CHAP. 64.—An ACT for the protection of dairymen and to preven
deception in the sale of butter and cheese.

Aproved February 10, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha
every person who shall manufacture for sale, or who shall offe
or expose for sale any article or substance in semblance o
butter or cheese not the legitimate product of the dairy anc
not made exclusively of milk or cream, but into which the oi
or fat of animals not produced from milk enters as a compo
nent part, or into which melted butter or any oil thereof has
been introduced to take the place of cream, shall distinctly anc
durably stamp, brand or mark upon every tub, firkin, box o1
package of such article or substance the word oleo-margarine.
in plain Roman letters, not less than half an inch square, placed
horizontally in proper order, thus: Oleo-margarine; and in
case of retail sale of such article or substance in parcels, the
seller shall in all cases deliver therewith to the purchaser
written or printed label, bearing the plainly written or printed
word oleo-margarine, in type or letters as aforesaid; and every
sale of such article not so stamped, branded, marked or labelled,
shall be void, and no action shall be maintained for the price
thereof.

2. Be it enacted, That every person who shall sell or offer
to sell, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell, con-
trary to the provisions of this act, any of the said articles
or substances required by the first section of this act to be
Stamped, marked or labelled, as therein stated, not so stamped,
marked or labelled, or in case of retail sale without de-
livery of a label, required by section one of this act, shall for
each such offence forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dol-
lars, to be recovered by indictment in any court of this
state of competent jurisdiction for the trial of misdemeanors,
the one-half such fine, when paid, to go to the informer, and
the residue to be paid into the treasury of the state.

3. Be it enacted, That any person who shall sell or offer or
expose for sale, or who shall cause or procure to be sold or
offered or exposed for sale any article or substance required
by the first section of this act to be marked, branded, stamped
or labelled, not so marked, branded, stamped or labelled, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on trial for such misdemeanor,
proof of the sale, or offer or exposure alleged, shall be pre-
sumptive evidence of knowledge of the character of the article
80 sold or offered.

4. This act shall be in foree from its passage.
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