154 
•TAMES D. HOPKINS. 
The number of cattle (infected) killed by the owners, no ex¬ 
pense to the State, (except quarantine), 1,460. 
Total amount appropriated by the Legislature for this pur¬ 
pose, $65,000. 
The number killed in each county: 
Kings. 92 
Queens.148 
New York.149 
Suffolk.75 
Westchester. 97 
Putnam.196 
.Richmond. 8 
765 
In stamping out contagious pleuro-pneumonia in New 
York and Brooklyn, both cities were declared under quarantine, 
and by law it was made a misdemeanor to move a cow on the 
streets without a permit bearing the autograph of M. R. Pat¬ 
rick, the police being charged with the enforcement of the law. 
No fresh milch cows or other store cattle were allowed to 
enter the infected district, except from known healthy localities; 
and for the purpose of having full control of all cattle on arrival, 
a suitable yard was provided at 59th Street and North River, at 
which all steamboats, barges, and railroads, carrying store cattle, 
were compelled to land their stock for inspection and distribution, 
all cows going direct to the dairies, or from the dairies to the 
slaughter-house, no dealers being allowed to keep cows on sale 
elsewhere. 
At the same time, an inspection of all cow stables in the 
infected district was made, and an Inspector made a post mortem 
examination daily, at the offal dock, of all horned animals gath¬ 
ered by the offal carts. 
At the slaughter-houses, an Inspector was in attendance daily, 
to examine all dairy stock sent there as beef; and, to encourage 
the owners of cows in reporting at the office any sickness in their 
herds, as well as to outbid the dealer, a liberal indemnity was 
offered. When sick cows were found in New York or Brooklyn, 
