Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 53 Part 1.djvu/261

 OLEOMARGARINE AND ADULTERATED BUTTER PRODUCTS 251 oleomargarine which has not been branded or stamped according to law shall be liable to a penalty of $50 for each such offense. (f) PURCHASING FROM MANUFACTURER WHO HAS NOT PAID SPECIAL TAx.- Every person who knowingly purchases or receives for sale any oleomargarine from any manufacturer who has not paid the special tax required under subsection (a) of section 3200 of chapter 27 shall be liable for each offense to a penalty of $100. (g) EMPTY PACKAGES. - (1) FAILURE TO DESTROY STAMPS.- Any person who willfully neglects or refuses to destroy utterly the stamps on any empty package which contained oleomargarine shall for each such offense be fined not exceeding $50, and imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than six months; and (2) TRAFFICKING.- Any person who fraudulently gives away or accepts from another, or who sells, buys, or uses for packing oleomargarine, any such stamped package, shall for each such offense be fined not exceeding $100, and be imprisoned not more than one year. (h) FAILuRE OF WHOLESALE DEALERS TO KEEP OR PERMIT INSPEC- TION OF BooKS, OR TO RENDER RETURNs. -Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of subsection (c) of section 2303 shall for each such offense be fined not less than $50 and not exceed- ing $500, and imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than six months. (i) IMPrRTED OLEOMARGARINE.- (1) FAILURE OF CUSTOMS OFFIER TO COMFLY wrrn LAw.- Every officer of customs who permits any imported oleomargaraine to pass out of his custody or control without compliance by the owner or importer thereof with the provisions of section 2306 relating thereto, shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, and impris- oned not less than six months nor more than three years. (2) SALE WHEN IMPROPERLY PACKED OR STAMPED.-Every person who sells or offers for sale any imported oleomargarine, or oleo- margarine purporting or claimed to have been imported, not put up in packages and stamped as provided by this subchapter, shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, and be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than two years. (j) OFFENSES NOT SPECIFICALLY COVERED.- If any manufacturer of oleomargarine, any dealer therein or any importer or exporter thereof shall knowingly or willfully omit, neglect, or refuse to do, or cause to be done, any of the things required by law in the carrying on or con- ducting of his business, or shall do anything by this subchapter or chapter 27 prohibited, if there be no specific penalty or punishment imposed by any other provision of this subchapter or chapter 27 for the neglecting, omitting, or refusing to do2 or for the doing or causing to be done, the things required or prohibited, he shall pay a penalty of $1,000. SEC. 2309. FORFEITURES. (a) SPECIAL TAX ON MANUFACTURER UNPAID. -Every person who knowingly purchases or receives for sale any oleomargarine from any manufacturer who has not paid the special tax required under sub- section (a) of section 3200 shall be liable for each offense to a forfeiture of all articles so purchased or received, or of the full value thereof. (b) PACKAGES UNSTAMPED, UNMARKED, OR DELETEROUS.-All pack- ages of oleomargarine subject to tax under this subchapter, that shall be found without stamps or marks as herein provided, and all oleo- margarine intended for human consumption which contains ingredi- ents adjudged, as provided in section 2311, to be deleterious to the public health, shall be forfeited to the United States. (c) FRArUD BY MANUJFArCTUB--Whenever any person engaged in carrying on the business of manufacturing oleomargarine defrauds, or

