ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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of this act, be and they are hereby repealed, and that nothing in

this act shall be construed to interfere with any prosecution that

Sections,

has or may hereafter be commenced for any violation of the sec-

&c. repeal-
ed.

tions hereby amended, happening previous to the passage of this

act.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 604.

AN ACT to add additional sections to article forty-three, of the

Code of Public General Laws, title "Health," to be numbered

"Sections forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-

three, fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six and fifty-seven," so as to

provide for the prevention of the adulteration of articles of

food and drink and the sale thereof when adulterated or un-

wholesome.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the following sections shall be added to article forty-three,

Added.

of the Code of Public General Laws, to read as follows :

SEC. 48. That no person shall mix, color, stain or otherwise

sophisticate any article of food or drink with any other ingre-

dient or material for the purpose of gain or profit, nor shall sell

or offer for sale or order or permit any employee or other person

to sell or offer for sale any article so mixed, colored, stained or

Shall not

otherwise sophisticated, unless the same be so manufactured,

adulterate

used or sold, or offered for sale under its true and appropriate

etc., food
or drink.

name, and unless a notice that the same is mixed or impure is

marked, printed or stamped upon each package, roll, parcel or

vessel containing the same, so as to be and remain at all times

readily visible, or unless the person purchasing the same is fully

informed by the seller of the true name and ingredients (if other

than such as are known by the common name thereof,) of such

article of food or drink at the time of making sale thereof or

offering to sell the same.

SEC. 49. That no person shall mix any glucose, grape sugar or

other article of adulteration with any syrup, honey or sugar in-

tended for human food, or any oleomargarine, suine, beef-fat

lard or any other foreign substance with any butter, cheese in-

tended for human food, nor mix or mingle any glucose, grape

sugar, oleomargarine or other adulterant with any article of food or

dietetics without distinctly marking, stamping or labeling the art-