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herein provided shall be brought upon complaint of said trustees before 

 any justice of 'Jie peace, in the township in which such owner resides. 

 Provided, that the dead bodies of such animals may be removed to a 

 fertilizing establishment, if removed in a water-tight tank. 



SELLING UNWHOLESOME PROVISIONS. 



SEC. 6928. [Selling unwholesome provisions.] Whoever sells, 

 or oilers for sale, or has in his possession with a view to sell any kind of 

 diseased, corrupted, adulterated, or unwholesome provisions, whether for 

 meat or drink, without making the condition of the same known to the 

 buyer, and whoever kills for the purpose of sale, any calf less than four 

 weeks old, or sells, or has in possession with intent to sell, the meat of 

 any calf which he knows to have been killed when less than four weeks 

 old, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned twenty 

 days, or both. 



SEC. 6928-1. [Feeding unwholesome offal or flesh to swine, etc.] 

 Whoever feeds to swine, or animals of any kind used for human food 

 the flesh of any old horse, or the flesh of any animal which has 

 become old, decrepit, infirm or sick, or of one that has died from such 

 cause, or any offal or flesh that is putrid or unwholesome, shall be fined 

 not more than two hundred dollars nor less than fifty, or imprisoned 

 for the first offense not more than thirty days, or both, and for a second 

 offense not more than six months, or both. 



SEC. 6946. [Prohibiting sale of intoxicating liquors and keep- 

 ing of houses of ill-fame at certain places; abatement as nuisance.] 

 Whoever sells intoxicating liquors or keeps a house of ill-fame at or 

 within twelve hundred yards of the administration or main central 

 building of the Columbus state hospital, Dayton state hospital, Athens 

 state hospital, Toledo state hospital, soldiers' and sailors' orphans' home, 

 or any other orphans' home in this state, except in cities of the first class, 

 or within two miles of the boundary line of the boys' industrial school, 

 south of Lancaster, Fairfield county, or within two miles of the place 

 where any agricultural fair is being held, or within one mile of any county 

 children's home of any county of the state, situated within one mile of 

 any incorporated village or city in which the sale of intoxicating liquors 

 is prohibited by an ordinance of such village or city, made in pursuance 

 of the act entitled "An act providing against the evils resulting from 

 the traffic in intoxicating liquors," passed March 11, 1897, shall be 

 fined not more than one hundred nor less than twenty-five dollars, or 

 imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both, and on conviction of the 

 owner or keeper thereof the place wherein such liquors are sold, shall, 

 by order of the court, be shut up and abated as a nuisance, but 

 nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent a regu- 

 lar dealer in intoxicating liquors from doing business and selling the 

 same, at his usual place of business within two miles of the place where 

 any agricultural fair is being held. 



CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 



SEC. 6951. [Cruelty to animals.] Whoever overdrives, over- 

 loads, tortures, deprives of necessary sustenance, or unnecessarily or cru- 

 elly beats, or needlessly mutilates or kills any animal, or impounds or 

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