THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 391 



any store, shop, establishment, farm, or premises, or any wagon or other 

 vehicle, in, on, or from which such article or articles generally are produced 

 for sale, held for sale, or sold, or held in custody or possession with intent to 

 sell. 



SEC. 6. That any person who for himself, or as the employee or agent of 

 another person, or as a member, officer, employee, or agent of a firm or cor- 

 poration violates or aids in the violation of any of the provisions of this act 

 or of any regulations promulgated by the Commissioners of the District of 

 Columbia under the provisions thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceedr 

 ing forty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than twenty days. 



SEC. 7. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are 

 hereby, authorized and empowered to make, promulgate, modify, and amend 

 from time to time such regulations as in their judgment may be necessary to 

 fix the classes and standards and the conditions and manner under which 

 milk, cream, and ice cream must be produced, manufactured, transported, held, 

 and offered for sale, and sold, in order to entitle the person, firm, or corpora- 

 tion producing, manufacturing, transporting, holding, or offering for sale or 

 selling the same to receive and to hold a license so to do, and to govern the 

 issue, suspension, and revocation of licenses aforesaid. And in the exercise 

 of the authority conferred by this act and in the execution of the provisions 

 hereof and of such regulations as may be promulgated under its authority said 

 commissioners shall, whenever in their judgment it is expedient so to do, 

 request the assistance of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, and said Secretaries of the Treasury and of Agriculture are hereby 

 authorized to grant such assistance in so far as they may deem it compatible 

 with the proper discharge of the duties of their respective departments so to do. 



SEC. 8. That all prosecutions under this act shall be in the police court of 

 the District of Columbia, upon information signed by the corporation counsel 

 of said District or by one of his assistants. 



SEC. 9. That all money heretofore or hereafter appropriated and available, 

 or appropriated and to become available, for the enforcement of "An act to 

 regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," 

 approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, be, and the same is 

 hereby, made available for the enforcement of this act and of the regulations 

 promulgated by authority thereof, including the employment of personal serv- 

 ices, when ordered in writing by the commissioners. 



SEC. 10. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of 

 this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed : Provided, however, That prose- 

 cution for anything done or omitted to be done in violations of any such act or 

 part of act prior to the passage of this act may be instituted, and if already in- 

 stituted shall be continued, after and notwithstanding the passage of this act, 

 and shall be heard and determined as if this act had not been passed. 



APPENDIX T. 



HOUSE BILL TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH BY REGULATING THE PRO- 

 DUCTION AND SALE OF MILK, CREAM, AND ICE CREAM IN THE DISTRICT 

 OF COLUMBIA. 



[H. R. 17506, Sixty-first Congress, second session.] 



A BILL To protect public health in the District of Columbia by regulating the produc- 

 tion and sale of milk, cream, and ice cream in and for the District of Columbia. 



Be it enacted ~by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall, (first) produce 

 for sale, hold for sale, offer for sale, or sell, or have in his custody or possession 

 with intent to sell, in the District of Columbia, milk, cream, or ice cream, as 

 such, or milk or cream to be made into ice eream for sale, or (second) bring 

 or send milk, cream, or ice cream into said District for sale as such, or milk or 

 cream to be made into ice cream for sale, unless such milk, cream, or ice 

 cream is pure and wholesome and is produced, manufactured, transported, held, 

 and offered for sale, and sold under sanitary conditions and in a sanitary man- 

 ner, conforming to the regulations hereinafter authorized; nor unless nor until 



