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margarine or suine enters into its composition; nor shall any person sell 

 or offer for sale, or order or permit to be sold or offered for 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 has entered into its composition. 

 Provided, That nothing in this art shall be so construed as to prevent the 

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

 food. 



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

 the foregoing sections of this act shall, for the first offense, be fined not 

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

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

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

 non more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court; and 

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

 five hunderd dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, and imprison- 

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



(Section 6, which makes ignoiance of the provisions of the law a de- 

 fense against prosecution, is repealed in the food commission bill.) 



Ses. 7. The State's attorneys of this state are charged' with the en- 

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

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

 in their respectivve counties, in all courts. 



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

 this act are hereby repealed. 



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 isl produced from pure milk or cream 

 therefrom, made in the semblance of butter and designed to be used as a 



