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NEW EXGLAXD FAraiER. 



July 



An Act 



In addition to an Act concerninrf Contagious Diseases 

 among Cattle, 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in 

 General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, 

 as follows : 



Sect. 1. In addition to the commissioners appointed 

 under llic provisions of eliaptcr one hinKlixd and nine- 

 ty-two of the acts of the year one tliousand eight hun- 

 dred and sixty, the Governor, by and with the advice 

 and consent of the Council, is hereby authorized to 

 appoint two additional persons to constitute, with those 

 now in office, a board of commissioners upon the sub- 

 ject of pleuro-pneumonia, or any other contagious dis- 

 ease now existing among the cattle of the Common- 

 wealth. 



Sect. 2. When said commissioners shall make and 

 publish any regulations concerning the cxtn-pation, 

 cure, or treatment of cattle infected with, or which have 

 been exposed to the disease of pleuro-pneumonia, or 

 other contagious disease, such regulations made by ihe 

 Selci'tiiicn of towns, and Mayors and Aldermen of 

 cities, upon the same sulijcct matter, and ihe operation 

 of the regulations made Jjy such Selectmen and Mayors 

 and Aldermen shall be suspended during the time 

 those made by the commissioners as aforesaid shall be 

 in force. And said Selectmen, and Mayors and Alder- 

 men, shall carry out and enforce all orders and direc- 

 tions of said commissioners, to them directed, as they 

 shall from time to time issue. 



Sect. 3. In addition to the power and authority con- 

 ferred on the Selectmen of towns, and Mayors and Al- 

 dermen of cities, by the act to which this is in addition, 

 and which arc herein conferred upon said commission- 

 ers, the same commissioners shall have power to pro- 

 vide for the establi.-liment of a hospital or quarantine 

 in some suitable place or places, witji proper acconuno- 

 dations of buildings, land, ct cetera, wherein may be 

 detained any cat'lc l)y them selected, so that said cat- 

 tle so infected or exposed, may be there treated by 

 such scientific practitioners of the healing art as may 

 be appointed to treat the same. And for this purpose 

 said commissioners may take any lauds and buildhigs 

 ui the manner provided in the twelfth section of the 

 act to which this is an addition. 



Sect. 4. The Governor, I)y and with the advice and 

 consent of the Council, is hereby authorized to appoint 

 three competent persons to be a Boartf of Examiners 

 to examine into the disease called pleuro-pneumonia, 

 who shall attend at the hospital or quarantine estab- 

 lished by the commissioners mentioned in the fore- 

 going section, and there treat and experiment upon 

 sucirnunibcr of cattle, both sound and infected, as will 

 enable them to study the symptoms and laws of the 

 disease, and ascertain, so far as they can, the best mode 

 of treating cattle in view of the prevention and cure of 

 the disease, and who shall keep a full record of their 

 proceedings, and make a report thereon to the Gover- 

 nor and Council, when then- investigations shall have 

 been concluded : j^rovided, that the expense of said 

 board of examiners shall not exceed ten thousand 

 dollars. 



Sect. 5. The Selectmen of the several towns, and 

 Mayors and Aldermen of the several cities, shall, with- 

 in twenty-four hours after they shall have notice that 

 any cattle in their respective towns and cities are in- 

 fected with or have been exposed to any such disease, 

 give notice in writing to said commissioners of the 

 same. 



Sect. 6. The commissioners are authorized to make 

 all necessary regulations for the treatment, cure and 

 cxtu-pation of said disease, and may direct the Select- 

 men of the towns, and Mayors and Aldermen of cities, 

 to enforce and carry into effect all such regulations as 

 may, from time to time, be made for that end, and 

 any such officer refusing or neglecting to enforce and 

 carry out any regulation of the commissioners, shall be 

 ptmished by fine not exceeding tive hundred dollars 

 for every such oflcnec. 



