Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-06
new REGULATIONS WILL
GOVERN SALE OF SUGAR
Food Administrator Sproul EXPLAINS
Plan Effective on and After
May 10.
CERTIFICATES WILL BE ISSUED
All Persons Affected by New Rule
Should File Their Names With
Local Food Administrators at Once.
Sales Will Be Strictly Limited.

Sales Will Be Strictly Limited.
The United states food adminstra-
ton has just promulgated rules which
provide that no manufactures using
sugar for manufacturing purposes will
be permitted after May - 10 purchase
sugar without the surrender OF sugar
distribution certificates in the author
lied form issued by the State food adj
ministrator in the State where the
manufacturing concern is located.
The new rules require all refinerS of
cane sugar, producers of beet sugar
and manufacturers of all raw. scmire-
fined and refined sugars for direct con-
sumption, and all wholesalers and re-
tailers dealing in sugar TO distribute
their allotment cQui;ably among their
customers, so that no one customer re-
cciycS more than his fair share OF the
sugar for the purpose Of making in
vert sugar, Sirup or molasScS, or in
the manufacturing, bottlinG or prep
aration OF any other product, and no
wholesalers shall use sugar in the
manufacturing. bottling. packing or
preparation of any other product until
they have, respectively, obtained the
requisite certificate from the Federal
food administrator of the state, and no
sugar in excess OF the amount called
for by the certificates issued shall be
used. And on and after May i the
licensees. the wholesalers and the re-
tailers are prohibited from shipping or
delivering sugar TO any person engaged
in any business of manufacturing. bot
Ting or preparing products in which
sugar is used until he has received
from such purchaser a certificate, or
certificates, duly Endorsed by the buyer.
and issued to the buyer by the Fed
cral food administrator for the State
in which the buyer is located, certify
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to be sold or delivered will not give
the buyer more than his fair share OF
sugar then available for distribution
in tho United state.
This rule shall not apply to ship
rnents or deliveries on bona fide con-
tracts enforceable at law which were
made prior to May -, but all sugar
received under such contracts will be
charged against the purchaser as
nnrt Of his permitted allotment.
RULE DOES NOT APPLY TO SALES
TO HOTELS OR RESTA URANTS
These rules do not apply to sales
or deliveries to hotels, restaurants.
boarding houses or other public eating
places whose products arc sold fer
consumption on the premises nor to
wholesale retail dealers In sugar
holding license from the United States
food administration nor bakers and
cracker manufacturers holding bakers
license from the United States food adj
mtnistration. hut bakers using sugar
IN tho manufacturing, bottling. pack
ing or preparation OF any products
other than bakery products are re-
auired to purchase their sugar for all
such purposes upon a certificate in
the authorized form. and in transfer
ring sugar from their bakers stock for
such purposes they are required to
present cancelled certificates represent
inE the amount OF sugar so transferred.
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OF manufacturers required OF make
their purchases OF sugar upon certin-
Gates:
ta) Manufacturers OF apple butter.
beverage sirups, candy, catsup, cereals,
chewing gum. chill sauce chocolate.
plosives. ravoring extracts. fruit pre-
serves. fruit strip, Elycerin. honey
invert sugar. ice cream. lam, Jelly,
meat products. medicines. preserves.
pickles, soda water soft drinks, sirup,
tobacco, wine.
tb) Gamers. preserves and packers
OF every kind OF vegetables, fruit. milk
and meat.
(c) Soda water fountains and dis
pensers OF soft drinks
(d) Bottlers OF soft drinks.
(e) Leather tanners and manufac-
turers Of n.anedble products (use Of
sugar prohibited).
orc not required IN sell
ing TO licensed wholesalers retailers
or bakers, even though they use sugar
in the manufacture OF other products.
because the use Of sugar by such deal
ers will be controlled directly by IL
cense regulations.
CERTIFICATES WILL RE ISSUED
FROM MIR. SPROUTS OFFICE
In Virginia certificates will be
issued from tho Office OF Hugh Il.
Sproul. Federal food administrator for
Virginia, eighth floor OF the Chamber
of Commerce Building, Richmond
1t is pointed out that it Is of the
utmost Importance that all persons af-
footed by these rules should at once
tilc their names with their local food
administrator. In counties where
there is no local administrator the
names should at once be sent to the
State office at Richmond in order that
certificates can be supplied promptly
before May IS.
The necessary machinery is being set
up at the State office to take care OF
MS work, and attention is called 10
The fact that every interest affected
should promptly report, either TO the
local administrator, or direct to the
State Office, in order that no unauthor-
lied sales or purchases OF sugar be
made.