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prisonnient. Search warrants may be issued upon proper com- 

 plaint for imitation butter, and methods are prescribed for the 

 seizure and analysis of imitation butter or cheese, and the con- 

 fiscation of imitations. Chapter 63 of the session laws of 1894, 

 of the legfislative assembly of the Territory of Utah is hereby re- 

 pealed. (Laws 1896, chap. 60, p. 166.) 



VERMONT. 



The law prohibits the p'roduction of imitation butter or cheese. 

 It also prohibits the sale of imitation butter unless it is colored 

 pink; hotel keepers, etc., are prohibited from using, or having on 

 hand to use, any such article, unless colored pink; penalties are 

 provided for the violation of the law. Specimens of suspected 

 butter or cheese may be analyzed, and expense's, not exceeding |20, 

 may be made a part of the costs; justices of the peace may issue 

 search warrants. (Laws 1890, No. 58.) 



VIRGINIA. 



The manufacture and sale of imitation butter or cheese is pro- 

 hibited, and the proprietors and agents of bakeries, hotels^ taverns 

 and boarding-houses are prohibited from keeping, using or serving 

 as food to their guests or for cooking purposes, imitation butter 

 or cheese. (Laws 1892, chap. 526.) 



WASHINGTON. 



The selling, supplying or offering for sale oi' exchange of imita- 

 tion butter and cheese is unlawful unless the packages contain- 

 ing the same are marked so as to plainly indicate its true char- 

 acter; the bill of fare in dining or eating-houses shall state the 

 fact; if no bill of fare is used a notice must bepoisted stating the 

 name or names of such imitation dairy products. (Laws 1891, 

 chap. 69.) 



Chapter 45 of the Laws of 1895 prohibits the manufacture or 

 sale of adulterated or spurious butter or cheese as pure. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



It is unlawful to manufacture or sell oleomargarine, artificial 

 or adulterated butter within the limits of the State, whether the 

 same be manufactured within or without the State^, unles's the 

 same shall be colored pink. (Laws 1891, chap. 8.) 



