APPENDIX III 
291 
Executive Office 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia 
Ordered- Washington, April n, 1908. 
That, Pursuant to the authority vested in the Commis¬ 
sioners by the “Joint Resolution authorizing the Commis¬ 
sioners of the District of Columbia to alter, amend, or 
repeal certain health ordinances” approved February 28, 
1899, “An ordinance to prevent the sale of unwholesome 
food in the cities of Washington and Georgetown” as 
amended by Commissioners’ orders of January 2, 1902; 
April 21, 1903; October 6, 1904; April 24, 1906; May 31, 
1907, and June 10, 1907, is hereby further amended by 
inserting after the word “effectually” in section 13 thereof 
the phrase “or effectually protected by a power-driven fan 
or fans,” so that said section shall read as follows: 
Sec. 13. Every manager of a store, market, dairy, 
cafe, lunch room, or any other place in the District of 
Columbia, where a food, or a beverage, or confectionery, 
or any similar article, is manufactured or prepared for 
sale, stored for sale, offered for sale, or sold, shall cause 
it to be screened effectually, or effectually protected by 
power-driven fan or fans, so as to prevent flies and other 
insects from obtaining access to such food, beverage, 
confectionery, or other article, and shall keep such food, 
beverage, confectionery, or other article free from flies 
and other insects at all times. Any person violating the 
provisions of this regulation shall, upon conviction 
thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty- 
five dollars for each and every such offense. This regu¬ 
lation shall take effect from and after the expiration of 
thirty days immediately following the date of its promul¬ 
gation. 
Official copy furnished Health Department. 
By order: 
WM. TINDALL, Secretary. 
Officially published in the Washington Herald April 
16, 1908. 
