480 Third Annual Keport of the 



that wagons, etc., used for the sale of oleomargarine, etc., shall 

 be marked " licensed to sell oleomargarine." Section 9 of the 

 sa.rae chapter, by prescribing the powers of the dairj bureau, 

 agents and counsel. Section 1 of chapter 58 of the Laws of 1891, 

 by prohibiting the manufacture or sale, taking orders for future 

 delivery, etc., of imitation butter; but it provides that oleomar- 

 garine may be manufactured and sold in a separate and distinct 

 form, and in such a manner as will advise the consumer of its real 

 character, free from coloration or ingredients that causes it to 

 look like butter. 



Section 1, chapter 58, and section 5, chapter 412, Laws 1801, 

 and section 6, chapter 280, Laws 1894, is amended relative to the 

 sale of imitation butter. It is not allowed to be manufactured 

 and sold except in a separate and distinct form, and in such a 

 manner as will advise the consumer of its real character, free from 

 coloration or ingredients that causes it to look like butter. 



Guests or patrons of hotels, restaurants, boarding-houses, or 

 lunch counters where oleomargarine or butterine is furnished 

 must be notified by the party so furnishing it that the substance 

 so furnished is not butter. The violation of this act is punishable 

 by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than |50 for each offense. 

 (Laws 1896, chap. 377.) 



MICHIGAN. 



The law prohibited the manufacture, sale or shipping into the 

 State of oleomargarine, butterine or other imitations of butter. 

 The courts held the law to be unconstitutional. (S. L., 1885, p. 

 256.) 



No. 193, Laws 1895, prohibits the manufacture and sale of imi- 

 tation butter as butter, and also imitation cheese. 



MINNESOTA. 



Chapter 149, Laws of 1885, prohibits the manufacture and sale 

 of oleomargarine and similar substances. Chapter 140, Laws of 

 1887, was to prevent deception in sale of dairy products, and was 

 supplementary to and in aid of chapter 149, Laws of 1885. 



(^hapter 247, Laws of 1889, amends chapter 140, Laws of 1887, 

 and is substantially the same as the New York law. 



