price for the quantity which he shall require for the purpose of analysis, not being more than shall be reasonably requisite, and the person exposing the same for sale shall refuse to sell the same to such officer, such officer shall have the right to enter the premises where the same shall be so exposed for sale and seize and take into his possession a sufficient quantity of any such food or drug, and shall keep same for the purpose of analysis.

SEC. 14. Definitions.-That the term "food," as used in this act, shall include every article used for food or drink by man other than drugs and water. The term "drug," as used in this act, shall include all medicines for internal and external use.

SEC. 15. Exemptions.-That the commissioner of agriculture may from time to time declare certain articles or preparations to be exempt from the provisions of this act; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners to prepare and publish from time to time a list of the articles, mixtures, or compounds declared to be exempt from the provisions of this act in accordance with this section.

SEC. 16. Repeal.-That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. (Approved June 5, 1903. Acts and Resolutions, 1903,

ch. 5170, No. 65, p. 107.)

DRUGS.

(See General food law.)

MEAT.

SEC. 1. Butcher can not be beef inspector.―That no butcher shall, in any part of this State, be appointed beef inspector for any election district or for any portion thereof. SEC. 2. Repeal.-That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. Take effect.—That this act shall take effect immediately after its passage and approval by the governor. (Acts and Resolutions, 1903, ch. 5172, No. 67, p. 113.)

SYRUP.

SEC. 1. Adulterated or mixed syrups prohibited unless labeled. That from and after September 1st, 1903, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, or corporation, or agent thereof, to sell, advertise for sale, or offer for sale, within the limits of this State, any adulterated or mixed syrups whatever, except at the time of sale or offer for sale the percentage of such adulteration or mixture is clearly stamped or labeled on the barrel, can, case, battle or other receptacle containing such syrup. The terms adulterated "mixture" or "admixture" as used in this act is understood to apply to all mixtures of two or more ingredients differing in their nature and quality, such as sugar-cane syrup, sorghum syrup, maple syrup, molasses, or glucose. SEC. 2. Name and address of manufacturer on receptacles. That all packages of adulterated or mixed syrups in barrels or other receptacles shall bear the name and post-office address of the manufacturer or manufacturers.

SEC. 3. Penalty. All persons, firms, or corporations, or agents thereof, found guilty of a violation of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished for each offence in a sum not exceeding $500, or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 4. Repeal. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. (Approved June 4, 1903. Acts and Resolutions, 1903,

ch. 5231, No. 126, p. 214.)

a So in Statutes.

GEORGIA.

SYRUPS.

SEC. 1. Adulterated or mixed syrups must be labeled; terms defined.-From and after September 1, 1903, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation, or agent thereof, to sell, advertise for sale, or offer for sale within the limits of this State, any adulterated or mixed syrups whatever; except at the time of sale or offer for sale the percentage of such adulteration or mixture is clearly stamped or labelled on the barrel, can, case, bottle, or other receptacle containing such syrup. The terms adulterated "mixture," or "admixture," as used in this Act, is understood to apply to all mixtures of two or more ingredients differing in their nature or quality, such as sugar cane syrup, sorghum syrup, maple syrup, molasses or glucose.

SEC. 2. Name and address on original package.—All original packages of adulterated or mixed syrup in barrels or other receptacle shall bear the name and post office address of the manufacturer or manufacturers.

SEC. 3. Use of designation "cane syrup," etc.-It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale within the limits of this State any syrups branded or labelled "cane syrup," "ribbon cane syrup," "Georgia cane syrup," "pure cane syrup," or any other similar or misleading name, which contains any other ingredient or addition other than that resulting from the boiling of the pure juice of sugar-cane, and from which no sugar has been taken.

SEC. 4. Confiscation and sale of syrup not properly labeled.—When any person or persons, dealer, firm or corporation, or agent thereof, shall offer for sale any syrup or adulteration thereof, either in can, case, package, barrel or other receptacle, not stamped in accordance with the requirements of this Act, such article shall be confiscated or destroyed, in the discretion of and under the authority of the ordinary of the county in which said find is made; and the proceeds of the sale of the confiscated article shall go into the common school fund of the county, except as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 5. Conduct of sale.-When the ordinary shall be authorized to proceed under the provisions of section 4 of this Act, and in case of confiscation, he shall post at the court house door 24 hours previous to the sale, a notice thereof, and when such notice shall be given, the sheriff of the county, or his lawful deputy, shall be empowered to make sale. The ordinary shall have for his services the sum of $3.00, as shall also the sheriff or his deputy, in case the property sold brings a sufficient amount to cover this sum.

