450 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



mayors and aldermen of cities and selectmen of towns, con- 

 taining the following- instructions relative to the issuing of 

 licenses : — 



Every such proprietor engaged in the "business of slaughtering 

 neat cattle must take out such license before he is authorized to do 

 business. Wholesale slaughtering establishments are not required to 

 take out a license for the slaughtering of sheep or swine, nor are the 

 inspectors required to be present at such establishments to inspect at 

 the time of slaughter the carcasses of sheep or swine (section 1, 

 chapter 496 of the Acts of the year 1895). If, however, such pro- 

 prietors are also engaged in the slaughter of neat cattle, they must 

 take out a license to slaughter such animals as heretofore. In the 

 opinion of this Board, a wholesale slaughtering establishment within 

 the meaning of this act is an establishment that markets its product 

 to the jobbing trade alone, and disposes of no single carcass or por- 

 tions thereof. In all such establishments inspections are now being 

 made by agents appointed under the laws of the United States, there- 

 fore an establishment where no such inspection under the laws of the 

 United States is being conducted is not deemed to be a wholesale 

 establishment by this Board. 



Soon after the law of 1894 came into operation, it was found 

 to be defective, to a certain extent, in that it failed to provide 

 for the making of returns to this commission of the number 

 of the several establishments so licensed to carry on this busi- 

 ness. Accordingly the law was amended by section 4 of the 

 law of 1895, by providing that : — 



The board or officer of every city or town authorized to issue said 

 license shall on or before the first day of .June in each year send to 

 the Board of Cattle Commissioners a copy of every application made 

 to them under section seventeen of this act, and shall state the 

 doings of said board or officer upon said application ; and shall fur- 

 ther send to the Board of Cattle Commissioners the names and 

 addresses of all persons required to make application under section 

 seventeen, who were engaged in such business on the last day of the 

 previous April, and who have failed to make application as provided 

 in said section. 



Under the order issued by this Board on July 1, to cities 

 and towns, the Board gave the following directions : — 



