Nc. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 83 



September, 1JH)1, he appeared before the grand jury of Allegheny 

 county and in the case of the Coniuiou wealth vs. S. B. Charters, testi- 

 fied substantially as follows: That he was an agent of the Dairy and 

 Food Conunissioner of the Coninionwealth of Pennsylvania; that on 

 the 1st day of September, lUOO, he purchased from S. U. Charters, 

 the defendant, an article or substance which resembled yellow butter; 

 that said purchase was made in the county of Allegheny from the 

 said defendant; that the article so purchased was by this deponent 

 marked upon the wrapper in which the same was delivered by the 

 defendant to the deponent, the date of purchase and the initials of 

 this deponent, and the sum paid by him for said article, together with 

 a number identifying the sample; that deponent delivered the said 

 sample so wrapped and marked as aforesaid, to Prof. F. T. Aschman, 

 in the city of Pittsburg, to be analyzed by the said Aschman, who 

 was then and there a chemist employed by the Dairy and Food Com- 

 missioner. 



Deponent further states, that he was sworo and examined by and 

 before the said grand Jury on the date aforesaid, in regard to a num- 

 ber of other purchases of a like article made by him from various de- 

 fendants against whom bills had been presented and were then pend- 

 ing before the said grand jury, this deponent testifying in each of said 

 cases to the purchases made by him from the said defendants, re- 

 spectively, giving in each instance the date of such purchase, and the 

 amount paid, and that he had in each case marked the sample as 

 above indicated, with the date and place of purchase and the name of 

 the defendant, and that he delivered each of said samples to the 

 aforesaid chemist for analysis. 



Deponent further states that he has kept the said samples in every 

 instance from the time of the respective purchases thereof until theii 

 delivery to the said chemist, in his own possession, and that nothing 

 had been added thereto or taken therefrom, and that the samples iu 

 each instance were delivered to said chemist in the same conditio? 

 which they respectively were at the time of purchase. 



GEORGE H. WILCOX, 



Special Agent, Dairy and Food Division of the Department o. 

 Agriculture. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of September 

 A. D. 1901. 

 Geo. W. Miller, 



Clerk of the Court. 



