changed each year, but shall be of uniform design and material throughout the state. Each town clerk shall pay for said metal tags or plates from the money received as registry and tag fees as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 2. Section nineteen of chapter 167 of the public acts Repeal. of 1907 is hereby amended to read as follows: Chapter 247 of the general statutes, chapters 6 and 86 of the public acts of 1903, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. Time at which " where it appears sections 20 and SEC. 3. Strike out the word "August in sections twenty and twenty-one of chapter 167 of the public 21 of the act acts of 1907 and insert in lieu thereof the word "October." Approved, August 1, 1907. concerning dogs takes effect. [House Bill No. 804.] CHAPTER 253. An Act amending an Act concerning Payment of Taxes upon Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: treasurer of tax tion. Section 2325 of the general statutes as amended by chapter Payment to state 160 of the public acts of 1907 is hereby amended to read as on choses in follows: Any person may take or send to the office of the treasurer of this state any bond, note, or other chose in action, or a description of the same, and may pay to the state a tax of two per centum on the face amount thereof for five years or, at the option of such person, for a greater or less number of years at the same rate, under such regulations as the treasurer may prescribe, and the treasurer shall thereupon make an indorsement upon said bond, note, or other chose in action, or shall give a receipt for the tax thereon, describing said bond, note, or other chose in action, certifying that the same is exempt from all taxation for the period of five years, or for such longer or shorter period for which a proportionate tax has been paid, which indorsement or receipt shall be duly dated and signed in the name of the treasurer and with the seal of the treasurer affixed. Said treasurer shall keep a record of such indorsements and receipts with a description of such bonds, notes, or other choses in action, together with the name and address of the party presenting the same and date of registration; and said treasurer shall, annually, on or before the tenth day of November, mail to the town clerk of each town a general description of all such bonds, notes, or other choses in action so registered before the first day of the October last preceding by persons residing in Admission of cripples and in home for incura ton. such town, the date and period of such registration, and the names of the persons by whom the same were registered; and all bonds, notes, or other choses in action so indorsed, or described in such a receipt, shall be exempt from all taxation in the state during the period for which said tax is so paid. Approved, July 31, 1907. [House Bill No. 801.] CHAPTER 254. An Act amending an Act concerning the Commitment and Support of Poor Children of Sound Mind who are Cripples or who are Afflicted with any Non-Contagious Incurable Disease. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Chapter 51 of the public acts of 1903 as amended by chapter curables to the 173 of the public acts of 1907 is hereby amended to read as bles at Newing- follows: Whenever there shall be found in any town in this state any pauper or indigent child of sound mind who is a cripple, or who is afflicted with any non-contagious incurable disease, the selectmen of said town may make application to the court of probate for the district in which said town is situated for the admission of said child to the home for incurables now established at Newington under the auspices of The Connecticut Children's Aid Society Corporation, and if upon inquiry said court shall find that said child is a proper subject to be received into said home, it may order said selectmen to take such child to said home to be kept and supported for such length of time as said court may deem proper; provided, that said The Connecticut Children's Aid Society Corporation shall not be required to receive any child so committed, unless in the judgment of said society it can conveniently receive and care for such child at the time of commitment; and provided, further, that said The Connecticut Children's Aid Society Corporation shall have the right to return to their respective towns any child or children so committed, who shall be pronounced by the physicians employed by said society, after due examination, to be unfit for retention. Said selectmen shall not take or commit any such child to said home until the order of said court has been approved by the governor, and no child shall be received by said home to be supported in any manner by the state without the approval of the governor. There shall be taxed by the comptroller three dollars a week for each week such child shall remain at said home, and said The Connecticut Children's Aid Society Corporation shall make its bill therefor quarterly and present it to the governor, upon whose approval it shall be paid by the treasurer, and the balance shall be paid by the parents or grandparents of said child, or, if the child is a pauper, by the town in which said child belongs; provided, that the sum to be paid by the parents or grandparents of said child, or by the town where said child belongs, shall not exceed one dollar a week in addition to the amount paid by the state. Approved, July 31, 1907. [Substitute for House Bill No. 746.] CHAPTER 255. An Act concerning the Manufacture, Sale, or Transportation Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in or sale of adulter drugs prohibited. