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AN ACT To amend section eight hundred and seventy-eight of the Code of Law for the 
District of Columbia. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That section eight hundred and seventy 
eight of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia be, and the same is 
hereby, amended by adding thereto the following: 
“ Sec. 878a. That the following words shall, in addition to their ordinary 
meaning, have the meaning herein given : The word ‘ person ’ or ‘ persons,’ in 
sections eight hundred and seventy-eight b, c, d, e, and g, inclusive, shall include 
* firms ’ or ‘ corporations ; ' the word ‘ vessel ’ or ‘ vessels ’ in sections eight 
hundred and seventy-eight b, c, d, and e, shall include ‘ cans,’ ‘ bottles,’ ‘ siphons,’ 
and ‘ boxes the word ‘ mark ’ or ‘ marks ’ shall include ‘ labels,’ ‘ trade-marks,’ 
and all other methods of distinguishing ownership in vessels, whether printed 
upon labels or blown into bottles or engraved and impressed upon cans or boxes. 
“ Sec. 878b. That persons engaged in producing, manufacturing, bottling, or 
selling milk or cream, or any other lawful beverage composed principally of 
milk, in vessels, with their name, trade-mark, or other distinctive mark, and 
the word ‘ registered ’ branded, engraved, blown, or otherwise produced thereon, 
or on which a pasted trade-mark label is put upon which the word ‘ registered ’ 
is also distinctly printed, may file with the clerk of the supreme court of the 
District of Columbia a description by facsimile, or a sample of an original 
package so marked or branded or blown, showing plainly such names and 
marks thereon, together with their name in full, or their corporate name, and 
also their place of business in the District of Columbia, and if so filed shall 
cause the same to be published for not less than two weeks successively in a 
daily or weekly newspaper published in the District of Columbia. 
“ Sec. 878c. That whoever, except the person who shall have filed and pub- 
lished a description of the same as aforesaid, fills with milk or cream, or other 
beverage, as aforesaid, with intent to sell the same, any vessel so marked and 
distinguished as' aforesaid, the description of which shall have been filed and 
published as provided in the preceding section, or defaces, erases, covers up, or 
otherwise removes or conceals any such name or mark as aforesaid, or the word 
‘ registered,’ thereon, or sells, buys, gives, takes or otherwise disposes of, or 
traffics in the same without having purchased the contents thereof from the per- 
son whose name is in or upon such vessel, or without the written consent of 
such person, shall, for the first offense, be punished by a fine of not less than 
fifty cents for each such vessel, or by imprisonment for not less than ten days 
nor more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment; and for each 
subsequent offense by a fine of not less than one or more than five dollars for 
each such vessel, or by imprisonment for not less than twenty days nor more 
than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
“ Sec. 878d. That the use or possession by any person not engaged in the pro- 
duction or sale of milk or cream or other beverage as aforesaid, except the 
person who shall so have filed and published a description of the same as afore- 
said, of any vessel marked or distinguished as aforesaid, the description of 
which shall have been filed and published as aforesaid, without purchase of the 
contents thereof from, or the written consent of, the person who shall so have 
filed and published the said description, shall be prima facie evidence of the un- 
lawful use, possession of, or traffic in, such vessel, and the person so using or in 
possession of the same, except the person who shall so have filed and published 
the said description as aforesaid, shall be punished as in the next preceding 
section provided. 
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