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Raw linseed oil.

[No. 110.]

AN ACT to prevent the adulteration of linseed oil or flaxseed oil and to prevent fraud in the sale thereof and in the sale of compounds thereof, and to repeal all acts in conflict herewith.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. No person, firm or corporation, by himself, his servant or his agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, firm or corporation, shall manufacture or mix for sale, sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell in this State, under the name of raw linseed oil or raw flaxseed oil, any substance which is not wholly the product obtained from well cleaned flaxseed or linseed, Requirements, and unless the aforesaid oil also fulfills the requirements of the nineteen hundred edition of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, which follow:

1. Specific gravity 0.925 to 0.935 at 25 deg. C. (77 deg. F.). It does not congeal at temperatures above -20 deg. C. (-4 deg. F.). It is soluble in about ten parts of absolute alcohol and in all proportions in ether, chloroform, petroleum, benzine, carbon disulphide and oil of turpentine. It should not more than slightly redden blue litmus paper, previously moistened with alcohol (limit of free acid). The oil should be completely saponifiable with alcoholic potassium hydroxide T. S. and the resulting soap should be completely soluble in water without leaving an oily residue, (absence of mineral oils and rosin oils). If 2 CC. of the oil be warmed and shaken in a test tube with an equal volume of glacial acetic acid, and if to this mixture, after cooling, one drop of sulphuric acid be added, a greenish color should be produced. (A violet color under these circumstances indicates the presence of rosin oils). Linseed oil saponified by alcoholic potassium hydroxide T. S. should show a saponification value of from 187 to 195. If 0.15 CC. of linseed oil be dissolved in 10 CC. of chloroform in a 250 CC. flask and 25 CC. of a mixture of equal volume of alcoholic iodine T. S. and alcoholic mercuric chloride T. S. added, and if, after standing for sixteen hours, protected from the light, 20 CC. potassium iodide T. S. be introduced and the mixture diluted with 50 CC. of water, on titrating the excess of iodine with tenth normal sodium thiosulphate V. S. an iodine value of not less than 170 should be obtained. No person, firm or corporation, by himself, his servant or his agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, firm or corporation, shall manufacture or mix for sale, sell, offer or expose for sale or have in his possession with intent to sell in this State, any substance as boiled linseed oil or as boiled flaxseed oil, unless the same shall have been pre

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pared by heating raw linseed oil, as defined above: Provided, Proviso, That if drier is used in said boiled linseed oil or boiled flaxseed oil, the same shall have been prepared by incorporating said drier with raw linseed oil, as defined above, at a temperature of not less than 225 deg. Fahrenheit, and furthermore contains not less than 96 per cent of linseed oil; and for the Boiled purpose of this act it shall also be deemed a violation thereof linseed oil. if said boiled linseed oil prepared either with or without drier does not conform to the following requirements: 1. Its Requirements. specific gravity at 60 deg. Fahrenheit must be not less than 0.935 and not greater than 0.945; 2. Its saponification value (Koettstorfer figure) must not be less than 186; 3. Its iodine number (Huebl's method) must be not less than 160; 4. Its acid value must not exceed 10; 5. The volatile matter expelled at 212 deg. Fahrenheit must not exceed one-half of one per cent; 6. No mineral oil shall be present and the amount of unsaponifiable matter as determined by standard methods shall not exceed 2.5 per cent; 7. The film left after flowing the oil over glass and allowing it to drain in a vertical or nearly vertical position must dry free from tackiness in not to exceed twenty hours, at a temperature of about 70 deg. Fahrenheit. Linseed oil or flaxseed oil which does not conform to the foregoing requirements shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this act.

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SEC. 2. No person, firm or corporation, either by himself True name or another, shall sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell in this State any linseed oil or flaxseed oil, except under its true name, and unless each barrel, keg or can of such oil has plainly and durably painted, stamped, stenciled, labeled or marked thereon the true name of such oil in ordinary bold-faced capital letters, not less than five lines pica in size, together with the name and address of the manufacturer, jobber or dealer: Provided, That if Proviso, the contents of the package be less than twenty-five gallons, packages. the type shall not be less than two lines pica in size. Proof Possession, that any person, firm or corporation has or had possession of Prima facie any oil or compound which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act shall be prima facie evidence that the possession thereof is in violation of this act. SEC. 3. Linseed oil compounds or flaxseed oil compounds compounds. designed to take the place of raw or boiled linseed oil or raw or boiled flaxseed oil as defined in section one of this act, whether sold, offered or exposed for sale under invented proprietary names or titles or not, shall bear conspicuously upon the containing vessel, in capital letters not less than five lines pica in size, the word "Compound," followed immediately with the true distinctive names of the actual ingredients in the order of their greater Ingredients. preponderance, in the English language, in plain legible type of the same size, not less than two lines pica in size, in continuous list with no intervening matter of any kind, and shall

Misbranded,

also bear the name and address of the manufacturer, jobber or dealer. Any oil or compounds required to be branded by what deemed. the provisions of this act and not complying with sections two and three shall be deemed to be misbranded within the meaning of this act.

