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committing a public offense, and all the provisions of the chapter in the statutes 

 of the State of Oklahoma relating to search warrants and proceedings thereby 

 shall apply. 



SEC. .7.). Apprftprintiitn. There is hereby appropriated out of the funds in the 

 state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, or 

 so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of paying the salaries and 

 expenses of the officers created under this Act, and for the maintenance of the 

 state Laboratories created under this Act, and the necessary expenses incurred 

 in the enforcement of this Act. 



. 60. Dutit* nml powers of food inspectors; sheriffs appointed agents; 

 snmpaiii/. It shall be the duty of the pure food inspectors to make, or cause to 

 he made, by one of the directors of the state laboratories examinations and 

 analyses of foods or drugs on sale in Oklahoma, suspected of being adulterated, 

 mislaheled, misbranded. impure or unwholesome, in contravention of the law. 

 And if upon examination or analysis, it is found that said food or drug is adul- 

 terated, mislalteled. misbranded. impure or unwholesome, it shall be the duty of 

 the pur*- food inspector to make complaint against the manufacturer or vendor 

 1 hen-ot' in tin- proper county and to furnish the evidence thereon, and thereof to 

 obtain a c.mvietion of the offense charged. And the sheriffs of the respective 

 counties of tli-- - hereby appointed and constituted agents for the enforce- 



ment of this Aet, and the pure food inspector or any sheriff shall have free access 

 at all reasonable hours for (he purpose of examining any place where it is sus- 

 IH-cieii i bat any article of adulterated, mislaheled, misbranded, impure or 

 unwholesome !' d. medicine >r drui: exists, and such food inspector or sheriff, 

 upon tendering the ma: of such article, if a sale be refused, may take 



from any person, tinn , tion, samples of any article suspected of being 



adulterated, t ;ded, impure or unwholesome, for the purpose 



of examination or anal\ si>. and divide the said article into three parts, and each 

 part shall be sealed by the pure food inspector or sheriff seizing the said article, 

 with a seal pn>\ ided for that purpose. If the package be less than four pounds 

 or in volume less than two quarts, tlmv packages of approximately the same size 

 shall be pun based and the marks and tags upon each package noted as above. 

 one shall he delivered to the party from whom purchased, or the party guaran- 

 teeing such merchandise, one sample shall be sent or delivered to one of the 

 di ret tors of the ^tate laboratories for examination and analysis, and the third 

 shall lie held by the sheriff of the county in which said article was seized, under 

 seal, for futui. - should the case come to trial. 



. ''.I. SI * and es IK- matures. For his services hereunder, the 



sheriff shall he allowed the same fee for travel allowed by law to sheriffs on 

 servi.-e ,,f erimina! process, together with such compensation as by the board 

 of county commissioners of his county, may be deemed reasonable, and all 

 amounts expended by him in procuring and transmitting the said samples, 

 which f.vsand amount expended shall be audited and allowed by said board of 

 county commissioners and paid by said county as other bills of said sheriff. 



..'iow. It shall be the duty of all prosecuting officers of the 

 State to prosecute to completion all suits brought under the provisions of this 

 Act. upon the complaint of any member of the pure food, dairy and drug com- 

 mission or any other citixen of the State of Oklahoma. It shall be the duty of 

 all city and county health officers to take cognizance of and to report all prose- 

 cutions or violations of this Act, which may be brought to their notice or they 

 have cognizance of within their jurisdiction. 



IH*p t ,xitii,n <>f tin**. One half of all fines collected by any court or 

 judge for the violation of the provisions of this Act, shall be paid to the state 