SEC. 6. Penallies.-All persons, firms or corporations or agents thereof found guilty of a violation of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished for each offense in a sum not less than $200.00, nor more than $1,000.00, or imprisonment in the county jail or chain gang for a term of not less than 10 days nor more than 12 months, either or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 7. Fee to informant.—In all cases where fines are imposed and collected, the sum of fifty dollars shall be paid the informant in the case; said amount to come out of the fine collected.

SEC. 8. Repeals.—All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. (Approved December 17, 1902. Laws 1902, pt. 1, title 5, no. 148, p. 101.)

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HAWAII.

GENERAL FOOD LAW.

SEC. 1. Adulterated food and drugs prohibited.—No person shall within the Territory of Hawaii manufacture, offer for sale, keep for sale or sell, any drug or article of food which is adulterated within the meaning of this Act.

SEC. 2. Terms "drug" and "food" defined.—The term "drug" as used in this Act shall include all drugs, medicines or medical preparations for external or internal use, antiseptics, antiseptic dressings, disinfectants and cosmetics. The term “food” as used herein shall include all articles used for food or drink by man, whether simple, mixed or compound.

SEC. 3. Adulteration of drugs and food defined.-An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this Act:

(a) In the case of drugs:

(1) If, when manufactured, sold, offered for sale or kept for sale, under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein; (2) If, when manufactured, sold, offered for sale or kept for sale, under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other Pharmacopoeia, or other standard work on materia medica, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down in such work; (3) If its strength, quality or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is sold; (4) If it contains any substance inimical or dangerous to life, without the same being duly stated on the label or wrapper.

(b) In the case of food:

(1) If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect its quality, strength or purity; (2) If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it; (3) If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it; (4) If it is an imitation of, or is manufactured, sold, kept for sale or offered for sale under the name of another article; (5) If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted or rotten animal or vegetable substance, whether manufactured or not; (6) In the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal, or if it contains less than eleven and a half per centum total solids or two and a half per centum of butter fat, or if it contains any preservative or antiseptic; (7) If it is colored, coated, polished or powdered whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is; (8) If it contains any added substance or ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health, or any deleterious substance not a necessary ingredient in its manufacture; Provided that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles of food, if the same be distinctly labeled as mixtures or compounds, and are not injurious to health, and contain no ingredient not necessary to the preparation of a genuine article of such mixtures or compounds, and from which no necessary ingredient in its preparation is eliminated.

SEC. 4. Refusal to sell sample evidence of adulteration.—If any person manufacturing,

keeping for sale, offering for sale or exhibiting for sale any drug or article of food included in the provisions of this Act, shall refuse to furnish the duly appointed food commissioner, upon demand, either personal or in writing, a sample sufficient for the analysis of such drug or article of food which is in his possession, the food commissioner tendering the market price therefor, such refusal shall be prima facie evidence that such drug or article of food so manufactured, kept for sale, offered for sale or exhibited for sale is adulterated within the meaning of this Act.

SEC. 5. Food commissioner; salary and bond.—To carry out the provisions of this Act, the Board of Health shall appoint a duly qualified Food Commissioner or Analyst, who shall receive such salary as the Legislature shall from time to time appropriate, and who shall furnish good and sufficient bonds of not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the proper and unprejudiced performance of his duties, and ̧ who shall be provided by the Board of Health with the necessary apparatus, together with a proper office and laboratory for work.

SEC. 6. Duties of food commissioner.-It shall be the duty of the Food Commissioner to carefully inquire into the quality of the several articles which are foods, drugs or the necessary constituents of foods or drugs, manufactured or kept for sale, or sold or exposed for sale within the Territory of Hawaii; and he may in a lawful manner procure samples thereof, submit the same to careful examination, and report the result of such analysis of all or any of such drugs, food and drink products or dairy products as are adulterated, impure or unwholesome, in contravention of the laws of the Territory of Hawaii to the Board of Health; and it shall be the duty of the Food Commissioner to make complaint with the necessary evidence through the proper authorities, against such manufacturer or vendor.

