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VETERINARY LEGISLATION. 
thority to practice in the state where he resides and where the 
examination of such cattle is made. Such certificate of health 
shall be invalid and of no effect for the purpose of this act, un¬ 
less signed by a practitioner of veterinary medicine and surgery 
who has so filed such certified evidence of his authority to prac¬ 
tice in the state where he resides. Any person who shall import 
any such neat cattle for dairy or breeding purposes, without such 
certificate of health or any person who shall receive any such 
cattle without such certificate, shall be liable to a penalty of 
twenty-five dollars for each head of cattle so imported, to be 
recovered in an action brought therefor by the commissioner of 
agriculture in the same manner as in cases of other violations 
of the agricultural law. 
§2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE BOARD OF CATTLE COMMISSIONERS 
AND CREATE A CATTLE BUREAU OF THE STATE BOARD OF 
AGRICULTURE. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 
General Court assembled , and by the authority of the same as 
follozvs : 
Section i. The board of cattle commissioners is hereby 
abolished. 
Section 2. A bureau of the state board of agriculture is 
hereby created, called the cattle bureau of the state board of 
agriculture. 
Section 3. The governor shall annually appoint a chief of 
the cattle bureau of the state board of agriculture, who shall 
have the powers and perform the duties heretofore conferred and 
imposed upon the board of cattle commissioners : provided , that 
no orders or regulations made by him under authority of sec¬ 
tions four and seven of chapter ninety of the Revised Raws shall 
take effect until approved by the governor and council. His 
appointment shall be confirmed by the executive council. He 
shall report on or before the tenth days of January and July in 
each year to the state board of agriculture, who shall include an 
abstract of his reports in their annual report to the legislature. 
He shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars and 
his necessary expenses, and may appoint a clerk at a salary of 
twelve hundred dollars a year. 
Section 4. Section one of chapter eighty-nine of the Re- 
