OLEOMARGARINE LAW.

AN ACT to regulate the manufacture and sale of substitutes for butter. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That for the purpose of this Act, every article, substitute or compound other than [that] which is produced from pure milk or cream therefrom, made in the semblance of butter and designed to be used as a substitute for butter made from pure milk or its cream, is hereby declared to be imitation butter: Provided, that the use of salt and harmless coloring matter for coloring the product of pure milk or cream shall not be construed to render such product an imitation.

§ 2. No person shall coat, powder or color with annato or any coloring matter whatever, any substances designed as a substitute for butter, whereby such substitute or product so colored or compounded shall be made to resemble butter, the product of the dairy.

No person shall combine any animal fat or vegetable oil or other substance with butter, or combine therewith, or with animal fat or vegetable cil, or combination of the two, or with either one, any other substance or substances, for the purpose or with the effect of imparting thereto a yellow color or any shade of yellow so that such substitute shall resemble yellow or any shade of genuine yellow butter, nor introduce any such coloring matter or such substance or substances into any of the articles of which the same is composed: Provided, nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the use of salt, rennet and harmless coloring matter for coloring the products of pure milk or cream from the same.

No person shall, by himself, his agents, or employés produce or manufacture any substance in imitation, or semblance of natural butter, nor sell nor keep for sale, nor offer for sale any imitation butter, made or manufactured, compounded or produced in violation of this section, whether such imitation butter shall be made or produced in this State or elsewhere.

This section shall not be construed to prohibit the manufacture and sale, under the regulations hereinafter provided, of substances designed to be used, as a substitute for butter and not manufactured or colored as herein provided.

3. Every person who lawfully manufactures any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter, shall mark by branding,

stamping or stenciling upon the top and side of each box, tub, firkin or other package in which such article shall be kept, and in which it shall be removed from the place where it is produced, in a clear and durable manner in the English language, the word "oleomargarine," or the word "butterine," or the words "substitute for butter," or the words "imitation butter," in printed letters in plain roman type, each of which shall not be less than three-quarters of an inch in length.

§ 4. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale any imitation butter without informing the purchaser thereof, or the person or persons to whom the same is offered for sale, that the substance sold or offered for sale is imitation butter.

§ 5. No person, by himself or others, shall ship, consign or forward by any common carrier, whether public or private, any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter unless it shall be marked or branded on each tub, box, firkin, jar or other package containing the same, as provided in this Act, and unless it be consigned by the carriers. and receipted for by its true name: Provided, that this Act shall not apply to any goods in transit between foreign states across the State of Illinois.

§ 6. No person shall have in his possession or under his control any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter, unless the tub, firkin, jar, box or other package containing the same be clearly and durably marked as provided in this Act: Provided, that this section shall not be deemed to apply to persons who have the same in their possession for the actual consumption of themselves [or] their families. Every person who shall have possession or control of any imitation butter for the purpose of selling the same which is not marked as required by the provisions of this Act, shall be presumed to have known during the time of such possession or control the true character and name, as fixed by this Act, of such product.

§ 7. Whoever shall have possession or control of any imitation butter or any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter, contrary to the provisions of this Act, for the purpose of selling the same, or offering the same for sale shall be held to have possession of such property with intent to use it in violation of this Act.

§ 8. No action shall be maintained on account of any sale or contract made in violation of, or with intent to violate, this Act, by or through any person who was knowingly a party to such wrongful sale or contract.

§ 9. Whoever shall deface, erase or remove any mark provided by this Act, with intent to mislead, deceive, or to violate any of the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 10. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed 60 days for each offense, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, or the fine alone may be sued for and recovered before any justice of the

peace in the county where the offense shall be committed, at the instance of any person in the name of the People of the State of Illinois as plaintiff.

§ 11. It is hereby made the duty of the state's attorney of each county in this State to prosecute all violations of this Act upon complaint of any person, and there shall be taxed as his fees in the case the sum of ten dollars ($10.00), which shall be taxed as costs in the

case.

Approved June 14, 1897, in force July 1, 1897.

STOCK FOOD LAW.

(As amended in 1911.)

