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missiouer for each factory so operated, one standard tube or bottle, or one stand- 

 ard measure or pipette, for testing miili, certified and marked by him as in this 

 chapter provided, which shall be kept for inspection by the patrons and used by 

 such person or corporation in testing or verifying test tubes or bottles and milk 

 measures or pipettes used. In any action arising between any such operator and 

 patron, the burden of establishing the use of reliable tests and the results there- 

 from, equivalent to the standard herein provided, shall be upon the operator. 



SAMPLES COLLECTED. 



Sec. 2524. The commissioner may appoint agents in any city having over 

 ten thousand inhabitants to collect from each dealer, not more than four times 

 each month, samples of milk offered for sale therein. The agent shall make an ac- 

 curate test of each sample received by him, and keep a true record thereof, with 

 the name and location of the person from whom it was obtained, and report his 

 work in detail to the commissioner, tlie compensation therefor not to exceed three 

 dollars for each day actually employed therein. 



PERMITS. 



Sec. 2.j2.j. Any person or corporation who shall sell milk or cream from a 

 wagon, depot or store, or sell or deliver milk or cream to a hotel or restaurant or 

 boarding house, or any public place in any such city, shall be considered a city 

 milk dealer. No such city milk dealer shall sell milk or cream from a wagon, 

 depot or store in any such city without a written permit from the commissioner 

 for each wagon, depot or store operated by him, for which he shall pay annually 

 one dollar. All permits shall expire on the fourth day of July of each year, and 

 no permit shall be issued for less than one dollar. 



INSPECTION. 



Sec. 2.'326. He or his r:gent may open any can or vessel containing milk or 

 cream offered for sale in such city, and inspect its conteats and take samples 

 therefrom for testing or analysis. And any city milk dealer, or employe of such 

 milk dealer, or any other person who shall resist or interfere with the commis- 

 sioner or his agent in the performance of his duties in executing any of the re- 

 quirements of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as pro- 

 vided in this chapter. 



PENALTIES. 



Sec. 2.j27. Whoever shall violate any provision of this chapter shall be 

 punished by a tine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the 

 county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at 

 the discretion of the court. 



SALE OF IMPURE OR SKIMMED MILK— SKIMMED MILK— CHEESE LABELING 



Sec. 498P. If any person shall sell, exchange, or expose for sale or exchange, 

 or deliver or bring to another, for domestic or potable use. or to be converted into 

 any product of human food, any unclean, impure, unhealthy, adulterated, unwhole- 

 some or skimmed milk, or milk from which has been held back what is commonly 

 known as strippings. or milk taken from an animal having disease, sickness, ulcers, 

 abscess or running sore, or which has been taken from an animal within fifteen 

 days before or five days after parturition ; or if any person, having cows for the 

 purpose of producing milk or cream for sale, shall stable them in an unhealthy 

 place or crowded manner, or shall knowingly feed tiiem food which produces im- 

 pure, unwholesome milk, or shall feed them distilled glucose or brewery waste in any 

 state of fermentation, or upon any substance in a state of putrefaction or rotten- 

 ness or of any unhealthy nature, or shall sell or offer for sale cream which has 

 been taken from milk the sale of which has been prohibited, or who shall sell or 



