when collected, shall be credited to the general fund to reim- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 146.] AN ACT to authorize the Michigan Dairymen's Association to gather dairy statistics and compile and edit them with the proceedings of their annual meeting, and to distribute the same among the dairymen of the State, and making an appropriation therefor. The People of the State of Michigan enact: gather and statistics. SECTION 1. That the Michigan Dairymen's Association is Association to hereby authorized to gather the statistics of the amount of compile butter and cheese made in the State, to compile and edit the same with their annual report, and to distribute the same among the dairymen of the State, and said association shall formulate such rules and regulations as it shall deem proper to carry on the work contemplated in this act, and may employ an agent or agents to perform such duties in connection May employ therewith as it shall deem best. agents. SEC. 2. For the purposes in the preceding section, the said Amount of Michigan Dairymen's Association may use such sums as it money allowed. shall deem proper, not exceeding three hundred dollars, for the necessary current expenses of the Michigan Dairymen's Association each year, all of which the State Treasurer shall pay to the said association annually on the warrants of the Auditor General from time to time, as their vouchers for the same shall be exhibited and approved. eral to incor SEC. 3. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate Auditor Genwith the State tax the sum of three hundred dollars annually, porate in State and such amount is hereby appropriated from the general tax. funds of the State, which said sums shall be included in the State taxes apportioned by the Auditor General on all the taxable property of the State, to be levied, assessed and collected as other State taxes, and when so assessed and collected, to be paid into the general fund to reimburse said fund for the appropriation made by this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 28 Unlawful to sell butter substitute not properly labeled. How labeled and stamped. Duty of persons selling butter substitute. Placards to be used where sold. Terms unlawful to use. [No. 147.] AN ACT in relation to the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine or imitation butter. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. No person shall sell, expose or offer for sale or exchange, or have in his possession with intent to sell or exchange, any oleomargarine or other substance made in imitation of butter, and which is intended to be used as a substitute for butter, unless each and every vessel, package, roll or parcel of such substance has distinctly and durably printed, stamped or stenciled thereon in black letters the true name of such substance, in ordinary bold faced capital letters, not less than five line pica in size; and also the name and address of the manufacturer, together with the name of each and every article or ingredient used or entering into the composition of such substance, in ordinary bold faced letters, not less than pica in size. SEC. 2. No person shall sell, exchange or deliver any oleomargarine or other substance made in imitation of butter, and which is intended to be used as a substitute for butter, unless he shall distinctly inform the purchaser by a verbal notice at the time of the sale that the same is a substitute for butter, and shall also deliver to the purchaser of each and every roll, package or parcel of such oleomargarine or other substance, at the time of the delivery of the same, a separate and distinct label, on which is plainly and legibly printed in black ink in ordinary bold faced capital letters not less than five line pica in size, the true name of such substance and also the name and address of the manufacturer, together with the name of each article used and entering into the composition of such substance, in ordinary bold faced letters not less than pica in size. SEC. 3. The proprietor or keeper of any store, hotel, restaurant, eating saloon, boarding house, or other place where oleomargarine is sold or furnished to persons paying for the same, shall have placed on the walls of every store or room where oleomargarine is sold or furnished, a white placard on which is printed in black ink, in plain Roman letters of not less than three inches in length, and not less than two inches in width, the words "Oleomargarine Sold or Used Here." and shall at all times keep the same exposed in such conspicuous place as to be readily seen by any and all persons entering such store, or other room or rooms. SEC. 4. No person shall use in any way, in connection or association with the sale or exposure for sale or advertisement of any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter, the word "Butter," "Creamery," or "Dairy," or the name or representation of any breed of dairy cattle, or any com bination of such word or words and representatation, or any other words or symbols or combinations thereof commonly used in the sale of butter. how construed. SEC. 5. For the purpose of this act the word "butter" Word "butter." shall be understood to mean the food product usually known as butter, and which is made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without additional coloring matter. pounds to be SEC. 6. For the purposes of this act certain manufactured Certain comsubstances, certain extracts, and certain mixtures and com- designated pounds, including such mixtures and compounds with butter, oleomargarine. shall be known and designated as "Oleomargarine," namely: All substances heretofore known as olemargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine and neutral; all mixtures and compounds of oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine and neutral; all lard extracts and tallow extracts; and all mixtures and compounds of tallow, beef fat, suet, lard, lard oil, vegetable oil, butterine, lardine, suine and neutral; all lard extracts and tallow extracts; and all mixtures and compounds of tallow, beef fat, suet, lard, lard oil, vegetable oil, intestinal fat, and offal fat, made in imitation or semblance of butter, or, when so made, calculated or intended to be sold or used as butter or for butter. SEC. 7. