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or shall remove, alter, deface, multilate, obliterate, imitate or counterfeit 

 any brand, mark, stencil or label so required, shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of 

 not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, and costs of 

 prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty 

 days nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment 

 in the discretion of the court, for each and every offense. 



24. The taking of orders, or the making of agreements or contracts 

 by any person, firm or corporation, or by any agent or representative 

 thereof, for the future delivery of any of the articles, products, goods, 

 wares or merchandise embraced within the provisions of this act, shall be 

 deemed a sale within the meaning of this act. 



25. Every person manufacturing, offering or exposing for sale or 

 delivery to a purchaser any article intended for food, shall furnish to any 

 person, or analyst or other officer or agent appointed hereunder who shall 

 apply to him for the purpose and shall tender him the value of the same, 

 a sample sufficient for the analysis of any such article which is in his 

 possession. Whoever hinders, obstructs or in any way interferes with any 

 inspector, analyst or other officer appointed hereunder, in the performance 

 of his duty, and whoever wilfully neglects or refuses to do any of the pro- 

 visions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 shall, where no specific penalty is prescribed by this act, be punished by a 

 fine not exceeding two hundred nor less than twenty-five dollars, or by 

 imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days, 

 or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 



26. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, and section 

 6 of an act entitled " An Act to prevent the adulteration of butter and 

 cheese, or the sale and 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 butter and cheese,' approved June 1, 1881, be and they are hereby repealed. 



27. For the purpose of enabling dealers in products affected by this 

 act to dispose of same without loss, it is hereby expressly provided that 

 the penalties of this act, and prosecution under the same, are suspended 

 until the first day of July, 1900. 



