Food Adulteration and Its Detection: With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendixBattershall, Jesse P. (Jesse Park)
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Food Adulteration and Its Detection: With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix
Battershall, Jesse P. (Jesse Park)
Food adulteration and inspection; Food adulteration and inspection -- United States
2. That for the purposes of this Act certain manufactured substances
certain extracts, and certain mixtures and compounds, including such
mixtures and compounds with butter, shall be known and designated
as “oleomargarine,” namely: All substances heretofore known as
oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine,
and neutral; all mixtures and compounds of oleomargarine, oleo,
oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine, and neutral; all
lard extracts and tallow extracts; and all mixtures and compounds
of tallow, beef fat, suet, lard, lard oil, vegetable oil, annatto
and other colouring matter, intestinal fat, and offal fat made in
imitation or semblance of butter, or when so made, calculated or
intended to be sold as butter or for butter.
3. That special taxes are imposed as follows:--Manufacturers of
oleomargarine shall pay six hundred dollars. Every person who
manufactures oleomargarine for sale shall be deemed a manufacturer of
oleomargarine.
4. Wholesale dealers in oleomargarine shall pay four hundred
and eighty dollars. Every person who sells or offers for sale
oleomargarine in the original manufacturer’s packages shall be
deemed a wholesale dealer in oleomargarine. But any manufacturer of
oleomargarine who has given the required bond and paid the required
special tax, and who sells only oleomargarine of his own production,
at the place of manufacture, in the original packages to which the
tax-paid stamps are affixed, shall not be required to pay the special
tax of a wholesale dealer in oleomargarine on account of such sale.
Retail dealers in oleomargarine shall pay forty-eight dollars. Every
person who sells oleomargarine in less quantities than ten pounds at
one time shall be regarded as a retail dealer in oleomargarine. And
Sections 3232, 3233, 3234, 3235, 3236, 3237, 3238, 3239, 3240, 3241,
and 3243 of the Revised Statutes of the United States are, so far as
applicable, made to extend to and include and apply to the special
taxes imposed by this section, and to the persons upon whom they are
imposed. (See page 10 for Revised Statutes.) Provided, That in case
any manufacturer of oleomargarine commences business subsequent to the
thirtieth day of June in any year, the special tax shall be reckoned
from the first day of July in that year, and shall be five hundred
dollars.
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