REPORT 



OP THE 



STATE BOAED OF CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 



To (he Honorable Senate and House of Jieprese}itaHves. 



In accordance Avith the requirements of section 51 of chapter 

 491 of the Acts of the year 1894, the Board of Cattle Commis- 

 sioners beg to present the following report of their work for the 

 year 1894. 



In the report which this Board presented to your honorable 

 body in January of last year, Avhich report was printed as House 

 Document No 50 of that year, we recommended, among other 

 things, further legislation in relation to the perfecting and codi- 

 fying the laws in relation to the suppression of contagious dis- 

 eases among domestic animals. That report was referred to the 

 joint committee on agriculture, and the Board was requested, 

 by them, to prepare a draft of a bill embodying the suggestions 

 made. Such a bill was drawn by this Board and submitted to 

 the committee at a public meeting held by it on February 7, 

 and was printed as House Document No. 207. 



A large number of })ul)lic hearings were given by the com- 

 mittee on agriculture upon the matters contained in the bill sub- 

 mitted by this Board, and upon other bills relating to similar 

 matters submitted by other persons. All of the points sug- 

 gested in the various bills were carefully gone over in public 

 hearings, and were fully discussed by every person who desired 

 to express any views upon the matter ; and the several bills 

 were most carefully and exhaustiv^ely examined by the com- 

 mittee, who reported, March 22, 1894, a bill emliodying, with 

 some .sHuht changes, which will be hereafter referred to, the 

 bill submitted by the commission. The reported bill was 

 printed as House Document No. 803. This bill, after being 

 thoroughly considered by both branches of the Legislature, 

 became, with some slight clerical changes, a law, by receiving 

 the af)[)roval of his Excellency the Governor on the 20th day 

 of June, 1894, and was enacted to take effect upon its passage. 

 The law is chapter 491 of the Acts of the year 1894. 



