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ury, shall prescribe ; and all sales made by manufacturers of oleo- 

 margarine and -wholesale dealers in oleomargarine shall be in 

 original stamped packages. Retail dealers in oleomargarine must 

 sell only from original stamped packages, in quantities not 

 exceeding ten pounds, and shall pack the oleomargarine sold by 

 them in suitable wooden or paper packages, which shall be marked 

 and branded as the Commissioner 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 oleomargarine in any other form than in new wooden 

 or paper packages as above described, or who packs in any pack- 

 age any oleomargarine 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 Ijy law, shall 

 be fined for each offense not more than one thousand dollars and 

 be imprisoned not more than two years. 



Sec. 7. That every manufacturer of oleomargarine shall securely 

 affix, by pasting on each package containing oleomargarine manufac- 

 tured by him, a label on which shall be printed, besides the number 

 of the manufactory, and the district and state in wiiich it is situ- 

 ated, these words "Notice. — The manufacturer of the oleomargarine 

 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 again, nor to remove the contents of this pack- 

 age without destroying said stamp, under the penalty provided by 

 law in such cases." Every manufacturer of oleomargarine who 

 neglects to affix such label to any package containing oleomarga- 

 rine made by him, or sold or offered for sale by or for him, and 

 every person who removes any such label so affixed from any such 

 package, shall be fined fifty dollars for each package in respect to 

 which such offense is committed. 



Sec. 8. That upon oleomargarine which shall be manufactured 

 and sold, or removed for consumption or use, there shall be assessed 

 and collected a tax of two cents per pound, to be paid by the 

 manufacturer thereof ; and any fractional part of a pound in a 

 package shall be taxed as a pound. The tax levied by this sec- 

 tion shall be represented by coupon stamps ; and the provisions of 

 existing laws governing the engraving, issue, sale, accountability, 

 effacement, and destruction of stamps relating to tobacco and snuff, 

 as far as applicable, are hereby made to apply to stamps provided 

 for by this section. 



