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OLEOMARGARINE AND ADULTERATED BUTTER PRODUCTS 255 wholesome in the finished product, and in case such deleterious or un- wholesome materials are found to be used in product intended for exportation or shipment into other States or in course of exportation or shipment he shall have power to confiscate the same. SEC. 2326 . PENALTIES. (a) ADULTERATED BUTTER.- (1) FALSE BRANDING; SALE, PACKING, OR STAMPING IN VIOLATION OF LAw. -Every person who knowingly sells or offers for sale, or de- livers or offers to deliver, any adulterated butter in any other form than in new wooden, tin-plate, or paper packages as described in subsection (c) of section 2323, or who packs in any package any adulterated butter in any manner contrary to law, or who falsely brands any package or affixes a stamp on any package denoting a less amount of tax than that required by law, shall be fined for each offense not more than $1,000 and be imprisoned not more than two years. (2) OMISSION OR REMOVAL OF LABEL.- Every manufacturer of adulterated butter who neglects to affix the label required under paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of section 2322 to any package containing adulterated butter made by him, or sold or offered for sale for or by him, and every person who removes any such label so affixed from any such package shall be fined $50 for each package in respect to which such offense is committed. (b) FAILURE OF WHOLESALE DEALERS TO KEEP OR PERMIT INSPECTION OF BOOKS, OR TO RENDER RETURNS. -Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of section 2324 shall for each such offense be fined not less than $50 and not exceeding $500, and imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than six months. (c) FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE MANU- FACTURE, STORAGE, AND MARKING OF PROCESS OR RENOVATED BUTTER.- Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of section 2325 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on convic- tion thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500 or by imprisonment not less than one month nor more than six months, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 2327. OTHER LAWS APPLICABLE. (a) OLEOMARGARINE. -The provisions of sections 2301 (c) (2), 2305 to 2311 inclusive (except subsections (a), (b), and (h) of section 2308),and section 3791 (a) (1),shall apply to manufacturers of adul- terated butter to an extent necessary to enforce the marking, branding, identification, and regulation of the exportation and importation of adulterated butter. (b) INSPECTION OF LIVE CATTLE AND MEAT.- All parts of an act providing for an inspection of meats for exportation, approved August 30, 1890, c. 839, 26 Stat. 414, and of an Act to provide for the inspection of live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof which are the subjects of interstate commerce, approved March 3, 1891, c. 555, 26 Stat. 1089 and of amendment thereto approved March 2, 1895, c. 169, § 1, 28 Stat. 732, which are applicable to the subjects and purposes described in section 2325 shall apply to process or renovated butter. (c) SLAUGHTERING AND MEAT CANNING. -The sanitary provisions for slaughtering, meat canning, or similar establishments as set forth in the act of June 30, 1906, c. 3913, 34 Stat. 676, shall be extended to cover renovated butter factories as defined in this subchapter, under such regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe. (d) TOBACCO AND SNUFF.- T he provisions of law governing the engraving, issuing, sale, accountability, effacement, and destruction of stamps relating to tobacco and snuff, as far as applicable, shall apply to the stamps provided in section 2321 (c) (1).