Chapter 117.
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CHAP. 117.— An act to prohibit the sale of tobacco to minors under sixteen years of age in the District of Columbia.February 7, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. Sale, etc., of tobacco to minors under sixteen years, prohibited. That hereafter no person in the District of Columbia shall sell, give, or furnish any cigar, cigarette, or tobacco in any of its forms to any minor under sixteen years of age: and for each and every violation of this Penalty.section the offender shall, on conviction, be fined not less than two dollars nor more than ten dollars, or be imprisoned for not less than five days nor more than twenty days.
Approved, February 7, 1891.