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act shall be kept with its face up, upon the exposed contents 

 of said tub, firkin, box, or other package; provided, that this 

 section shall not be deemed to apply to persons who have the 

 same in their possession for the actual consumption of them- 

 selves or family, and for no other purpose. 



SEC. 14. No person, by himself or another, shall sell, or sale of 

 offer for sale, or take orders for the future delivery of any 

 oleomargarine, or any substance designed to be used as a sub- 

 stitute for butter or cheese, under the name of butter, or under 

 the pretense that the same is butter or cheese ; and no person, 

 by himself or another, shall sell any substance designed to 

 be used as a substitute for butter or cheese, unless he shall 

 inform the purchaser distinctly, at the time of the sale, of its 

 true name and character, and that the same is a substitute for 

 butter or cheese, as the case may be, and shall deliver to the 

 purchaser, at the time of the sale, a separate and distinct copy 

 of the statement described in section eleven of this act; and no 

 person shall use in any way in connection or association with 

 the sale, or exposure for sale, or advertisement of any oleomar- 

 garine or any substance designed to be used as a substitute 

 for butter or cheese, the words "butterine," "creamery," or 

 1 ' dairy, ' ' or the representation of a cow or any breed of dairy 

 cattle, or any combination of such words and representations, 

 or .any other words or symbols, or combinations thereof, com- 

 monly used by the dairy industry in the sale of butter or 

 cheese. 



SEC. 15. No keeper or proprietor of any bakery, hotel, Notice by- 

 boarding-house, restaurant, saloon, lunch counter, or other keepers, 

 place of public entertainment, and no person having charge 

 thereof or employed thereat, and no person furnishing board, 

 for others than members of his own family, and no employee 

 where such board is furnished as the compensation or as a part 

 of the compensation of any employee, shall place before any 

 patron or employee, for use as food, any oleomargarine, or any 

 substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter or 

 cheese, unless the same be accompanied by a copy of the state- 

 ment described in section eleven of this act, and by a verbal 

 notification to said patron that such substance is a substitute 

 for butter or cheese. 



SEC. 16. No action can be maintained on account of any Maintaining 

 .sale or other contract made in violation of, or with intent to contract" 

 violate, this act, by or through any person, who was knowingly 

 a party to such wrongful sale or other contract. 



Every person having possession or control of any oleomar- 

 garine, or any substance designed to be used as a substitute for 

 butter or cheese, which is not marked as required by the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be presumed to have known, during the 

 time of such possession or control, that the same was imitation 

 butter, or imitation cheese, as the case may be. 



SEC. 17. No person shall efface, erase, cancel, or remove 

 any mark, statement, or label required by this act, with intent 



