BY THE SAME AUTHOR Price 3s. 6d. net THE TOWN COUNCILS (SCOTLAND) ACT 1900 (63 AND 64 VICT. C. 49) WITH NOTES EDINBURGH WILLIAM GREEN & SONS, LAW PUBLISHERS SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS, 1875 TO 1899 WITH NOTES, DECIDED CASES IN ENGLAND AND PREFACE WHAT can be more important than that the public should be supplied with food, drink, and drugs in a pure and genuine state? The "beer" scare, and the active steps being taken by the Local Government Board and Board of Agriculture to enforce the Food and Drugs Acts, suggested to me the idea of this little book. Since the Act of 1899, these Boards have had power to compel Local Authorities to appoint public analysts, and otherwise to execute and enforce the provisions of the Acts. I have dealt with the "Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875"; the "Sale of Food and Drugs Act Amendment Act, 1879"; the "Margarine Act, 1887"; and the "Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899." So far as I am aware, there is no book dealing with the Acts as applicable to Scotland, but several excellent manuals have been published in England, and to these I must acknowledge my great indebtedness, especially to "Appeal Cases under the Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1899, and Margarine Act, 1887, by B. Scott Elder, Esq., Chief Inspector of Food and Drugs and Weights and Measures for the County of Durham." I must also acknowledge indebtedness to the admirable article in Green's Encyclopædia of Scots Law, vol. xi. p. 58, written by my friend Mr. Dudley Stuart, Advocate. It is a peculiar fact that up to the Act of 1899 Local Authorities could not be compelled to enforce the earlier Acts, and many Local Authorities, both in counties and burghs, did not even appoint a public analyst or an officer to take the necessary samples. Now, by the Act of 1899, they must appoint a public analyst, and enforce the Acts, so that more 622592 |