Chap. 908.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent
deception in manufacture and sale of imitation butter, approved January
29, 1898.

Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That no person
by himself or his agents or servants shall render or manufacture, sell,
offer for sale, expose for sale or have in his possession with intent to sell,
any article, product, or compound, made wholly or partly from any fat,
oil or oleaginous substance or compound thereof, not produced from un-
adulterated milk or cream of the same, which shall be in imitation of
yellow butter produced from pure unadulterated milk or cream of the
same: provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit
the manufacture or sale of oleomargerine, butterine, or kindred com-
pounds in a separate and distinct form, and in such manner as will ad-
vise the customer of its real character, free from coloration or ingredient
that causes it to look like butter.

2. That it shall be unlawful for anv keeper or proprietor of any
bakery, hotel, tavern, licensed boarding-house, restaurant, saloon, lunch
counter, or place of public entertainment, to use oleomargerine, butter-
ine, or kindred compound either in baking, making, or cooking of bread,
cakes, pies, crackers, meat, fish, fowl, or other edibles; or to serve the
same to guests or patrons, without first posting and exhibiting in thei
respective bakeries, stores, restaurants and dining-rooms in a conspict
ous public place, in large Roman letters not less than one inch square,
sign or placard, with this inscription: Imitation butter used here.

3. Whoever violates any of the provisions of section one or two c
this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more tha
two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail of th
county or corporation in which the offense is committed for a term no
exceeding six months.

4. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture of thi
state to have samples taken of butter, oleomargarine, or butterine, o
any adulteration of butter, wherever offered for sale in this state, an
have these samples analyzed by the chemist emploved by said com
missioner of agriculture, and where the analysis of the sample or sam
ples so taken show that any adulterated article has been sold or offere
for sale, it shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture t
report the fact to the commonwealth’s attorney in the county or cit
where said samples were taken. A copy of said chemist’s analysis, whe
certified to by him, shall be admissible as evidence in any court of thi
state on the trial involving the purity of any butter.

5. Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction to impose the penalt
herein prescribed.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage.