CHAP. 267.—An ACT concerning the enforcement of the laws governing
the manufacture, storage, preparation for sale, and sale of articles
used as food or condiment for human beings or animals, and prescrib-
ing the duties and compensation of Commonwealth’s attorneys in con-
nection with the enforcement of such laws. (H. B. 108.)

Approved March 16, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
whenever a violation of any laws governing the manufacture
and preparation for sale, storage and sale of articles used as
food or condiment by human beings or animals, commonly
known as the “pure food” and “feeding stuffs laws,” is reported
by the dairy and food commission to any Commonwealth’s at-
iorney. it shall be the duty of the Commonwealth’s attorney to
whom any such violation is so reported by the said commis-
sioner, to cause the proceedings to be commenced and prosecuted
without delay for the fines and penalties in such cases prescribed
and upon the termination of such proceedings to report in detail
to the dairy and food commissioner the results of the same.

2. ‘That for every conviction in any case instituted by any
Commonwealth’s attorney upon the complaint of the dairy and
food commissioner, the Commonwealth’s attorney presecuting
any such case, after he has reported the results of the same to
the dairy and food commissioner as hereinabove provided, shall
be entitled to a fee of five dollars, which shall be taxed as a
part of the costs in the case, as costs are taxed in other criminal
cases, and execution issued therefor against the defendant; and
said fee shall be paid notwithstanding any law to the contrary
limiting or prescribing the compensation and fees of Common-
wealth’s attorneys.

3. That in any case of a sale or delivery of goods in viola-
tion of the provisions of the pure food or feeding stuffs laws,
the person, firm or corporation making such sale or delivery,
may be prosecuted either in the county or city in which such
sale or delivery originated, or in the county or city in which the
said illegal goods may be found by the dairy and food commis-
sioner, or his agents or assistants.