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cuted accordingly. The sale of milk, cream, or skimmed milk which has been colored or to which a 
preservative of any sort has been added is in violation of law. 
Dealers in foodstuffs, including, of course, milk etc., are required by law to know at all times the 
quality of all goods which they sell. Prosecutions will therefore be instituted in suitable cases without 
notice. 
, M. D., 
Health Officer. 
To 
* A check indicates that no test was made for the ingredient or quality checked. 
Exhibit D. 
Laws and regulations relating to the production and sale of milk in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. 
ACTS OF CONGRESS. 
AN ACT To regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of 
this act no person shall, within the District of Columbia, keep or maintain a 
dairy or dairy farm without a permit so to do from the health officer of said 
District; application for said permit shall be made in writing, upon a form pre- 
scribed by said health officer: Provided, That no applicant for said permit 
shall be restrained from conducting business until said application has been 
acted upon by the health officer of the District of Columbia or his duly ap- 
pointed agent. It shall be the duty of said health officer, upon receipt of said 
application in due form, to make or cause to be made an examination of the 
premises which it is intended to use in the maintenance of said dairy or dairy 
farm ; if after such examination said premises are found to conform to the reg- 
ulations governing dairies and dairy farms within the District of Columbia, 
said health officer shall issue the permit hereinbefore specified, without charge : 
Provided, That said permit may be suspended or revoked at any time, without 
notice, by said health officer whenever the milk supply from said dairy or dairy 
farm is exposed to infection by Asiatic cholera, anthrax, diphtheria, erysipelas, 
scarlet fever, smallpox, splenic fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, typhus fever, 
or yellow fever, so as to render its distribution dangerous to public health. 
Sec. 2. That no person shall bring or send into the District of Columbia for 
sale any milk without a permit so to do from the health officer of said District ; 
application for said permit shall be made in writing, upon a form prescribed by 
said health officer, and shall be accompanied by such detailed description of the 
dairy farm or dairy where said milk is produced or stored as said health officer 
may require, and by a sworn statement as to the physical condition of the cattle 
supplying said milk : Provided, That no applicant for said permit shall be re- 
strained from conducting business until said application has been acted upon 
by the health officer of the District of Columbia or his duly appointed agent. 
If after examination of said application said health officer is satisfied that said 
milk will be brought into the District of Columbia for sale or consumption 
without danger to public health, he shall issue, without charge to the applicant, 
a permit so to do, on condition that none but pure and unadulterated milk shall 
be, with knowledge of its impurity, brought into said District ; that in the man- 
agement of said dairy or dairy farm said applicant shall be governed by the 
regulations of the health office of the District of Columbia, approved by the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, issued for dairies and dairy farms 
in said District, when said regulations do not conflict with the law of the Statfe 
