ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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or drink; and shall, when deemed necessary, have the suspected

article subjected to chemical or other scientific examination in

order to establish more clearly the fact and degree of adulteration.

SEC. 54. That whenever the said board of health, or its proper

officer, shall be satisfied that any article of food, condiment or

drink has been adulterated, or is otherwise unsound or unwhole-

some the said board, or its proper officer, shall forbid the sale or

disposal of such article for human food and order it to be de-

stroyed or disposed of as to prevent it from being exposed for sale

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or used for the food of man; and the person or persons to whom

the same belongs, or did belong at the time of exposure for sale,

or in whose possession, or on whose premises the same was found,

refusing or neglecting to destroy or otherwise dispose of such

unsound or unwholesome article as directed, shall be liable to the

penalty imposed under the provisions of the fifty-second section

of this act.

SEC. 55. That the said State board of health, or its proper

officer, or any inspector or inspectors appointed by said board,

are empowered at all reasonable times to inspect and examine

any live animal, carcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruits,

vegetables, bread, milk, wine, spirits, malt or other liquors or

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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, rest-

ing with the party charged; and if such animal, carcass, meat,
poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruits, vegetable, 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

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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 pay-

ment thereof, by imprisonment in the public jail not more than

six months.

SEC. 56. That 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 act in all the courts

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of their respective counties or the city of Baltimore as the case

may be.

SEC. 57. That the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars or so

much thereof as may be necessary, be annually appropriated for

defraying the expenses of chemical and scientific examination of

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suspected article of food or drink; for salary of inspectors and

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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.