238 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Sec. 4. No person shall mix oleomargarine, suine, butterine, beef fat, 

 lard, or any other foreign substance, with any butter or cheese intended 

 for human food, without distinctly marking, stamping, or labeling the ar- 

 ticle, or the package containing the same, with the true and appropriate 

 name of such article, and the percentge in which such oleomargarine or 

 suine enters into its composition; nor shall any person sell or offer for 

 sale, or order or premit to be sold or offered for sale, any such article of 

 food into the composition of whic9i oleomargarine or suine has entered, 

 without at the same time informing the buyer of the fact, and the propor- 

 tions in which such oleomargarine, suine, or butterine, beef fat, lard, or 

 any other foreign substance has entered into its composition: Provided, 

 That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the use of 

 harmless coloring matter in butter and cheese, or other articles of food. 



Sec. 5. Any person convicted of violating any provision of any of the 

 foregoing sections of this act shall, for the first offense, be fined not less 

 than twenty -five dollars nor more than two hundred; for the second offense 

 he shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hun- 

 dred dollars, or confined in the county jail not less than one month nor 

 more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court; and for the 

 third and all subsequent offences he shall be fined not less than five hun- 

 dred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the 

 penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years. 



(Section 6, which made ignorance of the provisions of the law a defense 

 against prosecution, is repealed in the food commission bill passed by the 

 last legislature.) 



Sec. 7. The State's attorneys of this State are charged with the en- 

 forcement of this act, and it is hereby made their duty to appear for the 

 people, and to attend to the prosecution of all complaints under this act, in 

 their respective counties, in all courts. 



Sec. 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of 

 this act are hereby repealed. 



Laws of 1S97, page 3 (Revised Statutes, chapter 38, sections 39d-39n). 



AN ACT to regulate the manufacture and sale of substitutes for butter. 



(Approved June 14, 1897). 



Section 1. That for the purpose of this act every article, substitute, 

 or compound other than that which is produced from pure milk or cream 



