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._