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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 



General Acts, Chapter 209. 

 An Act relative to the definition of contagious diseases of 



DOMESTIC animals. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Section twenty-eight of chapter ninety of the Revised 

 Laws, as amended by section one of chapter six of the acts of nineteen 

 hundred and eleven, is hereby further amended by striking out the said 

 section and inserting in place thereof the following: — Section 28. Con- 

 tagious diseases, under the provisions of this chapter, shall include such 

 diseases as are recognized by the United States bureau of animal industry 

 to be contagious or infectious. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 May 15, 1918. 



PRISON LABOR FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES. 



General Acts, Chapter 159. 



An Act relative to the labor of prisoners on land used for agri- 

 cultural OR domestic purposes. 



Be it enacted, etc., as folloics: 



Section two of chapter six hundred and thirty-three of the acts of nine- 

 teen hundred and thirteen, as amended by chapter one hundred and 

 eighty of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen, and by chapter one 

 hundred and seventy-seven of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and 

 fifteen, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "land", in 

 the tenth line, the words: — , or land used for agricultural or domestic 

 purposes, — so as to read as follows : — Section 2. The county commis- 

 sioners of any county may purchase or lease land with funds specifically 

 appropriated therefor by the general court for the purpose of improving 

 and cultivating it by the labor of prisoners from a jail or house of correc- 

 tion; and the said commissioners may also make arrangements with the 

 Massachusetts highway commission or with the officials of a city or town 

 to work said prisoners on any highway or unimproved land, or with a 

 private owner, to improve waste or unused land, or land used for agri- 

 cultural or domestic purposes, by means of such prison labor. When 

 prisoners are so employed they shall be in the custody of the sheriff of 

 the county. When land that is not the property of the county, or is a 

 highway, is so improved, the owners thereof or those having in charge 

 the highway shall pay to the county such sums as may be agreed upon 

 between the county commissioners, sheriff, and the other parties in inter- 

 est, for the labor of any prisoners employed thereon. [Approved April 20, 

 1918. 



