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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 pur- 
chaser 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 com- 
plaint 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 To prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia. 
[30 Stat., 398.] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled. That no person or corporation shall, by 
himself, his servant, or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person 
or corporation, manufacture for sale or knowingly sell or offer to sell any 
candy adulterated by the admixture of terra alba, barytes, talc, or any other 
mineral substance, by poisonous colors or flavors, or other ingredients delete- 
rious or detrimental to health. 
