242 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Pure Food Commissioners' Bill 



For an act to provide for the appointment of a State Food Commissioner 

 and to define his powers and duties and fix his compensation, and to 

 prohibit and prevent adulteration, fraud, and deception in the manu- 

 facture and sale of articles of f ood, and to repeal certain acts or parts 

 of acts therein named. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by th3 People of the State of Illinois repre- 

 sented in the General Assembly: That the office of State food commis- 

 sioner for the State of Illinois is h ereby created. Within thirty days after 

 this act shall take effect such com nissioner shall be appointed by the 

 Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and his term 

 of office shall be for two (2) years from the date of his appointment and 

 until his successor is appointed and qualified. Thereafter the term of 

 office of the commissioner shall be for four years and until his successor 

 is qualified. The salary of the commissioner shall be twenty-five hundred 

 dollars ($2,500) per annum and his necessary and actual expenses incurred 

 in the discharge of his official duties. 



2. Such commissioner may, with he advice and consent of the Gover- 

 nor, appoint two assistant commissioners, each of acknowledged standing, 

 ability, and integrity, one of whom shall be an expert in the matter of 

 dairy products, and the other of whom shall be a practical and analytical 

 •chemist, who shall be known as State analyst. The salaries of such as- 

 sistants shall not exceed eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) each per an- 

 ium and their necessary and actual expenses incurred in the discharge of 

 their official duties. In case of the absence or inability of the State 

 analyst to perform all the duties of his office, the commissioner may ap- 

 point some competent person to assist in the same temporarily. 



3. The food commissioner shall have authority to appoint necessary 

 inspectors not exceeding six in number to assist in the work of the food 

 commissioner at such times and for such periods of time as may be required 

 in the enforcement of the dairy food laws of the State. Such inspectors 

 shall have the same right of access to places to be inspected as the com- 

 missioner. The compensation of such inspectors shall be three dollars 



