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terated lard or compound, as hereinbefore defined, which is not branded or labeled as hereinbefore required or directed, upon the part of any manufacturer, trader or dealer, or any person engaged in the sale of such articles, shall for the purpose of this act be deemed prima facie evidence of intent to sell or exchange the same.

SEC. 12. No person, firm or corporation in this State shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, as fruit preserves, fruit jelly or fruit butter, any jelly, preserves or imitation. fruit butter or other similar fruit compound made or composed in whole or in part of glucose, dextrine, starch or other deleterious substance, and colored in imitation of fruit jelly, preserves or fruit butter. Such compounds may be manufactured and sold or offered for sale, provided the coloring used shall not be injurious to health, nor shall any such jelly, fruit butter or compound be manufactured or sold, or offered for sale, under any name or designation whatever unless the same shall be composed entirely of ingredients not injurious to health, and shall not be colored in imitation of fruit jelly, provided the coloring shall not be injurious to health, and every can, pail or package of jelly, preserves or butter sold in this State shall be distinctly and durably labeled "imitation fruit jelly," or "imitation fruit preserves" or "imitation fruit butter," with the name of the manufacturer or dealer and the place where made. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and when convicted thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ninety days nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 13. No packer or dealer in preserved or canned fruits and vegetables or other articles of food shall sell or offer for sale or exchange such canned articles, unless such articles shall be entirely free from substances or ingredients deleterious to health, and unless such articles bear a mark, stamp, brand or label bearing the name and address of the firm, person or corporation that packs the same or the dealer who sells the same. All "soaked or bleached goods," or goods put up from products dried before canning, shall be plainly marked, branded, stamped or labeled as such, with the words "soaked or bleached goods," in letters not less than twenty-four points in size, showing the name of the article and the name and address of the packer or dealer.

SEC. 14. No person shall manufacture or sell, or offer for sale or exchange any colored, manufactured or artificial coffee berry in imitation of the genuine berry. No person shall manufacture, sell or offer or expose for sale or exchange any ground or prepared coffee which is adulterated with chicory or other substance unless such package thereof shall be distinctly labeled or marked upon the principal label with words designating the substance of such compound, mixture or blend. and the percentage thereof in such mixture or blend, together with the name and address of the manufacturer or compounder or dealer.

SEC. 15. No person shall offer or expose for sale, have in his possession with intent to sell or exchange any adulterated or mixed molasses, sorghum syrup, maple syrup or glucose, unless the barrel, cask, keg, can, pail or other vessel containing same be distinctly branded or

labeled upon the principal label with the compound of, naming the substance of such compound or mixture and its percentage. Such barrel, cask, keg, can, pail or other vessel shall be branded or labeled in a conspicuous place; and such brands or labels shall be in letters of not less than eight point brevier.

SEC. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, offer or expose for sale, or exchange any article of food to which has been added formaldehyde, borax, boracic acid, benzoic acid or sulphurous acid, salicilic acid, abrastol, beta-naphthol, fluorine compounds, saccharin, alcohol; provided, that saccharin may be used as a sweetener only in carbonated drinks.

SEC. 17. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, offer or expose for sale or exchange cider not produced wholly from juice of the fruit, except that benzoate soda to the usual and necessary amount which is necessary to preserve the same, and the percentage shall be plainly stated on the keg or other container. It shall further be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell, offer or expose for sale, any beverage containing cocaine.

SEC. 18. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, offer or expose for sale or exchange as extracts, flavoring which are not made. from the natural fruit, unless same are labeled "imitation." Provided, that the word "imitation" must immediately precede the name of the flavoring and in type the same size and style. Such flavorings shall be free from coloring matter delcterious to health.

SEC. 19. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer or expose for sale or exchange any honey which has not been wholly made by bees from the natural secretions of flowers and plants, unless the same is labeled "imitation," and contains nothing that is injurious to health.

