MARYLAND.

FRUITS, ETC.

SEC. 1. Fruits and vegetables to be marked. All shippers and sellers of all fruits and vegetables in Wicomico county shall be compelled to stamp or mark all baskets, barrels, boxes, packages, crates, parcels or other receptacles used by them for the shipment or sale of any fruit, fruits or vegetables with his, her or their name or names, initials, or with some distinguishing device or mark which may be readily and easily read and seen on the same before such fruit, fruits or vegetables shall be offered for shipment or sale; and if any shipper or seller of any fruit, fruits or vegetables, shall neglect or fail to comply with the provisions of this section, he or she, or they, shall pay a fine of five dollars; said fine to be applied to the public school fund for Wicomico county, but nothing in this Act shall apply to hucksters selling in quantities less than full packages, or to anything delivered to canneries. SEC. 2. Effect. This Act shall take effect from May 1, 1908. Approved April 6, 1908. Laws of 1908, art. 23, ch. 712, p. 1125.

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MASSACHUSETTS.

GENERAL FOOD LAWS.@

SEC. 70. General inspection authority. Boards of health of cities and towns, by themselves, their officers or agents, may inspect the carcasses of all slaughtered animals and all meat, fish, vegetables, produce, fruit or provisions of any kind found in their cities or towns, and for such purpose may enter any building, enclosure or other place in which such carcasses or articles are stored, kept or exposed for sale. If, on such inspection, it is found that such carcasses or articles are tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed, unwholesome or, from any cause, unfit for food, the board of health shall seize the same and cause it or them to be destroyed forthwith or disposed of otherwise than for food. All money received by the board of health for property disposed of as aforesaid shall, after deducting the expenses of said seizure, be paid to the owner of such property. If the board of health seizes or condemns any such carcass or meat for the reason that it is infected with a contagious disease, it shall immediately give notice to the board of cattle commissioners of the name of the owner or person in whose possession it was found, the nature of the disease and the disposition made of said meat or carcass.-As amended April 17, 1908, Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 411, p. 276. See Bul. 69, Rev., pt. 3, p. 266.

SEC. 72. Penalty for hindering inspectors. Whoever prevents, obstructs or interferes with the board of health, its officers or agents, in the performance of its duties as provided herein, or hinders, obstructs or interferes with any inspection or examination by it or them, or whoever secretes or removes any carcass, meat, fish, vegetables, fruit or provisions of any kind, for the purpose of preventing the same from being inspected or examined under the provisions of sections seventy to seventy-six, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.-As amended April 17, 1908; Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 411, p. 276. See Bul. 69, Rev., pt. 3, p. 266. Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, ch. 56, p. 555.

SEC. 1. Repeal. Sections twenty-five and twenty-six of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws (Bul. 69, Rev., pt. 3, p. 248), relating to the sale of adulterated food and drugs, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. Effect. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 18, 1908. Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 238, p. 153.

BREAD.

SEC. 6. Penalty. Whoever violates any provision of the preceding three sections shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars for each offence. The sealer of weights and measures in the respective cities and towns, or the commissioner of weights and measures of the commonwealth, shall cause the provisions of the said three sections to be enforced.-As amended March 10, 1908; Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 197, p. 114. See Bul. 69, Rev., pt. 3, p. 252. Revised Laws 1902, vol. 1, ch. 57, pp. 557-8.

a See also Meat, page 39.

MEAT.a

SEC. 1. Prohibition; penalty. The sale, offer or exposure for sale, or delivery for use as food, of the carcass, or any part or product thereof, of any animal which has come to its death in any manner or by any means otherwise than by slaughter or killing while in a healthy condition, or which at the time of its death is unfit by reason of disease, exhaustion, abuse, neglect or otherwise for use as food, or of any calf weighing less than forty pounds when dressed, with head, feet, hide and entrails removed, is hereby declared to be unlawful and prohibited. Whoever sells or offers or exposes for sale or delivers or causes or authorizes to be sold, offered or exposed for sale or delivered for use as food any such carcass or any part or product thereof, shall be punished by fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months.

SEC. 2. Inspectors of state and municipal boards of health; seizure and destruction of unlawful products. The state board of health and its inspectors, and the state inspectors of health and all boards of health of cities and towns and their inspectors, officers, agents and assistants in their respective districts, shall have and exercise the same powers and duties in and for the enforcement of this act as are at any time conferred or imposed by law upon any board of health, inspector, officer, agent or assistant in respect of any other article or substance the sale or use of which for food is unlawful or prohibited; and it shall be their duty to seize any such carcass or part or product thereof as described in section one hereof, and cause the same to be destroyed forthwith or disposed of otherwise than for food; and all moneys received by any board of health for any property so disposed of shall, after deducting the expenses of such seizure and disposal, be paid to the owner of such property if known. SEC. 3. Places to be inspected. Such inspectors, officers, agents and assistants shall visit and keep under observation all places within their respective districts at which neat cattle, sheep, swine or other animals intended for slaughter or for sale or use as food are delivered from transportation, and shall have at all times free access to all such places and to all railroad trains or cars or other vehicles in which such animals may be transported, for the purpose of preventing violations of this act and of detecting and punishing the same.

SEC. 4. Powers of inspection. The state inspectors of health in their respective districts, and the inspectors appointed by the state board of health for duties relative to the sale of food and drugs, shall have the same rights, powers and authority for and in respect of the inspection, seizure and disposition of all carcasses, meats and provisions which are tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed, unwholesome, or from any cause unfit for food, or the sale of which for food is unlawful, as are conferred by sections seventy and seventy-one of chapter fifty-six and by section one hundred and two of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws, or by other laws, upon boards of health of cities and towns or their inspectors in respect of the articles therein specified; with power to prosecute all offences relating thereto.

