Every person who shall sell saleratus, bicarbonate of soda, or cream of tartar which has been adulterated and thereby rendered an impure article, shall be fined twenty dollars ($20.00), together with the cost of testing and analyzing the impure article; one-half (½) of the fine to the use of the city or town where the sale shall be made, and one-half (½) of the fine, together with the cost of testing and analyzing the impure article, to the use of the person who shall sue for it.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 21-26-4
Sale of adulterated articles
G.L. 1896, ch. 138, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 164, § 4; G.L. 1923, ch. 194, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 390, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 21-26-4.
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