CATTLE commissioners' REPORT. 247 



" 'And notice is further given that the license of all milk 

 dealers in the city of Portland having expired by limitation 

 on the first day of May, A. D. 1906, no license will be recom- 

 mended by said Board of Health to any dealer in milk in said 

 city who has not complied with the above regulations. 



" 'Attention is called to the provisions of the by-laws of the 

 Board of Health relating to the sale of milk which provides 

 that any violation of said by-laws by any person or corporation 

 shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 

 such person or corporation shall be punished by a fine of not 

 more than fifty dollars. 



" 'Attention is further called to Section 4 of the "Ordinance 

 Relating to Milk,'' which provides that any man who has in 

 his possession milk intended for sale, and who attempts to sell 

 this milk without having been licensed to do so, shall for the 

 first offense be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars 

 and for a subsequent ofifcnse, by a fine not exceeding fifty dol- 

 lars. 



" 'On June tenth, those milk dealers who have complied with 

 the requirements of the Board of Health will be recommended 

 for a license and granted a clean bill of health, and until that 

 date no certificate of health, in addition to those already issuea, 

 will be issued any milk dealer in the city. 



CHARLES M. LEIGHTON, M. D., 



WALTER E. TOBIE, M. D., 



HARRY M. BIGELOW, 



Board of Health.' " 



The report shows the authority vested in the Board of Health, 

 not only of the city of Portland, but all other municipalities of 

 the State, and it would make no difiference with their law or 

 their duties whether there was a cattle commission or not, or 

 whether the State appropriated money to pay foi animals found 

 to be diseased or not. They have a right by law to demand 

 that all food products shall be above suspicion as far as health- 

 fulness and purity are concerned. 



Portland is the largest city in the State, claiming nearly sixty 

 thousand population, and it requires at least six thousand cows 

 to supply the market with milk and cream, supplied principally 

 from three counties, namely, Cumberland, York and Oxford; a 



