ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 259 



PURE FOOD COMMISSIONER'S BILL. 



For an act to provide for the appointment of a State Food Com- 

 missioner and to define his powers and duties and fix his 

 compensation, and to prohibit and prevent adulteration, 

 fraud and deception, in the manufacture and sale of articles 

 of food, and to repeal certain acts or parts of acts therein 

 named. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 

 nois represented in the General Assembly : That the office of 

 State Food Commissioner for the State of Illinois is hereby 

 created. Within thirty days after this act shall take effect such 

 commissioner shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with 

 the advice and consent of the Senate, and his term of office shall 

 be for two (2) years from the date of his appointment and until 

 his successor is appointed and qualified. Thereafter the term of 

 office of the commissioner shall be for four years and until his 

 successor is qualified. The salary of the Commissioner shall be 

 twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) per annum and his neces- 

 sary and actual expenses incurred in the discharge of his official 

 duties. 



2. Such commissioner may, with the advice and consent 

 of the Governor, appoint two assistant commissioners, each of 

 acknowledged 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 commis- 