SEC. 20. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, offer or expose for sale any extract of lemon, essence of lemon or spirits of lemon, containing less than 5 per cent of pure oil of lemon dissolved in ethyl alcohol, or to which has been added any artificial coloring matter other than that derived from lemon peel. Any preparation containing less than 5 per cent of lemon oil dissolved in ethyl alcohol may be sold if labeled "imitation lemon extract." Provided, that the word "imitation" is in no smaller type than the name of the article, and said preparation shall contain no added coloring matter that is injurious to health.

SEC. 21. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, offer or expose for sale or exchange, extract of vanilla, essence of vanilla or spirits of vanilla, not wholly made from the extractive matter of vanilla beans.

SEC. 22. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, offer or expose for sale or exchange to the residents of this State any spices and condiments, either ground or unground, which are adulterated with any foreign substance or substances within the meaning of this article, which are injurious to health, and provided that where foreign substances are used, the package containing said article when offered for sale shall contain to word "compound." The term "spices and condiments," as used herein shall embrace all substances known and recognized in commerce as spices and used as condiments, whether

the same be in their natural state or in the form which would result from grinding, milling or mixing, or the compounding of the natural product.

SEC. 23. Every dealer or peddler in slaughtered fresh meats, fish, fowl or game for human food, at wholesale or retail, in the transportation of such food from place to place to customers shall protect the same from dust, flies and other vermin or substances which may injuriously affect it, by securely covering it while being so transported. Every violation of the foregoing provisions shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $10 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days.

SEC. 24. Whoever manufactures for sale within this State, or offers or exposes for sale or exchange, or sells, any baking powder or compound intended for use as a baking powder under any name or title whatsoever shall securely affix or cause to be securely affixed to the outside of every box, can or package containing such baking powder or like mixture or compound, a label distinctly printed in plain capital letters in the English language, containing the name and residence of the manufacturer or dealer, and the ingredients of the baking powder, mixture or compound. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each and every offense.

SEC. 25. The taking of orders or the making of agreements or contracts by any person, firm or corporation or by an agent or representative thereof, for the future delivery of any of the articles, products, goods, wares or merchandise embraced within the provisions of this act, shall be deemed a sale within the meaning of this act.

SEC. 26. Whoever shall falsely brand, mark, stencil or label any article or product required by this act to be branded, marked, stenciled or labeled, or shall remove, alter, deface, mutilate, obliterate, imitate or counterfeit any brand, mark, stencil or label so required, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than six months nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each and every offense.

SEC. 27. That it shall be unlawful for any corporation, firm or person, either in person or by an agent, to sell or expose for sale, within the State of Texas, any oysters, clams or other sea food product to which. salicilic acid, formaldehyde or any drug or other preservative has been added or in preserving which any poisonous or deleterious substance has been used, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 28. Whoever shall do any of the acts or things prohibited, or wilfully neglect or refuse to do any of the acts or the things enjoined by this act, or in any way violate any of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and where no specific penalty is prescribed by this act, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $500, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 29. Within this State no person shall manufacture or offer or expose for sale, keep in possession with intent to sell, sell or exchange any flour containing any product of corn, rice or other foreign substance, unless each and every package thereof be distinctly and legibly branded or labeled "flour compound," in letters not less than one-half inch in length and be followed with the name of the maker and mill, and the location of such flouring mill.

SEC. 30. The having in possession of any "flour compound," or "meal compound," which is not branded or labeled as hereinbefore required and directed upon the part of any person engaged in the public or private sale of such article, shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed prima facie evidence of intent to sell the same.

SEC. 31. The taking of orders or the making of agreements or contracts by any person, firm or corporation, or by an agent or representative thereof for the future delivery of any flour compound or meal compound shall be deemed a sale within the meaning of this act.

SEC. 32. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, or offer for sale or exchange any vinegar that does not contain at least 4 1-2 per cent, by weight, of absolute acetic acid, or which contains any preparation of copper, lead, sulphuric acid or other injurious ingredients, or any artificial coloring matter; and in the case of apple or cider vinegar it shall contain not less than 2 per cent, by weight, of cider vinegar solids, and be the legitimate product of apple juice. Provided, that vinegar may be colored with harmless sugar color.

