278 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



standing, ability, and integrity, que 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 hnown as State analyist. The salaries 

 of such assistants shall not exceed eighten 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 o£ 

 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 ar.d 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 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 the 

 production, manufacture, or sale cf dairy products, or the adulteration of 

 any article of food, and personally or by his assistant; to inspect any 

 article of food made or offered for sale within this State, which he n:a\ . 

 through himself or his assistants, suspect or have reason to believe to 

 be impure, unhealthy, adulterated cr counterfeit, and -&)• prosecute, or 

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

 or corporations, engaged in che nanufacture or sale of any adulterate* 

 or counterfeit article or articles of Icod contrary to the laws of this State. 



5. It shall be th duty of the food commissioner to carefully inquire 

 into the quality of the dairy an d food products, and the several ar- 

 ticles which are foods or the necessary constituents 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- proi ure samples of the same, snd direct 

 the State analyst to rrak» due and careful examination of the same. 

 and report to the commissioner the result of the analysis of all orary 

 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 

 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 



