288 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



for delivery as provided in the preceding paragraph, must be accom- 

 panied by a permit issued by the Chief of the Cattle Bureau. 



3. If, for any cause, any such neat cattle are received by any 

 of your agents within the limits of this Commonwealth at any 

 place other than the Union Stock Yards in Watertown, the Boston 

 & Albany Stock Yards in Brighton, or the New P^ngland Dressed 

 Meat and Wool Company in Somerville, not accompanied by a 

 permit, as provided in paragraph 2 hereof, you will immediately 

 notify this office, giving the place where said animals were re- 

 ceived for shipment, the name of the consignee and destination of 

 said animals. You will not remove said animals or permit them 

 to be removed from the car or vehicle in which they are contained 

 without permission from the Chief of the Cattle Bureau or one of 

 his agents ; except that if, by reason of the crowded condition 

 of the car, or because of the long confinement of said animals 

 within the same, or for accident or otherwise, it is deemed expe- 

 dient by you or your agent to unload the same, such animal or 

 animals may be removed by you from said car or vehicle without 

 permission ; but in such case you will notify this office, and you 

 will not allow said animal or animals to go out of the possession 

 of your agent or off of your premises where said animals are un- 

 loaded except upon obtaining such permission. 



4. All neat cattle brought within the limits of the pi'emises in 

 Brighton, Watertown and Somerville, designated in paragraph 1 

 hereof, are hereby declared to be quarantined, until released by an 

 agent of the Bureau. 



5. All cattle except those for immediate slaughter, or calves 

 under six months old, must be tested with tuberculin by a person 

 approved by the Chief of the Cattle Bureau, either prior to ship- 

 ment or after arrival at destination, unless permission to omit the 

 test is given by the Chief of the Bureau, for some good reason. 

 Cattle brought to the quarantine stations at Watertown, Brighton 

 and Somerville, upon which a test is required, will be held and 

 tested by the agent of the Cattle Bureau in charge of these sta- 

 tions, free of expense to citizens of Massachusetts ; a fee sufficient 

 to cover the cost will be charged other persons. Cattle upon 

 which a test is required, coming to points outside the limits of 

 the quarantine stations, will be tested by an agent of the Cattle 

 Bureau, free of expense to citizens of Massachusetts, and at the ex- 

 pense of other persons, unless accompanied by a certificate of test 

 satisfactory to the Chief of the Cattle Bureau. All such cattle 

 are to be held in quarantine at the expense of the owner, until 

 released by order of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau. Cattle return- 

 ing from out-of-the-State pastures will not be required to have a 



