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influence upon the development of the oleomargarine 

 law of the country. 



RESTRICTIVE AND PROHIBITORY LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA 



The restrictive principle in the oleomargarine law of 

 Pennsylvania, entitled " For the protection of dairymen 

 and to prevent deception in sales of butter and cheese," 

 and enacted in 1883, allowed the manufacture and sale of 

 oleomargarine, but required that all packages containing 

 it should be branded or marked, and that retailers sell- 

 ing oleomargarine must give a printed label bearing 

 the words "oleomargarine butter" to the purchaser. 

 The law ' reads as follows : 



Section I. Be it enacted, That every person who shall 



manufacture for sale, or who shall offer or expose for sale, or 

 who shall export to a foreign country, by the tub, firkin, box 

 or package, or any greater quantity, any article or substance 

 in semblance of butter or cheese, not the legitimate product 

 of the dairy, and not made exclusively from milk or cream, 

 but into which any oil, lard or fat not produced from milk or 

 cream, enters as a component part or into which melted 

 butter or any oil thereof has been introduced to take the place 

 of cream, shall distinctly and durably stamp, brand or mark 

 upon the side of every cheese, and also upon the top and side 

 of every such tub, firkin, box or package of such article or 

 substance, the words " oleomargarine butter," or if containing 

 cheese the words " imitation cheese " only, where it can be 

 plainly seen in Roman letters, which shall be burned in or 

 painted thereon with permanent black print in a straight line, 

 and shall not be less than one-half inch in length, and if for 

 export shall also invoice the same and clear the same through 

 the custom house as " oleomargarine butter" or if cheese as 

 "imitation cheese," and in case of retail sales of such articles 



1 Laws of Pennsylvania, 1883, p. 43. 



