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ment in the county jail for not less 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, sec- 

 tions 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 parcel of such 

 substance, and each vessel containing one or more packages of 

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

 marked therein the true and appropriate name of such substance, 

 in ordinary boldfaced capital letters not less than five lines pica, 

 shall be punished as provided in section 3 of this act. 



Section 2. Whoever shall sell any such substance as is men- 

 tioned in section 1 of this act to consumers, or cause the same to 

 be done, without delivering 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. 



Section 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 discre- 

 tion of the court; Provided, That nothing contained in this act 

 shall be construed to prevent the use of skimmed milk, salt, ren- 

 net, or harmless coloring matter, in the manufacture of butter 

 and cheese. 



