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sioner may appoint some competent person to assist in the same 

 temporarily. 



3. The food commissioner shall have authority to appoint 

 necessary inspectors not exceeding six in number or 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. Such inspectors shall have the 

 same right of access to places to be inspected as the commis- 

 sioner. 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 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, un- 

 healthy, adulterated or counterfeit, and to prosecute, or cause 

 to be prosecuted, any person or persons, firm or firms, corpora- 

 tion or corporations, engaged in the manufacture or sale of any 

 adulterated or counterfeit articles of food contrary to the laws 

 of this state. 



5. It shall be the duty of the food commissioner to care- 

 fully inquire into the quality of the dairy and food products, and 

 the several articles 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 

 procure samples of the same, and direct the state analyst to make 

 clue and careful examination of the same, and report to the 

 commissioner the result of the analysis of all or any 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 



