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other, violates any provision of this section shall be held equally guilty with 

 the principal and shall suffer the same penalty. 



SEC. 13. No person shall sell or exchange, or have in his possession with 

 intent to sell or exchange, or offer for sale or exchange, adulterated milk or 

 milk to which water or any foreign substance has been added. 



SEC. 14. Every person who shall sell, exchange, or deliver, or shall have in 

 his custody or possession with the intent to sell or exchange or deliver, for him- 

 self or as the employee of any other person, milk from which the cream or any 

 part thereof has been removed, or which shall not contain 2 per cent of milk 

 fats, shall distinctly mark, in letters not less than 1 inch in length, in a con- 

 spicuous place above the center, upon the outside of every vessel, can, or pack- 

 age containing such milk, the words " skimmed milk," and such milk shall only 

 be sold in or retailed out of a can, vessel, or package so marked. 



SEC. 15. In all prosecutions under sections 13 and 14 of this chapter, if the 

 milk shall be shown upon analysis to contain more than 88 per cent of watery 

 fluids, or to contain less than 12 per cent of milk solids, or less than 2 per cent 

 of milk fats, it shall be deemed for the purpose of said sections to be adul- 

 terated. 



SEC. 16. Every person who shall be found guilty before a district court of vio- 

 lating any of the provisions of the three sections next preceding, upon the first 

 conviction shall be fined $20, and upon the second and every subsequent convic- 

 tion shall be fined $20 and be imprisoned in the county jail for 10 days. 



SEC. 17. Whoever, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or 

 agent of any other person, firm, or corporation having custody of a can, jar, 

 bottle, measure, or other vessel used as a container for milk destined for sale, 

 places or causes or permits to be placed therein any offal, swill, kerosene, veg- 

 etable matter, or any article other than milk, skimmed milk, buttermilk, cream, 

 or water or other agent used for cleansing said can, jar, bottle, measure, or 

 other vessel, shall be punished by a fine of $10 for each vessel so misused. 



SEC. 18. Whoever, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant 

 or agent of any other person, firm, or corporation, sends, ships, returns, or 

 delivers, or causes or permits to be sent, shipped, returned, or delivered, to any 

 producer of milk, any can, jar, bottle, measure, or other vessel used as a con- 

 tainer for milk containing any offal, swill, kerosene, vegetable matter, rotten or 

 putrid milk, or any other offensive material, shall be punished by a fine of $10 

 for each said vessel so misused. 



SEC. 19. Whoever, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or 

 agent of any other person, firm, or corporation, sends, ships, returns, or delivers, 

 or causes or permits to be sent, shipped, returned, or delivered, to any producer, 

 dealer in, or consumer of milk, any can, jar, bottle, measure, or other vessel 

 used as a container for milk without first thoroughly cleaning and cleansing, 

 by the use of boiling water, steam, or other proper agent, such can, jar, bottle, 

 measure, or other vessel used as a container for milk, shall be punished by a 

 fine of $10 for ,each said vessel so misused. 



SEC. 20. Every inspector of milk shall institute complaints on the informa- 

 tion of any person who shall lay before him satisfactory evidence by which to 

 sustain the same. 



SEC. 21. Every inspector of milk shall cause the provisions of this chapter to 

 be published in his town at least three times in some newspaper published in 

 said town or some newspaper in the county in which the town is situated. 



SEC. 22. Every inspector of milk shall cause the name and place of business 

 of all persons convicted under this chapter to be published in two newspapers 

 published in the town or county where the offense shall have been committed. 



SEC. 23. Any chief of police and any inspector of milk, and such special con- 

 stables as the town council of any town or the board of aldermen of any city 

 may appoint for that purpose, may make complaints and prosecute for all vio- 

 lations, within the city or town wherein they are appointed or elected, of any 

 of the provisions of this chapter, and they each shall be exempt from giving 

 surety for costs on any complaint made as aforesaid. 



DAIRY RULES. 



THE OWNER AND HIS HELPERS. 



Observe and enforce the utmost cleanliness about the cattle, their attendants, 

 the stable, the dairy, and all utensils. 



A person suffering from any disease or who has been exposed to a contagious 

 disease must remain away from the cows and the milk. 



