84 FOOD LEGISLATION, YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1908. 



SEC. 17. Enforcement of food laws by dairy and food commissioner. The 

 enforcement of all existing laws to prevent the manufacture and sale of adulter- 

 ated and misbranded articles of food heretofore placed under the direction of 

 the commissioner and the board of agriculture and immigration, shall hereafter 

 be placed under the dairy and food commissioner, and shall be enforced by him 

 and under his direction; and all books, papers, and matters referring to the 

 enforcement of such laws shall be transferred to the office of the dairy and food 

 commissioner. 



SEC. 18. Effect. An emergency existing, because of the large and unlawful 

 sale of adulterated and misbranded food products, this act shall take effect 

 from its passage. 



Approved March 11, 1908; Acts of 1908, ch. 188, pp. 266-274. 



MEATS. 

 See General Food Laws, sec. 8, page 80. 



