XVI, THE CREAMERY PATRON'S HANDBOOK. 



butter without having paid the special tax therefor, as required by law, shall, besides being liable 

 to the payment of the tax, be fined not less, than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars for each 

 offense. 



That every manufacturer of process or renovated butter or adulterated butter shall file with 

 the collector of internal revenue of the district in which his manufactory is located such notices, 

 inventories, and bonds, shall keep such books and render such returns of material and products, 

 shall put up such signs and affix such number of his factory, and conduct his business under such 

 surveillance of officers and agents as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of 

 the Secretary of the Treasury, may by regulation require. But the bond required of such a manu- 

 facturer shall be with sureties satisfactory to the collector of internal revenue, and in a penal 

 sum of not less than five hundred dollars ; and the sum of said bond may be increased from time 

 to time and additional sureties required at the discretion of the collector or under instructions of 

 the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. 



That all adulterated butter shall be packed by the manufacturer thereof in firkins, tubs, or 

 other wooden packages not before used for that purpose, each containing not less than 10 Ibs. and 

 marked, stamped, and branded as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the 

 Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe; and all sales made by manufacturers of adulterated 

 butter shall be in original stamped packages. 



Dealers in adulterated butter must sell only original or from original stamped packages, and 

 when such original stamped packages are broken the adulterated butter sold from same shall be 

 placed in suitable wooden or paper packages, which shall be marked and branded as the Commis- 

 sioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe. 

 Every person who knowingly sells or offers for sale, or delivers or offers to deliver, any adulterated 

 butter in any other form than in new wooden or paper packages as above described, or who packs 

 in any package any adulterated butter in any manner contrary to law, or who falsely brands any 

 package or affixes a stamp on any package denoting a less amount of tax than that required by 

 law, shall be fined for each offense not more than $1,000 and be imprisoned not more than two years. 



That every manufacturer of adulterated butter shall securely affix, by pasting, on each pack- 

 age containing adulterated butter manufactured by him a label on which shall be printed, besides 

 the number of the manufactory and the district and State in which it is situated, these words: 

 " Notice. That the manufacturer of the adulterated butter herein contained has complied with all 

 the requirements of law. Every person is cautioned not to use either this package again or the 

 stamp thereon, nor to remove the contents of this package without destroying said stamp, under 

 the penalty provided by law in such cases." Every manufacturer of adulterated butter who neg- 

 lects to affix such label to any package containing adulterated butter made by him, or sold or 

 offered for sale for or by him, and every person who removes any such label so affixed from any 

 such package shall be fined $50 for each package in respect to which such offense is committed. 



That upon adulterated butter, when manufactured or sold or removed for consumption or 

 use, there shall be assessed and collected a tax of 10 cents per pound to be paid by the manufac- 

 turer thereof, and any fractional part of a pound shall be taxed as a pound, and that uoon process 

 or renovated butter, when manufactured or sold or removed for consumption or use, there shall be 

 assessed and collected a tax of one-fourth of one cent per pound, to be paid by the manufacturer 

 thereof, and any fractional part of a pound shall be taxed as a pound. The tax to be levied by 

 this section shall be represented by coupon stamps, and the provisions of existing laws governing 

 engraving, Issuing, sale, accountability, effacenient, and destruction of stamps relating to tobacco 

 and snuff, as far as applicable are hereby made to apply to the stamps provided by this section. 



That the provisions of sections nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, 

 seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one of "An Act defining butter, also imposing 

 a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine," 

 approved August second, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, shall apply to mauuf aturers of "' adul- 

 terated butter "to an extent necessary to enforce the marking, branding, identification and regu- 

 lation of the exportation and importation of adulterated butter. 



SEC. 5. All parts of an Act providing for an inspection of meats for exportation, approved 

 August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and of an Act to provide for the inspection of live 

 cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof which are the subjects of interstate com- 

 merce approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of amendment thereto ap- 

 proved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, which are applicable to the subjects and 

 purposes described in this section shall apply to process'or renovated butter. And the Secretary 

 of Agriculture is hereby authorized and required to cause a rigid sanitary inspection to be made, 

 at such times as he may deem proper or necessary, of all factories and storehouses where process 

 or renovated butter is manufactured, packed cr prepared for market, and of the products thereof 

 and materials going into the manufacture of same. All process or renovated butter and the pack- 

 ages containing the same shall be marked with the words kl Renovated Butter" or "Process But- 

 ter " and by such other marks, labels or brands and in such manner as maybe prescribed by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, and no process or renovated butter shall be shipped or transported from 

 its place of manufacture into any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to any 

 foreign country, until it has been marked as provided in this section. The Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture shall make all needful regulations for carrying this section into effect, and shall cause to be 

 ascertained and reported from time to time the quantity and quality of process or renovated but- 

 ter manufnctured, and the character and the condition of the material from which it is made. 

 And he shall also have power to ascertain whether or not materials used in the manufacture of 

 said process or renovated butter are deleterious to health or unwholesome in the finished product, 

 and in case such deleterious or unwholesome materials are found to be used in product intended for 

 exportation or shipment, into other States, or in course of exportation or shipment, he shall have 

 power to confiscate the same. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of 

 this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished 

 by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not 

 less than one month nor more than six months, or by both said puuishments, in the discretion of 

 the court. 



SEC. 6. That wholesale dealers in oleomargarine, process, renovated, or adulterated butter 

 shall, keep such books and render such returns in relation thereto as the Commissioner of Internal 

 Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may, by regulation, require ; and 



