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three separate days, is found to contain less milk fat than that stated upon 

 the latel, cap or tag, and whoever sells, exposes for sale or exchange, or 

 delivers, milk not wholly produced in Massachusetts in containers bearing 

 upon a label, cap, tag, or otherwise, the words "Grade A, Massachusetts 

 Milk", or other words indicating that such milk was produced in Massa- 

 chusetts; and whoever in any manner represents that milk not wholly 

 produced in Massachusetts was wholl}'' produced in Massachusetts, or is 

 of a grade designated as "Grade A, Massachusetts Milk", shall, for a 

 first offence, be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars; for a 

 second offence by a fine of not less than fiftj^ nor more than one hundred 

 dollars, and for a subsequent offence by a fine of not less than one hvmdred 

 nor more than two hundred dollars. [Approved May 14, 1917. 



PASTEURIZED MILK. 



General Acts, Chapter 259. 

 An Act defining pasteurized milk and regulating the sale 



THEREOF. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Pasteurized milk is hereby defined to be natural cow's 

 milk not more than seventy-two hours old when pasteurized, subjected 

 for a period of not less than thirty minutes, to a temperature of not less 

 than one hundred and forty degrees nor more than one hundred and forty- 

 five degrees Fahrenheit, and immediately thereafter cooled therefrom to 

 a temperature of fifty degrees Fahrenheit or lower. 



Section 2. It shall be unlawful to sell, exchange or deliver, or to ad- 

 vertise, represent, or describe, or to offer or expose for sale or to have in 

 possession with intent to sell, as pasteurized milk, milk not pasteurized in 

 conformity with the provisions of this act. 



Section 3. Any violation of this act shall be punished by a fine of not 

 less than ten dollars for a first offence, and of not more than one hundred 

 dollars for any subsequent offence. 



Section 4. This act shall take effect on the first day of January in the 

 year nineteen hundred and eighteen. [Approved May 16, 1917. 



MILK STANDARD. 



General Acts, Chapter 189. 

 An Act to harmonize the standards for total milk solids and 



MILK FAT. 



Be it enacted, etc., as folloics: 



Section fifty-six of chapter fifty-six of tiie Revised Laws, as amended 

 by chapter six hundred and forty-three of the acts of the year nineteen 

 hundred and eight, is hereby further amended by striking out the words 

 "and fifteen hundredths", in the fourth line, so as to read as follows: — 

 Section 56. In prosecutions under the provisioiis of sections fifty-one to 



