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§ 126. ADULTERATED MEAL OR GROUND GRAIN; PENALTY.—Any 
person who shall adulterate any kind of meal or ground grain 
with milling or manufacturing offals, or any other substance 
whatever, for the purpose of sale, unless the true composition, 
mixture or adulteration thereof is plainly marked or indicated 
upon the package containing the same or in which it is offered 
for sale; or any person who knowingly sells, or offers for sale any 
meal or ground grain which has been so adulterated unless the 
true composition, mixture or adulteration is plainly marked or 
indicated upon the package containing the same, or in which it is 
offered for sale, shall be fined not less than twenty-five or more 
than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
§ 127. VIOLATION TO BE REPORTED TO THE COMMISSIONER OF 
AGRICULTURE.—Whenever the director becomes cognizant of the 
violation of any of the provisions of this article, he shall report 
such violation to the commissioner of agriculture, and said com- 
missioner of agriculture shall prosecute the party or parties thus 
reported; but it shall be the duty of said commissioner upon thus 
ascertaining any violation of this article, to forthwith notify the 
manufacturer, importer or dealer in writing and give him not less 
than thirty days thereafter in which to comply with the require- 
ments of this article, but there shall be no prosecution in relation 
to the quality of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff if 
the same shall be found substantially equivalent to the certified 
statement named in section one hundred and twenty-two of this 
article. 
§ 1. This act shall take effect December first, eighteen hundred 
and ninety-nine. | 
