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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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

 the Governor, appoint two assistant commissioners, each of ac- 

 knowledged standing, abihty, 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 assistants shall 

 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 commmis- 

 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 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 commissioner. The com- 

 pensation 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 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, unhealthy, adul- 

 terated or counterfeit, and to prosecute, or cause to be prosecuted, 

 and person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations, 

 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 



