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of such unsound or unwholesome article as directed, shall be
liable to the penalty imposed under the provisions of section
126.

1890, ch. 604, sec. 55.

129. The said State board of health, or its proper officer or
any inspector or inspectors appointed by said board axe empow-
ered at all reasonable times to inspect and examine any live
animal, carcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegeta-
bles, 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 imprison-
ment in the public jail not more than six months.

Ibid, sec 56.

130. It is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attor-
neys 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.

1890. ch. 604, sec. 57.

131. 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 examina-
tion 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.

1902, ch. 606, sec. 81 A.

132. No person shall manufacture, sell or offer for sale, or
order or permit any employe or other person to sell or offer for