Foods, their composition and analysis : a manual for the use of analytical chemists and others : with an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / by Alexander Wynter Blyth.

Date:
1896
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Credit: Foods, their composition and analysis : a manual for the use of analytical chemists and others : with an introductory essay on the history of adulteration / by Alexander Wynter Blyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    9. The town council of any borough having under an.y general or Provision local Act of Parliament, or otherwise, a separate iiolice establishment, 'oi iJoroughe. and being liable to be assessed to the county rate of the county semratft within which the borough is situate, shall be paid by the justices police. of such county the proportionate amount contributed towards the expenses incurred by the county in the executi(}n of the principal Act by the several parishes and parts of parishes within such boroutrh in respect of the rateable value of the jjroperty assessable therein, as ascertained by the valuation lists for the time being in force. 10. In all prosecutions under the principal Act, and notwithstand- Special pro- ing the provisions of section twenty of the said Act, the summons to *'.i'*'0 <^ ^ appear before the magistrates shall be served upon the person charged cZli^I^'^ \vith violating the provisions of the said Act within a reasonable time, and in the case of a perishable article not exceeding twenty- eight days from the time of the i>urchase from such person for test purposes of the food or drug, for the sale of which in contravention to the terms of the princijial Act the seller is rendered liable to prose- cution, and particulars of the offence or offences against the said Act of which the seller is accused, and also the name of the prosecutor, Bhall be stated on the summons, and the summons shall not be made returnable in a less time than seven days from the day it is served upon the person summoned. An Act for the better Prevention of the Fraudulent Sale OF Marg.\rine. [50 & 51 Vict., ch. 29.] Whereas it is expedient that further provision should be made for protecting the public against the sale as butter of substances made in imitation of batter, as well as of butter mixed with any Bucli substances: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present I'arliament assembled, and l)y the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Margarine Act, 18S7. Short title. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January Conimr>nco- one thousand eight hundred and ei^dlty-eight. meutof Act 3. 'J he word butter shall mean the substance usually known Delinitioa as butter, made exclusively from milk or cream, or botli, with or without salt or other preservative, and with or witliout the addi- tion of colouring matter. The word margarine shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not, and no such substance shall be lawfully sold, except under the name of margarine, and under the conditions set forth in this Act. 4. Every person dealing in margarine, whether wholesale or Penalty, retail, whether a manufacturer, importer, or as consignor or consignee, or as commission agent or otherwise, who is found guilty of an offence under this Act, shall be liable on summary conviction for the first ofiFence to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, and for the second offence to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and for the third or any subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.