No. 4.J REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 297 



1, That portion of the State bounded on the west and north by 

 North Attleborough, Foxborongh, Norfolk, Millis, Sherborn, Asli- 

 hiiid, Southborough, Westborough, Marlborough, Sudbury, Stow, 

 Boxborough, Littleton, Westford, Chelmsford, Billerica, Burling- 

 ton, Lexington, Arlington, Medford, Maiden and Revere, and on 

 the east and south by Quiney, Braintree, Randolph, Stoughton, 

 Sharon, Mansfield and North Attleborough, and including the ter- 

 ritory covered by the above-named towns, is hereby declared to be 

 a quarantined district, and no neat cattle, sheep, other ruminants 

 or swine are to be shipped, transported or driven from, into or 

 across said district without a permit from the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau. 



2. No hay or straw (excepting baled hay and baled straw orig- 

 inally brought in from without the quarantined district), grain 

 bags, cattle hides, calf skins, horns, hoofs, bones or manure are to 

 be removed from the above territoi-y 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 tiiat cattle, sheep, 

 other 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 P^ngland Dressed Meat and Wool Company, the slaughter 

 house of Austin Davis at Concord Junction, the Boston Packing 

 and Provision Company, the J. P. Squire Company and the North 

 Packing and Provision Compan3\ 



Persons disobeying orders issued by the Chief of the Cattle Bu- 

 reau 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 $500, 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. 



Inspectors of animals in cities and towns within the limits of, 

 and abutting upon, the quarantined district 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, May 1.'?, 1903. 

 E. F. Hamlin, 



Executive Sscretanj. 



