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offence forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds together
with the costs attending such conviction, and for the second
offence shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be imprisoned for a
period not exceeding six calendar months, with hard labour.
Penalty for
selling adulterated
articles
as recited in
Sec.2 of the Act
35 & 36 Vict.
7. And every person who snail sell any article of
Food or Drink with which, to the knowledge of such
person, any ingredient or material injurious to health
has been mixed, and every person Who shall sell as
unadulterated any article of Food or Drink, or any
Drug which is adulterated, shall for every such offence, on a
summary conviction of the same, forfeit and pay a penalty not
exceeding Twenty pounds, together with the costs thereof; and if
any person so convicted shall afterwards commit the like offence,
the Justices shall cause the offender's name, place of abode, and
offence to he published, at the expense of the offender in such newspaper
or in such other manner as the said Justices shall deem
desirable.
Mixtures that
increase weight
or hulk of
articles are
adulterations.
b. And any person who shall sell any article of food
or Drink, or any Drug, knowing the same to have been
mixed with any other substance with intent fraudulently
to increase its weight or bulk, and who shall not declare
such admixture to any purchaser thereof before delivering the same,
shall be deemed to have sold an adulterated article of Food, or
Drink, or Drug, as the case may be, under the Act.
COUNTY MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
The Right Hon. Lord George Francis Hamilton, 17, Montague
Street, Portman Square, W.
James Bigwood, Esq., Carlton Club, S.W.
BOROUGH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Westminster.
William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett Burdett-Coutts, Esq., 1, Stratton
Street, Piccadilly.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
Electoral Division of Westminster.
Sir Walter Eugene de Souza, Kt., 35, Albert Hall Mansions
Vernon James Watney, Esq., M.A., 90, Piccadilly.