ILLINOIS. 69 



9j. Compound must lie sold under its true name. No person shall mix, color, 

 stain or powder any article of food, drink or medicine, or any other article which 

 enters into the composition of food, drink or medicine, with any other ingredient 

 or material, whether injurious to health or not, for the purpose of gain or 

 profit, or sell, or offer the same for sale, or order or permit any other person to 

 sell or offer for sale any article so mixed, colored, stained or powdered, unless 

 the same he so manufactured, used or sold or offered for sale under its true and 

 appropriate name, and notice that the same is mixed or impure is marked, 

 printed or stamped upon each package, roll, parcel or vessel containing the same, 

 so as to be and remain at all times readily visible, or unless the person purchas- 

 ing the same is fully informed by the seller of the true name and ingredients 

 (if other than such as are known by the common name thereof) of such article 

 of food, drink or medicine, at the time of making sale thereof or offering to sell 

 the same. (Laws 1881, p. 7^.) 



91. Penalty. Any person convicted of violating any provision of any of the 

 foregoing sections of this act, shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than 

 twenty-five dollars ($25), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) ; for the 

 second offense he shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100), nor 

 more than two hundred dollars ($200), or confined in the county jail not less 

 than one month, nor more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the 

 court ; and for the third and all subsequent offenses, he shall be fined not less 

 than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than two thousand dollars ($2000), 

 Miid imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year, nor more than five 

 years. 



9m. Exception. No person shall be convicted under any of the foregoing sec- 

 tions of this act, if he shows to the satisfaction of the court or jury that he 

 did not know that he was violating any of the provisions of this act, and that 

 he could not, with reasonable diligence, have obtained the knowledge. (Lawn 

 1881, p. 74.) 



9n. Plate's attorneys to enforce act. The State's attorneys of this state are 

 charged with the enforcement of this act, and it is hereby made their duty to 

 appear for the people and to attend to the prosecution of all complaints under 

 this act, in their respective counties, in all courts. 



Revised Statutes (Kurd), 1897, p. 543 et seq. 



14. Adulteration prohibited; prosecution; penalty; analyst. No person shall 

 add to or remove from any drug, medicine, chemical or pharmaceutical 

 preparation, any ingredient or material for the purpose of adulteration or sub- 

 stitution, *or which shall deteriorate the quality, commercial value, or medicinal 

 effect, or which shall alter the nature or composition of such drug, medicine, 

 chemical or pharmaceutical preparation so that it will not correspond to the 

 recognized tests of identity or purity. Any person w r ho shall thus adulterate 

 or alter or cause to be adulterated or altered any drug, chemical, medicine or 

 pharmaceutical preparation ; or any person who shall sell or offer for sale or 

 cause to be sold any such adulterated drug, chemical, medicine or pharma- 

 ceutical preparation; or any person who shall, without notification to the pur- 

 chaser, substitute or cause to be substituted one material for another, shall 

 be liable to prosecution under this act. If convicted, he shall be liable to all 

 the costs of the action and all the expenses incurred by the board of pharmacy 

 in connection therewith, and for the first offense be liable to a fine of not less 

 than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and for each subsequent 

 offense a fine of not less than seventy-five nor more than one hundred and fifty 

 dollars. 



