168 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. 4. 



DOG LAW COMMISSION. 



Resolve, Chapter 102. 

 Resolve providing for a commission to in^'estigate the advisability 



OF amending ANT) SUPPLEMENTING THE LAW RELATING TO DOGS. 



Resolved, That a commission, which shall be composed of the secretary 

 of the state board of agriculture, the chairman of the board of commis- 

 sioners on fisheries and game and an assistant attorney-general, to be 

 designated by the attorney-general, and a fourth person, familiar with the 

 operation of the dog-laws in cities who shall serve -^dthout compensation, 

 and shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the 

 council, is hereby constituted for the purpose of inquiring into the ad- 

 visability of amending or supplementing the laws relating to dogs. 

 Especially shall it consider the advisability of enacting further legislation 

 for the protection from dogs of domestic animals, especially sheep, and 

 also game. The commission shall report to the general court, after holding 

 such public hearings as it may deem necessarj^, not later than the second 

 "Wednesday in January, nineteen hundred and eighteen, with drafts of such 

 legislation, if any, as it may deem expedient. [Ap2)roved May 16, 1917. 



COMMERCIAL FEEDING STUFFS. 



General Acts, Chapter 47. 

 An Act relative to the sale and analysis of food stuffs for live 



STOCK and poultry. 



Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs: 



Section 1. Section five of chapter five hundred and twenty-seven of 

 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and twelve is hereby amended by 

 striking out the word "September", in the fourth and eighth lines, and 

 inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the word : — • Januaiy, — so 

 as to read as follows : — Section 5. A certified copy of the tag or label 

 requii-ed by this act shall be filed with the director of the Massachusetts 

 agricultural experiment station, or his authorized deputy, for registration 

 prior to the first day of January in each j^ear for every brand of commercial 

 feeding stuff to be sold or offered, exposed or kept for sale or to be dis- 

 tributed in this commonwealth during the year beginning with said first 

 day of January. The said director or his authorized deputy may there- 

 after permit a manufacturer, importer or other person to file a copj^ of the 

 tag or label of a brand of feeding stuff, and may register the same for said 

 year in accordance with the rules and regulations which may be prescribed 

 by the said director. 



Section 2. Section six of said chapter five hundred and twenty-seven 

 is hereby amended by striking out the word "August ", in the eleventh line, 

 and inserting in place thereof the word : — December, — so as to read as 



