No. 4.] REPORT OF CATTLE BUREAU. 221 



117 slauohterino- establishments to the Chief of the Cattle 

 Bureau. 



These bulletins are very interesting, and describe condi- 

 tions that are in many instances very unappetizing, to say 

 the least, even though their writer is not clothed with the 

 power of description appertaining to Upton Sinclair, or the 

 President's agents for investigating the affairs in "Packing 

 Town.^' 



Chapter 220 of the Acts of 1903 provides as follows : — 



Section 1. Chapter seventy-five of the Revised LaAvs is 

 hereby amended by inserting after section one hundred and two 

 the following new sections : — Section lOS. In a slaughtering 

 establishment wherein inspection and branding is not carried on 

 under the rules and regulations for the inspection of live stock 

 and other products, established by the United States depart- 

 ment of agriculture in accordance with acts of congress in force 

 on the fifteenth day of June in the year nineteen hundred and 

 one, the carcasses of animals slaughtered under the provisions 

 of the four preceding sections shall at the time of slaughter, if 

 not condemned, be stamped or branded by the inspector thereof 

 in like manner as those inspected by the United States bureau 

 of animal industry for interstate trade, by a stamp or brand de- 

 signed for the purpose by the cattle bureau of the state board 

 of agriculture, which shall be furnished by it to the board of 

 health of a city or town applying therefor. Such stamps shall 

 be uniform in design throughout tlie Commonwealth, but shall 

 contain the name of the city or town in which they are used. 

 Section 104. The carcasses of animals slaughtered under the 

 provisions of the five preceding sections and not stamped or 

 branded as provided in the preceding section shall be deemed 

 unfit for human food and shall not be sold or offered for sale. 

 Whoever sells, or offers for sale, or has in his possession with 

 intent to sell, a carcass or any part thereof required by the pro- 

 visions of the preceding section to be stamped or branded, which 

 has not been stamped or branded as therein provided, shall be 

 punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by 

 imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such 

 fine and imprisonment. 



Section 2. Section one hundred and five of said chapter 

 seventy-five, as amended by section two of chapter three hun- 

 dred and twelve of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and 