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to manu- Manufacture facture, transport, sell, or offer for sale or transportation any ated food or article of food or drugs which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act. 66 and "food SEC. 2. The term drug" as used in this act shall in- Terms "drug clude all medicines and preparations recognized in the United fined. States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external medicinal use and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or other animals. The term "food" as used herein shall include all articles, whether simple, mixed, or compound, used for food, drink, confectionery, or condiment by man or animals. SEC. 3. For the purposes of this act an article shall be deemed to be adulterated: In the case of drugs: First, if, when a drug is sold under or by a name recognized in the United State Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity as determined by the test laid down in said United States Pharmacopoeia or indicated by the National Formulary official at the time of investigation; provided, that no drug defined in the United States Pharmacopoia or National Formulary shall be deemed to be adulterated under this provision if the standard of strength, quality, or purity be plainly stated on the bottle, box, or other container thereof although the standard may differ from that determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or de Term "adulterated defined. Drugs are branded," when. indicated by the National Formulary: Second, if its strength or purity falls below the professed standard or quality under which it is sold. In the case of confectionery: If it contains terra alba, barytos, talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral substances or poisonous color or flavor, or other ingredients deleterious or detrimental to health, or any vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor or compound, or narcotic drugs. In the case of foods: First, if any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength: Second, if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article: Third, if any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted therefrom: Fourth, if it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated, or stained in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed: Fifth, if it contains any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient which may render such article injurious to health: Sixth, if it consists, in whole or in part, of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, if it is the product of a diseased animal or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. "mis- SEC. 4. The term misbranded" as used in this act shall apply to all drugs or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular, and to any food or drug product which is falsely branded as to the state, territory, or country in which it is manufactured or produced. For the purposes of this act an article also shall be deemed to be misbranded: In the case of drugs: First, if it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the name of another article: Second, if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package, or, except when dispensed by a registered physician or veterinary, or by a licensed pharmacist in filling the prescription of a registered physician or veterinary, or in case of drugs for external use only, the package fails to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilid, or any derivatives or preparations of any of the said mis- substances contained therein. In the case of foods: First, if it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article: Second, if it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign Foods are branded," when. foods are not product when not in fact a foreign product, or if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package, or if it fails to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of morphine, opium, cocaine, alpha or beta eucaine, heroin, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilid, or any derivative or preparation of any of the said substances contained therein: Third, if, when in package form and the contents are stated in terms of weight or measure, the weight or measure is not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of the package: Fourth, if the package containing it, or the label of such package, shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding the ingredients or the substance contained therein, which statement, design, or device. shall be false or misleading in any particular; provided, that an article of food which does not contain any added poisonous or Cases in which deleterious ingredients shall not be deemed to be adulterated misbranded. or misbranded in the following cases: First, in the case of any mixture or compound which may be now or from time to time hereafter known as an article of food under its own distinctive name, and not an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, if the name be accompanied, on the same label or brand, with a statement of the place where said article has been manufactured or produced: Second, in the case of an article labeled, branded, or tagged so as to plainly indicate that it is a compound, imitation, or blend, and the word "compound," "imitation," or "blend," as the case may be, is plainly stated on the package in which it is offered for sale; provided, that the term "blend" as used herein shall be construed to mean a mixture of like substances, not excluding harmless coloring or flavoring ingredients, used for the purpose of coloring and flavoring only; and provided, further, that nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring or compelling proprietors or manufacturers of proprietary foods which contain no unwholesome added ingredients to disclose their trade formulæ except in so far as the provisions of this act may require to secure freedom from adulteration or misbranding. commissioner Connecticut agri SEC. 5. The dairy commissioner and the director of the Duties of dairy Connecticut agricultural experiment station, acting jointly, shall and director of make uniform rules and regulations for carrying out the pro- cultural station. visions of this act, including the collection and examination of specimens of foods and drugs manufactured, sold, transported, or offered for sale or transportation within this state, or which may be submitted for examination by any health, food, or drug, officer of any town, city, or county in the state. Such rules and regulations shall, where possible, conform to and be the |