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son whatsoever, pursuant to the enforcement of the above 

 law, a sample of the same may be sent to the Secretary 

 of the Viticultural Commission, by whom an analysis will be 

 procured from the State Analyst and a ready report made as 

 to its purity. The machinery for this latter work was ob- 

 tained in an Act passed by the State Legislature entitled: 



An Act to Provide for Analyzing Minerals ', Mineral Wa- . 

 ters and other Liquids, and the Medicinal Plants of the State 

 of California, and Foods and Drugs, to Prevent Adulteration 

 of the same. Approved March pth, 1885. 



This law provides that the Governor of the State shall 

 appoint one of the Professors of the University of California, 

 as State Analyst, whose duty it shall be to analyze all arti- 

 cles of food, drugs, medicines, medicinal plants, &:c., manu- 

 factured, sold, or used in this State, when the same shall be 

 properly submitted to him. The law then prescribes the 

 methods by which the samples of various articles shall be 

 obtained and submitted for analysis, and specifies that the 

 Board of State Viticultural Commissioners shall have the 

 privilege of submitting to the State Analyst samples of wines, 

 grape spirits or liquids or compounds in imitation thereof 

 for analysis, as follows: 



Any person desiring an analysis of such products may sub- 

 mit the same to the Secretary of the State Viticultural Com- 

 missioners, who will transmit them to the State Analyst in 

 the manner prescribed. The analysis shall be made and the 

 certificate of the same shall be forwarded to the Secretary of 

 the Viticultural Commission. This certificate, as the law 

 reads, shall be held in all courts of this State, as prima facie 

 evidence of the properties of the articles analyzed by him. 



Thus it may be seen that there lies within the reach of every 

 wine maker or dealer, an easy means of obtaining without ex- 

 pense, uncontrovertible evidence wherever fraud is supposed. 



Unfortunately, this law appropriated no money for the car- 



