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Show FULL POUND OF BUTTER FOR HIM Senator Seely Insists That Dairy Products Be of Full Weight and Always Plain-ly Plain-ly Labeled. Wav back m the davs when an education edu-cation was pounde-1 into a person sit tine on a hard woo. bench, Sate Senator Sen-ator John II Seelv le.Ti'.ed that six teen ounces make a pound. N"thir. can ever make him fcrget it or fool j 'him as to the size of a pound", and for that reason he declares that he does not wish any one els to forget nr. give ! a few ounces shv on the standard Ks penally in butter does he demand a full weight, and therefore he has in troduced the fallowing bill: I "A bill for an act regulating the manufacture and sale of butter, and requiring re-quiring all packages of butter to be markel with the name of the mar.ufac turer and weight of same, and provid ing penalties for the vi Manor, of this act. 'Be it enacted bv the Legislature of the StatP of Utah:" "Section 1. Each package ,-f butter offered or exposed for sale in the State of Utah shall have stamped upon the wrapper or package the name of the maker thereof, with address of same, and thp actual number of ounces con tained in said package. Each- square or roll of butter kept, expose or offered of-fered for sale, which is represented to contain one pound in weight shall con tain full sixteen ounces; and each square or roll of butter kept or offered for sale in this State, which shall be represented to c ntain two pounds in weight, shall contains thirtv two ounces. "Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer to sell or furnish or deliver for sale anv butter unless marked as above specified. "Section 3. Whoever shall violate anv of the provisions of this act shall be guilty or a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding $300 or by imprisonment in the county tail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. im-prisonment. ' ' |