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refilled they might be sent to other points, and })()ssibly 

 carry the disease to some new locality. It does not seem at 

 all unlikel}' that foot and mouth disease was carried in grain 

 bags from a dealer's in Fitchburg to Foxborough ; and the 

 owner of the herd in Foxborough was on the point of send- 

 ing these bags away at the time his herd was quarantined 

 and killed, and, if an agent of the Cattle Bureau had not 

 taken possession of them and burned them in the nick of 

 time, further s})read of the disease might have resulted. 



The following order was approved by the Governor and 

 Council February 18: — 



Cattle Bureau Oruek, No. 8. 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 



Cattle Bureau of the State Board of Agriculture, 



State House, Boston, Felj. 17, 1!K);5. 



To Transportation Companies and All Persons ivhom it may concern. 



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

 Biu-eau of the State Board of Agricultui-e, under the provisions of 

 chapter 90 of the Revised Laws and chapter 11(5 of the Acts of 

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

 a contagious disease and is so recognized by the laws of the Com- 

 monwealth, exists to an alarming extent among cattle, sheep and 

 swine in some sections of this State. 



You are hereby further notified that in order to prevent its 

 spread this Bureau has issued the following order, to continue until 

 revoked : — 



1. No neat cattle, sheep, otiier rjiminants or swine are to be 

 shipped, transported or driven into or across that portion of the 

 State bounded on the west and north by North Attleborough, 

 Foxborough, Norfolk, Medfield, Sherboru, Framingham, South- 

 borough, Westborough, Marlborough, Sudbury, Stow, Boxborough, 

 Littleton, Westford, Chelmsford, Billerica, Burlington, Lexington, 

 Arlington, Medford, Maiden and Revere, and on the east and 

 south by Quincy, Braintree, Randolph, Stoughton, Sharon, Mans- 

 field and North Attleborough, and including the territory covered 

 by the above-named towns, without a permit from the Chief of 

 the Cattle Bureau. 



2. No hay, grain bags or manure are to be removed from the 

 above territor}^ without a permit from the Chief of the Cattle Bureau. 



Nothing in this order modifies the existing quarantine rules and 

 regulations in force in towns at present declared by the Chief of 

 the Cattle Bureau to be infected. 



The only exception to the above order is that cattle, sheep, other 



