Chapter 882. To amend the definition of oleomargarine contained in the Act entitled “An Act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine,” approved August 2, 1886, as amended
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CHAP. 882.— An Act To amend the definition of oleomargarine contained in the Act entitled “An Act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine,” approved August 2, 1886, as amended. July 10, 1930.[[H. R. 6](/us/bill/71/hr/6).][[Public, No. 540](/us/pl/71/540).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Oleomargarine.Vol. 32, p. 193.[U.
S. C., p. 777; Supp. IV, p. 331](/us/usc/p777).*Post*, p. 1549. That section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine,” approved August 2, 1886, as amended, is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 2. Manufactured substances, etc., designated as. That for the purposes of this Act certain manufactured substances, certain extracts, and certain mixtures and compounds, including such mixtures and compounds with butter, shall be known and designated as ‘oleomargarine’, namely:
All substances heretofore known as oleomargarine, 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, fish oil or fish fat, vegetable oil, annatto, and other coloring matter, intestinal fat, and offal fat;— if
(1)made in imitation or semblance of butter, or
(2)calculated or intended to be sold as butter or for butter, or
(3)churned, emulsified, or mixed in cream, milk, water, or other liquid, and containing Exceptions.moisture in excess of 1 per centum or common salt. This section shall not apply to puff-pastry shortening not churned or emulsified in milk or cream, and having a melting point of one hundred and eighteen degrees Fahrenheit or more, nor to any of the following containing condiments and spices: salad dressings, mayonnaise dressings, or mayonnaise products nor to liquid emulsion, pharmaceutical preparations, oil meals, liquid preservatives, illuminating oils, cleansing compounds, or flavoring compounds.” " Sec. 2. Effective date of Act. This Act shall take effect twelve months after the date of its enactment. Approved, July 10, 1930. PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA *Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December, 1930, and was adjourned without day on Wednesday, the fourth day of March, 1931.* Herbert Hoover, President; Charles Curtis, Vice President;George H. Moses, President of the Senate *pro tempore*; Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House of Representatives.