ART. 27] OLEOMARGARINE. 35
to any person who asks, sends or inquires for butter, any oleo-
margarine, butterine or any substance made in imitation or sem-
blance of butter not made entirely of milk or cream from the
milk of cows, with or without coloring matter, shall be guilty of
fraud, and shall be punished by a tine of one hundred dollars
for the first offense and by imprisonment for three months for
each subsequent offense.
1900. ch. 496.
91. No person, by himself, his servants, or agents, or as the
servant or agent of any other person, shall serve to patrons,
guests, boarders or inmates of any hotel, eating-house, restaurant,
cafe, or any place of public entertainment or boarding-house or
public or private hospital, asylum, school or penal institution or
help employed therein, any article or substance made in violation
of the provision of section 88, or any food made of the same or
cooked in the same. Whoever, by himself, his servants or agents,
serves to any patron or guest or boarder or inmate of any hotel,
eating-house, restaurant, cafe or any place of public. entertain-
ment or boarding-house, or public or private hospital, asylum,
school or penal institution, or help employed therein, oleomar-
garine free from coloration, or any ingredient to make it look
like yellow butter, as provided in section 88, in the place or stead
of butter, shall orally notify said guest, patron, inmate or help,
that the substance so furnished is not butter, and shall, in addi-
tion, conspicuously display at all times, on each and every side
of the room where the latter is served a sign in plain Roman
letters, not less than four inches in length, "Oleomargarine Used
and Served Here. " Any person violating the provisions of this
section by neglecting or failing to give the oral notice and keep
ing the sign conspicuously posted on the walls of the room where
the meals arc served, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for the first offense and by
a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisonment for one month
for each subsequent offense. AH indictments under the pre-
existing sections 88, 81), 90 and 91 of this article shall be prose-
cuted as though the same had not been repealed and re-enacted.
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