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not exceed eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) each per annum 

 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 commis- 

 sioner may appoint 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 or 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 commis- 

 sioner. The compensation of such inspectors shall be three 

 dollars ($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 mat 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 assist- 

 ants, suspect or have reason to believe to be impure, unhealthy, 

 adulterated or counterfeit, and to prosecute, or cause to be pro- 

 secuted, any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or cor- 

 porations, engaged in the manufacture or sale of any adulterated 

 or counterfeit 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 constituents of 

 food, which are manufactured 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 



