Twenty-ninth annual report of the Inspector of Milk and Vinegar : from January 1, 1887, to December 31, 1887.

  • Boston. Inspector of Milk and Vinegar.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Twenty-ninth annual report of the Inspector of Milk and Vinegar : from January 1, 1887, to December 31, 1887. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Sect. 21. For the purposes of the four preceding sections the terms “ butter” and u cheese” shall mean the products which are usually known by these names, and are manufactured exclusively from milk or cream, with salt and lennet, and with or without coloring matter. [Chapter 317 of the Acts of 1886.] Sect. 3. Whoever, by himself or his agents, sells, exposes for sale, or has in his possession with intent to sell, any article, sub- stance, or compound made in imitation or semblance of butter, or as a substitute for butter, and not made exclusively and wholly of milk or cream, or containing any fats, oils, or grease not produced from milk or cream, contained in any box, tub, article, or package marked or labelled with the word “dairy” or the word “■cream- ery,” shall for every such offence forfeit to the city or town where the offence was committed one hundred dollars, and for a second and each subsequent offence two hundred dollars. Sect. 4. Every person who conveys any imitation butter, oleo- margarine, or butterine in carriages or otherwise, for the purpose of selling the same in any city or town, shall, within thirty days of the passage of this act, and annually on the first day of May, or within thirty days thereafter, be licensed by the inspector or inspectors of milk of such city or town, to sell the same within the limits thereof, and shall pay to such inspector or inspectors fifty cents to the use of the city or town. The inspector or inspectors shall pay over monthly to the treasurer of such city or town all sums coliected by him or them. In towns in which there is no in- spector of milk, licenses shall be issued by the town-clerk. Li- censes shall be issued only in the names of the owners of carriages or other vehicles, and shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be conclusive evidence of ownership. No license shall be sold, as- signed, or transferred. Each license shall record the name, resi- dence, place of business, number of carriages or other vehicles used, the name and residence of every driver or other person engaged in carrying or selling imitation butter, oleomargarine, or butterine, and the number of the license. Each licensee shall, before engaging in the sale of any of the articles as aforesaid, cause his name, the number of his license, his place of business, to be legibly placed on each outer side of all carriages or vehicles used by him in the conveyance and sale of the articles as aforesaid, in Gothic letters, not less than one inch in length, and he shall report to the inspector or inspectors any change of driver or other person employed by him which may occur during the term of his license. \\ hoever. without being first licensed under the provisions of this section, sells any of the ai tides as aforesaid, or exposes or offers them for sale from carriages or other vehicles, or has them in his custody or possession with intent so to sell, and who- ever violates any of the provisions of this section, shall, for the first offence, lie punished by fine of not less than thirty nor more than one hundred dollars ; for a second offence, by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars.