322 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Financial Statement. 



The following financial statement shows the amount of 

 money appropriated for the use of the Cattle Commission 

 and Cattle Bureau, and the expenditures that have been 

 made : — 



At the date of the last annual report of the Board of 

 Cattle Commissioners, Deo. 15, 1901, there remained of the 

 appropriation for the year 1901 an unexpended balance of 

 $4,60(i.98; and there was appropriated by chapter 210, 

 Acts of 1902, for use of the Board to April 15, 1902, $8,000, 

 making a total of $12,606.98. 



The amount expended to April 15, 1902, when the Board 

 of Cattle Commissioners was abolished under the provisions 

 of chapter 116, Acts of 1902, was as follows : — 



For 216 head of cattle condemned and killed as tuberculous, 



For salaries of commissioners, 



For expenses of commissioners, 



For salaries of agents, 



For expenses of agents, . 



For salaries of clerks and stenographers, 



For stationery, j^ostage, printing and other office expenses 



For laboratory and experimental work, .... 



For implements, tuberculin, etc., 



For expense of quarantine stations at Brighton, Watertown 



and Somerville, .... 

 For expense of glanders work, 



Total, 



This leaves a balance to the credit of the Board of Cattle 

 Commissioners, April 15, 1902, of $391.33. 



Of the expenditures as given, $4,219.22 was for payment 

 of bills of 1901, and $7,996.43 for bills from Jan. 1 to 

 April 15, 1902. 



The appropriation for the ' ' extermination of contagious 

 diseases among horses, cattle and other animals," to be 

 expended under the direction of the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, from April 15 to 

 Dec. 31, 1902, made by chapter 303, Acts of 1902, was 

 $50,000. 



There has been expended to Dec. 15, 1902 : — 



