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charge shall be the tax set forth in sub-section (A) of this
Section.

(C) All producers shipping or delivering milk to a
market within the State at the time this Act become ef-
fective shall in consideration of the payment of the tax
imposed in sub-paragraph (A) be issued a permit by the
Commission without any additional charge, but all such
producers shall by virtue thereof be subject to the provi-
sions of this Act. Any producer who commences to dis-
tribute milk or to furnish milk to a dealer after this Act
becomes effective must first secure from the Commission
the permit required by this Section, and the Commission
may refuse to grant such permit if, in the opinion of the
Commission, a surplus of milk exists in the market affected.

(D) Milk sold and distributed outside of this State
shall not be included in determining the amount due under
the tax provided in this Section; unless the producers rep-
resenting sixty-five per-cent (65%) of the milk produced
for fluid consumption for any one market outside of this
State shall request the Board to assist them in the regu-
lation of their market.

(E) Every retail store selling milk under the provi-
sions of this Act shall pay an annual license of One Dollar
for every location at which milk is so sold.

Section 14. Anything in the common or statute law of
this State to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall be
lawful:

(a) For any two or more distributors purchasing in
the same market to associate and to meet, confer and agree
with one or more cooperative milk associations, whereso-
ever organized or with any group of producers, whether
members of such association or not, selling in the same
market, upon prices to be paid by milk dealers to producers
i and others and to be charged by producers and others to
milk dealers for milk in its various grades and uses sub-
ject to the regulations laid down in sub-paragraph (g) of
Section three, and upon rules and regulations governing
the method of determining the proportion of the lacteal
secretion of the entire herd of a producer which shall be
accepted and paid for pursuant to such price or prices, or
establishing other reasonable trade practices affecting the
relations between producers and distributors in such
market.

No such agreement shall, however, be effective unless
and until a copy thereof, signed by all persons, parties
thereto, shall have been filed with and approved by the