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Appendix A. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

 In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Two. 



An Act to more effectually prevent the spread of tuber- 

 culosis. 

 Be it enacUd by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 

 Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 



Section 1. Section one of chapter fifty-eight of the Public 

 Statutes is hereby amended by striking out the words "may 

 annually " in the second line of said section and inserting in place 

 thereof the words " shall annually in the month of April," also by 

 iusertiug after the word " slaughter," in the third line of said sec- 

 tion, the words " or kept for the production of milk," so as to read 

 as follows : Section 1. The mayor and aldermen of cities and the 

 selectmen of towns shall annually in the month of April appoint 

 one or more persons to be inspectors of provisions and of animals 

 intended for slaughter or kept for the production of milk. Such 

 inspectors shall be sworn faithfully to discharge the duties of their 

 office and shall receive such compensation as the city council or 

 the selectmen shall determine. 



Sect. 2. Said inspectors, in addition to the powers conferred 

 upon them by section two of chapter fifty-eight of the Public 

 Statutes, may inspect all animals kept for the production of milk, 

 and shall report to the board of cattle commissioners all suspected 

 cases of tuberculosis which come to their notice among animals 

 intended for slaughter or kept for the production of milk. 



Sect. 3. Section thirteen of chapter two hundred and fifty-two 

 of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven is hereby 

 amended by inserting after the word "of" in the ninth line of 

 said section the word " tuberculosis," and by adding at the end 

 of said section the words " and may also pay a reasonable sum for 

 the animal destroyed should a post mortem examination prove that 

 said animal was free from the disease for which it was condemned," 

 so as to read as follows : Sect. 13. When the commissioners, by 

 an examination of a case of contagious disease among domestic 

 animals, become satisfied that it has been contracted by intention 

 or negligence on the part of the owner, or of a person in his 

 employ, or by his consent, or by the use of food material liable to 

 contain the germs of contagion, they shall cause such animals to 



