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Section 7. The State's Attorneys of this state are charged 

 with the enforcement 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 respective counties, in 

 all courts. 



Section 8. All acts and parts of acts incinsistent with the 

 provisions o fthis act are hereby repealed. 



Laws of 1897, page 3 (Revised Statutes, Chapter 38, Sections 

 339d-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 semblance of butter 

 and designed to be used as a substitute for butter made trom 

 pure milk or its cream, is hereby declared to be imitation butter. 

 Provided, That the use of salt and harmless coloring mauer iof 

 coloring the product of pure milk or cream shall not be con- 

 strued to render such product an imitation. 



Section 2. No person shall coat, powder ,or color with an- 

 natto or any coloring matter whatever any substance designed 

 as a substitute for butter, whereby such substitute or product 

 so colored or compounded shall be made to resemble butter, the 

 product of the dairy. No person shall combine any animal fat 

 or vegetable oil or other substance with butter or combined 

 therewith or with animal fat or vegetable oil or combination of 

 the two, or with either one, any other substance or substances, 

 for the purpose or with the effect of imparting thereto a yellow 

 color or any shade of yellow so that such substance shall resem- 

 ble yellow or any shade of genuine yellow butter, nor introduce 

 any of the articles of which the same is composed : Provided, 

 Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the use of salt, 



