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ing and payment of all other incidental expenses, was as 

 $44,376 is to $47,500. 



At the same time it should be remembered, in comparing 

 this work with the work under the present law, that under the 

 law of 1894 the owners of neat stock destroyed received one- 

 half the sound value, whereas under the present law the full 

 value was paid. The average value of animals paid under the 

 law of 1895 has been $35 per head. Had the same valuation 

 been paid under 1894, the relation of administrative expense to 

 the amount paid in compensation would have been in the pro- 

 portion of $44,376 to $78,750. 



It should also be remembered in this conneetion that up to 

 June 30, or substantially during the greater portion of the 

 period of the law of 1894, the State sustained the entire ex- 

 pense of examining neat cattle brought from without its border 

 for the purpose of determining whether or not they were free 

 from tuberculosis ; whereas, under the regulations prescribed 

 by this commission relating to interstate cattle, since July, 

 1895, substantially all neat stock brought within the borders of 

 the Commonwealth now are accompanied by certificate of tuber- 

 culin test, which is furnished at the expense of the owner, and 

 is signed by a veterinarian whose integrity and ability is vouched 

 for by the Board of Cattle Commissioners of the State from 

 which the animals were shipped, thus relieving Massachusetts 

 of an immense burden of expense which was borne by it during 

 the experimental work carried on at Brighton, Watertown and 

 Somerville. 



From June 5, 1895, to Nov. 25, 1895, the total amount ex- 

 pended by the commission against the available fund of $80,124 

 has been $75,600, of which the total administrative expense 

 was $16,100, and the amount paid to the owners of neat cattle 

 destroyed as tuberculous, under the provisions of the act, $59,- 

 500, ' This sum was paid for 1,732 animals destroyed, or an 

 average price of about $34.50 per head. These figures, there- 

 fore, show that the administrative expense was, as compared 

 with the expense of compensation, as $16,100 is to $59,500. 

 In other words, since June 5, 1895, the administrative expense 

 has been twenty-seven per cent, and the expense for compen- 

 sation of animals destroyed seventy-three per cent. It will 

 thus be seen that, out of every dollar spent by this commission 



