APPENDIX. SANITARY LAWS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1885. AN ACT TO RENDER MORE EFFICIENT THE HEALTH LAWS OF THE STATE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: SECTION 1. The selectmen of any town that has neglected to elect a health officer or officers may appoint one or more health officers for said town, as in the judgment of the selectmen may be necessary; but if no health officer or officers shall have been elected or appointed, it shall, upon the petition of ten or more legal voters, be the duty of the selectmen to appoint one or more health officers, as in their judgment may be necessary. SECT. 2. The state board of health may make, in addition to the rules and regulations of local health officers, such other rules and regulations or may make such amendments to existing rules and regulations as, in the judgment of the board, the public good may demand, and such rules and regulations shall be enforced by the health officers in the same manner as other health regulations. SECT. 3. Health officers or local boards of health shall furnish the state board of health with such information as may be called for from time to time concerning the work of such health officers or local boards of health, and a copy of all rules and regulations issued by such health officers or local boards of health shall be forwarded to the state board of health when issued. SECT. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECT. 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved July 23, 1885.] AN ACT REGULATING THE SALE OF VEAL. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: SECTION 1. If any person kills, or causes to be killed, for the purpose of sale, any calf less than four weeks old, or knowingly sells or has in possession with intent to sell for food, the meat of any calf killed when less than four weeks old, he shall be punished by imprisonment in jail not exceeding thirty days, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or both; and all such meat exposed for sale, or kept with intent to sell, may be seized and destroyed by any board of health, health officer, or any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or police officer. SECT. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. [Approved August 12, 1885.] AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF SECTION 10, CHAPTER 42 OF THE PAMPHLET LAWS OF 1883, BEING AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE AND INSPECTION OF MILK. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: SECTION I. That section 10 of chapter 42 of the laws passed June session, 1883, be amended by adding at the end of said section the following: "But this provision shall not be construed to prevent any person from making complaint and instituting and carrying on prosecutions for the violation of any of said provisions, and such complainant, whether a town or city by its officers, or an individual, shall be entitled to one half of every fine collected through prosecution; and in any town where no inspector has been appointed complaints may be made to the state board of health, and said board shall proceed with such complaint in the same manner as is required of an inspector, whether the town from which complaint is made has or has not adopted the provisions of this act," so that said section shall read: "It shall be the duty of every inspector to institute a complaint for a violation of any of the provisions of this act on the information of any person who lays before him satisfactory evidence by which to sustain such complaint; but this provision shall not be construed to prevent any person from making complaint and instituting and carrying on prosecutions for the violation of any of said provisions; and such complainant, whether a town or city by its officers, or an individual, shall be entitled to one half of every fine collected through such prosecutions; and in any town where no inspector has been appointed complaints may be made to the state board of health, and said board shall proceed with such complaint in the same manner as required of an inspector, whether the town from which complaint is made has or has not adopted the provisions of this act." SECT. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved August 13, 1885.] AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF BARBED WIRE FENCES IN CERTAIN CASES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: SECTION 1. If the owner or occupant of any land adjoining land owned or occupied by any town or school district for school purposes, erects, keeps, or maintains any barbed wire fence, to separate or divide said lands, he shall be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars. SECT. 2. The selectmen of every town, and prudential committee of every school district, shall prosecute, at the expense of the town or district, as the case may be, any violation of the previous section. [Approved August 19, 1885.] AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE SALE OF CIGARETTES OR TOBACCO IN ANY OF ITS FORMS TO MINORS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: SECTION 1. No person shall knowingly sell any cigarette, or tobacco in any of its forms, to any minor under sixteen years of age. SECT. 2. If any person shall violate the provisions of this act, he shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars for each and every such offense, such penalty or fine to go to the county treasurer for the use of the county wherein the violation of this act occurs. [Approved August 25, 1885.] AN ACT RELATING TO THE SALE OF IMITATION BUTTER. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: SECTION 1. Whoever, by himself or his agent, shall sell, expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any article or compound made in imitation of butter or as a substitute for butter, and not wholly made from milk or cream, and that is of any other color than pink, shall, for every package that he or they sells or exposes for sale, forfeit and pay a fine of fifty dollars; and for a second and each subsequent offense a fine of one hundred dollars, to be recovered with costs in any court of this state of competent jurisdiction; and any fine so recovered and paid shall go one half to the complainant and one half to the county where the offense was committed. SECT. 2. The complainant in any action brought under section I of this act, or the health officers of any city or town, may cause specimens of suspected |