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Sec. 2159. Penalty for kindling fire outside of city, borough, fire 

 district, or town limits or railroad land. Every person, except a.s pro- 

 vidiul ill this sfciioii, aiul in seciicjn liKio, who shall kindle or authorize 

 another to kindle a fire in the opeii air outside the limits of any city, 

 l)oroufjrh or tire district, or land controlled by any railroad company, for 

 the purpose of burninf:: bushes, weeds, grass or rubbish of any kind, 

 between Ihe first day of :Mareh and the first day of .June, and the first 

 day of Sept('ml)er and the first day of December, in any year, without 

 first obtaining- from the fire warden of the district, written permission 

 stating- when and where such lire may be kindled, shall be fined not 

 more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months 

 or both; but such permission shall not be required for the kindling of 

 a fire in a ploughed field, garden or public highway, at a distance of 

 not less than two hundred feet from any woodland, brushland or field 

 containing dry grass or other inflammable material. 



CHAPTER 127. 

 Health Officers. 



Sec. 2405. Slaughter houses; regulations; penalty. Xo slaughter 

 house or place where the business of slaughtering- beef, poultry or 

 swine or preparing the same for market is carried on shall be main- 

 tained in any town, city or borough except upon written permission of 

 the health officer or board of health of the town, city or borough within 

 which the same is located, which permission may be revoked at any 

 time. Such board of health or health officer may prescribe such rules 

 and regulations as .said board or officer may judge necessary for the 

 control and management of such houses or places and for the proper 

 inspection of the food products slaughtered or prepared for market 

 therein, and may enter into su<:h houses or places for the purposes of 

 inspection. Any person who shall violate any rule or regulation made 

 by any board of health or health officer under authority of this section 

 or who shall conduct a slaughter house without having such written 

 permission shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or im- 

 prisoned not more than thirty days or both. The legislative authorities 

 of any city or borough may establish and maintain a slaughter house 

 or slaughter houses within their respective territorial limits. 



CHAPTER 128. 

 Pure Food and Drugs. 



Sec. 2457. Prir-.t butter; marked. Xo person shall, by himself, his 

 servant or agent, sell or offer or expose for sale, or have in his posses- 

 sion with intent to sell any print butter unless the package or wrapper 

 containing the same chall have conspicuously printed thereon, in letters 

 or figures not less than one-half inch in height, in plain Gothic type, 

 the net weight of the butter contained therein. Every person who shall 

 violate any provision of this section -shall be punished by a fine not ex- 

 ceeding twenty -five dollars. 



Sec. 2459. Sale of impure vinegar forbidden. X"o person shall 

 make, sell, offer or expose for sale or exchange, solicit or receive any 

 order for the sale or delivery within the state, or for delivery without 

 the state for shipment into the state, of: (1) Any vinegar, as cider 

 vinegar, not wholly produced from the juice of apples; (2) any vinegar 

 or article sold or to be sold as vinegar, to which has been added any 

 drug, or any hurtful or foreign substance, or any coloring matter, or 



