STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION. 639 



or paper packages, which shall be marked and branded as the Commis- 

 sioner of Internal Rpvenne, with the approval of the Secretary of the 

 Troasur.v, shall proscribe. Every person who knowinjrly sells or offers for 

 sale, or delivers or offers to deliver, any adulterated butter in any other 

 form than in now wooden or paper packages as above described, or who 

 packs in any package any adulterated Initter in any manner contrary to 

 law, or who falsely brands any package or affixes a stamp on any package 

 denoting a less amount of tax than that required by law, shall be fined for 

 each offense not more than one thousand dollars and be imprisoned not 

 more than two years. 



That every manufacturer of aduitorated butter shai' securely affix, by 

 pasting, on each package containing aduitorated butter manufactured 

 by him a label on which -shall be printed, besides the number of the manu- 

 factory and the district and State in which it is situated these Avords: 

 '•Notice.— That the' manufacturer of the adulterated butter herein con- 

 tained has complied with all the requirements of laAv. Every person is 

 cautioned not to use either this package again or the stamp thereon, nor to 

 remove the contents of this package without destroying said stamp, under 

 the penalty provided by law in such cases." Every manufacturer of 

 adulterated butter who neglects to affix such label to any package contain- 

 ing adulterated butter made by him, or sold or offered for sale for or by 

 him, and every person who removes any such label so affixed from any 

 such package shall be fined fifty dollars for each package in respect to 

 which such olTense is committed. 



That upon adulferated 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 fi-ac- 

 tioual 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 frac- 

 tional 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 

 existing laws governing engraving, issuing, sale, accountability, eflface- 

 ment, 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 defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating 

 the manufacture, sale, importation, 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 

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

 importation of adulterated butter. 



