APPENDIX C. 207 



department of health of the City of Duluth to inspect the dairy and dairy- 

 herds of such applicant, or the dairy and dairy herd of the person or 

 persons from whom the applicant obtains or is to obtain his milk, to- 

 gether with all appliances and milk vessels used therein, and any refu.sal 

 upon the part of such applicant or upon the part of the person or per- 

 sons from whom such applicant obtains or is to obtain his milk to permit 

 the inspection above referred to shall be deemed a sufficient ground 

 upon which the Common Council may refuse to issue the- license applied 

 for. 



Section 5. Upon the filing of the application with the commissioner 

 of health, as provided in section 2 thereof, said commissioner, or an 

 authorized inspector or veterinary, acting under his instructions, shall 

 proceed, without unnecessary delay, to inspect the dairy and dairy herd 

 of such applicant, or the dairy and dair\' herd of the person or persons 

 from whom the applicant obtains or is to obtain his milk for sale or dis- 

 tribution within the corporate limits of the City of Duluth, and it shall 

 be the duty of said commissioner of health ^o make or cause to be made, 

 under his direction and supervision, an examination and inspection, not 

 only of each and every animal producing milk for sale or consumption 

 within the corporate limits of .said City of Duluth, belonging to or con- 

 trolled b}' the said applicant or the person from whom said applicant 

 obtains or is to obtain his milk, but also of each and every cow, heifer, 

 bull, steer or calf over the age of .six months in the dairy or dairy herd 

 of such person, for the purpose of detecting the presence or absence of 

 tuberculosis or any other contagious or infectious disease, and said com- 

 missioner of health, or his said authorized inspector, actin.g umler his 

 direction and supervision in making such inspection and examination, is 

 hereby authorized to use what is commonl\- known as the tuberculin test 

 as a diagnostic agent for the detection of tuberculosis. 



Section 6. After such examination and inspection of the dairies and 

 dairy herds as in the next preceding section provided , an authorize<l 

 agent of the department of health of the City of Duluth shall tag each 

 and every animal so examined, which tag shall be of such character as 

 to aflford a permanent record of such examination, nor shall such tag be 

 altered, mutilated or removed by an^- one other than an authorized agent 

 of the health department of the City of Duluth, and the result of the 

 same as regards the presence or absence from an infectious or contagious 

 disease, and immediately thereafter and without undue or unnecessary 

 delay the commissioner of health shall present the application in section 

 2 hereof provided for to the Common Council of the City of Duluth, and 

 shall accompany it with a report which shall contain the result of the 

 examination and inspection of the tlair\- and dairy herd of the applicant, 

 or of the dairy and dairy herd of the person or persons from whom the 

 applicant obtains or is to obtain his milk for sale or distribution \\-ithin 

 the corporate limits of the City of Duluth : and the conmiissioner of 



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