issue 

 lioense. 



Art. 3.] Dairy Products 1911 



further satisfy the commissioner of his or its character, financial 

 responsibility and good faith in seeking to carry on such business. 

 The commissioner shall thereupon issue to such applicant, on 

 payment of ten dollars, a license entitling the applicant to con- Licens. 

 duct the business of buying milk from dairymen for the purposes 

 aforesaid at an office or station at the place named in the appli- 

 cation until the first day of September next following ; provided, i-cel,°f. 

 however, that if the application be presented in the month of 

 July, and if the applicant so elects, such license may be granted 

 to begin on the first day of September next following and run 

 for a term of one year. A license shall not be issued, however, Ground 



for retus- 



to any applicant if during the year preceding the filing of the j^s^^o 

 application a complaint from any seller of milk shall have been 

 filed with the commissioner against such applicant for any of the 

 grounds specified in section fifty-seven hereof, and such complaint 

 shall have been established as true and just to the satisfaction of 

 the commissioner after such complaint shall have been investi- 

 gated by the commissioner in the manner provided by section 

 fifty-six hereof. 



The term '' station " or " milk gathering station," as used in Denni- 

 this and the ensuing sections of this article, shall include an estab- 

 lished ofiice where the business of buying milk as herein provided 

 is carried on, with or without a place or premises in connection 

 therewith for the physical handling of milk. {As added by chap- 

 ter 408 of the Laws o/ 1913.) 



§ 56. Power of commissioner to investigate. The commissioner 

 and his assistants shall have power to investigate upon the com- complaint, 

 plaint of any interested person, or of his own motion, the record 

 of any person, firm or corporation applying for or holding a li- 

 cense, or any transaction involving the purchase by such applicant 

 or licensee or attempted purchase of milk for shipment as pro- 

 vided in section fifty-five ; and for such purpose may examine the 

 ledgers, books of account, memoranda or other documents of any Examma- 



'^ ' ' ^ _ '' tion of 



such person, firm, association or corporation applying for or hold- documents. 

 ing a license and may take testimony therein under oath; but 

 information relating to the general business of any such person, 

 firm, association or corporation, disclosed by such investigation 