SEC. 5. Inspection of slaughter houses. In addition to the supervision now provided for by law, all slaughter houses shall be under the supervision of the state board of health and subject to inspection by the state inspectors of health in their respective districts.

SEC. 6. Amendment. Section one hundred and five of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws, as amended by section two of chapter three hundred and twelve of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and two, and by section two of

a See also General Food Law, page 38.

chapter two hundred and twenty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and three, is hereby further amended by striking out all after the word “old,” in the seventh line, so as to read as follows: Sec. 105. Exemption. The provisions of the six preceding sections shall not apply to a person not engaged in such business, who, upon his own premises and not in a slaughter house, slaughters his own neat cattle, sheep or swine, but the carcass of any such animals shall be inspected by an inspector at the time of slaughter, unless said animal is less than six months old.

SEC. 7. Authority of other officers unimpaired. Nothing in this act shall affect or impair the rights, powers or authority of any board or officer not herein mentioned.

Approved March 31, 1908. Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 329, pp. 218-20.

SEC. 71. Inspection of veal. The board of health, by themselves, their officers or agents, may inspect all veal found, offered or exposed for sale or kept with the intent to sell in its city or town, and if, in its opinion, said veal is that of a calf less than four weeks old when killed, the board shall seize and destroy or dispose of it as provided in the preceding section, subject, however, to the provisions thereof relative to the disposal of money.-As amended April 17, 1908; Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 411, p. 276. See Bul. 69, Rev., pt. 3, p. 266. Revised Laws, 1902, vol. 1, ch. 56, p. 555.

MILK.

SEC. 3. Unclean vessels without name of owner; penalty. Every licensed milk dealer who sells, or has in his possession with intent to sell, milk not contained in clean vessels bearing his own name, or the name under which his business is conducted, and bearing no other name, shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars for each offence; but the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons using clean vessels bearing the name of another person whose written permission for such use shall have been obtained previously and registered in the office of the milk inspector, in municipalities having such officer, and in other municipalities registered in the office of the city or town clerk.-As amended April 22, 1908; Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 435, p. 292. See Bul. 104, p. 33.

Approved March 1, 1906. Acts and Resolves 1906, ch. 116, p. 62.

SEC. 2. Repeal. Section four (Bul. 104, p. 33) of said chapter one hundred and sixteen is hereby repealed.

Approved April 22, 1908. Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 435, p. 292.

SEC. 12. Expenditures; report. The bureau may expend not more than eight thousand dollars annually in its work, and it may co-operate with the state board of health and with inspectors of milk, but it shall not interfere with the duties of such board or officers. It shall annually, before the fifteenth day of January, report to the general court in detail the number of agents, assistants, experts and chemists employed by it, with their expenses and disbursements, of all investigations made by it, of all cases prosecuted with the results thereof, and other information advantageous to the dairy industry.—As amended April 17, 1908; Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 416, p. 278. See Bul. 69, Rev., pt. 3, p. 253.

Revised Laws 1902, vol. 1, ch. 89, pp. 778-9.

SEC. 56. Standard for milk.

In prosecutions under the provisions of sections fifty-one to sixty-four, inclusive, milk which, upon analysis, is shown to contain less than twelve and fifteen hundredths per cent of milk solids or less than three and thirty-five hundredths per cent of fat, shall not be considered of good standard quality.-As amended June 13, 1908; Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 643, p. 566. See Bul. 69, Rev., pt. 3, p. 258.

Revised Laws 1902, vol. 1, ch. 56, pp. 547-54.

SEC. 1. Heated milk; fine if not labeled. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any person, firm or corporation, sells, exchanges or delivers or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver any milk which has been subjected to artificial heat greater than one hundred and sixty-seven degrees Fahrenheit, not having the words "heated milk" distinctly marked upon a light ground in plain black uncondensed gothic letters at least one inch in length in a conspicuous place upon every vessel, can or package from or in which such milk is, or is intended to be, sold, exchanged or delivered shall for a first offence be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, for a second offence by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offence by a fine of fifty dollars and by imprisonment for not less than sixty nor more than ninety days. If such vessel, can or package is of the capacity of not more than two quarts, said words may be placed upon a detachable label or tag attached thereto and said letters may be less than one inch in length, but not smaller than brevier gothic capital letters.

SEC. 2. Exemptions. Nothing in this act shall be construed as applying to condensed milk or to milk which has been concentrated to one-half its volume or less.

Approved June 1, 1908. Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1908, ch. 570, p. 404.

WATER.

SEC. 1. Defiling water supply. Any police officer or constable of a city or town in which any pond, stream or reservoir used for the purpose of domestic water supply is wholly or partly situated, acting within the limits of his city or town, and any executive officer of a water board, board of water commissioners, public institution or water company, furnishing water for domestic purposes, or agent of such water board, board of water commissioners, public institution or water company, duly authorized in writing therefor by such boards, institution or company, acting upon the premises of such board, institution or company and not more than five rods from the water, for such supply may, without a warrant, arrest any person found in the act of bathing in a pond, stream or reservoir, the water of which is used for the purpose aforesaid, and detain him in some convenient place until a complaint can be made against him therefor.

SEC. 2. Effect. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved May 26, 1908. Acts and Resolves of 1908, ch. 539, pp. 377-78.