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lows : " If the word ' standard ' can be used in connection with the 

 word ' adulteration,' our law does regulate this standard. We send 

 you under another cover a copy of the law concerning liquors, so far 

 as within the jurisdiction of this department, from which you will 

 see we have little or no discretion in the matter." The clause 

 marked by Mr. Grosvenor is as follows : " The law relating to liquors 

 seems to be meant only to prohibit the sale of spirituous or fer- 

 mented or malt liquors containing drugs or poisons or substances 

 or ingredients deleterious or unhealthful; and provides that each 

 barrel, cask, keg, bottle, or other vessel containing the same shall 

 be branded or labeled with the words ' Pure and without drugs or 

 poison,' together with the name of the person or firm preparing the 

 package. This applies to every package of whatever size it matters 

 not whether they are put up for immediate delivery or for stock 

 purpose. This includes all bottled ale, beer, rum, wine, or other malt 

 or spirituous liquors, also the bottles used for dispensing over the 

 bar. The State has no standard of proof, but liquors in packages 

 where proof is indicated must test to that proof. Compounds con- 

 taining nothing deleterious or unhealthful may be sold as cordials. 

 The blending of liquors will be permitted, if spirits or other ingredi- 

 ents are not added. Dealers purchasing and receiving goods not 

 properly branded or labeled are not relieved from any responsibility, 

 if they sell the same without branding or labeling." 



In Illinois the standard is not mentioned, but the articles forbid- 

 den are plainly set forth by the criminal code of the State, which pro- 

 vides that " whoever adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any liquor 

 used for drink, with cocculus indicus, vitriol, grains of paradise, 

 opium, alum, capsicum, copperas, laurel water, logwood, Brazilwood, 

 cochineal, sugar of lead, or any other substance which is poisonous 

 or injurious to health; and whoever sells or offers, or keeps for sale 

 any such liquor so adulterated, shall be confined in the county jail 

 not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, 

 or both." 



In New York there is a standard fixed for wines, and sections 

 46, 47, and 48 of the laws of 1893 are devoted to the definition of 

 pure wine, half wine, made wine, and the adulteration of wines gen- 

 erally. But there is no standard of purity enacted for spirituous or 

 malt liquors, and it is left to the discretion of the inspecting officers 

 whether any liquors inspected and analyzed by them contain any 

 deleterious substances. 



As to question third, all the States seem to agree that chemical 

 analysis is the safer, but adulteration seems to be considered by them 

 all as a fact, to be proved by any competent process, even the taster 

 not being barred, as he certainly is not by the clause as to inspection 



