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The stipulations above mentioned shall not apply to Danish agricultural products of the aforesaid description which are returned from abroad, from Iceland, or the Danish West Indies when the Danish origin of the, goods is proved to the satisfaction of the Custom authorities. Section 18. Any of the aforesaid agricultural products shall, when exposed for sale, when supplied to the purchaser in wholesale quantities, and when exported from this country, bear on the packing, or, if not packed, on the article itself, the marks and indication prescribed in section 17. When supplied in retail quantities to the purchaser, the, goods or the packing in which they are found shall be provided with the indication " Foreign." " Icelandic," or " Danish AVest Indian," as the case may be, according to the, further stipulations of the Minister of Agriculture. Section 19. In any shop or place of storage where foreign goods of the aforementioned description are kept, a distinct notification thereof shall be displayed so as to be easily seen.by the, purchaser, according to the further stipulations of the Minister of Agriculture. Section 20. Contract, invoices, and bills relating to any of the aforementioned goods which are disposed of for resale, shall contain a statement of the origin of the goods as being foreign, Icelandic, or Danish West Indian respectively. Part 3. —General Regulations governing the Agricultural Products mentioned in Parts 1 and 2. Section 21. It shall be forbidden in this country to sell or to export from this country blends of Danish and foreign lard, unless the goods are provided with the mark stipulated by the Minister of Agriculture indicating them to be such a blend. Section 22. Foreign butter and the goods mentioned in Part 2 must neither on the outside nor on the inner packing, nor on the article itself, be marked in such a way- as to suggest that the goods are of Danish origin. When producing for sale within this country or when exporting from this country the aforementioned goods it shall be forbidden, without the permission of the Minister of Agriculture, to mark the packing of the article itself with the names of places in Denmark in any connection whatever. Section 23. The Minister of Agriculture shall be authorized to forbid the importation to this country or to order the goods mentioned in Part 2 to be subjected to an examination in the event of the export regulations in the country whence the goods come not affording, in the opinion of the Minister of Agriculture, a satisfactory guarantee as regards the sanitary condition of same. The expenses incurred by the examination shall be defrayed by the importer. The Minister of Agriculture shall be authorized to enjoin that, meat, slaughter-offal, lard, tallow, and sausages, and other prepared meat-products of foreign origin must only be exported from the country from special depots authorized and controlled by the Minister of Agriculture, and to forbid the export of the aforementioned goods which do not fulfil the conditions of import in force at the destination. The expenses incurred by the control shall be defrayed by the depot in question. The Minister of Agriculture shall finally decide as to whether the foreign goods mentioned in this law which are repacked in this country or subjected to any other process shall be indicated as foreign or Danish when sold in this country and when exported. Section 24. Whoever imports the goods mentioned in this law for the purpose of resale in wholesale quantities within this country, and exporters of these goods and also retailers of foreign, Icelandic, and Danish West I ndian butter, must notify such trade to the police, who shall keep a register of the parties notifying and immediately advise the inspector of the butter and margarine control in question of the notification made. The said importers, wholesale dealers, producers, and exporters of the goods mentioned in this law shall be liable to keep a book, authorized by the police for recording the transactions aforesaid, according to the further prescription of the Minister of Agriculture, unless the business-books of the parties concerned contain the particulars hereafter required by the Minister of Agriculture, and can be produced for the control in case of emergency. Section 25. The supervision of the matters coming under this law shall be vested in the Custom authorities, the police, and the inspectors of the butter and margarine control, and the assistants of the latter, according to the further rules which shall be fixed relating thereto by the Board of Customs and the Minister of Agriculture. The said inspectors and superintendents appointed by the Minister of Agriculture shall have free access to any place of production, shop, railway-station, quay, ship's hold, and store where goods of the description mentioned in this law are sold and kept, and to inspect the bookkeeping mentioned in sections 9 and 24, and also have a right to take out samples according, to be paid