2/0 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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 com- 

 missioner, or his assistants, or any person by him duly appointed for that 

 jwirpose. shall have power in the performance of their duties to enter any 

 dairy, creamery, cheese factory, store, salesroom, warehouse (excepted 

 bonded warehouses for the storage of distilled spirits), where goods are 

 scored 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 exam- 

 ine or cause to be examined the contents thereof, and take therefrom 

 samples for analysis. The person making such inspection shall take such 

 samples of such articles of produce, in the presence of at least one wit- 

 ness, 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 or 

 vender of such produce, or to the person having the custody of the same, 

 the value thereof, but if the person from whom such sample is taken 

 shall request him to do so, he -shall, at the same time and in the presence 

 of the person from whom such property is taken, securely seal up two 

 samples of the article seized or taken, the one of which shall be for exami- 

 nation or analysis under the direction of the commissioner, and the other 

 of which shall be delivered to the person from whom the article was taken. 

 Any person who shall obstruct the commissioner or any of his assistants 

 by refusing to allow him entrance to any place which he desires to enter 

 in the discharge of his official duty, or refuse to deliver to him a sample 

 of any article of food made, sold or exposed for sale by such person, when 

 the same is requested, and when the value thereof is tendered, shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars 

 ($50.00) for the first offense, and not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) 

 or less than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each subsequent offense. 



6. It shall be the duty of the state's attorney in any county of the 

 State, when called upon by the commissioner or any of his assistants, to 

 render any legal assistance in his power to execute the laws and to prose- 

 cute cases arising under the provisions of this act. 



