534 BOAliD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Board of Cattle CoJt.MissioxEKS, 

 Secretary's Office, 52 Village Street, Boston, Sept. 30, 1896. 



To Inspectors of Animals and Provisions. 



The Board of Cattle Commissioners begs to inform you that it 

 desires to have a complete general inspection of neat cattle at 

 once, and that such examination be completed soon enough. to 

 enable it to publish a complete result of the same in the coming 

 annual report for 1896. In order to accomplish this, the follow- 

 ing order was passed at a meeting held on Sept. 29, 1896 : — 



General Order No. 14. 



In accordance with the authority conferred upon las by section 4 of 

 cha^Jter 491 of the Acts of 1894, as amended by section 1 of chapter 496 

 of the Acts of 1895, you are hereby ordered to make an inspection of 

 all neat cattle within your district. Such inspection is to be commenced 

 on October 1, or as soon thereafter as possible, and to be continued 

 with all j)ossible despatch imtil finished, or until December 1, at which 

 time it is hereby ordered closed. 



It is further ordered that the returns directed by law to be made to 

 this ofiice shall be so made, on blank form No. 1, as often as once in 

 each week during the whole period of inspection, in order that a close 

 record may be kept of the number of animals that have been examined 

 in each town as the work progresses. All inspectors' reports must be 

 sent to the Boston office on or before Dec. 5, 1896. 



We further beg leave to call your particular attention to that 

 provision of section 4 of chapter 491 of the Acts of 1894, as 

 amended by section 1 of chapter 496 of the Acts of 1895, which 

 requires that all inspectors of animals and provisions throughout 

 the Commonwealth " shall immediately inspect any and all 

 domestic animals and any barn, stable or premises where any 

 such animals are kept, whenever directed to do so by the Board 

 of Cattle Commissioners, or any of its members." In accordance 

 with this provision, this Board, at a meeting held on the twenty- 

 ninth day of September, 1896, passed the following order: — 



General Order No. 15. 



All inspectors throughout the Commonw^ealth are hereby directed to 

 make a thorough examination of all barns, stables and premises where 

 domestic animals are kept, and to rejjort the results of these examma- 

 tions upon form No. 20. It is further directed that this examination 

 shall be made at the same time at which the regular g-eneral examina- 