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Samples for analysis.

SEC. 4. It is hereby made a duty of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner to enforce the provisions of this act.

SEC. 5. The State Dairy and Food Commissioner, his agents, assistants, inspectors, chemists or others appointed by him, shall have full rights of ingress and egress to the premises occupied by parties who manufacture, sell or deal in linseed oil or flaxseed oil, or linseed oil compounds or flaxseed oil compounds, and also shall have power and authority to open any tank, barrel, can or other vessel believed to contain such oil and inspect the contents thereof, and to take therefrom samples for analysis. In case any samples so taken shall prove on analysis to be adulterated or misbranded in violation of the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner to proceed against the offender as herein provided. No person shall obstruct commissioner. the State Dairy and Food Commissioner or any of his assistants, by refusing entrance to any place which he desires to enter in the discharge of his official duty as provided in this act, nor shall any person refuse to deliver to him a sample of oil when same is requested and when the value thereof is tendered.

Obstructing

Penalty for violation.

Second and subsequent.

SEC. 6.

Any person, firm or corporation convicted of violating any of the provisions of the foregoing act shall, for the first offense be punished by a fine in any sum not less than First offense. twenty-five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court; and for the second and each subsequent offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or both in the discretion of the court; or the fine above may be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace or any court of competent jurisdiction, in the county where the offense shall have been committed, at the instance of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner or any other person in the name of the people of the State of Michigan as plaintiff and shall be recovered in an action of debt. SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

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Approved May 19, 1909.

[No. 111.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number one hundred sixty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, as amended by act number twenty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to define the legal qualifications of kindergarten, music and drawing teachers in the State."

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act number one hundred sixty- Section six of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, as amended amended. by act number twenty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to define the legal qualifications of kindergarten, music and drawing teachers in the State," is hereby amended to read as follows:

who may

SEC. 1. Any person who is a graduate of any kindergarten Kindergarten training school, whose course of study is approved by the certificate, Superintendent of Public Instruction of this State, and who be granted. holds also a teacher's certificate or a diploma from a reputable. college of the State or from a high school having a four years' high school course, may be granted a kindergarten certificate by said Superintendent of Public Instruction, and such person holding such certificate shall be considered a legally qual- Pay ified kindergarten and first grade teacher; and any district authorized. board shall be authorized to pay such teacher for kindergarten and first grade instruction from the same fund, and in the same manner as other teachers are now paid. Approved May 19, 1909.

[No. 112.]

AN ACT to authorize the county commissioner of schools in each county to call a meeting of the school officers of the county.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

school officers of county.

SECTION 1. Each county commissioner of schools in the Meeting of State of Michigan shall call a meeting of the school officers of his county at least once in each year, said meeting to be held at the county seat or some other convenient place in the county for the purpose of consultation, advice and instruction upon matters pertaining to the management and welfare of the public schools of the county. The call for said meeting include.

Call, what to

Who shall attend.

expenses.

shall include every board of education in the county, whether rural or city. SEC. 2. The director or secretary of each school board or board of education shall attend such meeting and the other Per diem and members of each board of education may attend. One member of the school board or board of education who attends such meeting shall be allowed and paid two dollars per day and actual traveling expenses going to and returning from said meeting, said sum to be paid from the general fund in the Certificate of treasury of the school district. The county commissioner of schools shall issue to each member in attendance a certificate of attendance which shall be filed with the director or secretary of the board, and when filed shall serve as a basis of evidence for drawing the order for compensation and expenses of one member of the board.

attendance.

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SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to assist the county commissioner of tion, duty of. schools in conducting said meeting of school officers, and he shall attend said meeting either in person or by representative.

Approved May 19, 1909.

Inspector, qualifications.

To inspect certain vessels.

[No. 113.]

AN ACT regulating steam vessels and vessels or boats operated by machinery, navigating the waters within the jurisdiction of this State, excepting vessels which are subject to inspection under the laws of the United States, and providing penalties for the violation hereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The Commissioner of Labor shall be charged with the administration of the provisions of this act, shall employ an inspector who shall have had at least five years' experience as a licensed master or engineer on steam vessels navigating the Great Lakes or any of their tributary waters, and who shall be otherwise properly qualified to enable the Commissioner of Labor to carry said provisions into effect, and shall exercise supervision over him in the performance of his duties.

SEC. 2. The Commissioner of Labor shall annually or oftener if he has good cause to believe it reasonable, inspect or cause to be inspected every steam vessel or other vessel operated by machinery engaged in carrying passengers for hire, directly or indirectly, excepting vessels which are subject to inspection under the laws of the United States, ex

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