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complaint, or indictment, in any competent court, one-half to 

 the person prosecuting, and the other to the town where the 

 offence is committed. 



FLOUR. 



Revised Statutes of 1871, Chapter 38. 



Sec. 36. The municipal officers of towns may appoint 

 annually in their towns, one or more suitable persons not 

 interested in the manufacture and sale of flour, to be inspector 

 thereof for the period of one year from the date of appoint- 

 ment. 



Sec. 37. Such inspector before entering upon the duties 

 of his office, shall be sworn to the faithful and impartial dis- 

 charge of the same before the town clerk who shall orive him 

 a certificate of his appointment and qualification, upon pay- 

 ment of a fee of fifty cents, which shall be exhil)ited on the 

 demand of any person interested in any inspection made by 

 him. 



Sec. 38. Inspection of flour shall be for the purpose of 

 ascertaining its soundness ; and every package inspected shall 

 be opened sufficiently to allow a trier to be passed through 

 it, and a sample of the whole length of the passage shall be 

 taken out and examined by the inspector, who shall mark 

 upon each package with a brand, or stencil, the word sound 

 or the word unsound as the quality of the flour contained in 

 each shall be found, and his name, residence, office, and the 

 year of inspection. He shall keep a record of all flour in- 

 spected by him, in a book kept for that use, which he shall 

 exhibit to any person requiring it. 



Sec. 39. Every inspector who ftdsely and fraudulently 

 marks any package of flour, shall be punished by a fine of 

 five dollars for each package so marked, and shall forfeit to 

 any person injured thereby, three times the amount of dam- 

 age, to be recovered in an action of debt. 



Sec. 40. Every person who, with intent to defraud, 

 alters, obliterates or counterfeits the marks of any inspector, 

 and every person who, with such intent, places upon any 



