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may enter any place where milk is kept or stored for sale, 

 and examine all carriages used in the conveyance of the same, 

 and when they have reason to believe any milk found therein 

 is adulterated, they shall take specimens thereof, and cause 

 the same to be analj'zed, or otherwise satisfactorily tested, 

 the result of which they shall preserve as evidence, and shall 

 prosecute for all violations of the two following sections. 



Sec. 46. All measures, cans or other vessels used in the 

 sale of milk shall annually be sealed by the sealer of weights 

 and measures, by wine measure, and shall be marked by the 

 sealer with figures indicating the quantity which they hold, 

 and whoever fraudulently sells by any other measure, can 

 or vessel, shall forfeit twenty dollars for each offence. 



Sec. 47. Whoever, acting for himself or as the employee 

 of another, knowingly or willfully sells or offers for sale, 

 milk, from cows diseased, sick, or fed upon the refuse of 

 breweries or distilleries, or upon any substance deleterious 

 to its quality, or milk to which water is added, or any foreign 

 substance, shall forfeit twenty dollars for the first, and fifty 

 dollars for every subsequent offence ; to be recovered by 

 complaint or indictment before any court having jurisdiction 

 of the same, to the use of the town where the ofience is 

 committed. 



COMMERCIAL MANURES. 

 Revised Statutes of 1871, Chapter 38. 

 Sec. 48. Commercial manures sold or kept for sale in this 

 state shall have affixed to every barrel, bag or parcel thereof 

 which may contain fifty pounds or upwards, a printed label, 

 which shall specify the name of the manufacturer or seller, 

 his place of business, and the per centage which it contains 

 of the following constituents, to wit : of soluble phosphoric 

 acid, of insoluble phosphoric acid, and of ammonia ; and 

 whoever violates this provision, or affixes labels specifying a 

 larger percentage of either of sucli constituents than is con- 

 tained therein, shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars for 

 the first, and twenty dollars for the second and each subse- 