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act Violation a shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dol- Penalty. lars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail or State House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, for not less than six months nor more than three years, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, in each and every offense. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with Repealing the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved June 23, 1899. misdemeanor. clause. [No. 148.] AN ACT to amend section five of act number one hundred forty-eight of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventythree, entitled "An act relating to the accounting for money received and expended by certain officers," being section twelve hundred nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. Section amended. Money appropriated for State institutions; how drawn. Proviso as to amounts. General not to issue warrant for money. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section five of act number one hundred fortyeight of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-three, entitled "An act relating to the accounting for money received and expended by certain officers," being section twelve hundred nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. Money appropriated by any act of the legislature for the use or benefit of any State educational, charitable, reformatory or penal institution, or to be disbursed by any officer, may be drawn from the State treasury upon the warrant of the Auditor General, as follows, viz.: Under appropriations for current expenses monthly for pro rata amounts: Provided, That all educational and other institutions having annual vacations may draw from the State treasury monthly for equal tenths of the annual appropriation, in such months as will best suit the requirements of each of this class of institutions; and under appropriations for purposes other than current expenses, at such intervals and for such amounts as may best meet the purposes of such appropriations; but at no time shall an amount be in excess of the amount necessary for the current month, as shown by the requisition of the proper officer or board, to be made in writing and under oath; When Auditor and the Auditor General is hereby prohibited from drawing his warrant until itemized vouchers, showing quantities, prices per unit and totals for all material, labor or services covered by the disbursements of money previously drawn, for either current expenses or building and special purposes, whether the money thus disbursed be received from the State treasury or from some other source or sources, shall be presented, examined and audited as provided in section three of this act: Provided, however, That the words "covered by the certain terms. disbursements of money previously drawn" shall be so construed as to leave a reasonable working balance in disbursing officers' hands for immediate use. Money applicable to current expense for any specified year, whether from direct appropriation or from other sources, can be used only for the expenses of the year specified in the appropriation act, or the year in which receipts from the said "other sources" become available. All current expense disbursements made after the close of the appropriation year from funds of the preceding year must be accompanied by a statement under oath from the proper officer or board that they were for expenses incurred for the preceding appropriation year. Current expense money for the preceding appropriation year in the hands of any disbursing officer, or board, of any of the State institutions, or boards, on December fifteenth, of any year, shall be immediately forwarded to the State Treasurer, and the same shall be covered into the State treasury upon the books of the Auditor General, as provided in section three hundred sixty Proviso as to construction of Current expense money used when. tween certain one Howell's Annotated Statutes. The general distinction Distinction be- This act is ordered to take immediate effect. to become completion of [No. 149.] AN ACT to provide for the collection, arrangement and display of the manufactures, arts and products of the State of Michigan, at the Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition, providing for the appointment of a commission to prepare plans for and supervise the same, and report to the next legislature. Whereas, Ohio was the first State to be formed out of the Preamble. great Northwest Territory and has provided, by an act of the Legislature, passed April twenty-six, eighteen hundred ninetyeight, for an exposition to be held at Toledo, in the State of Ohio, in commemoration of the first centennial of its admission as a State into the Union; and |