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name or names, mark or marks, device or devices so used by them, and 

 cause such description to be published once each week for four weeks 

 successively in a newspaper published in the city or town in which said 

 description has been filed as aforesaid except that where there is no 

 newspaper published in such city or town then such publication may be 

 made in any newspaper published in the county in which such city or 

 town is situated. 



Sec. 2. Whoever without the consent of the owner takes and detains 

 or uses in his business, sells, disposes of, buys, conceals or traffics in 

 any milk or cream can, jug, bottle, or jar the owner Oi which has com- 

 plied with the provisions relating thereto in section one of this act, 

 shall be punished for the first offense by a fine not exceeding five dol- 

 lars, or by punishment in the house of correction for a term not ex- 

 ceeding sixty days, for each can, jug, bottle or jar so taken, and de- 

 tained or used in his business, sold, disposed of, bought, concealed or 

 trafficked in, and for any subsequent offense by a fine not exceeding 

 ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the house of correction for a term 

 not exceeding six months, for each can, jug, bottle or ar so taken and 

 detained or used in his business, sold, disposed of, bought, concealed or 

 trafficked in as aforesaid. Possession by any person in the transaction 

 of his business of any such article the owner of which has complied 

 with the provisions of section one of this act shall constitute prima 

 facie evidence of the unlawful taking, use, detention, possession of or 

 traffic in the same within the meaning of this act. 



Sec. 3. Whoever without the consent of any owner who has com- 

 plied with the provisions of section one of this act wilfully destroys, 

 mutilates, or defaces any can, jug, bottle or jar bearing such owner's 

 name, mark or device, or wilfully erases, mars, covers, or changes any 

 word or mark branded, engraved, blown or otherwise produced, in a 

 permanent manner in or upon any such can, jug, bottle or jar, shall be 

 punished for the first offense by a fine not exceeding five dollars, or by 

 imprisonment in the house of correction for a term not exceeding sixty 

 days, for each can, jug, bottle or jar so destroyed, mutilated or defaced, 

 or for each can, jug, bottle or jar upon which any word or mark has 

 been erased, marred, covered or changed as aforesaid; and for any 

 subsequent offense by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprison- 

 ment in the house of correction for a term not exceeding six months, 

 for each can, jug, bottle or jar so destroyed, mutilated or defaced, or 

 for each can, jug, bottle or jar upon which any word or mark has been 

 erased, marred, covered or changed as aforesaid. 



Sec. 4. Whoever puts any unclean or foul substance or matter into 

 any milk or cream can, jug, bottle or jar, the owner of which has 

 complied with the provisions of section one of this act, shall be pun- 

 ished for the first offense by a fine of not less than fifty cents nor more 

 than five dollars, for each can, jug, bottle or jar so defiled; and for any 

 subsequent offense by a fine of not less than two dollars nor more 

 than twenty dollars, for each can, jug, bottle or jar so defiled. 



