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be there treated by such scientific practicioners of the heahng art as may 

 be there appointed to treat the same. And for this purpose said com- 

 missioners may take any hinds and buildings in the manner provid(Ml in 

 the twelfth section of the act to which this is an addition. 



Sect. 4. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 council, is hereby authorized to appoint three competent persons to be a 

 board of examiners to examine into the disease called pleuro-pneumonia, 

 and who shall attend at the hospital at quarantine established by the com- 

 missioners mentioned in the foregoing section, and there treat and exper- 

 iment upon such number of cattle, both sound and infected, as will enable 

 them to study the symptoms and laws of the disease and ascertain, so far 

 as they can, the best mode of treating cattle in view of the prevention 

 and cure of the disease, and who shall keep a full record of their proceed- 

 ings, and make a report thereon to the governor and council, when their 

 investigations shall have been concluded : j)rovided, that the expense of 

 said board of examiners shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. 



Sect. 5. The selectmen of the several towns, and the mayors and 

 aldermen of the several cities, shall, within twenty-four hours after they 

 shall have notice that any cattle in their respective towns and cities are 

 infected with or have been exposed to any such disease, give notice in 

 writing to said commissioners of the same. 



Sect. 6. The commissioners are authorized to make all necessary 

 regulations for the treatment, cure and extirpation of said disease, and 

 may direct the selectmen of towns and mayors and aldermen of cities to 

 enforce and carry into effect all such regulations as may, from time to 

 time, be made for that end ; and any such officer refusing or neglecting to 

 enforce and carry out any regulation of the commissioners, shall be pun- 

 ished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars for every such offence. 



Sect. 7. The commissioners may, when in their judgment the public 

 good shall require it, cause to be killed and buried, any cattle which are 

 infected with, or which have been exposed to said disease, and said com- 

 missioners shall cause said cattle to be appraised in the same manner 

 provided in the act to which this is an addition ; and the appraised value 

 of such cattle shall be paid, one-fifth by the towns in which said cattle 

 are kept, and the remainder by the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 8. Whoever shall drive or transport any cattle from any por- 

 tion of the Commonwealth east of Connecticut River to any part west of 

 said river before the first day of April next, without consent of the com- 

 missioners, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, 

 or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. 



Sect. 9. Whoever shall drive or transport any cattle from any por- 

 tion of the Commonwealth into any other State before the first day of 

 April next, without the consent of the commissioners, shall be punished 



