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to meet them in a convention to be held in Boston. This con- 

 vention was held on July 25 and 26, 1895, and was attended 

 by representatives of the commissions of Maine, New Hamp- 

 shire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and 

 Massachusetts, these States being represented by John M. 

 Deering and Dr. George H. Bailey of Maine ; Irving A. Wat- 

 son and N. J. Batchelder of New Hampshire ; C. M. Winslow, 

 Homer W. Vail, H. M. Armes, V. I. Spear and J. O. San- 

 ford of Vermont; E. S. Hough, G. L. Foskett and Clifton 

 Peck of Connecticut; Geo. A. Stockwell of Rhode Island; 

 Franklin Dye and George W. McGuire of New Jersey, and all 

 of the members of the Massachusetts commission. 



At this meeting the regulations issued by this Board con- 

 cerning the movement of cattle into Massachusetts were thor- 

 oughly discussed, and it was unanimously voted to adopt these 

 same regulations as governing all of the New England States. 

 It was also voted that all of the States should co-operate in 

 endeavoring to faithfully enforce them. A permanent organi- 

 zation was then formed, under the title of the Association of 

 the Cattle Commissions of the New England States ; after 

 which the following resolution was passed by the new associa- 

 tion, thanking the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department 

 of Agriculture at Washington for its material assistance : — 



We, the undersigned Cattle Commissioners of Massachusetts, New 

 Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New 

 Jersey, assembled in convention at Boston on this twenty-fifth day of 

 July, 1895, desire to take this opportunity of expressing to the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, and to its chief officer, Prof. D. E. Salmon, our high 

 appreciation of the great value which the department has rendered 

 our respective States by the dissemination of all of the facts, as 

 fast as they have become known, in relation to tuberculosis among 

 auimals ; the results of their valuable investigations with tuber- 

 culin, and particularly in furnishing us with a supply of tuberculin, 

 which has been in all cases extremely reliable and satisfactory in its 

 results. 



We feel confident, had it not been for this action of the Bureau, 

 and the kind, almost personal care, given us by its chief, that the 

 advances which we feel have recently been made by us in this whole 

 matter could not have been accomplished but by the expenditure of a 



