Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-21

butter, or other butter. or both, and melt
Ing the same SO that the butter fat can be
drawn off or extracted, and then mixing
the said butter fat with SKINNED milk or
milk or cream. or other milk product. and
returning or reworking the said mixture;
or any article or compound produced by
mixing or compromising with or adding to
natural milk or cream, packing stock or
other butter, or animal fats or animal or
vegetable oils. OF any oleaginous substance
not produced from milk or cream; and any
article or compound produced by any SINH
lar or other process and commonly known
as boiled" or process" or "ladled,' or
tub or renovated" butter. with or with
out common salt, with or without coloring
matter, and made to resemble genuine but
ter.
Special Taxes Imposed.
Special taxes are imposed as follows:
Manufacturers of renovated butter shall
pay six hundred dollars. Every person who
manufactures renovated butter for sale
shall be deemed a manufacturer of reno
waited butter.
Wholesale dealers in renovated butter
shall pay four hundred and eighty dollars.
Every person who sells or offers for sale
renovated butter in the original manufactu-
rers packages shall be deemed wholesale
dealer in renovated butter But any manu-
facturer of renovated butter who has given
the required bond and paid the required
special tax. and who sells only renovated
butter 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 renovated butter
OH account of such sales.
Retail dealers In renovated butter shall
pay forty-ciGht dollars. Every person who
sells renovated butter in less quantities
than ten pounds at one time shall be re-
garded as a retail dealer in renovated but
ter: And sections 1899, 1928. 1891 1926. 1896
3:s3', 32ss. "%:es" $40, 3241. 3243 of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States are, so
far as applicable, made to extend to and
include and apply to the special taxes i'm
posed by this section, and to the persons
upon whom they are imposed. Provided,
That in case any manufacturer of renovated
butter commences business subsequent TO
the Both Gay of Jure in any year the special
tax shall be reckoned from the LIST day OF
July in that year, and shall be $500.
Penalties Provided For.
That every person who carries on
the business of manufacturer of reno
waited butter without having paid the spe-
cal tax therefor. as required by law, shall,
besides being liable to the payment of the
tax, be fined not less than 81, 900 and not
more than 5000: and every person who
carries on the business of wholesale deal
er in renovated butter without having paid
the special tax therefor, as required by law,
shall, besides being liable to the payment of
than 5000; and every person who carries
on the business of a retail dealer in reno
waited butter without having paid the spe-
cial tax therefor. as required by law, shall,
besides being liable to the payment of the
tax, be fined not less than $50 nor more
than $500 for each and every offense.
Marking Renovated Butter.
All renovated butter shah be packed by
the manufacturer thereof in firkins, tubs
or other wooden packages not before used
for that purpose, each containing not less
than ten pounds, and marked, stamped and
branded as the commissioner of internal
revenue, with the approval Of the Secretary
of the Treasury, shall prescribe; and all
sales made by manufactures Of renovated
butter and wholesale dealers in renovated
butter shall be in original stamped pack
ages Retail dealers in renovated butter
must sell only from original stamped pack
ages in quantities not exceeding ten pounds,
and shall pack the renovated butter sold
by them in suitable wooden or paper pack
ages, which shall be marked and branded
the commissioner of internal revenue,
with the approval Of the Secretary of the
Treasury, shall prescribe. Every person
who knowingly sells or offers for sale, or
delivers or offers to deliver, any renovated
butter in any other form than in new
wooden or paper packages, as above de-
scribed, or who packs in any package any
renovated butter in any manner contrary to
law. or who falsely brands any package or
affixes stamp on any package denoting a
less amount of tax than that required by
law shall be fined for each offense not
more than $1,000 and be imprisoned not
more than two years.
Every manufacturer of renovated butter
shall securely aftiX, by pasting on each
package containing renovated butter manu-
featured by him, label, on which shall be
printed besides the number of the manu-
factory and the district and state in which
it is situated these words: "Notice-The
manufacturer of the renovated butter here
in contained has complied with all the re-
quirements of law. Every person is eau
toned not to use either this package again
or the stamp thereon again, nor to remove
the contents of this package without de-
stroying said stamp, under the penalty pro-
vided by law in such cases" Every manu-
facturer of renovated butter who neglects
to affix such label to any package contain
ing renovated butter made by him, or sold
or offered for sale by or for him, and every
person who removes any such label so af-
fixed from any such package, shall be fined
$50 for each package In respect to which
such offense Is committed
That upon renovated butter which shall
he manufactured and sold or removed for
consumption or use there shall be assessed
and collected a tax of cents per pound, to
be paid by the manufacturer thereof and
any fractional part of pound in a pack
age shall be taxed as pound.
Failure to stamp or Brand.
Every person who sells or offers for sale
waited butter purporting or claimed to have
been imported not put up. in packages and
stamped as provided by this act. shall be
fined not less than $500 nor more than
5000. 81.
That every person who knowingly pur-
chases or receives for sale any renovated
! butter which has not been branded or
| stamped according to law shall be liable
| to penalty of $50 for each such offense..
| That every person who knowingly pur-
chases or receives for sale any renovated
butter from any manufacturer who has NOT
paid the special tax shall be liable for each
offense to a penalty of 800 and to a for.
| FIXTURE of all articles so purchased or re.
/ ceived, or of the full value thereof.
| That if any manufacturer of renovated
butter, any dealer therein. or any imporre,
| or exporter thereof shall knowingly or will.
fully omit, neglect or refuse to do, or cause
to be done, any Of the things required bI
law In the carrying on or conducting of his
business, or shall do anything by this ac1
| nrohibited, If there be no specific penalty
or punishment imposed by any other section
Of This act for the neglecting, emitting q,
reflsing to do, or for the doing or causins
Tn he done, the thing required or prohibited
he shall pay penalty of $1,000; and If III,
| narson so offending be the mamma tura,