FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 245 



natural butter, nor sell nor keep for sale, nor offer for sale any 

 imitation butter, made or manufactured, compounded or pro- 

 duced 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 hereinafter provided, of 

 substances designed to be used, as a substitute for butter and 

 not manufactured or colored as herein provided. 



Section 3. Every person who lawfully manufactures any 

 substances designed to be used as a substitute for butter, shall 

 mark for 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 a clear and durable manner in the Eng- 

 lish language, the word ''oleomargarine," or the word ''butt;er- 

 ine," or the words ''substitute for butter," or the words "imita- 

 tion butter," in printed letters in plain roman type, each of which 

 shall not be less than three-quarters of an inch in length. 



Section 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. 



Section 5. No person, by himself, or others, shall ship, 

 consign or forward by any common carrier, whether public or 

 private, 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. 



Section 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 contain- 



