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7. The State board of health may submit to the commissioner, or 

 to any of his assistants, samples of food or drink for examination or 

 analysis, and shall receive special reports, showing the results of such 

 examination or analysis. 



8. It shall be unlawful for the State analyst, while he holds his offioe, 

 to furnish to any individual, firm or corporation any certificate as to the 

 purity or excellence of any article manufactured or sold by them to be 

 used as food or in the preparation of food. 



9. The salary of the commissioner shall be paid from the fund appro- 

 priated for the payment of the salaries of State officers, and his assistants 

 shall be paid out of the State treasury from the same fund and in the 

 same manner as the salaries of other employes of the State are paid, and 

 their official expenses shall be paid at the end of each calendar month 

 upon bills duly itemized and approved by the Governor, and the amount 

 necessary to pay such salaries and expenses is hereby appropriated. 



10. The commissioner may. under the direction of the Governor, fit 

 up a laboratory, with sufficient apparatus for making analysis contem- 

 plated in this act, and for such purpose the sum of fifteen hundred dollars 

 ($1,500), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated; 

 and for the purpose of providing materials, and for necessary expenses 

 connected with the making of such analysis, there is also hereby appro- 

 priated so much as may be necessary, not exceeding six hundred dollars 

 ($600) annually. The appropriation provided for in this section shall be 

 drawn from the State treasury upon certified bills approved by the Gov- 

 ernor. 



11. The commissioner shall make an annual report to the Governor 

 on or before the first day of January in each year, which shall be printed 

 and published. Such report shall cover the doings of his office for the 

 preceding year and shall show, among other things, the number of fac- 

 tories, creameries and other places inspected, and by whom; the number 

 of specimens of food articles analyzed, and the State analyst's report upon 

 each one when the analysis indicates the same to be contrary to law; 

 the number of complaints entered against persons for violation of the 

 laws relative to the adulteration of food; the number of convictions had 



