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Conditions under which imitations of coffee and coffee mixtures may be sold.
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6. (1.) No article or substance or mixture upon which a duty of excise is imposed by this Act shall be sold or exposed to sale, or be offered or kept ready for sale, or be delivered out of the custody or possession of any preparer, manufacturer, or importer thereof, except under the following conditions:
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(a.) The article or substance or mixture shall be placed in packets, each containing one quarter of a pound or any number of quarters of a pound:
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(b.) Each such packet shall have affixed thereto a label or labels (which shall not have been before used) denoting the proper amount of duty payable upon such packet according to the weight thereof:
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(c.) Such label or labels shall be affixed so that the whole thereof shall adhere to the packet, and so that the packet cannot be opened without tearing or destroying the label or labels:
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(d.) Where more than one label is affixed to any packet the labels shall be affixed so that every label shall be wholly or partially visible.
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Provided that each such packet containing, or purporting to contain, coffee with any other article or substance mixed therewith shall have affixed thereto a label, in manner herein-before provided, denoting in letters of not less size than the largest letters affixed to or imprinted on such label the proper name of the several articles or substances of which such mixture is composed.
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(2.) If any person shall sell or expose to sale, or offer or keep ready for sale, or deliver out of his custody or possession, any such article or substance or mixture as aforesaid, otherwise than in conformity with the above conditions, he shall forfeit the same, and incur a fine of twenty pounds.
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(3.) In any proceeding for recovery of the fine imposed by this section, if any question shall arise whether any label shall have been before used, proof that such label had not been before used shall lie upon the defendant.
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(4.) Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall in any way affect any Act or Acts now in force relating to the adulteration of food.
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