whose lines or roads enter or lie within the limits of the Com- 

 monwealth of Massachusetts, and to all persons whom it may concern. 



By virtue of the power and authority in us vested by law, and 

 especially under the provisions of chapter 49 1 of the Acts of the 

 year 1894 and chapter 496 of the Acts of the year 1895, you are 

 hereby notified that tuberculosis, which is a contagious disease and is 

 so recognized under the laws of this Commonwealth, exists among 

 cattle of the several States and territories of the United States, the 

 District of Columbia and Canada, and such localities are, in the 

 opinion of this Board, infected districts. 



Your attention is called to General Order No. 9, issued by this 

 Board under date of July 8, 1895, and you are hereby further noti- 

 fied that, in order to prevent the importation of diseased animals, 

 and as a means of suppressing such disease within this Common- 

 wealth, this Board has passed the following order : — 



General Order No. 10. 



First. — General Order No. 4, dated Nov. 20, 1894, is hereby repealed. 



Seco?id. — No neat cattle brought from any State or territory of the 

 United States, the District of Columbia, Canada or any other country with- 

 out the limits of this Commonwealth shall be brought within the limits of 

 this Commonwealth, except for delivery directly to the Union Stock Yards 

 at the town of Watertown, the Boston & Albany Stock Yards at Brighton, 



