ART. 43] ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRINK. 1125
1904. art. 43, sec. 133. 1902, ch. 69, sec. 55 A.
158. No person shall kill for human food or shall carry or offer to
any butcher or at any slaughter house to be killed for human food any
female animal within thirty days before the time for the delivery of its
young or within thirty days thereafter, or any animal that is so far
disabled by sickness as to be unable to walk, or any animal known to
said person by reason of disease or injury to be unfit for human food;
and whenever any of said animals shall be found at any place where
animals are usually killed for human food, the burden of proving that
such animal was not intended for human food shall rest on the party
charged, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
Ibid. sec. 134. 1904, ch. 378, sec. 81 B.
159. No person, firm or corporation engaged in making, manu-
facturing, compounding and selling extracts, essences or other fluids
commonly used for the purpose of flavoring articles of food or drink
shall use or employ, or permit to be used or employed by his, their or
its agents or employes, the making, manufacture or compounding
of such flavoring extracts, essences or fluids any methyl, or wood alco-
hol; nor shall any person, firm or corporation, his, their or its agents
or employes, sell, or offer for sale at wholesale or retail, any flavoring
extract, essence or other fluid commonly used for flavoring articles of
food or drink when the same contains any methyl, or wood alcohol;
and any person, firm or corporation, his, their or its agents, employes
or officers, violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine
of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars,
or by not less than three months nor more than twelve months' imprison-
ment, or by both, in the discretion of the court.
Ibid. sec. 135. 1904, ch. 653, sec. 51 A.
160. No person, firm, or corporate body shall manufacture for sale,
sell or deliver, or have in his, her or their possession, with intent to sell
or deliver, any vinegar not in compliance with the provisions of sections
160 and 161. No vinegar shall be marked, branded, sold or exposed
for sale as apple or cider vinegar which is not the legitimate product of
pure apple juice and containing at least one and one-half per cent, of
solids, and all vinegar shall contain not less than three and one-half per
cent., by weight of absolute acetic acid, except when mixed with other
articles of food.
Ibid. sec. 136. 1904, ch. 653, sec. 51s.
161. No person, firm or corporate body shall manufacture for sale,
offer for sale, or have in his, her or their possession with intent to sell,
or offer for sale, any vinegar found upon proper test to contain ingre-
dients injurious to health.
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