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than thirty days nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of 

 the court. 



Laws of 1879, page 11 (Revised Statutes, chapter 38, sections 39a-39c). 



AN ACT to prevent frauds in the manufacture and sale of butter and cheese. 

 . (Approved May 31, 1879.) 



Section 1. That whoever manufactures, sells, or offers for sale, or 

 causes the same to be done, any substance purporting to be butter or cheese, 

 or having the semblance of butter or cheese, which substance is not made 

 wholly from pure cream or pure milk, unless the same be manufactured 

 under its true and appropriate name, and unless each package, roll, or par- 

 cel of such substance, and each vessel containing one or more packages of 

 such substance, have distinctly and durably painted, stamped, or marked 

 thereon the true and appropriate name of such substance, in ordinary bold- 

 faced capital letters not less than f've-iines pica, shall be punished as pro- 

 vided in section 3 of this act. 



Sec. 2. Whoever shall sell any such substance as is mentioned in sec- 

 tion 1 of this act to consumers, or cause the same to be done, without de- 

 livering with each package, roll, or parcel so sold, a label on which is 

 plainly and legibly printed, in roman letters, the true and appropriate 

 name of such substance, shall be punished as is provided in section 3 of this 

 act. 



Sec. 3. Whoever knowingly violates section 1 or section 2 of this act 

 shall be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than three hundred 

 dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten nor more than 

 ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That 

 nothing contained in this act shall be construed to prevent the use of 

 skimmed milk, salt rennet, or harmless coloring matter, in the manufacture 

 of butter and cheese. 



Laws of 1881, page 74 (Revised Statutes, chapter 38, sections 9f-9g). 



AN ACT to prevent the adulteration of butter and cheese, or the sale or 

 disposal of the same, or the manufacture or sale of any article as a 

 substitute for butter or cheese, or any article to be used as butter and 

 cheese. (Approved June 1, 1831.) 



