GENERAL INTRODUCTION 



In response to a widespread demand on the part of many of the 

 citizens of Rochester for an official investigation of the high cost of milk, 

 and the recognition by the city officials that the cost of milk had greatly 

 increased in recent months, the Common Council of the City of Roch- 

 ester planned to conduct a milk survey in accordance with the following 

 resolution : 



City Clerk's Office, 

 City Hall, 



Rochester, N. Y, July 10, 1919. 

 To Whom It May Concern : 



I Hereby Certify, That at a session of the Common Council of the City of 

 Rochester, held in the City Hall on Tuesday, 'April 22, 1919, an ordinance was 

 adopted, of which the following is a true copy ; and that at the time said ordinance 

 was adopted the Common Council of said City consisted of twenty-four members. 



By ALD. HART 



Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rochester as follows : 



Section 1. The Committee on Public Safety of the Common Council is hereby 

 authorized and directed to investigate and inquire into the distribution of milk used 

 in the City of Rochester and the sanitary conditions surrounding the same and the 

 cost thereof ; and as to the expediency of the purchase and distribution by the city 

 of all milk used in the city; and as to the expediency and expense of any other 

 method designed to secure the control by the city of the distribution of milk; and 

 into the production of milk used in the City of Rochester and the sanitary conditions 

 surrounding the same and the cost thereof ; and as to the expediency and expense 

 of the production by the city on municipally owned farms of all milk used in the 

 city; and to report to the Common Council the result of its investigation with such 

 recommendations concerning the same as it deems proper. 



Sec. 2. The employment of one or more experts to assist said Committee in its 

 investigation is hereby authorized, such employment to be without competition, at 

 a compensation to be fixed by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and it is 

 hereby declared to be impracticable to procure the services of such experts by com- 

 petitive contract. 



Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect immediately. 



Adopted by the following vote: 



Ayes Aldermen Catiley, Ward, Hart, Somers, Friedler, Rosenberg, Messinger, 

 Kane, Steelsmith, Carroll, Chilson, Cook, Russell, O'Neil, Bareham, Stanley, Rap- 

 pleye, Morgan, Hoffman, DePotter, Dentinger, Hannahs, Ruppel. 23. 



Nays None. 



And I further certify that said ordinance was submitted to His Honor, the 

 Mayor of said City of Rochester, by whom the same was approved. 



Attest: JOSEPH A. CRANE, 



City Clerk. 



The present director of this survey was employed by the City of 

 Rochester to organize and conduct a milk survey, beginning on July 

 8th, 1919. 



