22 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



description of such land, setting forth the boundaries thereof, and the 

 area as nearly as may be estimated, together with said appraisal by the 

 assessors, to be entered upon the records of the town or city. The 

 amount of said appraisal shall be paid as provided in the first section, in 

 such sums and at such times as the selectmen or mayor and aldermen 

 respectively may order. If the owner of any land so taken shall be dis- 

 satisfied with the appraisal of said assessors, he may, by action of con- 

 tract, recover of the town or city wherein the lands lie, a fair compensa- 

 tion for the damages sustained by him ; but no costs shall be taxed, unless 

 the damages recovered in such action, exclusive of interest, exceed the 

 appraisal of the assessors. And the Commonwealth shall reimburse any 

 town or city four-fifths of any sum recovered of such town or city in 

 any such action. 



AN ACT 



IX ADDITION TO AN ACT CONCERNING CONTAGIOUS DISEASES 

 AMONG CATTLE. 



Section 1. In addition to the commissioners appointed under the 

 provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the acts of the year 

 one thousand eight hundred and sixty, the governer, by and with the ad- 

 vice and consent of the council, is hereby authorized to appoint two 

 additional persons to constitute, with those now in office, a board of 

 commissioners upon the subject of pleuro-pneumonia, or any other con- 

 tagious disease now existing among the cattle of the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 2. When said commissioners shall make and publish any reg- 

 ulations concerning tlie extirpation, cure, or treatment of cattle infected 

 with, or which liave been exposed to the disease of pleuro-pneumonia, or 

 other contagious disease, such regulations shall supersede the regulations 

 made by selectmen of towns and mayors and aldermen of cities, upon 

 the same subject matter, and the operation of the regulations made by 

 such selectmen and mayors and aldermen shall be suspended during the 

 time those made by the commissioners as aforesaid shall be in force- 

 And said selectmen and mayors and aldermen shall carry out and enforce 

 all orders and directions of said commissioners, to them directed, as they 

 shall from time to time issue. 



Sect. 3. In addition to the power and autliority conferred on the 

 selectmen of towns and mayors and aldei-nien of cities, by the act to which 

 this is in addition, and which are herein conferred upon said commissioners, 

 the same commissioners shall have power to provide for the establishment 

 of a hos])ital or quarantine in some suitable place or places, with proper 

 accommodations of buildings, land, &c., wherein may be detained any 

 cattle by tliem selected, so that said cattle so infected and exposed may 



