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carried out. with perfect safety to the community. Nor can I for a moment ques¬ 
tion whether a series of experiments, if made by men competent to make the 
same, would ultimately he the means of saving a vast amount of property to 
the Commonwealth. Certain is it that the public would then have the satisfac¬ 
tion ot knowing what had better be done, instead of groping where, at best, all 
is mere conjecture. 
F. D. Lincoln. 
Brimfield, January 7, 1865. 
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
Council Chamber, ^ 
Boston, April 20, 1864. \ 
Ordered, That the Cattle Commissioners, appointed under Chapter 28, Acts 
ot 1862, be requested to cause such cattle as may be infected, or which have 
been exposed to infection with pleuro-pneumonia, to be isolated in accordance 
with the provisions of the Acts of 1860, Chapters 220, 221, in order that satis- 
factory experiments may be tried to determine the question of the contagious¬ 
ness aud curability of the disease called pleuro-pneumonia. 
Order adopted April 21, 1864. 
Oliver Warner, Secretary. 
Secretary’s Department, December 17,1864. 
A true copy. Attest. Oliver Warner, 
Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
Executive Department, > 
Boston, December 22, 1864. \ 
Ordered, That the Commissioners on Contagious Diseases of Cattle be di 
rected to place the cattle which have been exposed to diseased cattle, under the 
order ot Council of April 20th, referred to in a communication from said Com¬ 
missioners of 9th instant, or which may be hereafter so exposed, under the same 
treatment as farmers’ cattle ordinarily receive on a well-conducted farm in Mass¬ 
achusetts, in order that it may be ascertained whether, for purposes of working, 
milking or breeding, they have beeu injured, and to what extent they have 
been injured by exposure to the disease, etc., or by having had the disease ; and 
also to ascertain, by slaughtering them at a sufficiently remote period, whether, 
and to what extent, their fattening qualities have beeu injured. 
December 22. 1864, order adopted. 
Oliver Warner, Secretary. 
A true copy. Attest. Oliver Warner, 
Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
