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CONGRESS. (OLEOMARGARINE AND DAIRY-PRODUCTS.) 



Every person who knowingly sells or offers for 

 sale, or delivers or offers to deliver, any adul- 

 terated butter in any other form than in new 

 wooden or paper packages as above described, or 

 who packs in any package any adulterated 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 $1,000 and be imprisoned not more 

 than two years. 



" That every 'manufacturer of adulterated but- 

 ter shall securely affix, by pasting, on each pack- 

 age containing adulterated butter manufactured 

 by him a label on which shall be printed, besides 

 the number of the manufactory and the district 

 and State in which it is situated, these words: 

 ' Notice. That the manufacturer of the adul- 

 terated butter herein contained has complied 

 witli 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 

 containing adulterated butter made by him, or 

 sold or offered for sale for or by him, and every 

 person who removes any such label so affixed from 

 any such package shall be fined $50 for each 

 package in respect to which such offense is com- 

 mitted. 



" That upon adulterated butter, when manu- 

 factured or sold or removed for consumption or 

 use, there shall be assessed and collected a t#x of 

 10 cents per pound, to be paid by the manu- 

 facturer thereof, and any fractional part of a 

 pound shall be taxed as a pound, and that upon 

 process or renovated butter, when manufactured 

 or sold or removed for consumption or use, there 

 shall be assessed and collected a tax of one-fourth 

 of 1 cent per pound, to be paid by the manu- 

 facturer 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 cou- 

 pon stamps, and the provisions of existing laws 

 governing engraving, issuing sale, accountability, 

 effacement, and destruction of stamps relating to 

 tobacco and snuff, as far as applicable, are hereby 

 made to apply to the stamps provided by this 

 section. 



" That the provisions of sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 

 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 of 'An Act 

 defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and 

 regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, 

 and exportation of oleomargarine,' approved Aug. 

 2, 1886, shall apply to manufacturers of ' adul- 

 terated butter ' to an extent necessary to enforce 

 the marking, branding, identification, and regula- 

 tion of the exportation and importation of adul- 

 terated butter. 



" SEC. 5. All parts of an act providing for an 

 inspection of meats for exportation, approved Aug. 

 30, 1890, and of an act to provide for the inspec- 

 tion of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and 

 products thereof which are the subjects of inter- 

 state commerce, approved March 3, 1891, and of 

 amendment thereto approved March 2, 1895, 

 which are applicable to the subjects and purposes 

 described in this section shall apply to process 

 or renovated butter. And the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture 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 manufactured, packed, or pre- 

 pared 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 ' Kenovated Butter ' or ' Process Butter ' 

 and by such other marks, labels, or brands and in 

 such manner as may be prescribed by the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture, and no process or renovated 

 butter shall be shipped or transported from its 

 place of manufacture into any other State or Ter- 

 ritory or the District of Columbia, or to any 

 foreign country, until it has been marked as pro- 

 vided in this section. The Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture shall make all needful regulations for carry- 

 ing this section into effect, and shall cause to be 

 ascertained and reported from time to time the 

 quantity and quality of process or renovated but- 

 ter manufactured, and the character and the con- 

 dition 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 ex- 

 portation 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 mis- 

 demeanor and on conviction thereof shall be 

 punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more 

 than $500* 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 oleomarga- 

 rine, process, renovated, or adulterated butter 

 shall keep such books and render such returns in 

 relation thereto as the Commissioner of Internal 

 Revenue, with the approval 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 wilfully violates any of the pro- 

 visions of this section shall for each such offense 

 be fined not less than $50 and not exceeding $500, 

 and imprisioned not less than thirty days nor 

 more than six months. 



" SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect on the 1st 

 day of July, 1902." 



The Congress likewise passed, and the Pres- 

 ident approved, July 1, 1902, an act " to prevent 

 the false branding or marking of food and 

 dairy products as to the State or Territory in 

 which they are made or produced." It is as 

 follows: 



"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 

 Representatives of the United States of Ameri<-<t 

 in Congress assembled, That no person or persons, 

 company or corporation, shall introduce into any 

 State or Territory of the United States or the 

 District of Columbia from any other State or Ter- 

 ritory of the United States or the District of 

 Columbia, or sell in the District of Columbia or 

 in any Territory any diary or food products which 

 shall be falsely labeled or branded as to the Stut<> 

 or Territory in which they are made, produced, 

 or grown, or cause or procure the same to be done 

 by others. 



" SEC. 2. That if any person or persons violate 

 the provisions of this act. either in person or 

 through another, he shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor and shall be punished by a fine of not 

 less than $500 nor more than $2.000: and that the 

 jurisdiction for the prosecution of said misde- 

 meanor shall be within the district of the United 

 States court in which it is committeed." 



