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director may determine. x-X.nd .said director, in person or by deputy, shall 

 have free access at all reasonable hours to any place wherein articles of 

 food or drugs are offered for sale, and upon tendering the market price 

 of any such article may take from any person samples for analysis. The 

 results of all analyses of articles of food and drugs made by said 

 • director shall be published b}- him in the bulletins or reports of the 

 experiment station, together with the names of the persons from whom 

 the samples were obtained, and the names of the manufacturers thereof. 



Sec. 7. When the said director becoines cognizant of the violation 

 of any of the provisions of this act he shall cause notice of such fact, 

 together with a copy of the findings, to be given to the party or parties 

 concerned, including those from whom the sample was obtained, and 

 to the party, if any, whose name appears upon the label as manufacturer, 

 packer, wholesaler, retailer or other dealer. The parties so notified shall 

 be given an opportunity to be heard under such rules and regulations 

 as may be prescribed as aforesaid. Notices shall specify the date, hour 

 and place of the hearing. The hearing shall be private and the parties 

 interested therein may appear in person or by attorney. If the party 

 whose name appears upon the label resides without the state he shall 

 l)e entitled to reasonable notice by mail at such address as may, with due 

 diligence, be obtained. 



Sec. 8. Any person who adulterates or misbrands, within the mean- 

 ing of this act, any article of food or drugs, or any person who sells, 

 transports, offers or exposes for sale or transportation any adulterated 

 or misbranded article of food or drugs, shall be punished bj"- a fine not 

 exceeding one hundred dollars for the first offense and not exceeding 

 two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense. Trial justices and 

 municipal and police courts are hereby vested with original jurisdiction 

 concurrent with the supreme judicial and superior courts, to try, and, 

 upon conviction, to punish, for offenses against the provisions of this 

 act. 



Sec. 9. No dealer shall be prosecuted under the provisions of this 

 act when he can establish a guaranty signed by the wholesaler, jobber, 

 manufacturer, or other party residing in the United States, from whom 

 he purchased such articles, to the effect that the same is not adulterated 

 or misbranded within the meaning of this act, designating it. S5id guar- 

 anty, to afford protection, shall contain the name and address of the 

 party or parties making the sale of such articles to such dealer, and in 

 such case said party or parties shall be amenable to the prosecutions, 

 fines and other penalties which would attach, in due course, to the 

 dealer under the provisions of this act. 



Sec. to. The director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station 

 shall diligently enforce all the provisions of this act, and when after due- 

 hearing he is convinced that the provisions of this act have been violated 

 he shall, in his discretion prosecute all offenses against the same. 



Sec. 12. The word 'person' as used in this act shall be construed to 

 import both the plural and the singular, as the case demands, and shall 



