60 FOOD LEGISLATION, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1908. 



treasurer, one half shall be paid into the treasury of the county where such 

 cases are prosecuted. 



SEC 64. hindering inspectors a misdemeanor; penalty. It shall be a misde- 

 meanor for any person, firm or corporation to refuse to sell to the pure food in- 

 spector, sheriff or agent of the pure food, dairy and drug commission any sample 

 of food' or drug suspected of being adulterated, uiisbranded, mislabeled, impure 

 <T unwholesome, UJMHI the tender of the market price thereof, or to conceal 

 such f>i>d. liquor, dmi: or medicine from such officer, or to with-hold from him 

 Information where such food or drug is kept or stored. Any such person so 

 refusing to sell, or concealing such food, medicine, or drug or with-holding such 

 information from said officer upon c< aviction, shall be punished by a fine of not 

 It-ss than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, or by impris- 

 onment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than ninety 

 days. 



SKC. '.."). <! iinruntrc for protection of dealer. No dealer shall be prosecuted 

 under the provisions of this Act, when he can establish a guarantee signed by 

 the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer, or other party residing in the United 

 States from whom he purchased such article to the effect that the same is not 

 adulterated, mislabeled, or misbranded within the meaning of this Act. Said 

 guarantee to afford protection must contain the name and addresses of the 

 party of parties making the sales of such articles to said dealer, and an 

 itemized statement showing the article purchased, or a general guarantee may 

 be filed with the secretary of the United States department of Agriculture, 

 by the manufacturer, wholesaler, jobber, or other party in the United States 

 and given a serial number, which number shall appear on each and every 

 package of goods, sold under such guarantee with the words "guaranteed un- 

 der the food and drugs Act, June thirtieth, nineteen hundred six." In case the 

 wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer, or other party making such guarantee to 

 such dealer resides without this State, and it appears from the certificate of the 

 director of the state laboratory that such article or articles were adulterated, 

 mislabeled or misbranded, within the meaning of this Act or the " National 

 Pure Food Act " approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred six, the attorney 

 general of this State must forthwith notify the attorney general of the United 

 States of such violation. 



SEC. 66. Repeal. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this Act are hereby 

 repealed. 



SEC. 67. Goods bought prior to passage of law exempt. That in any prose- 

 cution for any violation of any provisions of this Act, relative to the manufac- 

 ture, possession or sale of any alleged food product or drug, it shall be a valid 

 defense for the defendant to prove that the articles described in the complaint 

 were in his possession as a part of his stock in trade in this State prior to the 

 time of the passage and approval of this Act. 



SEC. 68. Date of effect. An emergency is hereby declared by reason whereof 

 it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace and 

 safety, that this Act take effect from and after its passage and approval. 



Approved May 26th, 1908. Session Laws 1907-1908, ch. 37, pp. 403-426. 



BREAD. 



SEC. 55. * * * Labeling of bread as to time of baking. It shall be 

 unlawful for any person in this State to sell, or offer to sell any loaf bread, 

 manufactured outside of the State of Oklahoma without having pasted on 



So in Statutes. 



