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-Attempt to produce is a felony, 60-208.

4. Ecbolic, or Abortifacient Drugs. If any druggist, dealer in medicine, or other person, sells to any person any drug or medicine, known or presumed to be ecbolic or abortifacient, except upon the written prescription of some well known an respectable practicing physician, or keeps on hand, or advertises or exposes for sale, or sells any pills, powders, drugs or combination of drugs designed especially for the use of females, without keeping the certificate as required in the next succeeding section, he shall for each offense be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500, or be confined in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both: Provided, This section shall not be construed to apply to compounds known as "Officinal."

--Giving drugs to produce, 37-459.

5. Certificate Required. Before any pills, powders, drugs or combination of drugs designed expressly for the use of females, shall be kept or exposed for sale or sold, the proprietor thereof shall submit under oath a true statement of the formula by which the same is compounded, to five well known and respectable practicing physicians, in the county where the same is proposed to be sold, and shall procure their certificate, signed and verified by the affidavit of each of them, that such combination is, not abortifacient; and every person keeping on hand, or in any manner advertising or exposing for sale or selling such combination, shall keep such certificate, or a sworn copy thereof, with the formula attached, for the inspection of any person desiring to see the same.

6. Advertising Abortifacient Drugs. Whoever advertises, prints, publishes, distributes or circulates, or causes to be advertised, printed, published, distributed or circulated any pamphlet, printed paper, book, newspaper, notice, advertisement or reference, containing words or language giving or conveying any notice, hint or reference to any person, or to the name of any person, real or fictitious, from whom, or to any place, house, shop or office where any poison, drug, mixture, preparation, medicine, or noxious thing, or any instrument or means whatever, or any advice, information, direction or knowledge may be obtained for the purpose of causing or procuring the miscarriage of any woman pregnant with child. shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of not less than one year nor more than three years, or fine not exceeding $1,000.

ADULTERATION.

7. Of foods, candies, etc.
8. Of liquor.
9. Of milk.

Diseased cows.
Milk cans. Skimmed
milk. Fines. Of milks
defined. Coloring foods.
Of drugs. Compounds-
labeling. Of butter.
Penalty. Ignorance as

defense. Enforcing act. Of vinegar. Of vinegar with copper.

Veal.

Of grain.

10. Of food, medicine or
drugs.
Cotton-duck.

7. Of Food, Candies, etc. Whoever fraudulently adulterates, for the purpose of sale, bread or any other substance intended for food, or any candy or confection, with any substance which is poisonous or injurious to health, and whoever sells or offers or keeps for sale any adulterated bread or other substance intended for food, or candy or confection, knowing the same to be so adulterated, or shall sell or offer to sell or keep for sale any flesh of any diseased animal or other corrupt or unwholesome provision, shall be confined in the county jail not exceeding one year, or be fined not exceeding $1,000, or both, in the discretion of the court. [R. S. 1845, p. 175, § 135; L. 1869, p. 113, § 8.

8. Of Liquor. Whoever adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any liquor used or intended for drink, with cocculusindicus, vitriol, grains of paradise, opium, alum, capsicum, copperas, laurel water, logwood, Brazil wood, cochineal, sugar of lead, or any other substance which is poisonous or injurious to health; and whoever sells or offers or keeps for sale any such liquor so adulterated, shall be confined in the county jail not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding $1,000, or both. [R. S. 1845, p. 175, § 135.

"An Act to Regulate the Sale of Milk and to Provide Penalties for the Adulteration Thereof." (1879.) (Hurd Ch. 38, $9.)

What not violation, 272-447 (458).

9. Of Milk or Food. 1. That whoever shall, for the purpose of sale for human food, adulterate milk with water or any foreign substance, or whoever shall knowingly sell for human food, milk from which cream has been taken, without the purchaser thereof being informed or knowing the fact, or whoever shall knowingly sell for human food, milk from which what is commonly called "strippings" has been withheld, without the purchaser thereof being informed or know

ing the fact, or whoever shall knowingly sell for human food milk drawn from a diseased cow, knowing her to be so diseased as to render her milk unwholesome, or whoever shall knowingly sell for human food, milk so tainted or corrupted as to be unwholesome, or whoever shall knowingly supply, or bring to be manufactured into any substance for human food, to any cheese or butter factory or creamery, without all interested therein knowing or being informed of the fact, milk which is adulterated with water or any foreign substance, or milk from which cream has been taken, or milk from which what is commonly called "strippings" has been withheld, or milk drawn from a diseased cow, knowing her to be so diseased as to injure her milk, or milk so tainted or corrupted as to be unwholesome, or whoever shall knowingly, with intent to defraud, take from milk after it has been delivered to a cheese factory, or butter factory, or creamery, to be manufactured into any substance for human food, for or on account of the person supplying the milk or cream, or shall, with like intent, knowingly add any foreign substance to the milk or cream, whereby it, or the products thereof shall become unwholesome for human food, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every such misdemeanor shall be fined not less than twenty-five (25) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), or confined in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

2. Unhealthy Cows. Any person who shall adulterate milk, with a view of offering the same for sale or exchange, or shall keep cows for the production of milk for market, or for sale or exchange, in an unhealthy condition, or knowingly feed the same on food that produces impure, diseased, or unwholesome milk, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), for each and every offense.

