ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. That every person who shall manufac-

ture for sale, or who shall offer or expose for sale, any

article or substance in semblance of butter or cheese,

not the legitimate and direct 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 or cream, enters as a component part, or into

Manufacture of

which melted butter or any oil thereof has been intro-

oleomargarine.

duced to take the place of cream, shall prominently,

distinctly and durably stamp, brand or stencil upon

the top or tops, side or sides, and bottom or bottoms

of each and every tub, firkin, box or package of such

article or substance, the word oleomargarine in plain

Roman letters, not less than half an inch square,

placed horizontally in proper order, thus —

OLEOMARGARINE.

So as to be conspicuous in any position in which the

package or packages may be placed; and in each and

every retail sale of such article or substance, the seller

shall deliver to the purchaser a written, printed or

Label to pur-

stenciled label bearing the written, printed or stenciled

chaser.

word oleomargarine, in type or letters as aforesaid, to

wit: In plain Roman letters not less than half an

inch square, placed horizontally in proper order, thus —

OLEOMARGARINE.

Conspicuously on the outside of each and every par-

cel, piece or package so sold that the buyer shall be

apprised of the nature of the article which he or she

has bought; and every sale of each, and every imita-

tion of butter, known to the trade as oleomargarine,

Stamp every

on any of its genus, whether butterine, suene or any

piece, &c.

name that may be given or applied to it or them,

either wholesale or retail, not so stamped, branded,

stenciled, marked or labeled, shall be void, and no

action or actions shall be maintained for the price

thereof.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That 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

Penalty.

act, any of the said article or substance required by

the first section of this act to be stamped, branded,

stenciled, marked or labeled as therein stated, not so