CORRESPONDENCE. 
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ive towns and cities are infected with, or have been exposed to any 
such disease, give notice in writing to the Commissioners of th e 
same. 
“ Sect. 6 . The Commissioners are authorized to make all nec¬ 
essary regulations for the treatment, cure and extirpation of said 
disease, and to enforce and to carry into effect all such regula¬ 
tions as may from time to time be made for that end ; and any 
such officer refusing or neglecting to enforce and carry out any 
regulation of the Commissioners shall be punished by fine not ex¬ 
ceeding five hundred dollars for every such offence.” 
In discharge of the duty imposed by the several Acts above 
cited, the Commissioners hereby forbid the passage of any horses, 
asses or mules infected with the diseases known as farcy and gland¬ 
ers, over or along any highway or public thoroughfare, and direct 
the Selectmen of the several towns, and the Mayors and Aldermen 
of the several cities of the Commonwealth, to exercise all diligence, 
to extirpate said diseases by causing the infected animals to be iso¬ 
lated and the Commissioners notified thereof by letter directed to 
No. 153 Lincoln Street, Boston. 
Levi Stockbridge, } Commissioners on 
E. F. Thayer, > Contagious Diseases 
LI. W. Jordan, ) among Cattle. 
Boston, April 29, 1878. 
NATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS IN PARIS. 
The exhibition in Paris will be taken as an occasion for the 
veterinarians of France to have a congress where questions of in_ 
terest to veterinary surgeons, to the advancement of veterinary 
science, &c., will be treated during the week included between 
September the 8th and September the 15tli. 
The following are the questions to be discussed : 
1. Study the means proper to ameliorate the position of civil vet¬ 
erinarians in France. 
2. Examine the best mode of organization of the sanitary 
service and the means to insure its execution. 
