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margarine or suine enters' into its compositiom; nor shall any person seill 

 or offer for sale, or order or permit to be sold or offered: fr sale, any such 

 article of food into the composition of which oleomargarine or suine has 

 entered, without at the same time informing the buyer of the fact, and 

 the proportions in which such oleomargarine, suine, or butterine, beef 

 fat, lard, or any other foreign substance hasi entered into its coimposition. 

 Provided, That nothing in this a ct shal Ibe so construed as to prevent the 

 use of harmless coloring matter i n butter and cheese, or other articles of 

 food. 



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

 the foregoing s-ections of this act shall, for the first offense, be fined ndt 

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

 offense he shall be fined not less' than one hundred nor more than two 

 hundred dollars, or confined in the county jail not lessi than one month 

 nor more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court; and 

 for the third and all subsequent oliences he shall be fined not less than 

 five hundred dolalrs nor more than two thousand dollars, and imprisfon- 

 ed in the penitentiary not less th an one year nor more than five years. 



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

 fense against prosecution, is repealed in the food commission bill. 



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

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

 people, and to attend to the prose cution of all complaints under this act, 

 in their respective counties, in all courts. 



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

 this act are hereby rep«ealed. 



Laws of 1897, 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 

 therefrom, made in the sem^blince of butter and designed to be used as a 

 substitute for butter made from p ure milk or its cream, is hereby de- 



