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
12. That every person who knowingly purchases or receives for sale any
oleomargarine from any manufacturer who has not paid the special tax
shall be liable for each offence to a penalty of one hundred dollars,
and to forfeiture of all articles so purchased or received, or of the
full value thereof.
13. That whenever any stamped package containing oleomargarine is
emptied, it shall be the duty of the person in whose hands the
same is to destroy utterly the stamps thereon, and any person who
wilfully neglects or refuses so to do shall for each such offence
be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, and imprisoned not less than
ten days nor more than six months. And any person who fraudulently
gives away or accepts from another, or who sells, buys, or uses for
packing oleomargarine, any such stamped package, shall for each such
offence be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars and be imprisoned
not more than one year. Any revenue officer may destroy any emptied
oleomargarine package upon which the tax-paid stamp is found.
14. That there shall be in the office of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue an analytical chemist and a microscopist, who shall each be
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall each receive
a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue may, whenever in his judgment
the necessities of the service so require, employ chemists and
microscopists, to be paid such compensation as he may deem proper, not
exceeding in the aggregate any appropriation made for that purpose.
And such commissioner is authorised to decide what substances,
extracts, mixtures or compounds which may be submitted for his
inspection in contested cases are to be taxed under this Act; and his
decision in matters of taxation under this Act shall be final. The
commissioner may also decide whether any substances made in imitation
or semblance of butter, and intended for human consumption, contains
ingredients deleterious to the public health; but in case of doubt
or contest his decisions in this class of cases may be appealed from
to a board hereby constituted for the purpose, and composed of the
Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the
Commissioner of Agriculture, and the decisions of this body shall be
final in the premises.
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