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casses and ijroducts 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 

 naanuf actured, paclced, 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 words "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 manufacture of said process or renovated butter are deleterious to 

 health or unwholesome in the finished product, and in case such deleterious 

 or unwholesome materials are found to be used in product intended for 

 exportation or shipment into other States or in course of exportation or 

 shipment he shall have power to confiscate the same. Any person, firm, 

 or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred 

 dollars or by imprisonment not less than one month nor more than six 

 months, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court. 



Sec. 6. That wholesale dealers in oleomargarine, process, renovated 

 or adulterated butter shall keep such books and render such returns in 

 relation thereto as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the ap- 

 proval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may, by regulation, require; and 

 such books shall be open at all times to the inspection of any internal 

 revenue officer or agent. And any person who willfully violates any of 

 the provisions of this section shall for each such offense be fined not less 

 than fifty dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisoned 

 not less than thirty days nor more than six months. 



Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect on the first day of July, nineteen 

 hundred and two. 



Approved, May 9, 1902. 



