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the provisions of the preceding sections of this Act, and no 

 materials shall be used for the promotion of fermentation, or 

 the assistance of any of the operations of wine treatment 

 which are injurious to the consumer or the reputation of wine 

 as pure ; provided, that it shall be expressly understood that 

 the practices of using pure tannin in small quantities, leaven 

 to excite fermentation only, and not to increase the material 

 for the production of alcohol ; water before or during, but not 

 after fermentation, for the purpose of decreasing the saccharine 

 strength of musts to enable perfect fermentation ; and the 

 natural products of grapes in the pure forms as they exist in 

 pure grape musts, skins, and seeds ; sulphur fumes, to disin- 

 fect cooperage and prevent disease in wine ; and pure gela- 

 tinous and albuminous substances, for the sole purpose of 

 assisting fining or clarification, shall be specifically permitted 

 in the operations hereinbefore mentioned, in accordance with 

 recognized legitimate custom. 



SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful to sell, or expose, or offer to 

 sell under the name of wine, or grape musts, or condensed 

 musts, or under any names designating pure wines, or pure 

 musts as hereinbefore classified and defined, or branded, 

 labeled, or designated in any way as wine or musts, or by any 

 name popularly and commercially used as a designation of 

 wine produced from grapes, such as Claret, Burgundy, Hock, 

 Sauterne, Port, Sherry, Madeira and Angelica, any substance 

 or compound, except pure wine, or pure grape must, or pure 

 grape condensed must, as defined by this Act, and produced 

 in accordance with and subject to restrictions herein set forth; 

 provided ; that this Act shall not apply to liquors imported 

 from any foreign country, which are taxed upon entry by cus- 

 tom laws in accordance with a specific duty and contained in 

 original packages or vessels and prominently branded, labeled, 

 or marked so as to be known to all persons as foreign pro- 

 ducts, excepting, however, when such liquors shall contain 



