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such food or dairy products as are adulterated, impure or unwholesome. 

 In contravention of the laws of this State, and it shall be the duty of the 

 iommissioner 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 commissioners, or his assistants, or any person by 

 him duly appointed for that purpose, shall have power in the performance 

 of their duties to enter any dairy, creamery, cheese factory, store, sales- 

 room, warehouse (excepted bonded warehouses for the storage of distilled 

 spirits), where goods are stored 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 c Dntaining, or supposed to contain, any 

 article of food, and examine or cause to be examined the contents thereof, 

 and take therefrom samples for analysis. The person making such in- 

 spection shall take such samples of such articles of product, in the 

 presence of at least one witness, and he shall, in the presence of such 

 witness, mark or seal such sample and shall tender, at the time of tak- 

 ing, to the manufacturer or vender of such produce, or to the person hav- 

 ing 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 examination 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, punish- 

 able 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. 



