BUTTER AND ITS ADULTERATIONS, 



The adulteration of butter with other fats has of late years attracted 

 the attention not only of the analyst but also of the political economist 

 and health officer. 



This matter has been deemed of sufficient importance to demand reg- 

 ulation by law of Congress. This law provides for the inspection and 

 analysis of commercial butters and their substitutes. 



Following is the text of the act : 



AN ACT defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the jnanufacture, sale, importation, 

 and exportation of oleomargarine. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That for the purposes of this act the word "butter" shall be 

 understood to mean the food product usually known as butter, and which is made 

 exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or 

 without additional coloring matter. 



SEC. 2. That for the purposes of this act certain manufactured substances, certain 

 extracts, and certain mixtures and compounds, including such mixtures and com- 

 pounds with butter, shall be known and designated as " oleomargarine," namely : All 

 substances heretofore known as oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine-oil, butteriue, 

 lardine, suiue, and neutral ; all mixtures and compounds of oleomargarine, oleo, oleo- 

 margarine-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, intestinal fat, and offal fat made in 

 imitation or semblance of butter, or when so made, calculated, or intended to be sold 

 as butter or for butter. 



SEC. 3. That special taxes are imposed as follows : 



Manufacturers of oleomargarine shall pay six hundred dollars. Every person who 

 manufactures oleomargarine for sale shall be deemed a manufacturer of oleomarga- 

 rine. 



Wholesale dealers in oleomargarine shall pay four hundred and eighty dollars. 

 Every person who sells or offers for sale oleomargarine in the original manufacturer's 

 packages shall be deemed a wholesale dealer in oleomargarine. But any manufacturer 

 of oleomargarine who has given the required bond and paid the required special tax, 

 and who sells only oleomargarine of his own production, at the place of manufacture, 

 in the original packages to which the tax-paid stamps are affixed, shall not be required 

 to pay the special tax of a wholesale dealer in oleomargarine on account of such sales. 



Retail dealers in oleomargarine shall pay forty -eight dollars. Every person who 

 sells oleomargarine in less quantities than ten pounds at one time shall bo regarded 

 as a retail dealer in oleomargarine ; and sections thirty-two hundred and thirty-two, 

 thirty-two hundred and thirty-three, thirty-two hundred and' : thirty-four, thirty-two 

 hundred and thirty-five, thirty-two 'hundred and thirty-six, thirty-two hundred and 

 thirty-seven, thirty-two hundred and thirty-eight, thirty-two hundred and tlrrty- 



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