SEC. 7. Powers of inspection.-The Food Commissioner shall have power in the performance of his duties, to enter into any creamery, factory, store, salesroom, storageroom, drug store or laboratory, or any place where he has reason to believe food or drink are made, prepared, sold or offered for sale, and to open any cask, tub, bottle, case or package containing or supposed to contain any article of food or drink and examine or cause to be examined the contents thereof.

SEC. 8. Report. The Food Commissioner shall make a monthly report in writing to the President of the Board of Health containing the results of inspection and analysis in detail, and upon request of said Board he shall furnish for publication a popular explanation of the same covering any month or period, together with any such other information as may come to him in his official capacity relating to the adulteration of drugs and food and drink products, so far as the same may be deemed by the said Board of Health to be of benefit and advantage to the public.

SEC. 9. Complaints.-The Food Commissioner shall investigate complaints on the information of any person who shall lay before him satisfactory evidence of the

same.

SEC. 10. Penalties.-Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding two hundred, nor less than ten dollars, or imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding one hundred nor less than thirty days, or both.

SEC. 11. Jurisdiction.-Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon all District Magistrates to hear and determine all cases arising under this Act.

SEC. 12. Repeal.—Act 34 of the Session Laws of 1898 is hereby repealed.

SEC. 13. Effect.-This Act shall take effect from and after the date of its approval. (Approved April 28, 1903. Act 50.)

MEAT.

312. License for selling beef.-The annual fee for a license to sell beef shall be Twenty-five Dollars.

313. Bond of licensee; records for inspection.-Upon granting such a license the Tax

Collector shall exact from the licensee a bond in the penal sum of Five Hundred Dollars, with good and sufficient surety, to be approved by the Tax Collector, conditioned that such licensee will keep a full and accurate record concerning every animal which he may purchase, kill or sell; and that he will at all times during regular business hours keep such record open for the inspection of all who may desire to examine the same.

Such record shall contain:

1-The sex of the animal;

2-The brand or brands on the animal, stating the position on the animal of such brand;

3-The principal color or colors of the animal;

4—The name of the person or persons who sold the animal to him;

5-The date when the animal was sold to him;

6-The date when the animal was delivered to him;

7-The date when the animal was killed.

314. Penalties for incomplete or incorrect records.-The Tax Collector, or with his written consent, any person owning any animal purchased, sold or killed by any licensed butcher, concerning which a record as prescribed by this Act has not been kept, may prosecute such licensed butcher under his bond and recover thereon, to the benefit of the County, the sum of not less than Five Dollars nor more than Fifty Dollars, for each item required by this Act to be entered in such record which is omitted therefrom or which is entered therein incorrectly; and the license of such butcher may, in the discretion of any judge or court, be cancelled.

315. Other penalties.-Any person who shall slaughter any animal for the purpose of exposing beef for sale, or sell beef slaughtered by others without first procuring a license; or who, having a license, shall fail or neglect to keep the record provided for under his bond; or who, having a license and having kept a record as provided by his bond, shall fail or refuse to show such record during regular business hours to any person who may desire to examine the same, or who shall keep a faulty record, or who shall violate or fail to observe any of the requirements of this Act, or his license, shall upon conviction be fined not less than Twenty-five Dollars nor more than Fifty Dollars for each offence. (County Act of the Session of 1903 of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, ch. 43, p. 99.)

316. License for selling pork.—The annual fee for a license to sell pork shall be Twenty-five Dollars, but this provision shall not apply to the sale of pork which is “kaluaed” or cooked in the Hawaiian style. (County Act of the Session of 1903 of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, ch. 44, p. 101.)

MILK.

326. Milk license.-The annual fee for a license to sell milk shall be Two and OneHalf Dollars.

327. Adulterated or diluted milk; penalty.-Any person who shall sell, or offer for sale, any milk which has been adulterated by the addition of water or other substance, or from which the cream has been skimmed or separated, unless the same is specifically and openly stated to be skimmed milk, shall be fined not more than Fifty Dollars.

328. Inspection and confiscation.—Any police officer or agent of the Board of Health shall have power to inspect and test any milk sold or offered for sale, and to confiscate any adulterated milk which he may find. (County Act of the Session of 1903 of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, ch. 48, p. 103.)