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Board at its last regular meeting and which pertained to a stricter 
compliance on the part of certain officers and employees with 
the rules and regulations of this Board, has been distributed and 
the appended answers have been received. 
A copy of the same letter was also sent to the Federal inspector 
in San Francisco, together with such information as may lead to 
the prevention of a repetition of the incident which necessitated 
the circular letter in question. 
To further prevent the introduction of hog cholera and swine 
plague fiom California, a blank form of affidavit to be filled in 
and sworn to by the owner and shipper of swine intended for 
shipment to this Territory has been forwarded to Dr. Baker in 
San Francisco as per his request. 
At the Quarantine Station on the Beach Road the following 
animals have been kept since the last meeting of the Board : 
10 mules, Schuman Carriage Co., March 9 to April 1. 
3 horses, Hawaiian Express Company, March 18 to April 2. 
17 mules, Schuman Carriage Company, March 18 to date. 
9 mules, Honolulu Plantation Co., March 18 to April 2. 
The 17 mules which are still at the station will be shipped to 
Hilo as soon as transportation can be obtained for them. An 
application to ship them two days before the expiration of the 
quarantine period and to allow them to finish the said period at 
the Quarantine Station in Hilo had to be denied as the same 
steamer was to carry mules which had finished their quarantine. 
Applications have been received and in accordance with prece- 
dence, granted, for permission to land 4 mules at Hana, Maui, 
and 16 mules at Honuapo, Hawaii, the same to be isolated and 
held for inspection at the owner’s expense. Both of these ship- 
ments, the 4 by the schooner James Rolph and the 16 by the 
schooner Muriel will undoubtedly spend the principal part, if not 
the entire quarantine period, on board these sailing vessels, and 
it would therefore seem an unreasonable hardship to compel the 
owners to unload them at either Kahului (where no quarantine 
station has been built as yet, but where the rules allow their 
landing) or at Hilo, and in both cases necessitate a severe and 
risky, not to say expensive and cruel overland trip of several 
days duration. The appended letters to the Deputy Territorial 
Veterinarians of Maui and Hawaii (Dr. J. C. Fitzgerald, April 
1st, and Dr. H. B. Elliot, April 4th), will show the precautions 
taken in order to prevent the introduction of any contagion with 
the animals in question. Mr. John Hind of the Hawi plantation 
has three times before been granted permission to land mules at 
Honuapo, in which cases the animals were inspected by either Dr. 
Elliot from Hilo (2 times) or by Dr. Fitzgerald, then assistant 
veterinarian, from Honolulu. 
An opinion by the Board in regard to the further continuance 
of this practice would be appreciated by this office and a copy of 
