Chapter 80, sections 34-35, McClellans’ Digest, 1881.

Section 34 makes it a misdemeanour to sell spurious preparations as butter; section 35 has reference to hotels and boarding-houses.

Penalty, not to exceed one hundred, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days, or both.

_Illinois._

“An Act to prevent and punish the adulteration of articles of food, drink and medicine, and the sale thereof when adulterated.”

Section 3 of this law has reference to colouring matter in food, drink or medicine.

Section 4 of this law has reference to mixing oleomargarine with butter, cheese, etc., requiring the seller to inform the buyer of the fact and the proportion of the mixture.

Penalty, first offence, twenty-five dollars to two hundred dollars; second offence, one hundred dollars to two hundred dollars, or imprisonment from one to six months or both; third offence, from five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars and imprisonment not less than one year nor more than five years.

Approved, June 1, 1881.

“An Act to require operators of butter and cheese factories on the co-operative plan to give bonds, and to prescribe penalties for the violation thereof.”

This law requires the filing of a bond in the penal sum of six thousand dollars that certain reports will be made on the first of each month and a copy filed with the town clerk, etc.

Penalty, from two hundred dollars to five hundred dollars, or imprisonment from thirty days to six months, or both.

Approved, June 18, 1883.

_Indiana._

Section 2071, Revised Statutes. “Selling unwholesome milk.”

This section provides against the sale of unwholesome milk, whether from adulteration or from the feed given the cows; also against the use of poisonous or deleterious material in the manufacture of butter and cheese.

Penalty, from fifty dollars to five hundred dollars.

“An Act to prevent the sale of impure butter, and the keeping on any table at any hotel or boarding-house of impure butter, providing penalties declaring an emergency.”

This law requires the branding with the word “oleomargarine.”

Penalty from ten dollars to fifty dollars.

Approved, March 3, 1883.

_Iowa._

Section 4042, Code.

This section provides against the adulteration of milk in any way.

Penalty, twenty-five dollars to one hundred dollars, and makes the offender liable in double that amount to the party injured.

“An Act to protect the dairy interests and for the punishment of fraud connected therewith.”

This law requires that “oleo” and kindred products shall be branded with the word “oleomargarine.”

Penalty, from twenty dollars to one hundred dollars or imprisonment from ten to ninety days.

“An Act to prevent and punish the adulteration of articles of food, drink, and medicine, and the sale thereof when adulterated.”

This law provides that skimmed milk cheese shall be so branded, and when oleomargarine is mixed with any other substance for sale it shall be distinctly branded with the true and appropriate name.

Penalty, first offence, from ten dollars to fifty dollars; second, from twenty-five dollars to one hundred dollars, or confined in the county jail not more than thirty days; third, from five hundred dollars to one thousand dollars and imprisonment not less than one year nor more than five years.

_Maryland._

“An Act to repeal the Act of 1883, chapter 493, entitled ‘An Act for the protection of dairymen, and to prevent deception in the sale of butter and cheese, and to re-enact new sections in lieu thereof.’”

This law requires that substances made in semblance of butter and cheese not the true product of the dairy shall be branded with the word “oleomargarine” so as to be conspicuous, and that the buyer shall be apprised of the nature of the article that he has bought.

Penalty, one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than thirty or more than ninety days for the second offence, and not less than three months nor more than one year for the third offence.

Approved, April 8, 1884.

_Maine._

“An Act to amend chapter 128 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the sale of unwholesome food.”

This law is prohibitive as to oleomargarine and kindred products.

Penalty, for the first offence one hundred dollars, and for each subsequent offence two hundred dollars, to be recovered with costs.

_Massachusetts._

This State has a law against selling adulterated milk.

Penalty, for first offence, fifty dollars to one hundred dollars; for the second offence, one hundred dollars to three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for thirty to sixty days; and for each subsequent offence, fifty dollars and imprisonment from sixty to ninety days.

_Michigan._

“An Act to prevent deception in the manufacture and sale of dairy products and to preserve the public health.”

This law prohibits the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine and kindred products.

Penalty, two hundred dollars to five hundred dollars or not less than six months’ nor more than one year’s imprisonment, or both, for the first offence, and by imprisonment for one year for each subsequent offence.

