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though none of these showed any symptoms of glanders 
during the test. 
The correspondence pertaining to this matter, and which 
is herewith appended, which, after consultation with the 
Matson Navigation Company’s agent here, decided that the 
Territorial Veterinarian should go to Hilo and meet the 
Hilonian’s shipment upon its arrival. A wireless message 
was sent to the Deputy Territorial Veterinarian in Hilo, in- 
structing him not to allow the landing of the animals until 
my arrival. On September 20th I left for Hilo and found that 
the Hilonian had arrived the night previous and that the 
animals had been retained on board. A careful examination 
of the same failed to reveal the presence of any suspicious 
symptoms, and the animals were landed and taken to the 
quarantine station, where the six horses were placed in sepa- 
rate stalls, while the 15 mules were allowed to run in an 
isolated pasture inside of the quarantine premises. The 
animals will not be released from quarantine until the in- 
spector in charge is satisfied that they are free from any in- 
fection, and I have suggested that the six horses be retested 
in any event before being released, whether they show symp- 
toms of the disease or not. The mules will, in case any of 
them have become infected before shipment from San Fran- 
cisco, undoubtedly develop symptoms of the disease before 
the expiration of the quarantine period, and it will, there- 
fore, not be necessary to retest them unless suspicious symp- 
toms appear. 
As will be seen fromi the appended correspondence, the 
agents of the Matson Navigation Company admit that the 
Captain of the Hilonian should not have accepted the con- 
signment in question for shipment over the protest of the 
Federal inspector, and the two accompanying copies of let- 
ters addressed by the said agents to the Matson Navigation 
Company of San Francisco, California, and to the masters 
of the various vessels of this company will explain the action 
taken by this company to prevent a repetition of this inci- 
dent and to insure a stricter conforming by the company’s 
officers with the rules and regulations of this Board. This 
action on their part would seem to be satisfactory and would 
obviate the necessity of altering or amiending the said rules 
and regulations, a contingency which had been considered at 
a meeting of the Committee on Animal Industry. 
In response to a letter from Dr. Baker, dated June 13, 
1910, and which is appended hereto, complaining about the 
difficulty in identifying mules and horses tested for the Ter- 
ritory of Hawaii, there has been forwarded to Dr. Baker 500 
aluminum ear-tags bearing the following legend: “Territory 
of Hawaii, Mallein Tested, Passed,” and a serial number. 
One equal number of tags have been forwarded to the Federal 
