KEPORT 



To the Honorable Senate and Houfte of Jiepresoiiatives. 



The Board of Cuttle Commissioners herewith presents its 

 annual report, as required by section 3, chapter 408, Acts 

 of 1899, of the work it has performed during the past year. 



The Legislature of 1900 appropriated the sum of $50,000 

 for the expenses of the commission in dealing with the con- 

 tagious diseases of animals. This sum has proved insufficient 

 for carrying out the law, and all cattle quarantined after the 

 1st of December were released for lack of funds. 



In order to have this report ready by the 10th of January, 

 it is necessary for the commission to close its books the 15th 

 of December ; that is, the annual report of the Cattle Com- 

 mission involves the period between December 15 of one 

 year and December 15 of the following year; therefore, 

 while the report shows a Imlance on hand December 15 of 

 about $4,300, when the bills against the commission all come 

 in, January 1, it is feared that there will not be funds enough 

 on hand to meet them, and that a small deficiency will be the 

 result, which will probably amount to a little over $3,000. 



As work had to be closed December 1, leaving forty or 

 fifty diseased cows to be looked after another year, and as 

 the work done during the past year has been only that which 

 was in the main absolutely imperative, the commission finds 

 that it will require an appropriation to l)e placed at its dis- 

 posal this year of $75,000, in order to properly carry out 

 the i)rovisions of the law which it has to administer. This 

 amount will be necessary to meet the expenses incurred in 

 dealing with tuberculous cows reported by the local inspectors 

 of animals, keei)ing up the quarantine regulations requiring 

 healthy cattle to be brought in from other States, examining 

 and killinn; horses with ""landers or farcv, investigating and 

 limiting outbreaks of hog cholera and rabies, and incident- 



