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Tho analysts shall carefully avoid any error regarding the inspector's number at- 

 tached to each sample, and shall report the results of their work in detail to the health 

 officer. 



In the case of all articles having a numerical standard provided by statute, the re- 

 sult of the analysis should show their relation to such standard. 



8. Before beginning the analysis of any sample, the analyst shall reserve a portion 

 which shall be-sealed, and in the event of finding the portion analyzed to be adulter- 

 ated, ho shall preserve the sealed portion, so that in case of a complaint against any 

 person the last-named portion may, on application, be delivered by the health officer 

 to the defendant or to his attorney. 



9. Each analyst shall present to the health officer on the Thursday before the first 

 Saturday of each month, a summary of the analyses made by him during the previous 

 month. 



Each analyst shall also present, on or before the first of January of each year, an 

 annual report of the work done for the year ending on the 30th of September pre- 

 ceding. 



10. The health officer shall have charge of the reports of analyses, and shall cause 

 cases founded on such reports to be submitted to the courts for prosecution. 



In each case of a retailer, and of every dealer not a manufacturer or producer, he 

 may, if the party has not been previously complained of in court, issue a notice or 

 warning of any violation of the law relative to the adulteration of food and drugs, 

 and of the offender's liability to prosecution on a repetition of the sale. 



11. Should the result obtained by any analyst be questioned in any given case, an- 

 other analyst shall repeat the analysis, unless otherwise instructed by the board, pro- 

 vided a sufficient sum to meet the expense of the analysis bo deposited with the 

 health officer by any interested party feeling aggrieved, which sum will not be re- 

 turned unless the second analysis fails to confirm the first in essential particulars. 



12. Any appeal from the decision of an analyst shall be filed with the health offi- 

 cer, who shall report it, and any matter in controversy, to the board, giving his judg- 

 ment thereon, and the board shall supervise and control the action of its officers, in 

 executing the law. 



13. Where standards of strength, quality, or purity are not fixed by the act, the 

 analysts shall present to the health officer such standard as in their judgment should 

 bo fixed, and the health officer shall report the same to the board for its action. The 

 standards set by the British Society of Public Analysts will bo followed as nearly as 

 practicable, until otherwise ordered. 



14. Whenever a drug or preparation not described in a National Pharmacopeia or 

 )ther standard work on materia modica, shall bo manufactured, offered for sale, or 

 used in this State, the standard of such drug, and the standard and proportion of the 

 ingredients of such preparation, and the range of variability from such standard or 

 standards shall bo ascertained by the analysts, who shall report the same through 

 the health officer to the board. 



15. Tho analysts shall occupy such time in the performance of their respective 

 duties as a reasonable compliance with the terms of the statute shall require, and 

 shall bo present one hour of each day at such time of the day and at such place as 

 shall bo designated by the committee on health of the board, to meet the conven- 

 ience of interested parties and the public. 



16. The compensation of the analyst of articles of food shall be at the rate of 

 $1,500 per annum, and that of the analyst of drugs shall be at the rate of $1,000. 



That of the analyst of milk for the ten eastern counties of the Commonwealth 

 shall bo at the rate of $830 per annum, and that of the analyst of the four western 

 counties shall bo at the rate of $500 per annum. 



The compensation of each inspector shall be at the rate of $1,000 per annum. 



