HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 455.

AN ACT to repeal an act of eighteen hundred
and eighty- four, chapter two hundred and
forty-three, entitled an act to repeal the
act of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,
chapter four hundred and ninety-three, en-
titled an act for the protection of dairymen,
and to prevent deception in the sale of but-
ter and cheese, and to enact new sections in
lieu thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the act of eighteen

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hundred and eighty-four, chapter two hundred
and forty-three be and the same is hereby re-
pealed, and the following sections enacted in
lieu thereof.

SEC. 1. That every person who shall manu-
facture 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 ex-
clusively 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 which melted butter or any oil thereof
has been introduced to take the place of cream,
shall prominently, distinctly a.nd durably
stamp, brand or stencil upon the top or tops,
side or sides, and bottom or bottoms of each

Repealed.

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, "OLEO MARGARINE," 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 pur-
chaser the article bought enclosed in a wrap-
per to the outside of which shall be durably
and firmly attached a label bearing the

To brand.