No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. 451 



Forms of applications and licenses to slaughter will be furnished you 

 upon application to this Board. Please notify all persons engaged in 

 the business of slaughtering neat cattle, sheep or swine within the 

 limits of your city or town of the provisions of this act, and request 

 them, if they desire to conduct such business further, to make proper 

 application in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of said 

 chapter 496, which should be strictly complied with. In case the 

 proprietor of any such establishment has already obtained a license 

 to slaughter cattle for the year ending the 30th of April, 1896, and 

 does not desire to slaughter either sheep or swine, no new application 

 is necessary. If such person desires or intends to slaughter sheep 

 or swine in addition, it will be necessary to make application for and 

 obtain a new license. 



Your attention is called to section 4 of said chapter 496, in relation 

 to the issuing of licenses, which should be strictly complied with, and 

 records should in all cases be kept by the proper board, showing the 

 action taken by your city or town upon each application. 



Your attention is specially called to the latter portion of the pro- 

 visions of this section, which requires the board or officer having the 

 matter of the issuing of such licenses in charge to send to the Board 

 of Cattle Commissioners a copy of every application made to carry 

 on such business of slaughtering, together with a copy of the records 

 of the city or town, showing the action of such board or officer upon 

 each such application. The commission deems it very important that 

 this provision be complied with, in order that accurate records may 

 be kept of the location of all such establishments and of the names 

 of all persons engaged in such business. 



Inasmuch as the law this year allows thirty days within which 

 licenses must be taken out, which would expire on the fifth day of 

 July, the Board desires you to send to it before the first day of 

 August a copy of all such applications which have been or may be 

 made to conduct the business of slaughtering for the year ending 

 April 30, 1896, and of the records of the doings of your city or town 

 officials upon the same, and also a list giving the names and ad- 

 dresses of all persons within the limits of your city or town, required 

 under this section to take out a license, who were engaged in such 

 business on the thirtieth clay of April, 1895, and who have failed to 

 make application for a license to carry on the business. 



The Board earnestly requests that you will co-operate with it in 

 this important work, and will promptly notify it of any breaches of 

 this law, not only on the part of persons slaughtering animals, but 

 on the part of the inspectors in failing to attend properly to the 

 matter of inspection. 



