THE TUBERCULIN TEST IN , MASSACHUSETTS. 
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comfort of the general public. The commissioners are not 
allowed to exceed their appropriation, hence all their work 
must stop when their money gives out. 
We earnestly recommend the immediate passage of the fol¬ 
lowing act:— 
Section i. No person or persons having animals tested with tuberculin shall be en¬ 
titled to compensation from the State for any animals that react to the tuberculin test 
unless such testing be done by the State Board of Cattle Commissioners or their author¬ 
ized agents acting as such at the time of the test, md such testing must be subject to the 
supervision and control of the State Board of Cattle Commissioners. 
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 
We submit with this report the reports made by the experts 
attending the post-mortem examinations of these cattle. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Harding R. Barber, Geo. E. Putnam, John J. Pre- 
VAUX, 0 / the Senate. 
James Lawrence, John E. McCueeeand, John J. Gard¬ 
ner, Edward A. Stevens, John B. Dewing, Edward A. 
Cowee, Of the Hoitse. 
MINORITY REPORT. 
The undersipfiied members of the committee dissent and snb- 
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mit the following minority report:— 
Boston. May 27, 1897. 
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatiz^e:, of the General Louft. 
We, the undersigned members of the joint committee of the 
legislature, appointed under the following joint order and re¬ 
solve,— 
“ Ordered, That a joint special committee, to consist of three members of the Senate 
and such as the House may join, be appointed to investigate and report whether or not 
certain cows owned by residents of Dracut and Lowell and which have been recently 
condemned and slaughtered as tuberculous, are or are not actually tuberculous; and said 
committee is hereby authorized to employ experts to aid them in making the*investigation 
hereby ordered.” 
'■'■Resolved, That the joint special committee authorized to investigate certain cattle 
belonging to farmers of Dracut and Lowell, which had been condemned as tuberculous 
by the tuberculin test, and to have said animals subjected to an examination by experts, 
selected by said committee, are further authorized to-purchase, slaughter ard have exam¬ 
ined by the same experts the remaining twenty-three animals of said herds reported not to 
have reacted to the tuberculin test in order to show the value of that test in as full a de¬ 
gree as possible ” — 
respectfully dissent from the report of the majority committee 
heretofore made, and beg leave to submit the following report 
and reasons for onr dissent:— 
The report submitted by the various experts employed by 
the committee to make post-mortem examinations of the ani¬ 
mals that were condemned as tnbercnlons and destroyed, as well 
as those killed under the above resolve as having passed the 
tuberculin test, shows as follows : 
