Sec. 16. That any person violating any of the foregoing regulations shall, on 
conviction thereof in police court, be punished by a fine of not more than ten 
dollars for each and every such offense, to be collected as other fines and pen- 
alties are collected. 
Sec. 17. That the regulations for the government of dairies and dairy farms 
in the District of Columbia promulgated June 26, 1895, are hereby repealed. — 
Order of July 31, 1897. 
AN ORDINANCE To prevent the sale of unwholesome food in the cities of Washington 
and Georgetown, as amended by Commissioners’ orders May 15, 1871. 
[Except as otherwise indicated these ordinances were promulgated by the board of 
health May 15, 1871, and have been legalized by Congress on April 24, 1880, and again on 
August 17, 1894.] 
Sec. 2. That no person shall offer for sale within the District of Columbia 
any liquor used for drink, whether malt, vinous, or ardent, or the milk of cows 
or goats, intended to be used for food or drink, which has been adulterated 
with any poisonous or deleterious ingredient ; and any person violating the pro- 
visions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less 
than ten nor more thau fifty dollars for each and every such offense. 
Sec. 5. That no person, whether owner, manager, keeper of, agent, bartender, 
or clerk, in any saloon, restaurant, boarding house, or eating house, located 
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 punished by a fine 
not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each and every such offense. — Commis- 
sioners' regulation of April 21, 1903. 
Sec. 6b. That no 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 cat- 
tle, sheep, hogs, poultry, or other animals, and no person who prepares, keeps, 
sells, or offers for sale any meat, game, poultry, fish, vegetables, fruits, grocer- 
ies 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, keeping, 
selling, offering for sale, and delivery of meat, game, poultry, fish, vegetables, 
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. — Commissioners' Regulation of October 6, 1904. 
