284 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



standing, ability, 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 commissioner 

 may appoint some competent person to assist in the same temporarily. 



3. The food commissioner shall have authority to appoint neces- 

 sary 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. SucTi 

 inspectors shall have the same right of access to places to be inspected 

 as the commissioner. 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 that 

 now exist or that may hereafter be enacted in this State regarding tlie 

 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, adulterated or counterfeit, and to presecute, or 

 cause to be prosecuted, any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation 

 or corporations, engaged in the manufacture or sale of aiiy 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 in- 

 quire into the quality of the dairy and food products, and the several 

 articles which are foods or the necessary constitutents 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 commissioner the result of the analysis of all or any 



