The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-09

10oTe HAS Ueeu SO uluCu ulSCuSSloA
about the national pure food law that
The Forum gives publicity to the mea-
sure as follows:
An act for preventing the manufac-
ture, sale, or transportation of adulter-
ated or misbranded or poisonous or de-
leterious foods, drugs, medicines and
liquors, and for regulating traffic
therein, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled. That it shall be unlawful for
any person to manufacture within any
territory or the District of Columbia
any article of food or drug which Is
adulterated or misbranded, within the
meaning of this act; and any person
who shall violate any of the provisions
of this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and for each offense
shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined
not to exceed $500 or shall be senten-
ced to one years Imprisonment, or both
such fine and Imprisonment, in the
discretion of the court, and for each
subsequent offense and conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than
$1,000 or sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment, or both such fine and i'm
prisonment. in the discretion of the
court.
Sec. 2. That the introduction into
any state or territory or the District of
Columbia from any other state or ter
ritory or the District of Columbia, or
from any foreign country, or ship
ment to any foreign country of any ar
ticle of food or drugs which is adulter-
ated or misbranded, within the mean
ing of this act, is hereby prohibited;
and any person who shall ship or de-
liver for shipment from any state or
territory or the District Of Columbia,
or to a foreign country, or who shall
receive in any state or territory or the
District of Columbia from any other
state or territory or the District of
Columbia, or foreign country, and hav-
ing so received, shall deliver in orig
inal unbroken packages, for any or
otherwise, or offer to deliver to any
person, any such article SO adulterat-
ed or misbranded within the meaning
of this act, or any person who shall
sell or offer for sale in the District
of Columbia or the territories of the
United States any such adulterated or
misbranded foods or drugs, or export
or offer to export the same to any
foreign country, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and for such offense
be fined not exceeding 5000 for the first
Offense, and upon conviction for each
subsequent offense not exceeding $500
or be imprisoned not exceeding one
year, or both, in the discretion of the
court; Provided, That no article shall
be deemed misbranded or adulterated
within the provisions of this act when
intended for export to any foreign
country and prepared or packed ac-
cording to the specifications or direc-
tons of the foreign purchaser when no
substance is used in the preparation
or packing thereof in conflict with
the laws of the foreign country to
which said article is intended to be
shipped; but if said article shall be
in fact sold or offered for sale for
domestic use or consumption, then this
proviso shall not exempt said article
from the operation of any of the other
provisions of this act.
Sec. 8. That the secretary of the
treasury, the secretary of agriculture,
and the secretary of commerce and la
Dor shall make uniform rules and regu-
lations for carrying out the provisions
of this act, including the collection
and examination of specimens of foods
and drugs manufactured or offered for
sale to the District of Columbia, or in
any territory of the United States, or
which shall be offered for sale in un-
broken packages in any state other
than that in which they shall have
been respectively manufactured or
produced, or which shall be received
from any foeign country, or intended
for shipment to any foreign country,
or which may be submitted for examin-
alton by the chief health, food, or
drug officer of any state, territory or
the District of Columbia, or at any
domestic or foreign port through
which such product is offered for in
w. L. A. CALDER