, 1888-01-13

the hight OF instructions to your delegate in Congress.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND BOARDS.
1t is properly expected that the executive will present
to the legislative branch of the government a brief and con-
else statement of the financial condition of the territory,
and of each public institution, together with a SYNOPSIS of
the events and transactions during the two wears. To do
this inteligently he must have the reports of the officers and
boards OF various institutions, and he must largely rely upon
them for information and data. In the offices of auditor
and treasurer, the law requires an examination of their
books and accounts by a committee of three members elect
OF the legislative assembly, "six days before the commence
ment of the session, for the purpose of settling with the
auditor and treasurer The law also requires that call
fiscal officers of the territory shall balance their accounts on
the thirty-frst day of December of each wear. and thew. as
well as all other territorial officers who are required by law
to report the condition of their respective departments, shall
hereafter make such report Concerning the period since
last report, and up to and inclusive of said ~thirtyirst day of
December) to the governor of the territory before the tenth
day ofJanuary next sncceeding."
The auditor and treasurer cannot be expected to make
report to the governor until the legislative committee has
passed upon their books and accounts, and this brings
them up to almost the very hour of the meeting of the leg
islative assembly, All officers are to report up to-, and
including December the t~hirty-frst. The legislature meets
on the second Tuesday in January, and it is impossible for
upon the workings of each office, and each institution,
within the time thus allowed. If the reports of officers and
boards of public institutions are intended to give anything
like a history of the transactions of each office and Institution.
time should be given the officers to make full and complete
reports, and time for the governor to consider them.
L would recommend that the law be so amended that all
territorial officers shall be required to balance their accounts
on the Both day of September of each year-that the legis-
latlve committee make the examination semi-annually, on
the %thirty-frst day of March and the thirteenth day of Sep
tember, and that all officers and boards of institutions be
required TO make the report to the governor up to and includ.
ing September the thirtieth, on or before the first day of
November following. This would secure uniformity-wou
give the officers and boards of Institutions thirty days to
prepare their reports, and the governor sixty DAYS to con-
slider them and prepare his message to the legislative assem-
bly,. The reports of all the officers are valuable public doc
uments, and they together with the message, should be
printed and bound in one volume for distribution and rec
ord in the territorial library.
TERRITORIAL VETERINARIAN.
have the honor to submit herewith the sixth annual
report of DR.. James d. Hopkins, territorial veterinarian.
The position carries with it great responsibility, and oner-
Gus duties, as calls are continually being made, from locali-
ties tar distant from the seat OF government, and without
any railroad connections. Many complaints have been
made to the veterinarian by letter relating to disease of cat
tie, moi fatal or contagious, but resulting from neglect, in
sufficient food and exposure, causing excitement in the
neighborhood because not rightly understood. The visits
OF the veterinarian have been of great service in allaying the
excitement and restoring public confidence. The report
says: "Among the most notable outbreaks of disease among
cattle during the past year, that in Mr.. Bright's herd near
Lander, was the most fatal. In October, 1886, Mr.. BRIGHT
bought ninety-eight heiters (al pregnanD in Iowa, and took
OF November. The weather was very severe, snow cover
ing the grass, and the owner neglected to feed them; the
result was that with exposure, and starvation sickness de-
veloped and eighty head out fthe ninety-eight died" x
He further says, "My experience is that
cattle imported from the states, where for generations tbev
havo been bred to shelter and accustomed to find their ra-
tons IN a manager, when brought to this country and turned
into a pasture, with insufficient food and shelter, in a eli
mate where the daily change of temperature is about 40
degrees (the difference between noon and midnight rapidly
lose condition, and in this state readily fall victims to all
monia, pleursy, aydro-thorax, arcites and abortion"
There have been only two cases of blackleg among
calves. tuberculosis among imported cattle in only three
instances was reported, and in each case the owner was ad-
vised to slaughter them because of the heredity of the dis
ease.
During the year 1885 there arrived in Cheyenne from
the states East and South, 1928 head of cattle. During
the year 1886 there were imported into the territory in III
herds, including 103 head from Canada, 79,169 head from
sixteen states and territories, and were consigned to nine
states and territories.
During the year 1887 there arrived in CHEYENNE from
sixteen states and territories, 81, sos head in 1873 herds, and
were consigned to eight states and territories. Ali these
cattle had to be inspected upon their arrival, and an exan-
lnatlon of the proofs presented by the importers to show
that the shipments did not come from any infected locality,
and that the shippers of the cattle had complied with the
sanitary laws of Wyoming.
The people of Wyoming are to be congratulated that
Notwithstanding the existence of contagious plcuro-pneu-
monia among the cattle of Illinois and other states. Texas
fever in the South, and the almost unrestricted traffic in
cattle between the states, these diseases have not made
their appearance in our territory. The report calls atten-
ton to the fact, that while wholesome laws have been
passed, and ample authority conferred upon the territorial
veterinarian to cope with any emergency likely to arise
among the cattle on a ranch, no place has ever been pro-
vided to detain cattle in quarantine coming from infected
states, or suspected of contagious diseases. That the exec
utive committee of the Stock Growers Association supplied
the means necessary to build the present territorial quar-
antne yards, about one mile east of Cheyenne. These
words cOynr IN orno n ohOut tbirtv onrny 1;y;1o1 ;,+, ~,