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Massachusetts Society

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Miscellaneous Publications

1683-1911

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. An Act, concerning contagious diseases. 1865 J

2. Bennett, Edmund H. :A Treatise on the Legal

Rights and Liabilities of Farmers. 1884.

3. Centennial Year of the Massachusetts Society]

for Promoting Agriculture. 1792-1892.

4. Dana, Samuel L. :An Essay on Manures.

5. Des Gars, A. :A Treatise on Pruning Forest

and Ornamental Trees. 1906. 5th ed.

6. Hearing before the Committee of Public

Health on Dangers to Human Life from
Bacilli of Tuberculosis in Milk. 1891.

7. Infectiousness of Milk. 1895.

8. The Law of the Roadside. 1911. 2nd ed.

9. Letter, concerning damage to shade and fruit

trees in this State by leaf -eating
insects. 1902.

10. Massachusetts Society for Promoting

Agriculture, Constitution of. 1894.

11. Owen, James: Address on the Highway Constric-

tion in New Jersey, U. 3. A. 1893.

12. Protection of tne Forests of the Common-

wealth. 1886.

13. Results of Spraying Experiments against

Caterpillars of the Gipsy and Brown-
tail Moths. 1905.

14. Scudder, Samuel H. :The Pine Moth of

Nantucket. 1883.

PUBLICATIONS

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(HommoniDealtl) of Jttassacbueette.

In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-five.

AN ACT

To aid in the suppression of Contagious Diseases
among; Domestic Animals.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in
General Court assembled, and. by the authority of the same, as
follows :

1 Section 1. Whoever has knowledge of the ex-

2 istence of a contagious disease among any species

3 of domestic animals in this State, whether such

4 knowledge is obtained by examination or other-

5 wise, shall forthwith give notice thereof to the

6 board of aldermen of the city, or the selectmen

7 of the town where such diseased animals are

8 kept, and for failure so to do, shall be punished

2 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. [Mar. '85.

9 by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or

10 by imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year.

1 Sect. 2. The board of aldermen of a city,

2 or the selectmen of a town, having received

3 notice of a contagious disease among domestic

4 animals in their city or town, shall forthwith

5 inform the board of cattle commissioners of the

6 existence of such contagious disease.

1 Sect. 3. Section three of chapter ninety of

2 the Public Statutes is hereby amended so as to

3 read as follows : They may cause all such ani-

4 mals, except those infected with glanders or

5 farcy, to be appraised by three competent and

6 disinterested men, under oath, at the value there-

7 of at the time of the appraisement, and the

8 amount of the appraisement shall be paid as pro-

9 vided in section one ; and they shall cause all ani-

10 mals infected with glanders or farcy to be killed

11 without appraisement, but may pay the owner an

12 equitable sum for the killing and for any reason-

13 able expense incurred by such owner for the burial

14 thereof.

1 Sect. 4. The cattle commissioners, in the nec-

2 essary discharge of their duties, may administer

3 oaths.

[Approved April 9. 1885.

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