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be securely isolated at the expense of the owner, or they shall 

 cause them to be killed without appraisal or payment ; and in all 

 cases of tuberculosis, farcy or glanders, the commissioner having 

 condemned the animal infected therewith, shall cause such animal 

 to be killed without an appraisal, but may pay the owner or any 

 other person an equitable sum for the killing and burial thereof, 

 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. 



Sect. 4. Section seven of chapter fifty-eight of the Public 

 Statutes is hereby repealed. 



Sect. 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



Appendix B. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



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



[Chapter 306.] 



An Act relative to the powers and duties op the board of 



cattle commissioners. 



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

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



Section 1 . Each member of the board of cattle commissioners 

 shall have all the power and authority conferred upon boards of 

 health by sections one, two and three of chapter two hundred and 

 fifty-two of the acts of tlie year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, 

 except the power and authority to make regulations in writing to 

 regulate or prohibit the passage from, to or through any city or 

 town, or from place to place within the same, of any cattle or 

 other domestic animals, and all the power and authority conferred 

 upon inspectors of provisions and animals under chapter fifty-eight 

 of the Public Statutes : provided, however, that no appeal from 

 any act done by any of said commissioners under said chapter 

 fifty-eight shall lie to the board of health, as provided in section 

 two of said chapter. 



Sect. 2. When any member of the boai'd of cattle commis- 

 sioners, by an examination of a case of contagious disease among 

 domestic animals, becomes satisfied that the public good requires 

 it, he shall cause such animals to be securely isolated at the ex- 

 pense of the owner, or he shall cause them to be killed without 

 appraisal or payment ; but may pay the owner or any other person 

 an equitable sum for the killing and burial thereof, and may also 



