No 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 85 



TO THE HONOKABLE THE JUDGES OF THE COUKT OF QUAR- 

 TER SESSIONS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVA- 

 NIA. 



The petition of Jesse K. Cope- respectfully represents that he is 

 the duly a])pointed Dairy and Food Commissioner of the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania, and that he is charged by the laws of the 

 State with the duty of enforcing the various statutes, relating to 

 the sale and adulteration of food products, and also with the duty of 

 enforcing the law of the State, regulating the sale of oleomargarine, 

 colored in imitation of yellow butter. 



That for the purpose of enforcing said laws, your petitioner, the 

 Dairy and Food Commissioner, has appointed various special agents 

 in various parts of the Commonwealth, to ascertain and report 

 alleged violations of the statutes aforesaid. 



That in the performance of the official doty thus imposed upon 

 your petitioner, as the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania, your petitioner instructed agents emploj^ed, 

 as aforesaid, to investigate and report, as to whether illegal sales of 

 oleomargarine were being made in the cities of Pittsburg and Alle- 

 gheny and elsewhere in the county of Allegheny. 



That the said agents made reports to your petitioner, showing that 

 they had purchased various articles believed by them to Ue colored 

 oleomargarine, from various residents of the cities aforesaid and of 

 the county aforesaid. 



That the articles so purchased by said agents w'ere submitted to 

 inspection and analysis by a competent chemist, duly selected and 

 appointed for that purpose. 



That the said chemist made report to your petitioner, that the ar- 

 ticles so purchased as aforesaid, by the said agents, were in each in- 

 stance oleomargarine, colored by artificial means in imitation of 3'el- 

 low butter. 



That upon the receipt of the report of said chemist upon the various 

 articles so purchased as aforesaid, your petitioner in the performance 

 of his official dut^^, and for the purpose of enforcing the laws of the 

 Commonwealth against those who had apparently violated the same 

 in the sale of the aforesaid articles, your petitioner instructed James 

 Terry, the Chief Supervisor of the Agents of the Dairy and Food De- 

 partment at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to commence prosecutions 

 against various persons, who had apparently violated the law regu- 

 lating the sale of oleomargarine, in the manner above stated. 



That the said James Terry, in pursuance of said instructions from 



