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dealer in milk to sell or deliver for sale in any city or to^Ti in the common- 

 wealth any milk produced or dealt in by him \\-ithout first obtaining from 

 the board of health of such city or towii a permit authorizing such sale or 

 delivery. Said boards of health are hereby authorized to issue such per- 

 mits after an inspection, satisfactory to them, of the milk and of the place 

 in which and of the circumstances under which such milk is produced and 

 handled, has been made by them or by their authorized agent. Any 

 permit so granted may contain such reasonable conditions as said board 

 may think suitable for protecting the public health and may be revoked 

 for failure to comply with any of such conditions. No charge shall be 

 made to the producer for said permit or for said inspection. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 May 17, 1916. 



AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS IN CITIES. 



General Acts, Chapter 185. 

 An Act to authorize cities to maintain schools of agriculture 



AND horticulture. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Any city which accepts the provisions of this act may 

 establish and maintain schools for instructing families and individuals by 

 means of day, part-time or evening classes in gardening, fruit growing, 

 floriculture, poultry keeping, animal husbandry, and other branches of 

 agriculture and horticulture. The location and organization of the said 

 schools, and the instruction given therein shall be subject to the approval 

 of the board of education. 



Section 2. After the acceptance of this act by any city and before 

 further action hereunder is taken, the school committee shall cause to be 

 circulated a description of the purposes and scope of the instruction to be 

 given hereunder •with, a request for applications from those desiring such 

 instruction. 



Section 3. The city council or other board or officer having power to 

 take land for school purposes in any city which accepts the provisions of 

 this act may, in conformity with the provisions of general law relative to 

 the taking of land by municipalities, take in fee any land in said city not 

 already appropriated to public uses for the purpose of maintaining a school 

 hereunder, or may lease or purchase in fee any land, either withm or 

 without the city limits, for the said purpose. The school committee of the 

 city may erect suitable buildings upon the land so acquired, and may 

 make provision, on terms that will not involve loss to the city, for the use 

 of plots of ground and for the temporary housing of those attending the 

 school, and complying with its regulations, who have not access to other 

 land suitable for giving proper effect to the instruction of the school. 



Section 4. This act shall be submitted to the voters in the several 



