PEPPER. 32. Black pepper is the dried immature berries of Piper nigrum L. Standard. Standard black pepper is black pepper free from added pepper shells, pepper dust, and other pepper by-products, and containing not less than six (6) per cent of nonvolatile ether extract; not less than twenty-two (22) per cent of starch by the diastase method; not less than twenty-eight (28) per cent of starch by direct inversion; not more than seven (7) per cent of total ash; not more than two (2) per cent of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid, and not more than fifteen (15) per cent of crude fiber. One hundred parts of the nonvolatile ether extract contain not less than three and one-quarter (3.25) parts of nitrogen. Definitions. 33. Long pepper is the dried fruit of Piper longum L. 34. White pepper is the dried mature berries of Piper nigrum L., from which the outer coating, or the outer and inner coatings, have been removed. Standard. Standard white pepper is white pepper containing not less than six (6) per cent of nonvolatile ether extract; not less than fifty-three (53) per cent of starch by the diastase method; not less than forty (40) per cent of starch by direct inversion; not more than four (4) per cent of total ash; not more than fivetenths (0.5) per cent of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid, and not more than five (5) per cent of crude fiber. One hundred parts of the nonvolatile ether extract contain not less than four (4) parts of nitrogen. Definitions. 35. Saffron is the dried stigmas of Crocus sativus L. 36. Sage is the leaves of Salvia officinalis L. 37. Savory, or summer savory is the leaves, blossoms, and branches of Satureia hortensis L. 38. Thyme is the leaves and ends of blooming branches of Thymus vulgaris L. b. FRUIT EXTRACTS. (Schedule in preparation.) C. SALAD OILS. (Schedule in preparation.) d. SALT. (Schedule in preparation.) E. BEVERAGES (AND VINEGAR). a. TEA. (Schedule in preparation.) b. COFFEE. (Schedule in preparation.) ❝ Copper reducing matters by direct inversion calculated as starch. 26721-No. 83, pt I-04-2 C. COCOA AND COCOA PRODUCTS. Definitions. 1. Cocoa beans are the seeds of the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao L. 2. Cocoa nibs, or cracked cocoa is the roasted, broken cocoa bean freed from its shell or husk. 3. Chocolate, plain or bitter, or chocolate liquor, is the solid or plastic mass obtained by grinding cocoa nibs without the removal of fat or other constituents except the germ. Standard. Standard chocolate is chocolate containing not more than three (3) per cent of ash insoluble in water, three and fifty hundredths (3.50) per cent of crude fiber, and nine (9) per cent of starch, nor less than forty-five (45) per cent of cocoa fat. Definition. 4. Street chocolate and chocolate coatings are plain chocolate mixed with sugar (sucrose), with or without the addition of cocoa butter, spices, or other flavoring materials. Standard. Standard sweet chocolate and standard chocolate coating are sweet chocolate and chocolate coating containing in the sugar- and fat-free residue no higher percentage of either ash, fiber, or starch than is found in the sugar- and fat-free residue of plain chocolate. Definition. 5. Cocoa or powdered cocoa is cocoa nibs, with or without the germ, deprived of a portion of its fat and finely pulverized. Standard. Standard cocoa is cocoa containing percentages of ash, crude fiber, and starch corresponding to those in chocolate after correction for fat removed. Definition. 6. Sweet or sweetened cocoa is cocoa mixed with sugar (sucrose). Standard. Standard sweet cocoa is sweet cocoa containing not more than sixty (60) per cent of sugar (sucrose) and in the sugar- and fat-free residue no higher percentage of either ash, crude fiber or starch than is found in the sugar- and fat-free residue of plain chocolate. d. FRUIT JUICES-FRESH, SWEET, AND FERMENTED. e. VINEGAR. (In preparation.) f. MEAD, ROOT BEER, ETC. g. MALT LIQUORS. (In preparation.) h. SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. (In preparation.) i. CARBONATED WATERS, ETC. III. PRESERVATIVES AND COLORING MATTERS. (In preparation.) CALIFORNIA. GENERAL FOOD LAWS. 382. Fraudulent adulteration or dilution a misdemeanor.-Every person who adulterates or dilutes any article of food, drink, drug, medicine, spirituous or malt liquor, or wine, or any article useful in compounding them, with the fraudulent intent to offer the same, or cause or permit it to be offered for sale as unadulterated or undiluted; and every person who fraudulently sells, or keeps or offers for sale the same,, as unadulterated or undiluted, or who, in response to an inquiry for any article of food, drink, drug, medicine, spirituous or malt liquor, or wine, sells or offers for sale, a different article, or an article of a different character or manufacture, without first informing such purchaser of such difference, is guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, that no retail dealer shall be convicted under the provisions of this section if he shall prove a written guaranty of purity obtained from the person from whom he purchased such adulterated or diluted goods. (Statutes and amendments to the codes, extra session, 1900-1901, p. 458 [Bull. 69, p. 33], as amended March 21, 1903, ch. 254, p. 351.) SEC. 1. Free public market for perishable products.