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upon Oct. 27, 1893, the Board issued a further order in rela- 

 tion to the matter, a copy of which may be found in the report 

 of last year (House Document No. 50). At the time the re- 

 port of this commission was made, last year, two hundred and 

 seventy-nine cities and towns had appointed inspectors in ac- 

 cordance with the law, and seventy-three had failed to report. 



From this small beginning, and in the face of many discour- 

 agements, the organization of this corps of inspectors has been 

 developed, until now all but four of the cities and towns have 

 made the necessary appointments. Up to the passage of the 

 law of last year the interest among the inspectors in their work 

 was far from uniform ; since the passage of that act considera- 

 ble interest in the work has been manifested by them and by 

 most of the cities and towns throughout the State, — so much 

 so that it was determined to hold a convention, at which all of 

 the inspectors might meet with the commission and with each 

 other, in order that they all might have a l)etter understanding 

 of the work which was bein<»: done throuohout the State. 



The commission accordingly called a convention, which was 

 held at Worcester on Thursday, the twenty-lifth day of Octo- 

 ber last past. This convention was attended by two hundred 

 and ten inspectors, representing one hundred and fifty-three 

 cities and towns. In addition to these inspectors and the com- 

 mission, there were present the secretary of the State Board of 

 Airriculture ; several members of the last Lesislature : the Hon. 

 J. H. Walker, member of Congress from Worcester ; repre- 

 sentatives of the sanitary live stock boards of various States ; 

 the veterinary adviser of the Dominion of Canada, Prof. D. 

 McEachran of Montreal ; veterinarians and many others inter- 

 ested in the work, — a numl)er reaching to fully three hundred 

 in all, Hon. Henry A. Marsh, mayor of the city of Worcester, 

 extended a cordial welcome to all of those who were present. 

 The meeting, although the first of its kind ever held in this 

 State, was very successful and profitable to the commission, 

 and, it is hoped, to the others who were present. A report of 

 the proceedings is appended hereto. 



Shortly before the close of the last session of the Legislature 

 the commission received a letter from the State Board of Live 

 Stock Commissioners of Illinois, requesting the Commonwealth 

 to send representatives to a convention proposed to be held at 



