The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-08-26
The Oleomarearine act

The Baltimore sam, of the 5th, summa-
rizes the purposes of the Oleomargarine
bill, passed by Congress and signed by the
President, as follows
The act of Congress- commonly known as
"the OleOmargarlne act, which approved
by President Cleveland on August 2, and which
goes into effect on November of the present
year, imposes tax upon and regulates the
Manufacture sale. Importation and exporta-
ton of all artificial products, mixtures and
compounds made in imitation of butter,
intended to be sold butter. Ostensibly the
purpose of the act is to raise revenue, and all
applied In the collection of revenue from the
| Manufacture and sale of whiskey and tobacco
is applied to the production and sale of oleo-l
margarine. though, as is we'll Known, the chief
object of its passage was to protect the pro-.
Queer and would-be consumer of genuine but,
ter from the manufacturer of spurious fmita-
| tionS. Special taxes are imposed as follows z
The manufacturer of oeomargartne is to pay
| 5000 as a condition of the pursuit of his bust
| ness; the wholesale dealer in the article $3.50.
| and the retail dealer S4S. The manufacturer Is
required to pay In addition tax upon his
| product of cents per pound. All oleomarga-
rine Is to be packed by the manufacturer Ill
firkins, tubs. or other wooden packages not be-
less than ten pounds. to which packages shall.
| be attached stamps indicating the payment of
| the proper tax. and in addition printed labef
stating explicitly that the manufacturers of the,
/ oleomarearine therein contained has complied'
| employment of stamps or packages is prohib-
tied under strong penalties OleomaI'gafines
shall be sold only III original stamped paclSa-
geS. One who sells it in the original manufsc-
turer's packages shall be deemed g. wholesale
/ dealer, but the manufacturer who has COM
piled with the law in other respects may sell
his own product at the place OF manufacture
| in the proper packages without the payment
| of the special tax imposed upon the wholesale
dealer. Every person who sells oleomargarine
i in less than ten pounds at time is ac-
counted retail dealer. and along with the
manufacturer and wholesale dealer is made
subject to the regulations as to modes of con-
Quoting business, time of payment of tax, use
of stamps, exhibition of stamps, Nc, prescribed
in sections OF the Revised Statutes from 1896 to
3243, far as they may be applicable to the
handling of oleomargarine. Retail dealers
must sell only from original stamped packages
i'll quantities not exceeding ten pounds, and
shall pack the oleomargarine sold by them in
suitable wooden or paper packages marked and
branded as the commissioner OF internal reve-
nue. shall prescribe. Heavy penalties are i'm
posed upon manufacturers and dealers who
conduct business in neglect or violation of the
law, also upon "eyery person who knowingly
purchases or receives for sale any oleomargss-
rine which has not been branded or stamped or
upon which the proper tax has not been paid. =
Imported oleOmargarine Is subjected, In addi-
ton to any import duty the tariff law may fix
to an internal-revenue tax of Is cents pei
pound. The article may. however, be exported
without payment of tax or affixing stamps, I'M
der suitable regulations, but upon every pack
age exported shalt be branded in plain Rom al
letters one-haf inch square the word, "OleO-
margarine"