552 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



That upon adulterated butter, when manufactured or sold or removed 

 for consumption or use, there shall be assessed and collected a tax of ten 

 cents per pound, to be paid by the manufacturer thereof, and any frac- 

 tional part of a pound shall be taxed as a pound, and that upon process 

 or renovated butter, when manufactured or sold or removed for consump- 

 tion or use, there shall be assessed and collected a tax of one-fourth of one 

 cent per pound, to be paid by the manufacturer thereof, and any fractional 

 part of a pound shall be taxed as a pound. The tax to be levied by this 

 section shall be represented by coupon stamps and the provisions of exist- 

 ing laws governing engraving, issuing, sale, acountability, effacement, and 

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

 are hereby made to apply to the stamps provided by this section. 



That the provisions of sections nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, four 

 teen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and twenty- 

 one of "An Act deflining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating 

 the manufacture, sale, impoi'tation, and exportation of oleomargarine," 

 approved August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, shall apply to 

 manufacturers of "adulterated butter" to an extent necessary to enforce 

 the marking, branding, identification and regulation of the exportation and 

 importation of adulterated butter. 



Sec. 5. All parts of an Act providing for an inspection of meats for 

 exportation, approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and 

 of an Act to provide for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carj 

 casses and products thereof which are the subjects of interstate com- 

 merce, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of 

 •amendment thereto, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 five, which are applicable to the subjects and purposes described in this 

 section shall apply to process or renovated butter. And the Secretary of 

 Agriculture is hereby authorized and required to cause a rigid sanitary 

 inspection to be made, at such times as he may deem proper or necessary, 

 of all factories and storehouses where process or renovated butter is 

 manufactured, packed, or prepared for market, and of the products thereof 

 and materials going into the manufacture of the same. All process or 

 renovated butter and the packages containing the same shall be marked 

 with the M ords "Renovated Butter" or "Process Butter" and by such other 

 marks, labels, or brands and in such manner as may be prescribed by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, and no process or renovated butter shall be 

 shipped or transported from its place of manufacture into any other State 

 or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, until 

 it has been marked as provided in this section. The Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture shall make all needful regulations for carrying this section into effect, 

 and shall cause to be ascertained and reported from time to time the 

 quantity and quality of process or renovated butter manufactured, and 

 the character and the condition of the material from which it is made. 

 And he shall also have power to ascertain whether or not materials used 

 in the naanufacture of said process or renovated butter are deleterious to 



