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pay a reasonable sura foi' the animal destroyed, should it appear 

 by a post mortem examination or otherwise that said animal was 

 free from the disease for which it was condemned. 



Sect. 3. Contagious diseases within the meaning of this act 

 shall include glanders, farcy, contagious pleuro-pneumouia, tuber- 

 culosis, Texas fever, foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, hog 

 cholera and rabies. 



Sect. 4. A person who fails to comply with a regulation made 

 or order given by the board of cattle commissioners, or any of its 

 members, in the discharge of his or their duty, shall be punished 

 by a fiue not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment 

 not exceeding one year. 



Sect. 5. Whenever the officers of a city or town refuse or 

 neglect to carry into effect the provisions of section one of chapter 

 fifty-eight of the Public Statutes as amended by section one of 

 chapter one hundred and ninety-five of the acts of the year eighteen 

 hundred and niuely-two and by section one of chapter four hundred 

 and thirty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 two, the commissioners shall have the power to appoint one or 

 more persons to be such inspectors of provisions and of animals 

 intended for slaughter or kept for the production of milk within 

 said city or town. Such inspectors shall be sworn faithfully to 

 discharge the duties of their office and shall receive such compen- 

 sation not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars a year each 

 as the commissioners shall determine, such compensation to be 

 paid by the city or town ; and such city or town shall be liable to 

 forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for such refusal 

 or neglect. 



Sect. G. The mayor and aldermen of cities and the selectmen 

 of towns shall have the power to remove any person appointed by 

 them to be an inspector under section one of said chapter fifty- 

 eight of the Public Statutes, as amended by section one of chapter 

 one hundred and ninety-five of the acts of the year eighteen hun- 

 dred and ninety-two and by section one of chapter four hundred 

 and thirty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 two, and the board of cattle commissioners shall have the power to 

 remove any inspector appointed under said section whenever said 

 inspector neglects or refuses to be sworn and properly perform the 

 duties of said office, and in such case shall appoint another person 

 in his place to serve for the balance of his term. 



Sect. 7. The board of cattle commissioners may appoint a 

 clerk to keep the records of their doings, who shall receive such 

 compensation, not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars a 

 year, as the}'' shall determine. 



