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Orders of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 
POLICE REGULATIONS. 
Cow yards, peris or stables. 
Article XIX. Section 1. No person shall establish or maintain a cow yard, 
pen or stable within any of the more densely populated parts of the District of 
Columbia, within two hundred feet of any building used as a dwelling house, 
manufactory, store or place of public assemblage, without the written consent of 
the owner of such building; such consent to be renewed upon the first day of 
July of each year upon thirty days’ notice by the Health Officer to that effect; 
Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a person 
from keeping one cow for his own domestic use, nor to prevent the sale of the 
surplus milk by a person keeping a cow for his own domestic use. 
Sec. 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this regulation shall, 
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than five dollars for 
each day during which such violation shall continue.— (Order of August 28, 
1897.) 
BUILDING REGULATIONS. 
Location of dairies. 
Sec. 170a. No dairy nor establishment for the storage or Sale of milk or 
other dairy products, which shall involve in its use or operation more than two 
wagons, shall be established or located in any square or block fronting on any 
street or avenue where more than one-half of the improved property in such 
square or block fronting on such street or avenue is used for residential pur- 
poses, nor shall any such dairy or establishment be located in any square or 
block fronting on any alley of which more than three-fourths of the improved 
property in such square or block is used for residential purposes, except with 
the written consent of the owners of three-fourths of the property within two 
hundred feet of the boundaries of the site on which such dairy or establishment 
is proposed to be located. Provided, That this regulation shall not apply to 
any case of rebuilding or enlarging, in the same location, any existing dairy or 
establishment for the storage or sale of milk or other dairy products.” — (Order 
of April 17, 1906.) 
REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF DAIRIES AND DAIRY FARMS. 
Ordered, That the following regulations made by the health officer of the 
District of Columbia, pursuant to the requirements of section 11 of “ An act to 
regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” 
approved March 2, 1895, in lieu of the regulations on the same subject made 
and approved June 26, 1895, are hereby approved : 
Section 1. No building or space shall be used for dairy purposes which is 
not well lighted and ventilated, which is not provided with a suitable floor, 
and, if such room or space be a cellar or subcellar, or be located in a cellar or 
subcellar, which is not properly concreted, guttered, and drained. 
Sec. 2. No dairy shall be located or maintained within any kitchen, wash 
room, workshop, or inhabited room, nor in proximity to any water-closet, privy, 
cesspool, or urinal, nor in any room or space which is not of such size and con- 
struction as to permit the entire separation of all milk and milk products, both 
in the process of handling and storing the same, from all probable sources of 
contamination, either by dirt, noxious gases, infective organisms or substances, 
