252 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Laws of 1879, page 11 (Revised Statutes, chapter 38, sections 

 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 thereon the true and appropriate name of such sub- 

 stance, 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 

 mentioned 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 

 discretion of the court; Provided, That nothing contained in 

 this act shall be construed to prevent the use of skimmed milk, 

 salt, rennet, or harmless coloring matter, in the manufacture of 

 butter and cheese. 



Laws of 1881, page 74 (Revised Statutes, chapter 38, sections 

 9f-9g.) 



AN ACT to prevent the adulteration of butter and cheese, or 

 the sale or disposal of the same, or the manufacture or sale 

 of any article as a substitute for butter and cheese ,or any 



