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17. Alcoholic, fermented, or other potable liquors sold, or offered or exposed for sale, 

 shall be deemed to have been adulterated in a manner injurious to health if they are 

 found to contain any of the articles mentioned in the schedule of this act, or any 

 article hereafter added to such schedule by the governor in council. 48-49 V., c. 67, 

 6.17. 



18. The governor in council may from time to time declare certain articles or prepa- 

 rations exempt in whole or in part from the provisions of this act, and may add to the 

 schedule to this act any article or ingredient the addition of which is by him deemed 

 necessary in the public interest ; and every order in council in that behalf shall be 

 published in the Canada Gazette, and shall take effect at the expiration of thirty days 

 from the date of such publication. (48-49 V., c. 67 s 18.) 



19. The governor in council shall from time to time cause to be prepared and pub- 

 lished lists of the articles, mixtures, or compounds declared exempt from the provis- 

 ions of this act in accordance with the next preceding section, and shall also from 

 time to time fix the limits of variability permissible in any article of food or drug or 

 compound the standard of which is not established by any such pharmacopeia or 

 standard work as is hereinbefore mentioned ; and the orders in council fixing the same 

 shall be published in the Canada Gazette, and shall take effect at the expiration of 

 thirty days after the publication thereof. (48-49 V., c. C7, s. 19.) 



20. Whenever any article of food, any drug, or any agricultural fertilizer is reported 

 by any analyst as being adulterated within the [meaning of this act, the minister of 

 inland revenue may, if be thinks fit, order such article, and all other articles of the 

 same kind and quality which were in the same place at the time the article analyzed 

 was obtained, to be seized by any officer of customs or inland revenue, and detained 

 by him until an analysis of samples of the whole is made by the chief analyst. (48, 

 49V., c. 67, s. 20.) 



21. If the chief analyst reports to the minister of inland revenue that the whole or 

 any part of such articles are adulterated, the minister may declare such articles, or 

 so much thereof as the chief analyst reports as being adulterated, to be forfeited to 

 the Crown ; and such articles shall thereupon be disposed of as the minister directs. 

 (48-49 V., c. 67, s. 21. 



PENALTIES. 



22. Every person who willfully adulterates any article of food or any drug, or orders 

 any other person so to do, shall 



(a) If such adulteration is within the meaning of this act deemed to be injurious 

 to health, for the first offense incur a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and not less 

 than ten dollars and costs, and for each subsequent offense a penalty not exceeding 

 two hundred dollars and not less than fifty dollars and costs. 



(b) If such adulteration is within the meaning of this act deemed not to be injuri- 

 ous to health, incur a penalty not exceeding thirty dollars and costs, and for each 

 subsequent offense a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars and not less thanfifty 

 dollars and costs. (49-49 V., c. 67, s. 22.) 



23. Every person who, by himself or his agent, sells, offers for sale, or exposes for 

 sale any article of food or any drug which is adulterated within the meaning of this 

 act shall 



(a) If such adulteration is within the meaning of this act deemed to be injurious 

 to health, for a first offense incur a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and costs, and 

 for each subsequent offense a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars and not less 

 than fifty dollars and costs. 



(6) If such adulteration is within the meaning of this act deemed not to be injuri- 

 ous to health, incur for each such offsense a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and not 

 less than five dollars and costs. 



(2) Provided, That if the person accused proves to the court before which the case 

 is tried that he did not know of the article being adulterated, and shows that he 

 could not, with reasonable diligence, have obtained that knowledge, he shall be sub- 



