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CORRESPONDENCE. 
tuberculosis or glanders among his animals, or upon his premises, or who, directly or 
indirectly, by act or wilfull neglect, shall have contributed to the spread of such 
diseases, or either of them, and no compensation shall be made under the provisions of 
this act to any owner, for animals killed unless the animal or animals killed shall have 
been actually owned and possessed by the owner thereof, within this state for a period 
of three months prior to such condemnation. The appraisers to be appointed as afore¬ 
said, by the comptroller, shall hold office during the pleasure of the State Board of 
Health. Each appraiser so appointed shall receive as compensation the sum of five 
dollars per day for each day actually employed, and shall also be paid his actual 
necessary disbursements, but no claim for services or disbursements shall be allowed or 
paid unless accompanied by a verified detailed statement thereof. 
Sec. 3.—The sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be 
necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds not otherwise appropriated, for the 
payment of claims to owners of animals killed in pursuance of the provisions of this 
act. 
Sec. 4. —This act shall take effect immediately. 
State of New York, ) 
Office of Secretary of State. \ ss ’ 
I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do 
hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole ot said 
original law. 
GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the city of 
Albany, this nineteenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred 
and ninety-four. 
Jno. Palmer, 
Secretary of State. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Editor American Veterinary Review: 
Dear Sir :—The writer of the sketches from the last meet¬ 
ing of the United States Veterinary Medical Association, has it 
that I returned to Chicago not very well pleased or convinced 
with Dr. Salmon’s defence of the two year schools. This is 
true. But when the same writer alleges that “ Dr. Salmon’s ar¬ 
guments were so powerful that no one dared to answer them,” 
I wish to take issue with him. To my mind it would have been 
a pity had anybody replied to those arguments, for certainly it 
would have weakened the effect they made on the audience. 
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Apparently nobody shared the opinion of Dr. Salmon. His eu- 
