A manual of statutes of Connecticut relating to the public health / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Connecticut.
Date:
1893
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Credit: A manual of statutes of Connecticut relating to the public health / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CHAPTER CLVII. Adulteration of iMolasses. Sec. 2620. It shall be the duty of the Dairy Commissioner to iss7. ch.ss, 51. attend to the enforcement of the law against the adulteration of commissioner 0 concerning molasses and the sale of adulterated molasses, and, for the purpose j^,tserated m°- of examining into suspected violations of such law he shall, at all reasonable hours, have free access to all piaces and premises where shaii have free he suspects that molasses is adulterated or adulterated molasses is is<.-s. sold, and, on tender of the market price of good molasses for the same, he may take from any person, firm, or corporation, samples May take sam- of molasses which he suspects is adulterated; and he may have p eB' samples of molasses, suspected to be adulterated, analyzed by any May have them State chemist or by the Experiment Station, and a sworn or' affirmed certificate of such analyst shall be prima facie evidence of the ingredients and constituents of the sample analyzed; and if such analysis shall show that the molasses is adulterated he shall make complaint to the proper prosecuting officer that the shall make com- 1 n , t . -, -, , n plaint, when. person or persons who adulterated said molasses, or sold or exposed for sale such adulterated molasses, may be prosecuted. Sue. 2621. Any person refusing the Dairy Commissioner 1887.cii.ss,52. access in a reasonable manner and at a reasonable time for said fus'insac?esBeor - . ,. ,, , . . . sample for ex- purpose of examination, or refusing to sell samples as herein be- animation. fore provided, shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Sec. 2622. Any person who shall adulterate any molasses, or i889.cn. ccxxxvlii. who shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, or who shall solicit or receive any order for the sale or delivery within this state, or for delivery without this state for shipment into this state of any molasses adultered with salts of tin, terra alba, glucose, dextrose, starch sugar, corn syrup, or other preparation of or from starch, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year or both. The delivery of any of the above mentioned preparations, upon any order solicited or re- ceived within this state, shall be conclusive evidence that the order, upon which such delivery was made, was for such articles and shall render the person soliciting or receiving such order liable to the penalty above prescribed.