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ruminants and swine, intended for immediate slaughter, may be 

 conveyed by rail to the following points from without the infected 

 area: the Watertown Stock Yards, the Brighton Abattoir, the New 

 England Dressed Meat and Wool Company, the slaughter house of 

 Austin Davis at Concord Junction, the Boston Packing and Pro- 

 vision Company, the J. P. Squire Company and the North Packing 

 and Provision Company. 



Persons disobeying orders issued by the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau and approved by the Governor and Council are subject to 

 a penalty as provided in section 29 of chapter 90 of the Revised 

 Laws ; that is, a fine not exceeding SoOO, or imprisonment for not 

 more than one year. This applies not only to this order, but to 

 all previous orders issued for the eradication of foot and mouth 

 disease. 



This order shall take effect upon its approval. 



Austin Peters, 



Chief of Cattle Bureau. 

 Approved in Council, Feb. 18, 1903. 

 E. F. Hamlin, 



Executive Secretary. 



This order was faulty because the word " from" Avas inad- 

 vertently omitted in paragraph 1, where it says, "No neat 

 cattle, sheep, other ruminants or swine are to be driven into 

 or across" the quarantined district. This was amended by 

 another order, approved by the Governor and Council March 

 18 , inserting the word ' ' from " between ' ' driven " and ' ' into." 

 Practically this omission made no difterence, as the towns 

 surrounding the quarantined district were all posted, and 

 persons were already forbidden to move cattle, sheep or 

 swine on the highwaj^s without a permit, or to turn them on 

 any unfenced land. 



The order establishing a quarantine district did not include 

 all the towns where the disease had existed, but it seemed 

 to be sufficient, as it made a line running from the boundary 

 of Rhode Island to Quincy Bay on one side, and on the other 

 it extended from the Rhode Island boundary almost to New 

 Hampshire. While cases had occurred in Attleborough, 

 Bridge water. West Bridge water, Grafton, Barre, Harvard, 

 Methuen, Andover, North Andover and Danvers, these were 

 early in the outbreak, and keeping these toAvns posted until 

 all danger was past seemed to be sufficient. 



