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not injurious to health and not intended fraudulently to increase its bulk, 
weight, or measure or conceal its inferior quality, if at the time such article 
is delivered to the purchaser it is made known to him that such article of food 
or drug is so mixed. 
Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the health officer of the District of Colum- 
bia, under the direction of the Commissioners of said District, to adopt such 
measures as may be necessary to facilitate the enforcement hereof, and prepare 
rules and regulations with regard to the proper method of collecting and exam- 
ining drugs and articles of food in said District. 
Sec. 5. That it shall be the duty of the health officer to investigate a complaint 
for a violation of any of the provisions of this act on the information of any 
person who lays before him satisfactory evidence by which to substantiate such 
complaint. 
Sec. 6. That every person offering for sale or delivering to any purchaser any 
drug or article of food included in the provisions of this act shall furnish to any 
analyst or other officer or agent of the health department, who shall apply to 
him for the purpose and shall tender him the value of the same, a sample suf- 
ficient for the purpose of analysis of any such drug or article of food which is 
in his possession. 
Sec. 7. That in all cases where any drug or article of food shall be taken as a 
sample to be examined and analyzed the person making the analysis shall re- 
serve a portion of the sample, which shall be sealed, for a period of thirty days 
from the time of taking such sample, and in case of a complaint the reserved 
portion alleged to be adulterated shall, upon application, be delivered to the 
defendant or his attorney. 
Sec. 8. That no person shall hinder, obstruct, or in any way interfere with 
any inspector, analyst, or other person of the health department in the perform- 
ance of his duty in carrying out the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 9. That all prosecutions under this act shall be in the police court of said 
District, on information brought in the name of the District of Columbia, and 
on its behalf; and any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this 
act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not less than five-dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
Sec. 10. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the 
same are hereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall 
be construed as modifying or repealing any of the provisions of “An act defining 
butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importa- 
tion, and exportation of oleomargarine,” approved August second, eighteen hun- 
dred and eighty-six, or of “An act defining cheese, and also imposing a tax upon 
and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of ‘filled 
cheese,’ ” approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 
Approved, February 17, 1898. 
AN ACT For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or mis- 
branded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regu- 
lating traffic therein, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled. That it shall be unlawful for any person to 
manufacture within any Territory or the District of Columbia any article of 
food or drug which is adulterated or misbranded, within the meaning of this 
Act: and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section 
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense shall, upon conviction 
thereof, be fined not to exceed five hundred dollars or shall be sentenced to one 
