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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 ol eomargarine, suine, or butterine, beef 

 fat, lard, or any other foreign sub stance has; ente'red into its' composition. 

 Provided, That nothing in thi& act 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 convicte d of violating any provision 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 hundfred; for the second 

 offense he shall be fined not les'S' 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 siubsiequent o ffences he shall be fined not less than 

 five hundred 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 made ignorance of the provisionsi of the law a de- 

 fense against pros/ecution, is rep ealed in the food commission bill passed 

 by the last legislature.)' 



iSec. 7. The State's attorneys of this State are charged withi the en- 

 forcem'ent of this act, and it is heieby 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. 



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

 of this act are hereby repealed. 



Laws of 1&97, page 3 (Revised Statutes, chapter 38, sections 39d'-39n.) 



AN ACT to regulate the manufact ure and sale of subsititutes for butter. 



(Approved June 14, 1897.) 



Section 1. That for the purpose of this act every article, substitute^ 

 or compound other tban that whi ch is produced from pure milk or cream 



