THE LAW OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
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The Commission, as a Board, have control of the entire 
Mate, and are given power to make orders and regulations 
covering the importation and quarantine of cattle, the trans¬ 
portation and treatment of cattle within the State, the matter 
of quarantine of suspected cases of disease, and the disinfec¬ 
tion and cleaning of premises; and are given generally the 
power to take all steps necessary or expedient to suppress 
or prevent the introduction of contagious diseases among do¬ 
mestic animals, including glanders, farcy, contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia, tuberculosis, Texas fever, foot and mouth disease, 
rinderpest, hog cholera and rabies, and such other diseases as 
the Commission may deem to be contagious. 
Besides this general power vested in the Commission, each 
member thereof is individually given the power to enter all 
premises for the purpose of inspection, to condemn and de¬ 
stroy diseased or unwholesome meat and carcasses which 
they may find ; to quarantine and examine all animals sus¬ 
pected of being affected with or having been exposed to con¬ 
tagious disease, and if they find them diseased to cause such 
animals to be destroyed and safely disposed of; and in such 
case no compensation is paid to the owner of the animal de¬ 
stroyed, unless it is destroyed as having been affected with 
tuberculosis. When such animals are killed, the full value at 
the time of condemnation, not exceeding the sum of sixty dol¬ 
lars, is to be paid by the State, provided the animal has been 
owned within the State six months continuously prior to its 
being killed, and also provided that the owner has not wilfully 
contributed to the spread of the disease. This is a change 
over the law of 1894, in that under that law the State paid 
one-half the value at the time of killing, without taking into 
consideration the fact that the animal was afflicted with the 
disease for which it was condemned. 
The value of the animal is to be determined either by 
agreement with the Commissioners or by appraisal of two 
arbitrators, one to be selected by the Commission and one by 
the owner. These appraisers are required to be sworn. If 
the owner is not satisfied with the appraisal or with the action 
of the Commission in destroying the animal, he is given the 
