Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-12-18

required TO DO printed or branueu on
retailers wooden or paper packages in
letters not less than une-auarter Of an
inch square, and the quantity which is
required to be written, printed, or
branded thereon in figures Of like size
must be so placed as to be plainly
visible to the purchaser at the time of
marks and brands are not those con-
templated ana required by the law and
regulations. 1t will not be deemed
compliance with this regulation if the
word oleomargarino and the other re-
| CURED words and figures shall be
| illegibly branded or printed, or SO
placed as to he concealed from view,
by being on the inside of the package,
or by folding in the stamped portion of
the paper sheet used for wrapping or
otherwise. The required words and
figures must be legibly printed or
branded and conspicuously placed, and
| no other words or business card should
be placed in such juxtaposition thereto
j as to divert attention from the fact
| that the contents Of the package are
! wholly oleomarg The foregoing
| regulations relative to the marking or
| branding Of retail packages apply to
/ sales of all oleomargarine. The color
| of the ink with which tie words are
printed must be in tho strongest CON
trast to the color of the package. Re-
1 tail dealers in oleomsrgarine may wrap
the goods delivered to customers fin
| ordinary brown wrapping paper, pro
/ vided such packages are also marked as
required by the regulations. Retail
i dealers are permitted to take oleomarga-
/ rine from the original stamped package
4 in advance of sales and put it up in re-
tail packages marked and branded as
the law and regulations prescribe. and
/ offer them for esle, provided such Ire-
pared retail packages remain in the
manufacturers original package, or at
most stacked up on the outside thereof,
or upon the lid undetaehed from the
package, until the contents have been
bargained for and sold, provided that
in so doing none Of the marks, brands,
stamps and notices required upon the
package are concealed. But should
the retail dealer remove his prepared
packages from the original package
and sell them separated from anc in
dependeatly of the manufacturers
STAMPED package, he involves himself
in liability TO fine OF 81, 600. The
olaomarglrine must remain in Tor
upon the original stamped package
until sold therefrom. The purchaser
in such case is notified OF the nature
CT the article purchased, which seems
to be the leading purpose of the pro-
vision. The penalty imposed upon re-
tail dealers for knowingly selling or
Offering to sell oleomargarine in any
other form than in new wooden or
paper packages is described in section
q, act Of August I'd, 1856.
Twelfth. 1t is the duty of dealers in
butter to ascertain the true character
of the article which they sell or offer
for sale, and if they are found to have
sold oleomargarins, though they show
that they believed it to be genuine
butter, the special tax will be assessed
against them.
Thirteenth. The Law provides that
whenever any stamped package con
tanning oleomargarine is emptied, il
shall be the duty of the person In
whose hands the same is to destroy
I utterly the stamps thereon and upon
: such person as wilfully neglects or re-
! fuses so to do imposes .fine for each
: offence OF not less than $50 and i'm
prisonment not less than 10 days mol
: more than six months.
Tine law also imposes fine for each
offence not exceeding 500 and i'm
. prisonment not more than one yeai
! upon any person who fraudulently
gives away, or accepts from another,
, or who sells, buys or uses for packing
/, oleomargurine any empty stamped
package.
Fourteenth. The law also imposes 1
fine and imprisonment upon any ont
wilfully removing or deiacing stamps
! marks, or brands on packages contain
ing oieomargarine taxed according t'
Z law.
.. Fifteenth. The law provides tha
!. every person who knowingly purchases
or receives for sale any oieomargarin'
which has not been branded or stamped
according to law shall be liable to |
penalty Of $50 for each such offence
2 and provides further that every person
who knowingly purchases or receivo
for sale any oleomargarine from an,
manufacturer who has not paid thl
special tax shall be liable for eacl
3 such offence a psnalty of 500 and to /
! forfeiture of all articles so purchased
! or receiso cd, or Of the full value thereof
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