Regulating the manufacture, sale and analysis of concentrated commercial feed stuffs for feeding farm live stock and domestic animals generally, and making it the duty of the State Food Commissioner to prosecute person or persons violating any provision of said law and fixing a license fee, etc.; approved May 18, 1905, in force July 1, 1905; also letter of State Food Commissioner addressed to the Hon. William H. Stead, Attorney General of Illinois, requesting opinion in regard to said law, as well as opinion of Attorney General which fully explains the requirements and duties of the manufacturers and dealers under the law.

AN ACT to regulate the sale and analysis of concentrated feeding stuffs. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Every lot or parcel of concentrated commercial feed stuffs, as defined in section 2 of this Act, used for feeding farm live stock, sold, or offered or exposed for sale within this State, shall have affixed thereto, in a conspicuous place on the outside. thereof, a plainly printed statement in the English language clearly and truly certifying.

(a) The net weight of the contents of the package, lot or parcel. (b) The name, brand or trade mark.

(c) The name and principal address of the manufacturer or the person responsible for placing the commodity on the market.

(d) The minimum per centum of crude protein, the minimum per centum of crude fat, and the maximum per centum of crude fiber; (to be determined by the methods adopted by the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists of the United States.)

(e) The specific name of each ingredient used in its manufacture. A copy of said statement shall be filed with the State Food Commissioner on or before January 10th of each year.

If the feed stuff is sold in bulk, or if it is put up in packages belonging to the purchaser, the agent or dealer shall upon the request of the purchaser, furnish him with the certified statement described in this section.

§ 2. The term "concentrated commercial feed stuff," as used in this Act, shall include cotton seed meals, linseed meals, pea meals, bean

meals, peanut meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, sucrene feeds, and all oil meals of all kinds, dried distillers' grains, dried brewers' grains, dried beef refuse, malt sprouts, malt refuse, hominy feeds, cereline [cerealin] feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat feeds, corn, oat and barley, feeds, chop feeds, corn bran, ground beef or fish, scraps, meat and bone meals, mixed feeds, except as otherwise provided in section 3 of this Act, clover and alfalfa meals, any mixture of any of the beforementioned substances with each other or with any other substance, condimental stock and poultry foods, medicinal stock and poultry foods consisting of or containing any of the substances included as concentrated commercial feed stuffs as defined by this section, patented proprietary or trade-marked stock and poultry foods, and all other materials of a similar nature intended for stock or poultry, not included in section 3 of this Act.

§ 3. The term "concentrated commercial feed stuffs," as used in this Act shall not include hays and straws, the whole seeds nor the unmixed meals made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat and broom corn. Neither shall it include wheat bran or wheat middlings not mixed with other substances but sold separately as distinct articles of commerce, nor wheat bran and wheat middlings mixed together, not mixed, with any other substances, and known in the trade as "mixed feed," nor pure grains ground together unmixed with other substances.

§ 4. Any manufacturer, importer, agent or other person selling, offering or exposing for sale any concentrated feed stuffs included in section 2 of this Act, without the printed statement required by section 1 of this Act, or with a label stating that the said feed stuffs contains substantially a larger percentage of either crude protein or crude fat than is actually present therein, shall be fined fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first offense and one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each subsequent offense.

5. The State Food Commissioner is hereby authorized, in person or by deputy, to enter any premises where feed stuffs are stored and to take a sample not exceeding two pounds in weight, from any lot or package of any commercial feed stuff used for feeding any kind of farm live stock or poultry, as defined in section 2 or of excepted materials named in section 3 of this Act, which may be in possession of any manufacturer, importer, agent or dealer. Any sample so taken shall be put in a suitable vessel and a label signed by the State Food Commissioner or his deputy, placed on or within the vessel, stating the name or brand of the feed stuff or material sampled, the guaranty, the name of the manufacturer, importer or dealer, the name of the person, firm or corporation from whose stock the sample was taken, and the date and place of taking: Provided, however, that whenever a request to that effect is made the sample shall be taken in duplicate and carefully sealed in the presence of the person or persons of interest, or their representative, in which case one of the said duplicate samples shall be signed and retained by the person or persons whose stock was sampled. Any person who shall obstruct the State Food Commissioner