Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

and chief examiner and all employees Of
the commission shall be paid necessary
expenses actually incurred In the dis
charge of their official duties
60 The salaries compensation and ex-
penses provided for in this subsection
shall be charged to the appropriation for
the civil service commission.
CONSERVATION COMMISSION.
Section 81. Section 149Sx of the stat
utes Is amended to read
Section 1498x. There is hereby created
a commission to be known as the state
conservation commission Of the state of
Wisconsin,, the same to consist of seven
members, to be appointed by the governor.
The term of office of the commissioners
shall be from July I, 1911, as follows: Two
for period of two years, two for a period
of four years. and three for period of
six years; as their terms expire all APP
pointments shall be for six years and until
their successors are appointed. The duties
OF the conservation commission shall be
to consider the natural resources of the
state OF Wisconsin with reference to their
remaining unimpaired so far as this is
practicable. The commission shall present
a first report to the governor on or before
June 80, 1913 and binennially
thereafter, such report to contain the re-
suits of Investigations with recommended
tons as to measures to be taken TO con-
serve the natural resources Of the state,
and, II such recommendations embody leg
islation, drafts Of bills to accomplish the
nOtilLC. L lie SOVCl1lOT is dQliiOIiZCO W HdN0
such reports printed by the state printer.
Section 80. There is added to section
ITO of the statutes a new subsection to be
numbered and to read: (Section 17O) AZ.
The members of the state conservation
commission shall receive no compensation
for their services but shall receive actual
and necessary expenses incurred in the
discharge Of their official duties assigned
by the governor. Such expenses shall be
ch4H0n6 tho a
conservation commission.
CRANBERRY GROWERS ASSOCIA-
TON
Section SO. Section 1479a of the stat
utes is amended to read:
Section 1479a. The Wisconsin
cranberry growers association
shall obtain and publish
information relative to the cult
walton and production of cranberries Said
society shall hold semiannual meetings in
August and January at such place as it
shall determine. The secretary thereof
shall report to the governor Immediately
after each January meeting an itemized
and verified account of all disbursements
made during the previous year and shall
then publish an account in pamphlet form,
not to exceed two hundred and fifty cop
les Of fifty pages each of the transactions
of the association and a summary of the
Informal ton collected during the previous
year relating to the cultivation and pro-
he shall cause to be distributed gratui-
tously to cranberry growers in this state.
The expenses incurred under this Sec
ton shall be charged to the appropria-
ton for the Wisconsin cranberry grow
erS association.
DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSIONER
AND Elk OFFICIO STATE SUPER
INTENDENT OF WEIGHTS AND
MEASURES.
Section "a. Subdivision Cd of subsec-
ton 16 Of section ITO, sections 1410, 1410a,
1410d subsection of section 1891 and
section 1670b of the statutes are amended
to read:
(Section 100 Is. The dairy and
food commissioner and ex officio state
superintendent of weights and measures
shall receive an annual salary of three
thousand dollars. The assistants,
chemists, agents, clerks, stenographers
and other employees in the said depart
ments shall receive such salary or COM
pensation as shall be fixed by the said
commissioner and superintendent. The
commissioner and subordinates above
mentioned shall receive actual and neces-
sary travelling expenses incurred in the
discharge of their official duties. Such
salaries, compensationS and expenses
shall be charged to the appropriation for
the dairy and food commissioner and ex
officio state superintendent Of weights
and measures.
Section 1410. The dairy and food COM
ulISSlOiiSE Shall NC dppOilltSO Wy IIlO SOF-
ernor, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the senate, for term of two years
from the date Of his appointment and
until his successor qualities. Vacancies
occurring from any cause shall be filled
for the remainder of the term by the gov
ernor with the advice and consent of the
senate if it shall be in session, or If it is
not in session, subject to approval at the
session next held after such appointment
is made, if the term for which it was
Trada NOT aXnirp6 SnCh commissions
er may, with advice and consent of the
governor, appoint assistants, who
shall be experts in dairy products
and chemists who shall be practi-
cal analytical chemists; he may also, with
such advice and consent, appoint
agents for the inspection of milk diaries.
factories, cheese factories, foods and
drugs, and creameries. and to assist in
the work of the dairy and food commits
sion at such times and for such periods
of time as may be required in the en-
forcement of the dairy and food laws or
other laws required to be enforced by the
said commissioner and ex officio superin-
tendent of weights and measures. All
such appontees shall have all the powers
that are conferred by law upon any
agent, inspector or assistant Of the dairy
and food commissioner. The COM
missioner shall be furnished with a suit
able office in the capitol, and with such
supplies and printing as may be neces-
sary. He shall as soon as practicable at
ter the thirtieth day of June in
each year make a report to the
governor and give therein an itemized
statement of all expenses incurred by him,
and Of all fines collected with such sta
tistics and other information and sugges-
tons as he may regard of value.
Section 1410a. 1t shall be the duty of
the commissioner to enforce the laws re-
garding the production, manufacture and
sale, offering or exposing for sale or hav-
ing in possession with intent to sell, of
any dairy food or drug product, the adul-
teration or misbranding of any article of
any food or drink or condiment or drug
and personally or by his assistants, in
spectors or agents, to inspect any milk,
butter, cheese, lard, syrup, coffee, tea or
other article of food, drink, continent or
drug made or offered for sale within this
state which he may suspect or have rea-
son to believe to be impure unhealthful,
misbranded, adulterated or counterfeit,
or in any way unlawful, and to prosecute
or cause to be prosecuted any person,
firm or corporation engaged in the manu-
facture or sale, Offering or exposing for
sale or having in possession with intent
to sell, of any dairy product or of any
adulterated misbranded, counterfeit, or
any unlawful article or articles of food or
drink or condiment or drug. The district
attorney of the county in which VIOLA
ton of any such law has occurred shall,
when called upon by the commissioner,
his assistants inspectors or agents. to do