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The full texts of the National Oleomargarine Law 

 and the Filled Cheese Law are as follows: 



THE OLEOMARGARINE LAW 



[Act of August 2, 1886 (24 Stat., 209), as amended by acts of October 1, 1890 (26 

 Stat., 621), and May 9, 1902, to make oleomargarine and other imitation dairy 

 products subject to the laws of any State, or Territory, or the District of Col- 

 umbia into which they are transported, and to change the tax on oleomar- 

 garine, and to impose a tax, provide for the inspection, and regulate the manu- 

 facture and sale of certain dairy products, and to amend an act entitled "An 

 act denning butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, 

 sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine," approved August 2, 1886.] 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 'he United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That all articles known as oleo- 

 margarine, butterine, imitation, process, renovated, or adulterated 

 butter, or imitation cheese, or any substance in the semblance of butter 

 or cheese not the usual product of the dairy and not made exclusively 

 of pure and unadulterated milk or cream, transported into any State 

 or Territory or the District of Columbia, and remaining therein for use, 

 consumption, sale, or storage therein shall, upon the arrival within 

 the limits of such State or Territory or the District of Columbia, be 

 subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Terri- 

 tory or the District of Columbia, enacted in the exercise of its police 

 powers to the same extent and in the same manner as though such arti- 

 cles or substances had been produced in such State or Territory or the 

 District of Columbia, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason 

 of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise. 



SECTION 1, Act of August 2, 1886: 



That for the purpose of this act the word "butter" shall be under- 

 stood to mean the food product usually known as butter, and which 

 is made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without com- 

 mon salt, and with or without additional coloring matter. 



SEC. 2, Act of August 2, 1886: 



That for the purposes of this act certain manufactured substances, 

 certain extracts, and certain mixtures and compounds, including such 

 mixtures and compounds with butter, shall be known and designated 

 as "oleomargarine," namely: All substances heretofore known as oleo- 

 margarine, oleo, oleomargarine-oil, butterine, lardine, suine and neutral; 

 all mixtures and compounds of oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine-oil, 

 butterine, lardine, suine, and neutral; all lard extracts and tallow 

 extracts; and all mixtures and compounds of tallow, beef -fat, suet, 

 lard, lard-oil, vegetable oil, annotto, and other coloring matter, intes- 



