Chapter CCCVII. *to protect the Manufacturers of Mineral Waters in the District of Columbia, and for other Purposes.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That all manufacturers and vendersManufacturers, &c. of mineral wate
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CHAP. CCCVII.— An Act *to protect the Manufacturers of Mineral Waters in the District of Columbia, and for other Purposes.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That all manufacturers and vendersManufacturers, &c. of mineral waters, &c. sold in bottles on which are their names or marks, may file in court description of bottles, &c. of mineral waters and other beverages by law allowed to be sold in bottles, upon which their names or their mark or marks shall be respectively impressed, may file with the clerk of the supreme court of the District of Columbia a description of such bottles and of the name or marks thereon, and shall cause the same to be published for not less than two weeks, successively, in a daily or weekly newspaper, published in said District of Columbia.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That it is hereby declared to be unlawfulThe filling such bottles with mineral water, &c. without permission, declared unlawful. for any person or persons hereafter, without the permission of the owner or owners thereof, to fill with mineral waters or other beverages any such bottles so marked, for sale, or to traffic in any such bottles so marked, and not bought by him or her of such owner or owners thereof; and every person so offending shall be liable to a penalty of fifty cents forPenalty. every bottle so filled, or sold, or used, or disposed of, or bought, or trafficked in, for the first offence; and of five dollars for every subsequent offence, to be recovered as other fines in said District of Columbia.
Approved, July 28, 1866.