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penalty of law, she was from that moment and until further or¬ 
ders, prohibited from removing any of the said five horses, as well 
as six other horses, kept elsewhere on the farm. 
On the morning of the following day, April 14th, together 
with the aforesaid two members of the Town Board of Health, 
and Dr. Trumbower, V. S., I visited a number of farms in the 
neighborhood around the Conaway farm, for the purpose of in¬ 
specting all the horses, as they were feared to have been more or 
less in contact with the horses on the infected farms. I also in¬ 
spected several horses owned by various parties in the town of Co- 
leta. The horses on the Conaway farm had been running at large 
for some time, and some of the neighboring farmers, while visiting 
Wellington Conaway and his son George, during their sickness 
and attending their funerals, had been in the habit of hitching 
their horses to the fencing above mentioned, and, consequently, 
reasonable fear was entertained as to their being tainted with the 
disease. The result of this inspection will be found stated below. 
Thereafter the Conaway farm was revisited. On my recom¬ 
mendation, proper disinfection of the dwelling-house was entrusted 
to George W. Homage, M. D., of Coleta, and this gentleman ac¬ 
companied us to the farm. The widow was inclined to resist all 
of our proceedings. I quietly informed her that I was present on 
behalf of the State Board of Health, and that our mission was one 
of peace. I also stated that in order to accomplish proper disin¬ 
fection of the premises, it was necessary that the family move 
away temporarily, and that the town supervisors would accommo¬ 
date her and her family. A volley of abuse and invectives was 
the reply; and she was then told that she should move peaceably, 
if possible, but forcibly, if necessary. After listening to the ad¬ 
vice of Wm. C. Hurless, justice of the peace and member of the 
Town Board of Health, who, during her husband’s life had been 
his counsellor and adviser, she relented and consented. 
When, therefore, the stable was entered, the best one of the 
five horses was missing. It was suspected that the oldest son, 
about 20 years old, had taken away this horse; but the whole family 
pretended to know nothing about it. Being informed that a war¬ 
rant for his arrest would be forthwith issued, the above-mentioned 