—The board of state harbor commissioners shall, within one year from the passage of this act, set apart upon some convenient portion of the water front of San Francisco a sufficient number of blocks and parts of blocks belonging to the state contiguous to the docks and piers for a free market for the greater portion of all the perishable products of the State of California arriving in San Francisco by land, boat, or other conveyance, including fruit, vegetables, eggs, poultry, grain, dairy products, and fish, and shall permit the sale of such products upon said blocks and portions of blocks of land by or for the account of the producers thereof only, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the said board of harbor commissioners and as the public convenience may require. SEC. 2. Location.—The land so set apart for the free public market shall be as convenient as possible to that portion of the city and county of San Francisco in which the principal wholesale trade in perishable products is now carried on, and must be adjacent and contiguous to such piers and docks as are accessible to all watercraft ordinarily employed in carrying such products upon the waters of San Francisco bay and the navigable waters contributing thereto, and vessels so loaded shall have the preference at all times at docking at such wharves and piers contiguous to said lands over other vessels not so loaded. SEC. 3. Regulations by harbor commissioners.—Docking room at said piers shall be assigned without partiality to all vessels engaged in the transportation of said products, and the space assigned shall be sufficient to permit such vessels regularly running upon a route to receive and discharge their entire cargoes of such products at the piers aforesaid, if they so desire, subject to the control and direction of the board of state harbor commissioners. And the said board of state harbor commissioners shall construct car tracks to connect the said docks and piers with the land so set apart for the free public market and with the belt railroad. For the use of these tracks the state harbor commissioners shall prescribe such regulations as public convenience may require, and fix the compensation to be paid by the companies making use of them for this purpose. SEC. 4. Conveyance of products.-The harbor commissioners shall suitably inclose said free market and construct suitable tramways and tracks or other devices for the rapid conveyance of perishable products from car or boat or other conveyance to the stalls in the free market, and operate the same. SEC. 5. Penalties.-The harbor commissioners shall assign space within the free market to all producers of perishable products, under such regulations as the harbor commissioners may prescribe. No rental shall be charged for space in the free market. Any violation of this act, or of the regulations made pursuant thereof, shall exclude the person or firm guilty of such violation from the privilege of selling in the free market, during the pleasure of the harbor commissioners, not exceeding one year, in addition to any other penalty which may be incurred thereby. SEC. 6 Tolls. For the payment of the expenses of said free market the said board of state harbor commissioners may, in their judgment, so adjust tolls upon the said perishable products as shall be delivered into said free market as to provide the necessary revenue; provided, however, that no one shall be compelled to enter into said free public market, and no tolls for the purpose of paying the expenses of said free market shall be levied, assessed, or inflicted upon any products not entering into said free public market; and provided further, that the total of such tolls so levied shall not exceed the total expense of maintaining such free market. SEC. 7. Officials; salaries.-The officers of said free market shall be a superintendent and assistant superintendent, who shall also be secretary, and such other employés as the state board of harbor commissioners may appoint. The salary of all employés of said free market shall be fixed by the state board of harbor commissioners, and be paid out of the general fund of said harbor commission the same as other employés. SEC. 8. Bonds. All officers and employés of any public market on state property are officers and employés of the state, and shall qualify in the same manner as other employés, and give such bonds as the harbor commissioners may prescribe. SEC. 9. Appropriation.-There is hereby appropriated out of the San Francisco harbor improvement fund the necessary moneys to enable the harbor commissioners to carry this act into effect, and this appropriation shall have precedence of all other claims on such fund for improvements. (Approved March 2, 1903; Statutes and amendments to the Codes, 1903, ch. 68, p. 76.) SEC. 1. Permit for sale of perishable products; penalty.