BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. G7 



lars nor more than ten thousand doHars and by imprisonment not 

 Jess than one year nor more than three years. 



Provisions requiring inspection not to apply to farmers, retailers, etc.; sale or 

 transportation in interstate or foreign commerce of meat or meat food 

 products unfit for food, punishable; penalty; maintenance of inspection 

 as to retailers, farmers, etc., authorized, notwithstanding exception. 



That the provisions of this Act requirin^jx in.spection to be made 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture shall not apply to animals slaugh- 

 tered by any farmer on the farm and sold and 'transported as inter- 

 state or foreign commerce, nor to re'lail butchers and retail dealers 

 in meat and meat food products, supplying their customers: Provided^ 

 That if any person shall sell or otler for sale or transportation for 

 interstate or foreign commerce any meat or meat food products which 

 are diseased, unsound, unhealthful, un^Yholesome, or otherwi.se unfit 

 for human food, knowing that such meat food products are intended 

 for human consumption, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on 

 conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thou- 

 sand dollars or by imprisonment for a period of not exceeding one 

 year, or by both such fine and imprisonment: Provided also^ That 

 the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to maintain the inspection 

 in this Act provided for at any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, 

 packing, rendering, or similar establishment notwithstanding this 

 exception, and that the persons operating the same may be retail 

 butchers and retail dealers or farmers; and where the Secretary of 

 Agriculture shall establish such inspection then the provisions of this 

 Act shall apply notwithstanding this exception. 



Statement in anntial estimates as to persons employed in inspections, their 

 compensation and expenses. 



And the Secretary of Agriculture shall, in his annual estimates 

 made to Congress, submit a statement in detail, showing the number 

 of persons employed in such inspections and the salary or per 

 diem paid to each, together Avith the contingent expenses of such 

 inspectors and where they have been and are employed. 



Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 12G0. 



By a provision of act May 26, 1910, c. 25G, set forth on p. IS, ante, 

 the Secretary of Agriculture is required to transmit in the Hook of Esti- 

 mates detailed estimates for all otHcers. clerks, and employees, with their 

 compensation, employed in the bureaus, offices, and divisions of the 

 department. A provision of act August 10, 1912, c. 2G9. set forth on p. 

 18, ante, provides that said provision of act May 20, 1910, shall not apply 

 to employees in the meat-inspection service. 



The above provisions accompany appropriations for " General Expenses. 

 Bureau of Animal Industry," in the agricultural appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1908, cited above. They were originally enacted in the sjime 

 language, except the word "hereafter" at the beginning of the first para- 

 graph as set forth here, in the simil.ir appropriation act for the preced- 

 ing fiscal year, act June 30. 190G. c. 3913. .34 Stat. G74. 



A permanent appropriation of .$3,0(X),000, for the expenses of the in- 

 spection provided for and to carry into efl'ect the provisions of the act 

 relating to meat inspection, also made by said act June 30, 190G, c. 3J13, 

 is set forth below. 



Previous provisions for the ins[x>etion of saltetl i>ork and bacon for ex- 

 portation, certificates, identification marks, etc.. are contained in net 

 August 30. 1S90, c. 839, s. 1, 2G Stat, 414, set forth on p. o.i, ante; and 

 for the insi>ection of live cattle intended for export and of live cattle 

 whose meat is intondod for export or interstate commerce, post-mortem 

 inspections of cattle, etc.. inspectors, certificates, identification marks, etc.. 

 and prohibiting interstate tr=n.s,xnlation of unsound carcasses, etc., or 