Sect. 7. The Commissioners may, when in then- 

 judgment the pu1)lic good shall reiiuire it, cause to be 

 killed and buried, any cattle which are infected with, 

 or which have been exposed to said disease, and said 

 commission'ers shall cause said cattle to be appraised 

 in the same manner provided in the act to which this 



is in addition ; and the appraised value of such cattle 

 shall )je paid, one-fifth by the towns in which said cat- 

 tle were kept, and the remainder by the Common- 

 wealth. 



Sect. 8. Whoever shall drive or transport any cattle 

 from any portion of the Commonwealth cast of Con- 

 necticut river to any part west of said river before the 

 first day of April next,v.'ithout consent of the commis- 

 sioners, shall be punished by Ihie not exceeding five 

 hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 

 jail not exceedhig one year. 



Sect. 9. Whoever shall drive or transport any cattle 

 from any portion of the Commonwealth into any other 

 State before the first day of April next, without the 

 consent of the commissioners, shall be punished by fine 

 not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprison- 

 ment in the ccjunty jail not exceeding one year. 



Sect. 10. If any person fails to comply with any reg- 

 ulation made, or with any order given by the commis- 

 sioners, he shall be pttnisiicd by fine not exceeding five 

 hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one 

 year. 



Sect. 11. Prosecutions under the two preceding sec- 

 tions may be prosecuted in any County iu this Com- 

 monweaJth. 



Sect. 12. All appraisals made under this act shall be 

 in writing, and signed by the apjjraisers and certified 

 by the coiiunissioners, and shall be liy them transmit- 

 ted to the Governor and Council, and to the treasurers 

 of the several cities and towns wherein the cattle ap- 

 praised were kept. 



Sect. 13. The provisions of chapter one hundred and 

 ninety-two of the acts of the year one thousand eight 

 hundred and sixty, except so far as they authorize the 

 appointment of commissioners, are hereliy repealed ; 

 l)ut this repeal shall not affect the validity of any pro- 

 ceedings heretofore lawfully had under the provisions 

 of said chapter. 



Sect. 14. The commissioners and examiners shall 

 keep a full record of their doings, and make report of 

 the same to the next Legislature, on or before the tenth 

 day of January next, unless sooner required by the 

 Governor, and the said record, or an alistract of the 

 same, shall lie printed in the annual volume of Transac- 

 tionsof the State Board of Agriculture. 



Sect. 15. The Governor, with the advice and consent 

 of the Council, shall have power to terminate the com- 

 mission and Ijoard of examiners whenever in his judg- 

 ment the public safe.y may permit. 



Sect. IG. This act shall take ettect from its passage. 



Approved, June 12, 1860. 



TO KEEP TIRES TIGHT OM^ 'WHSBIiS. 



The following, if reliable, will prove valuable. 

 A correspondent of the Southern Planter says : 



"I ironed a wagon some years ago for my own 

 use, and before putting on the tires, I filled the 

 fellies -with linseed oil ; and the tires have worn 

 out, and were never loose. I ironed a buggy for 

 my ov,-n use, seven years ago, and the tires are 

 now as tight as when put on. My method of fill- 

 ing the fellies with oil is as follows ; I use along, 

 cast-iron oil-heater, made for the purpose ; the 

 oil is brought to a boiling heat, the Avheel is 

 placed on a stick so as to hang in the oil, each 

 felly one hour for a common-sized felly. 



"The timber should be dry, as green timber 

 will not take oil. Care should be taken that the 

 oil be not made hotter than a boiling heat, in or- 

 der that the timber be not burnt. Timber filled 

 with oil is not susceptible to water, and the tim- 

 ber is much more durable. I was amused, some 

 time ago, when I told a blacksmith how to keep 

 tires tight on wheels, by his teUing me it was a 

 profitable business to tighten tires, and the wagon 

 maker will say it is profitable to him to make and 

 repair wheels, but what will the farmer who sup- 

 ports the smith and wheelwright say ?" 



