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 CODIFICATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS (c) BooKs AND REruRNs.- Every manufacturer of process or ren- ovated butter or adulterated butter shall file with the collector of the district in which his manufactory is located such notices and inventories, shall keep such books and render such returns of ma- terial and products, and conduct his business under such surveillance of officers and agents as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary, may by regulation require. (d) FACTORY NUMBER AND SIGNS. - Every manufacturer of process or renovated butter or adulterated butter shall put up such signs and affix such number to his factory as the Commissioner, with the ap- proval of the Secretary, may by regulation require. (e) BoNDs.- Every manufacturer of process or renovated butter or adulterated butter shall file with the collector of the district in which his manufactory is located such bonds as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary, may by regulation require. But the bond required of such manufacturer shall be with sureties satis- factory to the collector, and in a penal sum of not less than $500; and the sum of said bond may be increased from time to time and additional sureties required at the discretion of the collector or under instructions of the Commissioner. SEC. 2323. DEALERS IN ADULTERATED BUTTER. (a) DEALET DEFINED.- Every person who sells adulterated butter shall be regarded as a dealer in adulterated butter. (b) RmAIL DEALER DEFINED. -Every person who sells adulterated butter in less quantities than ten pounds at one time shall be re- garded as a retail dealer in adulterated butter. (c) STELTNG REQUIBEMETS. -Dealers in adulterated butter must sell only original or from original stamped packages, and when such original stamped packages are broken the adulterated butter sold from same shall be placed in suitable wooden, tin-plate, or paper packages, which shall be marked and branded as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary, shall prescribe. SEC. 2324. BOOKS AND RETURNS OF WHOLESALE DEALERS IN ADUL- TERATED AND PROCESS OR RENOVATED BUTTER. Wholesale dealers in process, renovated, or adulterated butter shall keep such books and render such returns in relation thereto as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary, may, by regula- tion, require; and such books shall be open at all times to the inspec- tion of any internal revenue officer or agent. SEC. 2325. INSPECTION, MANUFACTURE, STORAGE, AND MARKING OF PROCESS OR RENOVATED BUTTER. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and required to cause a rigid sanitary inspection to be made, at such times as he may deem proper or necessary, of all factories and storehouses where process or renovated butter is manufactured, packed, or prepared for market, and of the products thereof and materials going into the manufacture of the same. All process or renovated butter and the packages contain- ing the same shall be marked with the words "Renovated Butter" or "Process Butter" and by such other marks, labels, or brands and in such manner as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and no process or renovated butter shall be shipped or transported from its place of manufacture into any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia: or to any foreign country, until it has been marked as provided m this section. The Secretary of Agriculture shall make all needful regulations for carrying this section and sec- tions 2326 (c) and 2327 (b) into effect and shall cause to be ascertained and reported from time to time the quantity and quality of process or renovated butter manufactured, and the character and the condi- tion of the material from which it is made. And he shall also have power to ascertain whether or not materials used in the manufacture of said process or renovated butter are deleterious to health or un- 254

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