3. Milk Cans. Any person or persons, who shall in any of the cities of this State, engage in or carry on a retail business in the sale, exchange of, or any retail traffic in milk, shall have each and every can in which the milk is carried or exposed for sale or exchange, and the carriage or vehicle from which the same is vended, conspicuously marked with his, her, or their name or names, also indicating by said mark the locality from which said milk is obtained or produced, and for every neglect of such marking, the person or persons so neglecting, shall be subject to the penalties expressed in section two of this act, but for every violation of this act,

by so marking said cans, carriage or vehicle, as to convey the idea that said milk is produced or procured from a different locality than it really is, the person or persons so offending, shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars ($100).

4. Skimmed Milk. Any person who shall, in any of the cities in this State, offer for sale any milk from which the cream or any part thereof shall have been taken, shall offer for sale and sell the same as skimmed milk, and not otherwise, and shall have each can or vessel in which such milk is carried, or exposed for sale, plainly and conspicuously marked with the words, "Skimmed Milk." Any person violating this section shall be subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50) for each and every violation.

5. Fines. Upon the rendition of judgment imposing a fine as provided in the foregoing sections, it shall be the duty of the justice of the peace or other court rendering said judgment, also to render a judgment for the costs, and forthwith to issue a capias or warrant of commitment against the body of the defendant, commanding that, unless the said fine and costs be forthwith paid, the defendant shall be committed to the jail of the county, and the constable or other officer to whose hands said capias or warrant shall come, shall in default of such payment, arrest the defendant and commit him to the jail of the county, there to remain, as provided by section 308 of "An act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence." In force July 1, 1874; unless such fine and costs shall sooner be paid.

6. Adulterating Defined. The addition of water or any foreign substance to milk or cream intended for sale or exchange, is hereby declared an adulteration. Any milk that is obtained from cows fed on distillery waste, usually called "swill," or upon any substance in a state of putrefaction, is hereby declared to be impure, and unwholesome. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the addition of sugar in the manufacture of condensed or preserved milk.

"An act to prevent and punish the adulteration of articles of food, drink and medicine, etc." (1881.) (Hurd Ch. 38.)

1. Injurious Mixtures. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, Represented in the General Assembly, That no person shall mix, color, stain or powder, or order or permit any other person in his or her employ, to mix, color, stain or powder any article of food with any ingredient or material, so as to render the article injurious to health, or depreciate the value thereof, with intent that the same may be sold;

and no person shall sell or offer for sale any such article so mixed, colored, stained or powdered.

-Forbidding use of coloring matter is reasonable, 242-373. 2. No person shall, except for the purpose of compounding in the necessary preparation of medicine, mix, color, stain or powder, or order or permit any other person to mix, color, stain or powder any drug or medicine with any ingredient or material, so as to affect injuriously the quality or potency of such drug or medicine, with intent to sell the same, or shall sell or offer for sale any such drug or medicine so mixed, colored, stained or powdered.

3. No person shall mix, color, stain or powder any article of food, drink or medicine, or any article which enters into the composition of food, drink or medicine, with any other ingredient or material, whether injurious to health or not, for the purpose of gain or profit, or sell, or offer the same for sale, or order or permit any other person to sell or offer for sale any article so mixed, colored, stained or powdered, unless the same be so manufactured, used or sold or offered for sale under its true and appropriate name, and 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, drink or medicine, at the time of making sale thereof or offering to sell the same.

4. No person shall mix oleomargarine, suine, butterine, beef-fat, lard, or any other foreign substance with any butter or cheese intended for human food, without distinctly marking, stamping or labeling the article, or the package containing the same, with the true and appropriate name of such article, and the percentage in which such oleomargarine or suine, enters into its composition; nor shall any person sell or offer for sale, or order, or permit to be sold, or offered for sale, any such article of food into the composition of which oleomargarine, or suine has entered, without at the same time informing the buyer of the fact and the proportions in which such oleomargarine, suine, or butterine, beef-fat, lard, or any other foreign substance has entered into its composition: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the use of harmless coloring matter in butter and cheese or other articles of food.

5. Any person convicted of violating any provision of any

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