642 BOARD OF AGKICULTUBE. 



Treasury, shall prescribe. Every person who knowingly sells or offers for 

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

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

 packs in any package any adulterffted butter 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 

 mox'e than two years. 



That every manufacturer of adulterated butter shall securely affix, by 

 pasting, on each package containing adulterated butter manufactured 

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

 factory and the distnct and State in which it is situated these words: 

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

 tained has complied with all the requirements of law. 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 aflBxed from any 

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

 which such offense is committed. 



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, accountability, effacement, 

 and destruction of stamps relating to tobacco and snuff, as far as applica- 

 ble, 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 

 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 car- 



