Any proceedings pending on July eleventh, nineteen hundred and thirty-three, under the act entitled “An act concerning bottles, boxes, siphons, tins, kegs or other articles used in the sale of soda waters, mineral or aerated waters, porter, ale, beer, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, small beer, lager beer, weiss beer, white beer or other beverages or medicines, medical preparations, perfumery, oils, compounds or mixtures,” approved March twenty-first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five (L.1925, c. 246, p. 678), or any other pre-existing law of a like nature, shall not abate, but may be proceeded into final judgment thereunder.