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marked, printed, or stamped upon each package, roll, parcel or 

 vessel, containing the same, so as to be and remain at all times 

 readily visible, or unless the person purchasing the same is fully 

 informed by the seller of the true name and ingredients (if other 

 than such as are known by the common name thereof) of such 

 article of food, drink or medicine, at the time of making the sale 

 thereof, or offffering to sell the same. 



Section 4. No person shall mix oleomargarine, suine, but- 

 terine, beef fat, lard, or any other foreign substance, with any 

 butter or cheese intended for human food, without distinctly 

 marking, stamping, or labeling the article, or the package con- 

 taining the same, with the true and appropriate name of such 

 article, and percentage in which such oleomargarine 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 olomargarine or 

 suine, or butterine, beef fat, lard, or any other foreign substance 

 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 

 act shall be so construed as to prevent t he use of harmless color- 

 ing matter in butter or cheese, or other articles of food. 



Section 5 : Any person convicted of violating any pro- 

 visions 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 hundred nor more than two hundred dollars, or 

 confined in the county jail not less than one month nor more 

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

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

 than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, 

 and imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor 

 more than five years. 



Section 6, which makes ignorance of the provisions of the 

 law a defense ag'ainst prosecution, is repealed in the food com- 

 mission bill. 



