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Section 9. The State Livestock Sanitary Board may, under such rules and 

 regulations as it may adopt, not incompatible with tlie acts of Assembly or 

 the Constitution of the Commonwealth, appoint local agents to examine the 

 animals, carcasses, meats, and meat food products, used, prepared, or stored 

 in local slaughtering, packing, canning, rendering, or similar, establishments, 

 and to affix an approved stamp or mark to the meats and meat food products 

 that are found to be sound, healthful, wholesome, and tit for human food. 

 The meats and meat food products that are found to be unsound, unhealthful, 

 unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, shall be rejected or con- 

 demned, and disposed of so that they cannot be used for human food, in the 

 manner provided by the rules and regulations of the State Livestock Sanitary 

 Board. Such agents shall report to, and they may be transferred or dismissed 

 by, the State Livestock Sanitary Board. They shall be subject to the provis- 

 ions of this act, and to the regulations governing and for the guidance of 

 agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 



The funds for the compensation of such local agents as are provided for in 

 this section of this act shall be furnished by the owner or manager of the es- 

 tablishment that such agent is appointed to oversee, and upon whose request 

 this form of inspection is established. The funds for the payment of such local 

 agents shall be deposited by the owner or manager of such establishment, to his 

 own credit, in some bank or trust company to be designated by the State 

 Livestock Sanitary Board; and shall be paid out upon the cheque of such owner 

 or manager, payable to the order of the local agent entitled to compensation, 

 after the bill of such local agent for services has been approved by authority of 

 the State Livestock Sanitary Board, and the cheque, so drawn for said com- 

 pensation, has been approved by authority of said Board: Provided, That 

 such agents as are provided for by this section of this act shall be appointed 

 only upon request of the persons or firms who agree to meet such expense. 

 Employes of the United States Department of Agriculture, engaged in the in- 

 spection of animals, meats, and meat food products, may be appointed 

 agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, and be clothed with the powers 

 of such agents: Provided, however That such employes of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture shall receive no pay or compensation for such ser- 

 vice as agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 



Section 10. The State Livestock Sanitary Board shall make arrangements 

 for cooperation betu'een the laboratory of the Board and those engaged in the 

 examination and inspection of meat producing animals and meats, so that 

 unusual or difficult diseases and conditions may be scientifically studied and 

 accurately diagnosed for the benefit of the meat inspection service. 



Section 11. The State Livestock Sanitary Board may, from time to time, 

 make such regulations for the enforcement of this act as may be necessary 

 to carry its provisions into force and effect, and, so far as is compatible with 

 the purposes of this act, the plans, regulations, and methods of the meat- 

 inspection service of the United States Department of Agriculture shall con- 

 stitute the standard to be adopted and followed. And the meat inspection 

 work of the United States Department of Agriculture shall not be repeated 

 or duplicated by the agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, nor by 

 local meat-inspectors: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not ap- 

 ply to animals slaughtered by any farmer on the farm, and sold or trans- 

 ported to market as meat or meat food products; nor to retail butchers and re- 

 tail dealers in meat or meat food products, supplying their customers. But 

 this proviso shall not prevent agents of the State Livestock Sanitary Board 

 or local meat-inspectors from inspecting such premises, animals, meats, or 

 meat food products, at any time. And if any such person shall sell, or offer 

 for sale or transportation, any meat or meat food products which are diseased, 

 unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, 

 knowing that such meat food products are intended for human consumption, 

 or shall keep his establishment, salesplace, or vehicle in unsanitary condition, 

 after official notice being served, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Section 12. No person shall make, duplicate, reproduce, forge, or counterfeit 

 any stamp, certificate, mark, or emblem used or authorized to be used by the 

 State Livestock Sanitary Board for marking or designating animals, car- 

 casses, meats, or meat food products that have been approved or condemned; 

 and no such stamp, certificate, mark, or emblem, used by or authorized to be 

 used by the State Livestock Sanitary Board, shall be used or employed with- 

 out specific authority so to do from the State Livestock Sanitary Board. 



Section 13. Any agent of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, or any local 

 meat-inspector appointed by authority of the said Board, or any local meat- 

 inspector appointed by any city, borough, or township of the first class, who 

 shall pass or approve any meat or meat food product that is unsound, un- 

 healthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, or who shall 

 fail to perform his duties as prescribed by this act, or who shall accept any 

 money, gift or other thing of value from any person, firm, or corporation, or 

 officers, agents or employes thereof, given with intent to infiuence his official 

 action, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction 

 thereof, he summarily discharged from office, and shall be punished by a 

 fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding 

 one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 



