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INSPECTIONS. [ART. 31.

Fine.

viction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction, to a fine not
exceeding one thousand dollars nor less than five hundred dollars;
one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer and the other half to
the State.

Id s 7
Seizure or
confiscation.

43. In case of seizure or confiscation of oils or fluids manufac-
tured from petroleum or its products, as provided in section two of
this act, the party or parties who have sold such oils or fluids shall

When inspector
to decide as to
quality of oil,
etc.

have the privilege of referring the same to some commissioned in-
spector, recognized by the oil trade of Baltimore, whose decision
shall be prima facie evidence of the quality of said oil or fluid.

Id s 8
Conviction of
inspector of oils
for false report

44. If any inspector of oils shall be convicted in a court of com-
petent jurisdiction of furnishing a false report of the fire-test of any
oil submitted to his inspection, he shall be liable to a fine of not less

Fine.

than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, at the
discretion of the court; said fine to be paid into the treasury of
the State.

Id s 9.
Not to apply to
oils manufac-
tured fur expor-
tation or street
lamps.

45. The provisions of this act shall not apply to oils or fluids
manufactured from petroleum or its products, for the purpose of ex-
portation or for use in street lamps.

OLEO-MARGARINE.

1878, c 493
Manufactured
articles in sem-
blance of butter
or cheese.

46. Every person who shall manufacture for sale, or who shall
offer or expose for sale, any article or substance in semblance of
butter or cheese, not the legitimate product of the dairy, and not
made exclusively of milk or cream, but into which the oil or fat of
animals, not produced from milk, enters as a component part, or
into which melted butter, or any oil thereof has been introduced to
take the place of cream, shall distinctly and durably stamp, brand,
or mark upon every tub, firkin, box, or package of such article or

Oleo-margarine

substance, the word oleo-margarine, in plain Roman letters not less
than half an inch square, placed horizontally in proper order, thus:
oleo-margarine, and in case of retail sale of such article or substance
in parcels, the seller shall in all cases deliver therewith to the pur-
chaser a written or printed label bearing the plainly written or printed
word oleo-margarine, in type or letters as aforesaid, and every sale
of such article or substance not so stamped, branded, marked, or
labelled shall be void, and no action shall be maintained for the price
thereof.

Id s 2
Penalty.

47. Every person who shall sell, or offer to sell, or have in his or
her possession with intent to sell, contrary to the provisions of this act,
any of the said article or substance required by section forty-six
hereof to be stamped, marked, or labelled, as therein stated, not so
stamped, marked, or labelled, or in case of retail sale without de-
li very of a label required by section forty-six hereof, shall, for each
such offence, forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars, to be re-
covered by indictment in any court of this State of competent juris-
diction for the trial of misdemeanors, and the one-half of such fine