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by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the 

 county jail not exceeding one year. 



Sect. 10. If any person fails to comply with any regulation made, or 

 with any order given by the commissioners, he shall be punished by fine 

 not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding 

 one year. 



Sect. 11. Prosecutions under the two preceding sections may be 

 prosecuted in any county in this Commonwealth. 



Sect. 1 2. All appraisals made under this act shall be in writing and 

 signed l)y the appraisers and certified by the commissioners, and shall be 

 by them transmitted to the governor and council, and to the treasurers of 

 the several cities and towns wherein the cattle appraised were kept. 



Sect. 13. The provisions of cliapter one hundred and ninety-two of 

 the acts of one thousand eight hundred and sixty [except so far as tliey 

 authorize the appointment of commissioners] are hereby repealed, but 

 this repeal shall not affect the validity of the proceedings hei'etofore law- 

 fully had under the provisions of said chapter. 



Sect. 11. The commissioners and examiners shall keep a full record 

 of their doings, and make report of the same to the next legislature, on 

 or before the tenth day of January next, unless sooner required by the 

 governor ; and the said record, or an abstract of the same, shall be printed 

 in the annual volume of Transactions of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Sect. 15. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, 

 shall have power to terminate the commission and board of examiners 

 whenever, in his judgment, the public safety may permit. 



The additional Commissioners required by the Act, Messrs. 

 Cyrus Knox, of Palmer, and E. G. Morton, of Fairhaven, were 

 not appointed until the 2d of July. They entered on their 

 duties the 6th of that month. During the iiiterval between the 

 adjournment of the legislature and the appointment of addi- 

 tional Commissioners, those already in office were placed i^i 

 circumstances of great embarrassment. They did not feel at 

 liberty to inaugurate the new policy required by the law just 

 enacted, without the sanction of the full board of Commission- 

 ers contemplated by that law ; and they could do little more 

 than keep things as they were, until their new colleagues should 

 be ready to act with them. Tliis state of things gave rise to 

 considerable uneasiness in the neighborhood where the disease 

 had existed, occasioning great inconvenience, and in some 

 cases, serious losses. 



