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STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Butter used 

 institutions? 



oieomar- 



warrant 

 to take 

 samples. 



Eac J 

 be marked, 



Renovated 

 defined. 



to mislead, deceive, or with intent to violate any of the pro- 

 visions of this act. 



SEC. 18. No butter or cheese not made wholly from pure 

 niilk or cream, salt, and harmless coloring matter, shall be 

 used in any of the charitable or penal institutions that receive 

 assistance from the state. 



^ EC ' ^' Whoever shall have possession or control of any 

 imitation butter or imitation cheese or any oleomargarine, or 

 any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter 

 or cheese, or any renovated butter, contrary to the provisions 

 of this act, shall be construed to have possession of property 

 with intent to use it as a means of committing a public offense, 

 within the meaning of chapter three, of title twelve, or part 

 two, of an act to establish a penal code ; provided, that it shall 

 ^ e ^ e duty of the officer who serves a bench warrant issued 

 for imitation butter or imitation cheese, or oleomargarine, or 

 anv su |3 S t ance designed to be used as a substitute for butter 

 or cheese, or any renovated butter, to deliver to the agent or 

 inspector of the state dairy bureau,* or to any person by such 

 dairy bureau authorized in writing to receive the same, a per- 

 fect sample of each article seized by virtue of such warrant, 

 for the purpose of having the same analyzed, and forthwith to 

 return to the person from whom it was taken the remainder of 

 each article seized as aforesaid. If any sample be found to be 

 imitation butter or imitation cheese, or oleomargarine, or a 

 substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter or 

 cheese, or renovated butter, it shall be returned to and retained 

 by the magistrate as and for the purpose contemplated by 

 section fifteen hundred and thirty-six of an act to establish a 

 penal code; but if any sample be. found not to be imitation 

 butter or imitation cheese, or oleomargarine, and not a sub- 

 stance designed to be used as a substitute for butter or cheese, 

 or renovated butter, it shall be returned forthwith to the person 

 from whom it was taken. 



SEC. 20. No person, firm or corporation, by themselves or 

 their agents or employees, shall sell, offer for sale, or expose 

 for sale, or have in his, its, or their possession for sale, any 

 oleomargarine or any renovated butter, unless the same shall 

 have printed upon each and every package, roll, print, square, 

 and upon any container of such renovated butter, or oleomar- 

 garine, the words "renovated butter," or the word "oleomar- 

 garine," as the case may be, in letters not less than one-half 

 inch in height, and who shall not have secured from the state 

 dairy bureau, now existing under the laws of this state, a 

 license as provided hereinafter. 



SEC. 21. The term renovated butter as used in this act is 

 hereby denned to mean and include butter that has been 

 reduced to a liquid state by melting and drawing off such 

 liquid or butter oil and churning or otherwise manipulating it 

 in connection with milk or any product thereof. 



*See note, page 32 hereof. 



