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within the District of Columbia, shall offer for sale as food or drink anything 
poisonous or unwholesome; and any person violating the provisions of this 
section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than 
five nor more than twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. 
Sec. 6a. That any person in the District of Columbia who receives milk or 
cream for sale shall, immediately after emptying the receptacle in which such 
milk or cream has been received, thoroughly rinse such receptacle so as to 
free the same from all remnants of milk and of cream, or shall cause such 
receptacle to be so rinsed ; and no person in said District shall put or, having 
power and authority to prevent, permit to be put into any receptacle which is 
commonly used for the storage or delivery of milk or cream for sale anything 
which is filthy or offensive or any refuse matter of any kind. Any person 
violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be pun- 
ished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each and every such of- 
fense. — (Commissioners’ Regulation of April 21, 1903.) 
Sec. 6b. That ho occupant of any building, room, stand, stall, or other place 
in the District of Columbia, where cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, or other animals 
are slaughtered or killed, and no occupant of any building, room, stand, stall, 
or other place in said District where milk, game, poultry, fish, vegetables, fruits, 
groceries, or other articles of food are prepared, kept, sold, or offered for sale, 
shall permit such place or an appurtenance thereto to be unnecessarily unclean 
and unwholesome. No person who slaughters or kills in said District any 
cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry or other animals, and no person who prepares, keeps, 
sells, or offers for sale any meat, game, poultry, fish, vegetables, fruits, gro- 
ceries, or other article of food, shall permit any implement, knife, measure or 
utensil used in connection therewith to be unnecessarily unclean or unwhole- 
some or in unfit condition for use in connection with the slaughtering or killing 
of cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, or other animals, or for the preparation, keep- 
ing, selling, offering for sale, and delivery of meat, game, poultry, fish, vege- 
tables, fruits, groceries, or other articles of food. 
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this regulation, shall, upon 
conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars 
for each and every offense. — (Order of October 6, 1904.) 
Sec. 6f. No vendor or distributor of foods or beverages in the District of 
Columbia for immediate consumption on or about the place of business of such 
vendor or distributor shall permit any cup, glass, spoon, or fork that has been 
used for or in connection with the consumption of any such food or beverage 
to be used again for the same purpose until after it has been thoroughly 
washed in clean water. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of Sec. 6c, Sec. 6d, Sec. 6e, or 
Sec. 6f, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than 
twenty-five dollars for every such violation. — (Order of April 24, 1906). 
Sec. 7. That no person shall offer for sale within the District of Columbia 
any unwholesome, watered, or adulterated milk, or swill milk, or milk from 
cows kept up and fed op garbage, swill, or other deleterious substance; nor 
shall any person offer for sale within said District any butter or cheese made 
from such unwholesome milk; and any person violating the provisions of this 
section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor 
more than twenty dollars for each and every such offense. 
ESTABLISHING A LIMIT OF TOLERANCE; ON MILK BOTTLES. 
That the glass bottles or jars used for the distribution or delivery of milk or 
cream to consumers, that hold, when filled to a level with the bottom of the 
