Agricultural Law 



[Art. 3. 



ferine, oleomargarine, lard, cheese, or articles or products in imita- 

 tion or semblance of natural butter or cheese produced from pure 

 unadulterated milk or cream from the same, which articles or 

 products have been rendered or manufactured in whole or in part 

 from animal fats, or animal or vegetable oils not produced from 

 unadulterated milk or cream from the same. 



§ 54. Purchase, sale and use of butterine and similar products 

 prohibited in certain institutions. Xo officer, manager, superin- 

 tendent or agent of an institution mentioned in section fifty-three 

 of this chapter, shall purchase for the use of such institution arti- 

 cles or products, for the purchase of which the monev appropri- 

 ated by law, or by a county, city or town, is forbidden to be used 

 by section fifty-three of this chapter, and no person shall sell to, 

 or for the use of such institution, such articles or products. Nor 

 shall such articles or products be used as articles of food or for 

 cooking purposes in such institutions within this state. 



§ 55. licensing of milk gathering stations where milk is 

 bought. On and after September first, nineteen hundred and 

 thirteen, no person, firm, association or corporation, shall buy 

 milk within the state for the purpose of shipping the same to any 

 city for consumption or for the manufacture thereof into butter, 

 cheese, condensed milk or other human food, unless such business 

 be regularly transacted at an office or station within the state and 

 unless such person, firm, association or corporation be duly 

 licensed as provided in this and the ensuing sections of this article. 

 Every such person, firm, association or corporation before engag- 

 ing or continuing in the business of buying milk for the purposes 

 aforesaid, shall, annually, on or before August first, file an appli- 

 cation with the commissioner of agriculture for a license to trans- 

 act such business. The application shall state the nature of the 

 statement, busiucss, as hcreiuabove set forth, the full name of the person or 



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corporation applying for the license, and, if the applicant be a 

 firm or association, the full name of each member of such firm, or 

 association, the city, town or village and street number at which 

 the business is to be conducted, and such other facts as the com- 

 Address missiouer of agriculture shall prescribe. The applicant shall 



