242 Milk and Its Products. 
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 by 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 which 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. 
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