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when on duty, besides their actual and necessary traveling expenses 

 when traveling under orders. Their accounts shall be itemized and 

 sworn to, and, when approved by the Commissioner and the Executive 

 Council, shall be paid by warrant of the auditor upon the treasurer out 

 of the sum hereinafter appropriated for carrying out the provisions of 

 this act. The commissioner shall receive five hundred dollars annually 

 in addition to tne salary now received by the State Dairy Commissioner. 

 Sec. 3. The commissioner shall, with the approval of the Executive 

 Council, appoint a chemist, who shall be the official chemist under this 

 act, who shall devote his whole time to the duties of such office. He shall 

 receive a salary of two thousand dollars per year, to be paid in the same 

 manner as the salaries of other state officers. He shall make all the 

 examinations necessary in enforcing the provisions of this act, and shall 

 be furnished necessary laboratory, apparatus, supplies and chemicals to 

 be paid for in the same manner as the accounts of assistants. 



Sec. 4. The Commissioner shall, with the approval of the Executive 

 Council, make all necessary rules and regulations for carrying out the 

 provisions of this act, under which the commissioner shall procure from 

 time to time or whenever he has occasion to believe any of its provis- 

 ions are being violated, or cause to be procured, for examination chemi- 

 cally, microscopically or otherwise, samples of food shipped into this state 

 or offered for sale in this state. The chemist making the examination 

 shall certify the results of his work to the Commissioner. 



Sec. 5. If it shall appear from any such examination that any of the 

 provisions of this act have been violated, the Commissioner shall at 

 once certify the facts to the proper county attorney, with a copy of the 

 results of the analysis, duly authenticated by the analyst under oath. It 

 shall be the duty of every county attorney to whom the commissioner or 

 his assistants shall report any violation of this act. to cause proceedings 

 to be commenced and prosecuted without delay for the fines and penalties 

 in such case provided. An attorney may be appointed by the governor 

 when he deems advisable, to prosecute such cases, where the county 

 attorney refuses to act. 



Sec. 6. No person, firm or corporation, by himself, officer, servant 

 or agent, or as the officer, servant or agent of any other person, firm or 

 corporation, shall manufacture or introduce into the state, or solicit or 

 take orders for delivery, or sell, exchange, deliver or have in his posses- 

 sion with the intent to sell, exchange or expose or offer for sale or 

 exchange, any article of food which is adulterated or misbranded, within 

 the meaning of this acl. Provided, that none of the penalties set forth 

 in this act shall be imposed upon any common carrier for introducing 

 into the state, or having in its possession any adulterated or misbranded 

 articles of foor, where the same were received by said carrier for trans- 

 portation in the ordinary course of its business and without actual 

 knowledge of the adulteration or misbranding thereof. Provided, that 

 any manufacturer, wholesaler or jobber may keep goods specifically set 

 apart in his stock for sale in other states, which might otherwise be in 

 violation of the provisions of this act. 