—It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, upon the public wharves or other property belonging to this state, in the city and county of San Francisco, and within the jurisdiction of the board of state harbor commissioners, any fruit, vegetables, poultry, eggs, honey, game, or other produce commonly known, and hereinafter referred to as perishable products, unless such person or the person, firm or corporation, which he may duly represent, shall hold the permit hereinafter described authorizing such sales to be made. Any violation of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars or more than five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. Removal of products when consignee holds no permit; wharfage.-Perishable products consigned to persons, firms or corporations not holding the permit hereinafter described, and delivered by carrier upon any wharf on the San Francisco water front, must be removed from said wharf within twenty-four hours after their arrival, and the board of state harbor commissioners must levy and collect on such perish able products in addition to the regular state tolls, such additional wharfage as they may prescribe, but not less than the amount of the regular tolls, for each twenty-four hours or fraction thereof which such perishable products shall remain upon the wharf. SEC. 3. Form of application for permit.-Upon application of any person, firm or corporation receiving or expecting to receive perishable products to be delivered by carrier upon any wharf on the San Francisco water front, the board of state harbor commissioners shall issue free of charge to such applicant, a permit authorizing him to sell such products when delivered on the wharves or state property, during the time such perishables are permitted to remain there, under the general regulations prescribed by the commission; provided, nevertheless that said permit shall not be issued until the applicant shall have signed the application which shall read as follows: "I (or we), expecting to receive consignments of perishable products to be delivered by carrier on the wharves or other property of the State of California in the city and county of San Francisco, and desiring to dispose of the same before removal, hereby make application for a permit to be valid for one year from the date of issue, to sell perishable products on said wharves or other state property. In consideration of the receipt of such permit, I (or we) promise to faithfully observe all the regulations which are or may be prescribed by the board of the state harbor commissioners in regard to such sales, and in particular I (or we) agree that I (or we) will not, during the life of such permit, be a party to any conspiracy, agreement or understanding whereby I (or we) shall refuse to sell any solvent purchaser or buy from any person whatever, and I (or we) agree that I (or we) will sell, impartially, and at the same prices, to all who desire to purchase for cash, without regard to their business or intended disposition of the products, and will exercise no discrimination whatever between buyers or sellers, by reason of their occupation, affiliations or non-affiliations. I (or we) also agree that in case of violation of this agreement, the board of state harbor commissioners may revoke the permit hereby applied for, whereupon I (or we) agree to surrender the same, and I (or we) agree that the board of state harbor commissioners shall be the sole judges of the fact of such violation, I (or we) having had a hearing in the matter. Date SEC. 4. Form of permit; duration.-The permit herein provided for shall be in such form as the board of state harbor commissioners may determine and shall be valid for one year from date of issue and no longer. SEC. 5. Permits revoked.—In case of violation of his agreement by the holder of any permit the board of state harbor commissioners upon a hearing after giving due notice to all parties concerned, and finding the fact of such violation shall revoke and cancel the permit, and shall not issue a new permit to the offending party, except upon a new execution of the agreement hereinbefore set forth and the payment of a fee of fifty dollars, and the right to receive a new permit shall rest in the discretion of said board of state harbor commissioners. SEC. 6. Enforcement by harbor commissioners.--The board of state harbor commissioners and all its officials and employés are charged with the enforcement of this act, and shall eject from the wharves or other state property all persons found attempting to make sales in violation of this act. And the board of state harbor commissioners through such officials as it may from time to time designate, shall prosecute all violations of this act in the proper court. SEC. 7. Repeals.—All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. Date of effect.-This act shall take effect immediately. (Approved March 2, 1903; Statutes and Amendments to the Codes, 1903, ch. 66, p. 73.) |