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seem necessary to facilitate the enforcement of this law, and prepare rules and 

 regulations with regard to the proper method of collecting and examining 

 articles of food or drugs, and for the appointment of the necessary inspectors 

 and analysts, and the said health officer shall be authorized to expend an amount 

 not exceeding two thousand dollars, for the purpose of carrying out the pro- 

 visions of this law ; and the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated 

 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose 

 in this article provided. 



435. Penalty for refusing to supply sample. Every person selling or offering 

 or exposing any article of food or drug for sale, or delivering any article to pur- 

 chasers, shall be required to serve or supply any public analyst or other agent 

 of the state, or local health officer appointed under this law, who shall apply to 

 him for that purpose, and on tendering the value of the same, with a sample 

 sufficient for the purpose of analysis of any article which is included in this 

 law, 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 each sub- 

 sequent offense. (Laws 1883, p. 73-74-) 



436. Violation a misdemeanor; hindering analyst. Any violation of the pro- 

 visions of this law shall be treated and punished as a misdemeanor ; and who- 

 ever shall impede, obstruct, hinder, or otherwise prevent any analyst, inspector, 

 or prosecuting officer in the performance of his duty, shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty, nor more than five 

 hundred dollars. 



437. Regulations, etc., of health officer to l)e printed. All the regulations and 

 declarations of the state health officer, made under this law, from time to time, 

 and promulgated, shall be printed for general distribution. (Laws 18S3, p. 73 

 et seq. 



Wilson's Criminal Statutes, 1896, p. 165-167 (Penal Code). 



