Chapter 170. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven
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CHAP. 170.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. May 16, 1908.[[S. 514.]](/us/bill/70/s/514)[[Public. No. 117.]](/us/pl/70/117) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stated of America in Congress assembled*, That section one of “An ActTea.Importation of impure, etc., prohibited.Vol. 29, p. 604. to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: *“Provided.* That*Proviso.*Tea used in manufacture of caffeine, etc., not included. nothing herein shall affect or prevent the importation into the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, of any merchandise as tea which may be inferior in purity, quality, and fitness for consumption to the standards established by the Secretary of the Treasury, or of any tea waste, tea siftings, or tea sweepings, for the sole purpose of manufacturing theine, caffeine, or other chemical products whereby the identity and character of the original material is entirely destroyed or changed: and that importers and manufacturerBond. who import or bring into the United States such tea, tea waste, tea siftings, or tea sweepings shall give suitable bond, to be approved as to amount and securities by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned that said imported material shall he only used for the purposes herein provided, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
” Approved, May 16, 1908.