SEC. 33. All vinegar made by fermentation and oxidation without the intervention of distillation shall be branded "fermented vinegar," with the name of the fruit or substance from which it is made. And all vinegar made wholly or in part from distilled liquor shall be branded "distilled vinegar," and all such distilled vinegar shall be free from coloring matter added during or after distillation and from color other than pure sugar coloring or that imparted to it by distillation. And all fermented vinegar not distilled shall contain not less than three-fourths per cent, by weight, upon full evaporation (at the temperature of boiling water) of solids contained in the fruit or grain from which said vinegar is fermented, and said vinegar shall contain not less than two and a half tenths of one per cent ash or mineral matter, the same being the product of the material from which said vinegar is manufactured. And all vinegar shall be made wholly from the fruit or grain from which it purports to be or is represented to be made, and shall contain no foreign substance, and shall contain not less than 4 per cent, by weight, of absolute acetic acid.

SEC. 34. No person shall manufacture for sale, offer for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell or exchange any vinegar found upon proper test to contain any preparation of lead, copper, sulphuric or other mineral acid, or other ingredients injurious to health. And all packages containing vinegar shall be marked, stenciled or branded on the head of the cask, barrel, keg or upon the receptacle containing such vinegar with the name and residence of manufacturer or dealer, together with brand required in Section 33 hereof.

SEC. 35. That it shall be unlawful for any person, either by himself or agent, to sell or expose for sale or exchange within the State of Texas

any unwholesome, watered, adulterated or impure milk, or swill milk or colustrum, or milk from ccws kept upon garbage, swill or any other substance in a state of fermentation or putrefaction or other deleterious substances, or from cows kept in connection with any family in which there are infectious diseases. The addition of water or ice to milk is hereby declared an adulteration.

SEC. 36. Each and every quantity of milk sold or exposed for sale or exchange contrary to the. provisions of this act shall constitute a separate offerse. Any person who shall refuse to permit the said Dairy and Food Commissioner, or his assistant (or assistants), to perform his duty under this act, either by refusing him entrance to his premises, or by concealing any milk, or refusing to permit any animal or milk on premises wherein the animals are kept, to be viewed and inspected as herein provided, or by in any manner hindering or resisting any said inspector or assistant inspector in the performance of his duty, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished therefor.

SEC. 37. Whoever shall adulterate by himself, or by his servant or agent, or sell, exchange or deliver, or have in his custody or possession with intent to sell or exchange the same, or expose or offer for sale, adulterated milk or milk to which water or any foreign substance or substances in any state of fermentation of putrefaction, or from sick or diseased cows, shall be guilty of a misdemeaner, and shall, for every offense, be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months.

SEC. 38. Whoever shall adulterate, himself or by his agent or servant, sell, exchange or deliver, or have in his custody or possession with intent to sell or exchange the same, or expose or offer for sale or deliver as pure milk, any skimmed milk from which the cream or any part thereof has been removed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, for such offense, be punished by the penalty provided in the preceeding section.

SEC. 39. Any dealer in milk who shall by himself, servant or agent, sell, exchange, or deliver, or have in his custody or possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver the same, milk from which the fat has been removed so as to reduce same below the requirements of Section 40 of this act, unless in a conspicuous above the center upon the outside of every vessel, can or package from which any such milk is sold, the words "skimmed milk," are distinctly painted in letters not less than one inch in length, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months.

SEC. 40. If milk sold or offered for sale under the provisions of this act as pure milk is shown upon analysis by weight to contain more. than eighty-seven and five one-hundredths per centum of watery fluid, or to contain less than twelve and fifty one-hundredths of milk solids per centum, or less fat than three per centum, or if the gravity of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, is not between 1 29-1000 to 133-1000, it shall be deemed to be adulterated. If milk sold or offered for sale under the provisions of this act as skimmed milk has a gravity of 60 degrees. Farrenheit, less than 1.032, and greater than 1.037, it shall be deemed to be adulterated.

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