No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Il5 



Section 4. The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint ten 

 persons to serve as agents to assist in tlie enforcement of the provisions of 

 this act. Such agents shall have knowledge of the diseases of meat pro- 

 ducing animals, and shall be versed in the conditions that affect the sound- 

 ness, healthfulness, and wholesorneness of aniinal food products. An appro- 

 priate standard of fitness for appointees to these offices shall be established 

 and maintained by the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 



Section 5. Agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, as provided for 

 in section four of this act, shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hun- 

 dred dollars per year, and their actual necessary traveling expenses while en- 

 gaged in the proper duties of their office: Provided, however. That such ex- 

 penses shall not exceed one hundred dollars per month. 



Section 6. It shall be the duty of agents of the State Livestock Sanitary 

 Board, as provided in this act, to perform such services prescribed by this 

 act as may be imposed by authority of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 

 Such agents are authorized, without let or hindrance, to enter upon any prem- 

 ises, or to enter any place, building, vehicle, or vessel, used for the storage, 

 preparation, or transportation of animals or their products, and to exainine, 

 in any way that may be necessary, any animals, meats, or meat food prod- 

 uct there found, for the purpose of determining whether such animals, meats, 

 or meat food products are, or may be, made into sound, wholesome, and 

 healthful human food. Animals, carcasses, or parts thereof, that are un- 

 sound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, shall 

 be rejected or condemned, and said animals, carcasses, or pai ts or products 

 thereof, shall be treated and disposed of in such a way that they cannot be 

 used as human food, as shall be provided by the rules of the State Livestock 

 Sanitary Board. 



Section 7. It shall be the duty of the agents of the State Livestock Sanitary 

 Board, as provided Ijy this act, to make examinations of slaughtering packing, 

 meat-canning, rendering, or similar establishments, and of places where meats 

 or meat food products are manufactured, prepared, stored, or sold, for the 

 purpose of ascertaining whether the said establishments or places are con- 

 structed, arranged, equipped, managed, or cared for in such a way as injur- 

 iously to affect the soundness, healthfulness, or wholesomeness, or otherwise 

 to render unfit for human food, the meats or meat food products therein pre- 

 pared, stored, or sold. In case the establishment, or the manner in which it is 

 arranged, equipped, managed, or cared for, shall be found to be defective in 

 such particulars as to make it probable that, by virtue of such defect or de- 

 fects, the meats or meat food products may be rendered unsound, unhealthful, 

 unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, it shall be tlie duty of the 

 agent of the State Livestock Sanitary Board to notify the owner, occupier, or 

 manager thereof as to the nature of the particular defects found, and report 

 the same to the State Livestock Sanitary Board. The said Board shall there- 

 upon send to the owner, occupier, or manager of the defective establishment 

 or place a notice, in writing, in which the defect or defects shall be described; 

 and the owner, occupier, or manager shall thereupon, within reasonable time, 

 remedy, remove, or abolish the said defects. In the case that a defect in res- 

 pect to the construction, arrangement, equipment, management, or care of a 

 slaughtering, packing, meat-canning, rendering, or similar establishment, or 

 of a place where meat or meat food products are manufactured, prepared, 

 stored, or sold, deemed by the State Livestock Sanitary Board to be of such 

 a nature as to render it probable that the meat or meat food products therein 

 prepared, stored, or sold may, by virtue of said defect, be rendered unsound, 

 unhealthful, or imv.hole.=ome, or otherwise unfit for human food, is not re- 

 moved or abolished within reasonable time, to be designated by the State 

 Livestock Sanitary Board, after notice from the said Board, the said estab- 

 lishment or place may be closed; and the owner, occupier, or manager thereof, 

 and all other persons, are forbidden to use the said establishment or place for 

 the preparation, storage, or sale of meats or meat food products until the 

 said defect is remedied, removed or abolished in a way that is approved by an 

 authorized agent of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 



Section 8. All cities and boroughs, and all townships of the first class, are 

 authorized and empowered to provide for the appointment of local meat-in- 

 spectors, as may be required, and to fix their compensation, which shall be 

 paid from the funds of the city, borough, or township of the first class. 

 The qualifications of such local meat-inspectors shall be certified by the State 

 Livestock Sanitary Board, and they shall have the same authority and duties 

 as are, by this act, conferred on agents of the State Livestock Sanitary 

 Board, and shall be subject to the same rules and regulations. Such certifi- 

 cates of qualification may be withdrawn or revoked at any time by the State 

 Livestock Sanitary Board, for incompetency or neglect of duty. Local meat- 

 inspectors shall have jurisdiction only within the limits of the city or bor- 

 ough, or tov\-nship of the first class, by and for which thej^ are appointed. 

 Such local meat-inspectors shall not be governed by ordinances, rules or reg- 

 ulations that are incompatible with, or that conflict with, provisions of this 

 act, or with the rules or regulations for the guidance of its agents, approved 

 and promulgated by the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 