Approved, June 12, 1885.

_Minnesota._

“An Act to prohibit and prevent the sale or manufacture of unhealthy or adulterated dairy products.”

This law prohibits the sale of impure or adulterated milk.

Penalty, twenty-five dollars to two hundred dollars, or imprisonment from one to six months, or both for the first offence, and six months’ imprisonment for each subsequent offence.

This law also prohibits the manufacture and sale of oleaginous substances or compounds of the same.

Penalty, from one hundred dollars to five hundred dollars, or from six months’ to one year’s imprisonment, or both, such fine and imprisonment for the first offence, and by imprisonment one year for each subsequent offence.

Approved, March 5, 1885.

_Missouri._

This State passed the first prohibitory law.

Penalty, confinement in the county jail not to exceed one year, or fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or both.

_Nebraska._

Section 2345, “Skimmed milk or adulterated milk.”

This section provides against the sale of adulterated milk, and makes a penalty of from twenty-five dollars to one hundred dollars and be liable to double the amount to the person or persons upon whom the fraud is perpetrated.

_New Hampshire._

“An Act relating to the sale of imitation butter.”

This law provides that no artificial butter shall be sold unless it is coloured pink.

Penalty, for the first offence, fifty dollars, and for a second offence a fine of one hundred dollars. “A certificate of the analysis sworn to by the analyser shall be admitted in evidence in all prosecutions.”

“The expense of the analysis, not exceeding twenty dollars, included in the costs.”

_New Jersey._

Law similar to the New York law.

_Ohio._

This State has a law that is prohibitory except as to oleomargarine made of beef suet and milk.

Penalty, one hundred dollars to five hundred dollars, or from three to six months’ imprisonment, or both, for the first offence; and by such fine and imprisonment for one year for each subsequent offence.

Passed, April 27, 1885.

_Oregon._

The law in this State provides against adulterated and unwholesome milk, against keeping cows in an unhealthy condition, and against feeding them upon unhealthful food.

It also provides that oleaginous substances sold upon the market shall be so branded as to distinguish them from the true dairy product; and that in hotels, boarding-houses, restaurants, etc., where such substances are used as an article of food, the bill of fare shall state the fact, and that the name of the said substance shall be posted up in the dining-room in a conspicuous place.

Passed, February 20, 1885.

_Pennsylvania._

“An Act to protect dairymen, and to prevent deception in sales of butter and cheese.”

This act requires the branding of imitation butter and cheese.

Penalty, one hundred dollars. Violations of this Act by exportation to a foreign country are punished by a fine of from five dollars to two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment from ten to thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Approved, May 24, 1883.

“An Act for the protection of the public health and to prevent adulteration of dairy products and fraud in the sale thereof.”

This law prohibits the sale of oleomargarine and kindred products.

Penalty, one hundred dollars to three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment from ten to thirty days for the first offence, and by imprisonment for one year for each subsequent offence.

Approved, May 21, 1885.

_Rhode Island._

“Of the sale of butter, potatoes, onions, berries, nuts, and shelled beans.”

This law provides that artificial butter shall be stamped “Oleomargarine,” and that the retailer shall deliver to the purchaser a label upon which shall be the word “Oleomargarine.”

Penalty, one hundred dollars.

_Tennessee._

Code of 1884, chapter 14, sections 2682, 2683, 2684.

This law requires that the substance shall be manufactured under its true and appropriate name, and that it shall be distinctly branded with the true and appropriate name.

Penalty, from ten dollars to three hundred dollars, or imprisonment from ten to ninety days.

_Vermont._

“An Act to prevent fraud in the sale of oleomargarine and other substances as butter.”

This law provides that oleomargarine and kindred products shall not be sold as butter.

Penalty, five hundred dollars.

Approved, November 1884.

Chapters 192, Laws of 1874, 76 of 1870, 51 of 1855, provide against the adulteration of milk.

_Virginia._

Code of Virginia, 1873, chapter 865, title 26, section 56.

“Provision against adulterating milk intended for the manufacture of cheese.”

This law provides against the adulteration of milk carried to cheese manufactories, etc.

Penalty, from twenty-five dollars to one hundred dollars, with costs of suit.

_West Virginia._