THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 299 



tion butter, made or manufactured, compounded or produced in 

 violation of this section, whether such imitation butter shall be 

 made or produced in this State or elsewhere. 



This section shall not be construed to prohibit the manufac- 

 ture and sale, under the regulations hereinafter provided, of sub- 

 stances designed to be used as a substitute for butter and not 

 manufactured or colored as herein provided. 



Section 3. Every person who lawfully manufactures any 

 substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter, shall 

 mark by branding, stamping or stenciling upon the top or side 

 of each box, tub, firkin or other package in which such article 

 shall be kept, and in which it shall be removed from the place 

 where it is produced, in a clear and durable manner in the Eng- 

 lish language, the word "oleomargarine," or the word ''butter- 

 ine," or the words "substitute for butter," or the words "imita- 

 tion butter," in printed letters in plain Roman type, each of wliich 

 shall not be less than three-quarters of an inch in length. 



Section 4. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale any 

 imitation butter without informing the purchaser thereof, or the 

 person or persons to whom the same is offered for sale, that the 

 substance sold or offered for sale is imitation butter. 



Section 5. No person, by himself or others, shall ship, con- 

 sign or forward by any common carrier, whether public or pri- 

 vate, any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter 

 unless it shall be marked or branded on each tub, box, firkin, jar 

 or other package containing the same, as provided in this Act, and 

 unless it be consigned by the carriers and receipted for by its true 

 name: Provided, that this Act shall not apply to any goods in 

 transit between foreign States across the State of Illinois. 



Section 6. No person shall have in his possession or under 

 his control any substance designed to be used as a substitute for 

 butter, unless the tub, firkin, jar, box or other package containing 

 the same be clearly and durably marked as provided in this Act : 

 Provided, that this section shall not be deemed to aj^ply to persons 

 who have the same in their possession for the actual consumption 

 of themselves (or) their families. Every person who shall have 



