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each animal showing it shall be isolated on the farm, or in some 

 other convenient place to be selected by you, and quarantined 

 there, under the authority of the local Board of Health, who shall 

 at once notify the Commissioners. The milk from such isolated 

 animal shall not be sold, and in such instances the certificate of 

 health shall not be given for the herd ; or, if it has been previously 

 given, it shall be withdrawn. Animals that have been quarantined 

 should not be killed except by the permission of the Board of 

 Health imposing such quarantine, and in your presence, as their 

 inspector, or in the presence of an inspector appointed by them, 

 who will at once certify the death and its cause to this office. An 

 animal destroyed in this way cannot be paid for by the Common- 

 wealth under any circumstances. 



15. Whenever you have reason to believe that any new animals 

 have recently been introduced among a herd, or when from any 

 reason, at any time, you have cause to suppose that disease exists 

 in a herd, a re-inspection shall be made at once, and the directions 

 already given shall be followed. 



General Directions. 



16. All suspected animals must be placed in quarantine before 

 the Commissioners are called. 



17. Inspectors must make complaints of individual animals, not 

 of herds in general. 



18. When directions from boards of selectmen, boards of health, 

 or the Board of Cattle Commissioners conflict, those of the Cattle 

 Commissioners must take precedence. 



Butchers' and Meat Dealers' Establishments. 



19. Report to the Commissioners the locations of all slaughter- 

 houses within your district ; give the name of the butcher, the class 

 of animals killed, the days of slaughter ; say where the animals to 

 be killed are obtained, and where the general market is sought. 



20. As to the periodical inspection of these slaughter-houses, 

 and the destruction of any meat that may be considered unfit for 

 human consumption, direction and action are to be taken from your 

 local Board of Health. 



21. When, however, tuberculosis is found to exist in a carcass, 

 great endeavor is to be used to find the herd from whence the 

 animal came ; if the beef is of local production, or otherwise ; the 

 town. State or cattle market from whence it was procured ; and a 

 report as to the facts made to the Commission. 



