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AGRICULTURAL LAWS. 



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member of said bureau and may appoint any other mem- 

 ber of said board in his place, as above provided. Mem- 

 bers of said bureau shall serve without pay and shall 

 have power to enforce all laws relating to dairy products 

 and imitations thereof, and to employ such agents, assist- 

 ants, experts, chemists or counsel as may be necessary 

 therefor. Said bureau, in the discharge of its duties, shall 

 be subject to the general direction and control of the 

 board of agriculture. 



Sect. 8. The bureau may expend a sum not exceeding 

 four thousand dollars in carrying forward the work of the 

 bureau, and shall make annual reports in detail to the 

 legislature, not later than the fifteenth day of January in 

 each year, of the number of assistants, experts, chemists, 

 agents and counsel employed, and their expenses and dis- 

 bursements, with such other information as shall be for 

 the advantage of the dairy interests in the state, and they 

 shall make full reports of all investigations made by them 

 with all cases prosecuted and the results of such prosecu- 

 tion. They shall make detailed statements of the said 

 expenses to the auditor of the Commonwealth, on which 

 payment shall be made to the extent of the appropriation. 



Sect. 9. Said bureau and such agents and counsel as 

 they shall duly authorize for that purpose shall have 

 access, ingress and egress to and from all places of busi- 

 ness, factories, buildings, carriages and cars, used in the 

 manufacture and sale of any dairy products, or imitation 

 dairy products, and shall have access to all vessels and 

 cans used in such manufacture and sale, and shall have 

 all the authority given by law to the state board of health 

 and any officer thereof, and to the milk inspectors, in the 

 enforcement of all laws relating to dairy products or imi- 

 tations thereof, and in the prosecutions of violations of 

 said laws. 



Sect. 10. The said bureau may work in unison with 

 the state board of health, and with inspectors of milk, but 

 they shall not restrict, limit or interfere with the duties of 

 said officers. Nothing herein contained shall be held to 

 circumscribe the rights of said bureau in the prosecution 

 of offenders of the so-called dairy laws, or all laws relating 

 to milk, butter, cheese or any adulterations or imitations 

 thereof, wherever found within the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 11. It shall be the duty of the said bureau to 

 investigate all dairy products and imitation dairy products 



Members of 

 bureau to 

 serve without 

 pay; powers, 

 etc 



(See Acts 

 1892, chap. 

 139.) 



May expend 

 not exceeding 

 $4,000; re- 

 ports. 



To make de- 

 tailed state- 

 ments of 

 expenses to 

 the auditor of 

 the Common- 

 wealth. 



To have ac- 

 cess, etc., to 

 places where 

 dairy products 

 are sold, etc. 



May work in 

 uuison with 

 state board of 

 health and in- 

 spectors of 

 milk, etc. 



To investigate 

 dairy products 

 and imitation 



