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Sec. 2. That any person or corporation convicted of violating any of the 
provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred 
dollars. The candy so adulterated shall be forfeited and destroyed under the 
direction of the court. 
Sec. 3. That it is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of the 
District of Columbia to appear for the people and to attend to the prosecution 
of all complaints under this act in all the courts of said District. 
Sec. 4. That this act shall take effect upon its passage. 
Approved, May 5, 1S98. 
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 con- 
viction thereof, be fined not to exceed five hundred dollars or shall be sentenced 
to one year’s imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discre- 
tion of the court, and for each subsequent offense and conviction thereof shall 
be fined not less than one thousand dollars or sentenced to one year’s impris- 
onment, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 
Sec. 2. That the introduction into any State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia from any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or 
from any foreign country, or shipment to any foreign country of any article of 
food or drugs which is adulterated or misbranded, within the meaning of this 
act, is hereby prohibited ; and any person who shall ship or deliver for shipment 
from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State 
or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, or who 
shall receive in any State or Territory or the District of Columbia from any 
other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or foreign country, and 
having so received, shall deliver, in original unbroken packages, for pay or 
otherwise, or offer to deliver to any other person, any such article so adulterated 
or misbranded within the meaning of this act, or any person who shall sell or 
offer for sale in the District of Columbia or the Territories of the United States 
any such adulterated or misbranded foods or drugs, or export or offer to export 
the same to any foreign country, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for such 
offense be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars for the first offense, and 
upon conviction for each subsequent offense not exceeding three hundred dollars 
or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court : 
Provided, That no article shall be deemed misbranded or adulterated within the 
provisions of this act when intended for export to any foreign country and pre- 
pared or packed according to the specifications or directions of the foreign pur- 
chaser when no substance is used in the preparation or packing thereof in con- 
flict with the laws of the foreign country to which said article is intended to be 
shipped ; but if said article shall be in fact sold or offered for sale for domestic 
use or consumption, then this proviso shall not exempt said article from the 
operation of any of the other provisions of this act. 
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, and 
the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall make uniform rules and regulations 
for carrying out the provisions of this act, including the collection and examina- 
