636 BOAKD OF AGKICULTURE. 



NATIONAL OLEOMARGARINE LAWS. 



[Public— No. 110.] 



An act to make oleomargarine and other imitation dairy products sub- 

 ject to the laws of anj' State or Territory or the District of Columbia into 

 which they are transported, and to change the tax on oleomargarine, and 

 to impose a tax, provide for the inspection, and I'egulate tlie manufacture 

 and sale of certain dairy products, and to amend an Act entitled "An Act 

 defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, 

 sale, imiiortation, and exportation of oleomargarine," approved August 

 second, eighteen hinidred and eighty-six. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress assembled, Tliat all articles known 

 as oleomargarine, butterine, imitation, process, renovated, or adulterated 

 butter, or imitation clieese, or any substance in the semblance of butter 

 or clieese not the usual product of the dairy and not made exclusively of 

 pure and unadulterated milk or cream, transported into any State or Terri- 

 tory or the District of Columbia, and remaining therein for use, consump- 

 tion, sale, or storage therein, shall, upon the arrival within the limits of 

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

 ation and effect of the laws of sucii 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 suijstances 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 liis own family table without 

 compensation, Avho 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 herebj^ 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- 



