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to exhibit such records to the Commissioner of Agriculture, his assistants 

 or agents or shall violate any of the provisions of this section or any of 

 the provisions of this chapter relative to milk or the products thereof 

 he shall forfeit his license and shall be disqualified for a period of 

 five years from being again licensed by the Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture. 



SEC. 46. Unsanitary cans and receptacles condemned. All cans, or 

 receptacles used in the sale of milk, cream or curd for consumption, 

 or in transporting or shipping the same to market or the delivery thereof 

 to purchasers for consumption as human food, when found by the Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture or his assistants or agents to be in unfit con- 

 dition to be so used by reason of being worn out, badly rusted, or with 

 rusted inside surface, or unclean or unsanitary or in such condition 

 that they can not be rendered clean and sanitary by washing, and will 

 tend to produce or promote in milk, cream or curd when contained 

 therein, bad flavors, unclean or unwholesome conditions favorable to 

 unhealthfulness or disease, shall be condemned by the Commissioner 

 of Agriculture or his assistants or agents. Every such can or receptacle 

 when so condemned shall be marked by a stamp, impression or device, 

 designed by the Commissioner of Agriculture, showing that it has been 

 so condemned, and when so condemned shall not thereafter be used by 

 any person for the purpose of so selling, transporting or shipping milk, 

 cream or curd. 



SEC. 47. Receptacles to be cleansed before returning; receptacles may 

 be seized; evidence; violation; milk can inspectors. Whenever any can 

 or receptacle is used for transporting or conveying milk, cream or curd 

 to market for the purpose of selling or furnishing the same for con- 

 sumption as human food, which can or receptacle, when emptied, is 

 returned or intended to be returned to the person so selling, furnish- 

 ing or shipping such substance to be again thus used, or which is liable 

 to continued use in so transporting, conveying, selling or shipping such 

 substance as aforesaid, the consumer, dealer or consignee using, selling 

 or receiving the milk, cream or curd from such can or receptacle, shall, 

 before so returning such can or receptacle remove all substances for- 

 eign to milk therefrom, by rinsing with water or otherwise. When any 

 such milk, cream or curd is sold within any city of this State or shipped 

 into any such city, the fact of such shipment or sale shall be prima 

 facie evidence that the same was so shipped or sold for consumption 

 as human food. When any such can or receptacle is returned or deliv- 

 ered or shipped to any person or creamery so selling such substance 

 within, or shipping the same into such city, it is deemed that such can 



