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Every applicant is entitled to such a license upon the production of a certificate, 

 signed by the Secretary of the local Board of Health of the municiality in which 

 such applicant resides, that he has complied in all respects' with the provisions of 

 Section 10 above quoted. 



It also provides that "The premises of every person licensed under a by-law 

 passed in pursuance of this paragraph shall at all times be open to inspection by 

 any medical health officer or sanitary inspector of the municipality granting such 

 license." For non-compliance with the provisions of section 10 above referred to, 

 the license may be cancelled by the Board of Health of the municipality granting 

 the license, providing the licensee lives in the same municipality. Where the 

 dairyman lives in a different municipality to that granting the license, the health 

 officer of that municipality and the health officer of the municipality granting 

 the license must agree as a result of a united inspection within twenty-four hours 

 after request of the Chairman of the Board of Health of the municipality granting 

 license, before suspension is permitted. If they fail to "concur in the suspension," 

 then "no such suspension shall take place unless it shall first be sanctioned by the 

 Secretary of the Provincial Board of Health/' Provision is made for appeal from 

 the local Board to the Provincial Board. A license fee may be charged not to 

 exceed $1.00. Power is also given (3 Edward VII., chap. 19, sec. 550) to town- 

 ship, city, town and village councils to appoint inspectors of milk and other foods. 

 Because of their bearing on the subsequent development of our enquiry, special 

 attention is directed to the relative powers of the "municipality granting the 

 license/' and "the municipality where the licensee lives," and the necessity for 

 concurrence. 



The Statutes also tell a curious story in the clauses in reference to the tuber- 

 culin test. It appears that in 1896, (59 Victoria, ch. 63 7 sec. 4), in An Act respect- 

 ing the Slaughtering of Cattle and the Inspection of Milk and Meat Supplies, power 

 was given to local Boards to provide for testing cattle with tuberculin and disposing 

 of them according to regulations thereafter to be decided by the Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor-in-Couneil. Apparently no regulations were drawn up, and in 1897, (60 Vic- 

 toria, ch. 14, sec. 75), a clause was added as follows: "The operation of this clause 

 is suspended and no proceedings shall be taken under the authority of the said sec- 

 tion until the close of the next session of the Legislature/' In 1898, (61 Victoria, 

 ch. 23, sec. 22), the same enactment was passed deferring it for another session. 

 The reiteration of the clause in the Statutes of 1899 (62 Victoria (2), ch. 26, sec. 

 53). showed that "wait until next session" was still the policy, while in 1900, (63 

 Victoria, ch. 33 ? sec. 38), the postponement was repeated and further elaborated with 

 a clause setting forth that "to remove doubts it is hereby declared that Section 4 

 is not and never has been in force," added no doubt as the suspending clause was* 

 not enacted in the first session of 62 Victoria. Then the matter seems to have 

 been lost sight of, and although it has never been repealed, no attempt has been 

 made to enforce it. 



There is* at present no standard in the Ontario Statutes defining the butter 

 fat quality of milk, either for human consumption or manufacturing purposes'. 

 Clause 3 as to adulteration may be quoted in full as follows: (ch. 252, R.S.O. 1897.) 



"Any person who knowingly and fraudulently sells or supplies to any person 

 any milk diluted with water, or in any way adulterated, or milk from which any 

 cream has been taken or milk commonly known as "skimmed milk," or who keeps 

 back any part of the milk known as "strippings," or who knowingly and fraudu- 

 lently sells or supplies to any person milk that is tainted or partly sour from want 



