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Restriction of use of alkaline salts in the manufacture of snuff. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 93.
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25. [Recital.] The first, third, and fourth sections of the Tobacco Act, 1842, shall, as respects the term “salt,” and the term “alkaline salts,” be construed to mean and include only the carbonates chlorides and sulphates of potassium and sodium, and the carbonate of ammonium.
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If any person, being a manufacturer of, dealer in, or retailer of tobacco or snuff, shall have in his custody or possession, or shall sell, or offer for sale, any snuff which, after having been dried at a temperature of two hundred and twelve degrees as denoted by Fahrenheit's thermometer, shall be found to contain a percentage of more than twenty-six per centum of the carbonates chlorides and sulphates of potassium sodium and ammonium, he shall forfeit fifty pounds and also the said snuff; and in calculating the said percentage the salts of potassium and ammonium of every description naturally present in the tobacco shall be included.
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