to be exempt from the provisions of this act in accordance with the pre- 

 ceding section. The state board of health shall also from time to time fix 

 the limits of variability permissable in any article of food or drug, or com- 

 pound, the standard of which is not established by any national pharmaco- 

 poeia. 



5. The state board of health shall take cognizance of the interests of 

 the public health as it relates to the sale of food and drugs and the adulte- 

 ration of the same, and make all necessary investigations and inquiries 

 relating thereto. It shall also have the supervision of the appointment of 

 public analysts and chemists, and upon its recommendation whenever it 

 shall deem any such officers incompetent, the appointment of any and 

 every such officer shall be revoked and be held to be void and of no effect. 

 Within thirty days after the passage of this act, the state board of health 

 shall meet and adopt such measures as may seem necessary to facilitate the 

 enforcement of this act, and prepare rules and regulations with regard to 

 the proper methods of collecting and examining articles of food or drugs, 

 and for the appointment of the necessary inspectors and analysts ; and the 

 state board of health shall be authorized to expend, in addition to all sums 

 already appropriated for said board, an amount not exceeding ten thousand 

 dollars for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. And the 

 sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in 

 the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes in this section 

 provided 



6. Every person selling or offering or exposing any article of food or 

 drugs for sale, or delivering any article to purchasers, shall be bound to 

 serve or supply any public analyst or other agent of the state or local board 

 of health appointed under this act, who shall apply to him for that purpose, 

 and on his tendering the value of the same, with a sample sufficient for the 

 purpose of analysis of any article which is included in this act, and which 

 is in the possession of the person selling, under a penalty not exceeding 

 fifty dollars for a first offense, and one hundred dollars for a second and 

 subsequent offenses. 



7. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be treated and pun- 

 ished as a misdemeanor ; and whoever shall impede, obstruct, hinder, or 

 otherwise prevent any analyst, inspector or prosecuting officer in the per- 

 formance of his duty shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable 

 to indictment and punishment therefor. 



8. Any acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act 

 are hereby repealed. 



9. All the regulations and declarations of the state board of health 

 made under this act, from time to time and promulgated, shall be printed 

 in the statutes at large. 



10. This act shall take effect at the expiration of ninety days after it 

 shall become a law. 



STATE OF NEW YORK, ) 



OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, y s ' 



I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby 



certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. 



Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at 



[SEAL.] the city of Albany, this 8th day of June, in the year one thousand eight 



. hundred and eighty-one. 



AN SON S. WOOD, 



Dep. Secretary of State. 



