A BILL PROHIBITING THE ADULTERATION Of'mILKJ 



At the meeting of the Korthwestern Dairymen's Association held in 

 Chicago, February, 1877, Hon. S. Wilcox, R. P. McGlincy and H. W. Mead 

 were appointed a committee to draft a bill to submit to the legislature of 

 Illinois, prohibiting the adulteration of milk. The committee prepared the 

 following, which will undoubtedly become a law : 



" Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the 

 general Assembly : 



■ That Section Nine of Division One of Chapter Thirty-Eight of the 

 Criminal Code, Revised Statutes of 1874, be so changed and amended as to 

 read and be as follows, to wit : 



Sec. 9. Whoever shall, for the purpose of sale for human food, adulter- 

 ate milk with water or any foreign substance ; 



: Or, whoever shall knowingly sell for human food milk adulterated with 

 water or any foreign substance ; 



Or, whoever shall knowingly sell for human food milk from which cream 

 has been taken, without the purchaser thereof being informed, or knowing 

 the fact ; 



Or, whoever shall knowingly sell for human food milk from which what 

 is commonly called '' strippings " has been withheld, without the purchaser 

 thereof being informed or knowing the fact ; 



Or, whoever shall knowingly sell for human food milk drawn from a 

 'diseaserl c )vv, knowing hei- to be so diseased as to render her milk unwhole- 

 some ; 



Or, whoever shall knowingly sell for human food milk so tiinted or 

 corrupted as to be unwholesome ; 



Or, whoever shall knowingly supply or bring to be manufactured into any 

 substance for human food, to any cheese or butter factory or creamery, 

 without all interested therein knowing or being informed of the fact, milk 

 adulterated with water or any foreign substance, or milk from wiiich cream 

 has been taken, or milk from what is commonly called -'strippings" has 

 been withheld, or milk drawn from a diseased cow, knowing her to be so 

 diseased as to injure her milk, or milk so tainted as to be unwholesome ; 



Or, whoever shall knowingly, with the intent to defraud, take from milk 

 after it has been delivered to a cheese or butter factory or creamery to be 

 manufactured into any substance for human food, for and on account of the 

 persons supplying the milk, cream, or shall with like intent knowingly add 

 any foreign substance to the milk, whereby it or the product thereof shall 

 become unwholesome for human food, 



Shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every such misde- 

 meanor shall be fined not less than $3 nor more than $100, or confined in the 

 county jail not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court." 



