ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



279 



charge d. The food commissioner, 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 containing or supposed to cantain any 

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

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

 spection shall take such samples cf 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 cf 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 th^ 

 same time and in the presence of the person from whom such property 

 is taken, securly seal up two samples of the article seized or taken, thr- 

 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 per- 

 son from whm the article was taken. Any person who shall obstruct the 

 commssioner 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 b quilty 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 offer.se. 



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 excute the laws and to prose- 

 cute cases arising under the provisions of this act. 



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 result of such 

 examination or analysis. 



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

 fice, to furnish to any individual .firm or corporation any certificate a? 



