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such State or Territory or the District of Columbia, be subject to the oper- 

 ation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory or the District of 

 Columbia, enacted in the exercise of its police powers to the same extent 

 and in the same manner as though such articles or substances had been 

 produced in such State or Territory or the District of Columbia, and shall 

 not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original 

 packages or otherwise. 



Sec. 2. That the first clause of section three of an Act entitled "An 

 Act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manu- 

 facture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine, approved 

 August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be amended by adding 

 thereto after the word "oleomargarine," at the end of said clause, the 

 following words: 



"And any person that sells, vends, or furnishes oleomargarine for the 

 use and consumption of others, except to his own family table without 

 compensation, who shall add to or mix with such oleomargarine any arti- 

 ficial coloration that causes it to look like butter of any shade of yellow 

 shall also be held to be a manufacturer of oleomargarine within the 

 meaning of said Act, and subject to the provisions thereof." 



Section three of said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the 

 following: "Provided further, That wholesale dealers who vend no other 

 oleomargarine or butterine except that upon which a tax of one-fourth of 

 one per cent, per pound is imposed by this Act, as amended, shall pay 

 two hundred dollars; and such retail dealers as vend no other oleomar- 

 garine or butterine except that upon Avhich is imposed by this Act, as 

 amended, a tax of one-fourth of one cent per pound shall pay six dollars." 



Sec. 3. That section eight of an Act entitled "An Act defining butter, 

 also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importa- 

 tion, and exportation of oleomargarine," approved August second, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-six, be, and the same is hereby amended so as^ to read 

 as follows: 



"Section 8. That upon oleomargarine which shall be manufactured 

 and sold, or removed for consumption or use, there shall be assessed and 

 collected a tax of ten cents per pound, to be paid I»y the manufacturer 

 thereof; and any fractional part of a pound in a package shall be taxed 

 as a pound: Provided, When oleomargarine is free from artificial colora- 

 tion that causes it to look like butter of any shade of yellow said tax 

 shall be one-fourth of one cent per pound. The tax levied by this section 

 shall be represented by coupon stamps; and the provisions of existing 

 laws governing the engraving, issue, sale, accountability, effacement, and 

 destruction of stamps relating to tobacco and snuff, as far as applicable, 

 are hereby made to apply to stamps prqvided for by this section." 



Sec. 4. That for the purpose of this Act "butter" is hereby defined 

 to mean an article of food as defined in "An act defining butter, also 

 imposing a tax uj)on and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, 



