HEALTH. 591

1935, ch. 406, sec. 399.

439. Every person, association, copartnership, or corporation engaged
in the business of buying milk or cream on the basis of or in any way
with reference to the amount of butterfat contained therein or tests made
for official inspection or public record, shall have the samples taken for
testing purposes either by a licensed tester or by a person licensed or
certified to weigh and sample milk and cream For the purpose of this
sub-title a person certified to weigh and sample milk or cream is any per-
son, who having furnished satisfactory evidence of good character and
having passed a satisfactory examination in weighing and sampling milk
and cream conducted by the University of Maryland College of Agriculture
shall have received a license from said University of Maryland College of
Agriculture. Each applicant for examination, for such license shall pay
a fee of one dollar ($1. 00) to said University of Maryland College of
Agriculture. The University of Maryland College of Agriculture upon
receipt of the payment of a fee of two dollars ($2. 00) shall issue a license
to said applicant good for one calendar year. This license shall be
renewed annually without further examination at the discretion of the
University of Maryland College of Agriculture upon the payment of two
dollars ($2. 00). All moneys so collected shall be used to meet the expenses
of the University of Maryland College of Agriculture in the enforcement
of this sub-title. Each licensed weigher and sampler shall post his or her
license in plain view in the plant in which he or she is employed. The
University of Maryland College of Agriculture may revoke said license for
failure to post it as above mentioned or for any other just cause. All
scales shall be tested and checked regularly for accuracy and to determine
whether they are in proper working order. For this purpose the University
of Maryland College of Agriculture may use so much of the fees received
under the provisions of this sub-title to purchase testing equipment and to
pay the compensation and expenses of such inspections as may be necessary
to enforce the provisions of this sub-title.

1935, ch. 406. sec. 400.

440. Any person, association, copartnership, corporation, or agents or
servants thereof engaged in the business of buying milk or cream on the
basis of or in any way with reference to the amount or percentage of
butterfat contained therein as determined by the "Babcock Test" may
use a fresh or a composite sample. Any person taking such sample or
samples of milk or cream, either from the aliquot part of each lot of milk
sampled or from the composite lot of milk or cream sampled, shall thor-
oughly stir and mix each and every container immediately before such
sample or samples are taken in such manner that the milk and cream
are thoroughly mixed in each container before the sample is taken. No
weigh tank or container from which the aliquot part is taken for com-
posite samples or fresh samples shall have any partition, division or strainer
which may divide in any way, either vertically or horizontally, into more