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the Board, the Secretary was instructed to hold up bill of $650 
for Quarantine Station rent, from July 1, 1910, to June 30, 1911, 
until November of this year. 
A statement of the present financial condition was submitted 
and approved. 
President Campbell read letter of September 28, to Attorney 
General Alexander Lindsay in regard to the many applications 
the Superintendent of Forestry receives to grow trees, and in- 
quiring if the moneys derived from the sale of these trees can 
be used in defraying the cost of labor in planting and caring for 
the trees, as the Board’s income is insufficient to meet all de- 
mands ; also the Attorney General’s reply was read, dated Sep- 
tember 30, stating that all such money received by the Depart- 
ment for the sale of plants must be turned into the general treas- 
ury as a government realization, and referring the Board to 
Section 385, of the Revised Laws of 1905, as follows : 
‘‘Sec. 385. Income from Forest Reserves. In case any 
moneys shall accrue from any forest reserve, or the products 
thereof, the same shall be deposited in the treasury as a special 
fund for the preservation, extension and utilization of forests 
and forest reserves, and the same shall be there held available 
for use under this chapter, subject to withdrawal and use in the 
same manner as moneys appropriated by the legislature.” 
Animal Industry. 
At the last meeting a communication to Dr. A. D. Melvin was 
transmitted by the Territorial Veterinarian, for the Board’s ap- 
proval and the President’s signature, then to be forwarded to 
the Governor for his approval, which letter requested additional 
Federal assistance in the matter of eradicating tuberculosis and 
ether communicable diseases among the dairy herds in this Terri- 
tory. Mr. Campbell read a copy of Governor Frear’s letter 
dated September 20, to Dr. Melvin, the Chief of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry at Washington, D. C., expressing his approval 
of the action of the Territorial Board and stating that he hoped 
Washington would see its way clear to render the Territory some 
assistance. 
President Campbell also read letter of September 6, by the 
Committee on Health and Sanitation — composed of Messrs. R. 
W. Aylett, Wm. H. McClellan and Daniel Logan — to the Honor- 
able Mayor and Board of Supervisors, stating that the Board of 
Supervisors had no funds for further aid to the dairy cattle in- 
spection. 
Mr. Campbell stated that he had informed the Board of Super- 
visors that if they cannot see their responsibility in this matter, 
the Board of Agriculture and Forestry does and this Board will 
continue the work along the same line at its own expense. 
On September 14, a letter was addressed to the Matson Navi- 
