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test if they Lave not been out of the State over six months. Ani- 

 mals under control of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 De[)artment of Agriculture, intended for export, are not included 

 in this order. Animals believed to be diseased will be killed. 



6. Any person violating the provisions of this order will be pun- 

 ished as provided in section 29 of chapter 90 of the Revised Laws. 



7. Inspectors of animals throughout the Commonwealth shall 

 publish this order by posting a printed copy of the same in at least 

 three public places within the limits of their respective cities or 

 towns. 



This order shall take effect upon its approval. 



Austin Peters, 



Chief of Cattle Bureau. 

 Approved in Council, July 15, 1903. 

 E. F. Hamlin, 



Executive Secretary. 



Since the date of the above order but one outbreak of this 

 disease has occurred, and that was found to be entirely sepa- 

 rate and distinct from tlie outbreak of the preceding winter, 

 and its occurrence may serve to shed some light upon the 

 possible manner in which foot and mouth disease was orig- 

 inally imported into the country. This last outbreak oc- 

 curred in Wakefield in August, a full account of which will 

 l)e given later in this report. Before doing so, however, it 

 seems best to give some of the details of further measures 

 taken for the suppression of the disease since Jan. 1, 1903, 

 all of the steps taken up to that date being descril)ed in the 

 second semiannual report of the Chief of the Cattle Bureau 

 to the State Board of Agriculture. 



January 1 the following notice was sent to owners of 

 animals quarantined because of foot and mouth disease, 

 copies also being sent to inspectors of animals in towns 

 where it existed, to post in public places : — 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 



Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, 



State House, Boston, Jan. 1, 1903. 



NOTICE. 



[To be distributed among owners who have had cattle quarantined on account 

 of foot land mouth disease, and to be posted in public places.] 



The attention of cattle owners and other interested persons is 

 called to the fact that the quarantine of premises infected with 

 foot and mouth disease is not confined to cattle, sheep and swine 



