No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 287 



Cattle Bukeau Oudek, No. 11. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 



Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, 



State House, Boston, July 15, 19()3. 



To Transportation Companies, the Brighton Stork Yards Compani/, and 

 All Persons ichom if maij concern. 



By virtue of the power and authority vested by law in the Cattle 

 Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, under the provisions of 

 chapter 90 of the Revised Laws and chapter 11(1 of the Acts of 

 1902, you are hereby notified that foot and mouth disease, which 

 is a contagious disease and is so recognized under the laws of this 

 Commonwealth, is no longer knowni to exist in this State, and it 

 is believed that it has been entirely eradicated. Therefore, the 

 orders of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau, approved by the Governor 

 and Council Nov. 26 and Dec. 1, 1902, Feb. 18, March 18 and 

 May 13, 1903, closing the Brighton market, forbidding auctions 

 and public sales and the transportation of neat cattle, sheep, other 

 ruminants and swine, hay, straw, grain bags, cattle hides, calf 

 skins, horns, hoofs, bones and manure in certain cities and towns 

 and sections of this Commonwealth, and restricting the use of cer- 

 tain premises where the disease has existed, are hereby revoked. 



The Brighton market may be reopened, and animals moved as 

 formerly within the limits of the State. 



The regulations of the Cattle Bureau concerning the importation 

 of neat cattle into Massachusetts previous to the appearance of the 

 foot and mouth disease in the autumn of 1902 still remain in force, 

 except as provided for in chapter 322, Acts of 1903 ; that is, the 

 orders approved in Council April 23, 1902, and Sept. 10, 1902, as 

 modified by this order, now provide as below : — 



1. No neat cattle brought from any State or Territory of the 

 United States, the District of Columbia, Canada or any other 

 country without the limits of this Commonwealth shall be brought 

 within the limits of this Commonwealth, except for delivery directly 

 to the Union Stock Yards in the town of Watertown, the Boston «fe 

 Albany Stock Yards in Brighton within the city of Boston, or the 

 premises of the New P^ngland Dressed Meat and Wool Company 

 in the city of Somerville, except upon a permit signed by the Chief 

 of the Cattle Bureau ; and no neat cattle so brought for delivery at 

 any of said points shall be unloaded, except as provided in para- 

 graph 3, at any point other than the said Boston & Albany Stock 

 Yards in Brighton, the Union Stock Yards in Watertown, or the 

 New England Dressed Meat and Wool Company in Somerville. 



2. All neat cattle brought within the limits of this Common- 

 wealth from any place designated in paragraph 1 hereof, except 



