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SALE OF IMPORTED BUTTER. 



An act to regulate the sale of butter that lias been shipped or 

 imported into the State of California from any point or 

 place outside of the United States, requiring the marking 

 thereof by all persons selling or offering same for sale, and 

 fixing penalties for the violation of the same or of any of 

 the provisions thereof. 



(Approved May 19, 1915; Stats. 1915, p. 689.) 



SECTION 1. For the purposes of this act the words "person, Definition of 

 firm, company, or - corporation, ' ' shall include wholesalers, etc?" "' 

 retailers, jobbers, and every place where butter that has been 

 shipped or imported into the State of California from any 

 point or place outside of the United States is sold or offered 

 for sale. 



SEC. 2. Every person, firm, company, or corporation who imported 

 sells, offers for sale, or has in his, or their possession f or nwEi! 1 

 sale, or consigns, ships or presents to any dealer, commission 

 merchant, consumer, or other person any butter that has been 

 shipped or imported into the State of California from any 

 point or place outside of the United States shall, before doing 

 so, cause to be stamped, marked or printed upon the wrapper, 

 or other container thereof in black-face letters not less than 

 one-eighth of an inch in height the word ' ' imported. ' ' 



SEC. 3. Every person, firm, company, or corporation selling Dealer's 

 or offering for sale any butter that has been shipped or Seating 

 imported into the State of California from any point or place importation, 

 outside of the United States, shall display in a conspicuous 

 place in his or their public salesroom a sign, which shall be 

 not less than one foot in height and two feet in length, bearing 

 the words "imported butter sold here" in black-face letters 

 not less than three inches in height and one-half inch in width 

 upon a white ground. 



SEC. 4. Every person, firm, company or corporation who Penalty, 

 shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act, and, 

 upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment 

 in the county jail for not more than six months; or by a 

 fine of not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by 

 both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. 



