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tary 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 depart- 

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 this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed : Provided, however, That prose- 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

 instituted 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 U. 



RESOLUTION OFFERED BY MR. LEVER, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AUTHORIZING 

 THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TO 

 INVESTIGATE TO WHAT EXTENT TUBERCULOSIS IS PREVALENT AMONG 

 DAIRY AND FARM ANIMALS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ETC. 



[H. Res. 605, Sixty-first Congress, second session.] 



Whereas it appears from the official reports issued by the Department of Agri- 

 culture, particularly during the past two years, that the alarming prevalence 

 of tuberculosis in the human family in all parts of the United States and the 

 District of Columbia and the prevalence of typhoid fever and other diseases 

 which endanger the public health are due to a considerable extent to the con- 

 sumption of milk and cream obtained from diseased cows and to the consump- 

 tion of butter produced from milk and cream which contain tubercle bacilli 

 and typhoid bacilli; and 



Whereas it is stated in said official reports that typhoid bacilli will remain alive 

 and virulent in butter manufactured from milk infected with such bacilli for 

 a period of at least one hundred and fifty-one days, and that during this 

 period of time these bacilli are ready to multiply whenever placed in suitable 

 environment ; that tubercle bacilli may remain alive and virulent in ordinary 

 salted butter fully one hundred and sixty days after its manufacture from 

 milk and cream infected with such bacilli; and further that more than one 

 sample out of every twenty samples of commercial or market milk from vari- 

 ous dairies supplying milk to the city of Washington were, by application of 

 the tuberculin test, recently found to be infected with tubercle bacilli, thereby 

 causing great danger to the public health; and 

 Whereas it is also stated that ten per centum of all dairy cows in the United 



States are infected with tuberculosis; and 



Whereas it is also stated in said official reports that the financial loss which is 

 chargeable to the prevalence of tuberculosis among farm animals amounts to 

 no less than twenty-three million dollars annually and is dangerously on the 

 increase: Therefore be it 



Resolved, That the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives 

 be, and it hereby is, authorized and directed to investigate and ascertain the 

 condition of milk, cream, cheese, and butter offered for sale or transportation 

 in the District of Columbia; report to the House of Representatives its find- 

 ings as to the extent to which tuberculosis and other diseases are com- 

 municated to the human family by the sale of such infected articles of food, 

 and to what extent tuberculosis is prevalent among farm and dairy animals in 

 the District of Columbia, and report to the House of Representatives the reason 

 for the failure to enforce the pure-food law as it affects butter and butter 

 products in the United States. 



