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reasonable times to inspect and examine any live animal, carcass, meat,
poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, bread, milk, wine, spirits,
malt or other liquors or things exposed for sale or deposited in any place
for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale and intended for the
food of man, the proof that the same was not exposed or deposited for
any such purpose, or was not intended for the food of man, resting
with the party charged; and if such animal, carcass, meat, poultry
game, flesh, fish, fruits, vegetables, bread, milk or other things appear
to the said board or its proper officer or inspector, to be diseased or
unsound or unwholesome and unfit for the food of man, the said board
or its proper officer shall issue an order preventing the sale of such
article or articles for human food, and any person neglecting or refusing
to obey such an order shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished by fine in any sum not less than fifty dollars, and, in
default of the payment thereof, by imprisonment in the public jail not
more than six months.

1904, art. 43, sec. 130. 1890, ch. 604, sec. 56.

155. It is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of this
State to appear for the people and to attend to the prosecution of all
complaints under this sub-title in all the courts of their respective
counties or the city of Baltimore, as the case may be.

Ibid. sec. 131. 1890, ch. 604, sec. 57.

156. The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars or so much thereof
as may be necessary is annually appropriated for defraying the-
expenses of chemical and scientific examination of suspected articles of
food or drink, for salary of inspector and other necessary expenses, to
be paid by the treasurer of the State on the warrant of the comptroller
at such times and in such sums as the board may direct.

Ibid. sec. 132. 1902, ch. 606, sec. 81 A.

157. No person shall manufacture, sell or offer for sale, or order or
permit any employe or other person to sell or offer for sale, either at
wholesale or retail, any malt extract, beer, porter, ale or stout unless
the same shall have been brewed and fermented as such; and any per-
son or corporation or officer or agent thereof violating this provision,
or any person or corporation or officer or agent thereof selling or offer-
ing for sale, or ordering or permitting any employe or other person to
sell or offer for sale any beer (to which coloring matter or porteine has
been added) representing the same to be malt extract or porter or other
beverage, or any malt or spirituous liquor other than by its proper name,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by imprison-
ment for not longer than one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hun-
dred dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court having jurisdiction.