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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    absolute acetic acid, and in case of cider vinegar, not less than two per centum by weight of cider vinegar solids upon full evap- oration over boiling water ; or fourth, any vinegar made in this state and purchased by the person last mentioned of the maker in a barrel, cask, keg, or other package not branded, stenciled, or painted as required by a previous section of this act. Any per- son violating this section of this act shall be fined ten dollars for a first offense, and for a second or later offense fifty dollars. The delivery of any of the above mentioned articles upon any order solicited or received 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 receiv- ing such order liable to the penalty above prescribed. Sec. 2. Section four of said act is hereby amended to read as follows : It shall be the duty of the dairy commissioner to attend to the Duty ana ^ ^ powers of dairy enforcement of this act; and, for the purpose of examining into commissioner. suspected violations thereof, he shall at all reasonable hours have free access to all places and premises where he suspects that any provision of this act is violated, and on tender of the market price of good vinegar therefor, he may take from any person, firm, or corporation, samples of vinegar which he sus- pects of being made or sold in violation of this act; and he may himself analyze such samples, or have such samples analyzed by any state chemist or by the experiment station; and a sworn or affirmed certificate by such analyst shall be prima facie evi- dence of the ingredients and constituents of the sample analyzed; and if such analysis shall show that such sample does not con- form to any requirement of this act, and shall give the dairy commissioner reasonable ground for belief that any provision of this act has been violated, he shall make complaint to the proper prosecuting officer, to the end that the violator may be prosecuted. Approved, June 21, 1889. Sec. 5. Any person refusing the dairy commissioner access, Jg°t^tf°r him in a reasonable manner and at a reasonable time, for said pur- therein. pose of examination, or refusing to sell samples as herein- before provided, shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Evidence of any violation of this act shall be prima facie evidence of willful violation with knowledge. Approved, March 29, 1889.