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attorney with the evidence thereon and thereof to obtain a con- 

 viction for the offense charged. 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, salesroom, warehouse 

 (except bounded 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 contain any article of food, and examine or cause to the 

 examined the contents thereof, and take therefrom samples for 

 analysis. The person making such inspection shall take such 

 samples of such articles of produce, 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 taking, to the 

 manufacturer or vender of such produce, or to the person having 

 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 commis- 

 sioner 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, punishable by a fine of not exceeding 

 fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first offense, and not exceeding five 

 hundred dollars ($500.00) or less than fifty dollars ($50.00) for 

 each subsequent offense. 



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 



