PORTO RICO. 



GENERAL FOOD LAW. 



SEC. 1. Repeal. Section 336 of the Penal Code is hereby repealed. [See 

 U. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Chemistry, Bui. 69, Rev., pt. 7, p. 549.) 



Approved March 12, 1908. Laws of 1908, p. 93. 



474. False statements of agents, etc.; false weight or measurement; penalties. 

 Every commission merchant, broker, agent, factor or consignee, who shall wil- 

 fully and fraudulently make, or cause to be made, to the principal or consignor 

 of such commission merchant, agent, broker, factor or consignee, a false state- 

 ment concerning the price obtained for or the quality or quantity of any prop- 

 erty consigned or intrusted to such commission merchant, agent, broker, factor 

 or consignee, for sale, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on con- 

 viction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or 

 imprisonment in jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and im- 

 prisonment. Every person who is putting up in any bale, bag, box, barrel or 

 other package any sugar, tobacco, coffee, rice or other goods usually sold in 

 bales, bags, boxes, barrels or other packages, by weight or otherwise, puts in or 

 conceals therein any extraneous substance whatever for the purposes of fraudu- 

 lently increasing the weight or measurement of such bale, bag, box, barrel or 

 other package with intent thereby to sell the goods therein, or to enable another 

 to sell the same, for more than the actual weight or measurement of such goods, 

 is punishable by fine not less than twenty-five dollars for such offense, or con- 

 fined in jail for not less than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment in 

 the discretion of the court. As amended March 12, 1908; Laws of 1908, p. 93. 



Revised Statutes and Codes of 1902, Penal Code, ch. 8, p. 588. 



MEAT. 



SEC. 7. Use of refrigerated meat in public institutions. The Director of 

 Health, Charities and Correction, is hereby authorized to determine whether 

 refrigerated meat may or may not be supplied to institutions under his direction. 



Approved March 12, 1908. Laws of 1908, p. 74. 



