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Illinois State Dairymeiis Association. 



Provided, Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit 

 the use of salt, rennet and harmless coloring matter for coloring 

 the product of pure milk or cream from the same. 



No person shall, by himself, his agents, or employes produce 

 or manufacture any substance in imitation or semblance of nat- 

 ural butter, nor sell, nor keep for sale, nor offer for sale, any imi- 

 tation butter, made or manufactured, compounded or produced 

 in violation of this section, whether such imitation butter shall be 

 made or produced in this State or elsewhere. 



This section shall not be construed to prohibit the manu- 

 facture and sale, under the regulations hereinafteV provided, of 

 substances designed to be used as a substitute for butter and not 

 manufactured or colored as herein provided. 



Sec. 3. Every person who lawfully manufactures any sub- 

 stance designed to be used as a substitute for butter, shall mark 

 by branding, stamping or stenciling upon the top or side of each 

 box, tub, firkin or other package in which such article shall be 

 kept, and in which it shall be removed from the place where it 

 is produced, in clear and durable manner in the English language, 

 the word * 'oleomargarine," or the word "butterine," or the words 

 "substitute for butter," or the words ''imitation butter," in 

 printed letters' in plain Roman type, each of which shall not be 

 less than three-quarters of an inch in length. 



Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale any 

 imitation butter without informing the purchaser thereof, or 

 the person or persons to whom the same is offered for sale, that 

 the substance sold or offered for sale is imitation butter. 



Sec. 5. No person, by himself or others, shall ship, con- 

 sign or forward by any common carrier, whether public or pri- 

 vate, any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter 

 unless it shall be marked or branded on each tub, box, firkin, 

 jar or other package containing the same, as provided in this 

 Act, and unless it be consigned by the carriers and receipted 

 for by its true name : Provided, that this Act shall not apply 

 to any goods in transit between foreign states across the State 

 of Illinois. 



Sec. 6. No person shall have in his possession or under 

 his control any substance designed to be used as a substitute 

 for butter, unless the tub, firkin, jar, box or other package con- 

 taining the same be clearly and durably marked as provided in 



