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$3.00) per day for each day of actual service, and their necessary and 

 actual expenses when so employed. 



4. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to enforce all laws that 

 now exist or that may hereafter be enacted in this State regarding the 

 production, manufacture or sale of dairy products, or the adulteration of 

 any article of food, and personally or by his assistants to inspect any article 

 of food made or offered for sale within this State, which he may, through 

 himself or his assistants, suspect or have reason to believe to be impure, 

 unhealthful, adulterated or counterfeit, and to prosecute, or cause to be 

 prosecuted, any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corpora- 

 tions, engaged in the manufacture or sale of any adulterated or counter- 

 feit article or articles of food contrary to the laws of this State. 



5. It shall be the duty of the food commissioner to carefully inquire 

 into the quality of the dairy and food products, and the several articles 

 which are foods or the necessary constitutens of food, which are manu- 

 factured for sale or sold or exposed or offered for sale in this State, and 

 he may in a lawful manner procure samples of the same, and direct the 

 State analyst to make due and careful examination of the same, and report 

 to the commissioner the result of the analysis of all or any such food or 

 dairy products as are adulterated, impure or unwholesome, in contraven- 

 tion of the laws of this State, and it shall be the duty of the commissioner 

 to make complaint against the manufacturer or vender thereof in the 

 proper county, and furnish the prosecuting attorney with the evidence 

 thereon and thereof to obtain a conviction for the offense charged. The 

 food commissioners, or his assistants, or any person by him duly appointed 

 for that purpose, shall have power in the performance of their duties to 

 enter any dairy, creamery, cheese factory, store, salesroom, warehouse 

 (except bonded warehouses for the storage of distilled spirits), where 

 goods are stored or exposed for sale, or place where they have reason to 

 believe food is stored or offered for sale, and to open any cask, tub, jar, 

 bottle or package containing, or supposed to contain, any article of food, 

 and examine or cause to be examined the contents thereof, and take there- 

 from samples for analysis. The person making such inspection shall 

 take such samples of such articles of product, in thei presence of at least 

 one witness, and he shall, in the presence of such witness, mark or seal 

 such sample and shall tender, at the time of taking, to the manufacturer 



