376 Milk and Its Products 



SEC. 20, Act of August 2, 1886: 



That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval 

 of the Secretary of the Treasury, may make all needful regulations for 

 the carrying into effect of this act. 



SEC. 21, Act of August 2, 1886: 



That this act shall go into effect on the ninetieth day after its pas- 

 sage; and all wooden packages containing ten or more pounds of oleo- 

 margarine found on the premises of any dealer on or after the ninetieth 

 day succeeding the date of the passage of this act shall be deemed to be 

 taxable under section eight of this act, and shall be taxed, and shall 

 have affixed thereto the stamps, marks, and brands required by this act 

 or by regulations made pursuant to this act; and for the purpose of 

 securing the affixing of the stamps, marks and brands required by this 

 act, the oleomargarine shall be regarded as having been manufactured 

 and sold, or removed from the manufactory for consumption or use, on 

 or after the day this act takes effect; and such stock on hand at the time 

 of the taking effect of this act may be stamped, marked, and branded 

 under special regulations of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 

 approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and the Commissioner of 

 Internal Revenue may authorize the holder of such packages- to mark 

 and brand the same and to affix thereto the proper tax-paid stamps. 



SEC. 4, Act of May 9, 1902: 



That for the purpose of this act "butter" is hereby defined to mean 

 an article of food as defined in "An Act defining butter, also imposing 

 a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and 

 exportation of oleomargarine," approved August second, eighteen hun- 

 dred and eighty-six; that "adulterated butter" is hereby defined to 

 mean a grade of butter produced by mixing, reworking, rechurning in 

 milk or cream, refining, or in any way producing a uniform, purified, 

 or improved product from different lots or parcels of melted or unmelted 

 butter or butter fat, in which any acid, alkali, chemical, or any sub- 

 stance whatever is introduced or used for the purpose or with the effect 

 of deodorizing or removing therefrom rancidity, or any butter or butter 

 fat with which there is mixed any substance foreign to butter as herein 

 defined, with intent or effect of cheapening in cost the product or any 

 butter in the manufacture or manipulation of which any process or 

 material is used with intent or effect of causing the absorption of abnor- 

 mal quantities of water, milk, or cream; that "process butter" or "reno- 

 vated butter" is hereby defined to mean butter which has been sub- 

 jected to any process by which it is melted, clarified or refined and 

 made to resemble genuine butter, always excepting "adulterated but- 

 ter" as defined by this Act, 



