APPENDIX C. 



The following bill, recently adopted in New York, constitutes the only 

 instance I have been able to find of legislation directed specifically 

 against the adulteration of any form of fermented liquors in this country. 

 The manner in which such bills are drawn has considerable influence 

 upon their efficiency in preventing and punishing the fraud against 

 which they are directed, and while it is not exactly within the province 

 of this publication to make suggestions as to the proper form for such 

 legislation, I feel impelled to venture the assertion that the crudity of 

 this bill affords little evidence that any chemist was consulted or con- 

 cerned in its composition: 



AN ACT to define pure wines, half wines, made wines, and adulterated wines, and to regulate the 

 manufacture and sale of half wines and made wines and to prohibit the manufacture or sale of 

 adulterated wines within the State of New York. 



[Passed Juno 18, 1887, three-fifths being present.] 



The people of the Slate of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as 

 follows : 



1. All liquors denominated as wine, containing alcohol, " except such as shall be 

 produced by the natural fermentation of pure undried fruit juice," or compounded 

 with distilled spirits, or by both methods, except as permitted by section two of this 

 act, whether denominated as wine or by any other name whatsoever, in the nature 

 of articles for use as beverages, or for compounding with other liquors intended for 

 such use, and all compounds of the same with pure wine, and all preserved fruit 

 juices compounded with substances not produced from undried fruit, in the character 

 of, or intended for use as beverages, or for use in the fermentation or preparation of 

 liquors intended for use as beverages, and all wines, imitation of wines or other bev- 

 erages produced from fruit which shall contain any alum, baryta salts, caustic liiin>, 

 carbonate of soda, carbonate of potash, carbonic acid, salts of lead, glycerine, salcylic* 

 acid, or any other antiseptic, coloring matter, other than that produced from uu- 

 dried fruit, artificial flavoring, essence of ether, or any other foreign substance what- 

 soever which is injurious to health, shall be denominated as adulterated wine, and any 

 person or persons who shall manufacture with the intent to sell, or shall sell, or offer 

 to sell, any of such wine or beverages shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be 

 punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars, or more than one thousand 

 dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than six months, or 

 more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the 

 court, and shall be liable to a penalty of one dollar for each gallon thereof sold, of- 

 fered for sale, or manufactured with intent to sell, and such wiuo or beverage shall be 

 deemed a public nuisance and forfeited to the State, and shall be summarily seized 



* So iu original. 

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