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facturing salt in the State of Michigan, or in the profits of any such 

 manufactory. 



Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the deputy, in each district, to 

 visit, once in each day, Sundays excepted, each salt manufactory 

 in his district, when in operation, and to ascertain if there be there- 

 in any salt of bad quality, and such as ought not to pass inspection. 



Sec. II. It shall be the duty of the inspector in person to visit 

 the manufactories in which salt is made, that may be in operation, 

 in the different districts, as often as practicable. 



Sec. 12. The inspector or deputy, at each visit, as provided in 

 this act, shall carefully examine the salt in the bins, and the brine 

 in kettles, or pans, or vats, in which the salt is manufactured. 

 If the salt in the bins or any part thereof is of bad quality and such 

 as ought not to pass inspection, or if the brine in the kettles, or 

 pans, or graining vats has not been cleansed, he will direct and see 

 that the owner, or occupant, or boiler, or other person having 

 charge of the manufactory, remove the bad salt from the bin and 

 place it with second-quality salt, or throw it among the bitterns, as 

 the inspector or deputy may direct, and that the impure brine m. 

 the kettles, or pans, or graining vats be thrown out, and new brine 

 substituted. 



Sec. 13. No lime nor lime-water shall be used by any person in 

 the manufacture of salt, in the kettles or pans, or graining vats, 

 used for manufacturing, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars and 

 costs for each offence, to be sued for in the name of the people of 

 this State ; Provided^ That iron vessels used in the manufacture of 

 salt may be whitewashed, when cool, to prevent the accumulation 

 of rust. 



Sec. 14. Every person desiring to have salt inspected shall apply 

 to the inspector or deputy inspector of the district where the same 

 shall be, which inspector or deputy inspector shall thereupon 

 actually examine the salt so offered for inspection, in the package in 

 which the same may then be. 



Sec. 15. To facilitate such examination, it shall be the duty of 

 the person or company offering the salt for inspection, to unhead 

 or bore the barrel, or to open the bag or other package in which 

 the salt is contained, as may be directed by the inspector or deputy 

 inspector, so as to expose the salt to his touch, view, and examina- 

 tion. 



