The board of supervisors of every county, and the governing authority of every city, town, and village, respectively, may appoint and commission a suitable person to be inspector of food, and said boards may direct, from time to time, what kinds of food shall be inspected.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 13, art. 4(1); 1857, ch. 25, art. 1; 1871, § 2265; 1880, § 942; 1892, § 2098; 1906, § 2283; Hemingway's 1917, § 4655; 1930, § 4963; 1942, § 7113.
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