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 FOBTY-EIGHTH CON GRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58, 59. 1885. 305 special police officers, without compensation; and such agents or officers shall have power to arrest, without warrant, all persons violating in their presence or sight any law relating to or affecting the protection of children, or other parties so offending by virtue of a warrant issued by the police court of the District of Columbia, which offenders shall be taken by such agents or officers before the said police court of the District of Columbia for trial. Said agents or officers are also hereby em- Powers of empowered to bring before the said court any child who is subjected to <>¤!¤- cruel treatment, willful abuse, or neglect, or any child under sixteen years of age found in a house of ill-tame; and said court may commit com-teeeemmie. such child to an orphan asylum or other public charitable institution in the District of Columbia, with the consent of the constituted authorities of such asylum or institution, or make such other disposition thereof as now is or may hereafter be provided by law in cases of vagrant, destitute, or abandoned children: Provided, That any parent, pm.;,.,, guardian, or near relative who may feel aggrieved by any order of said _ Puentcrguerdcourt in the premises may appeal therefrom to the criminal court of the 1**** "°'*Y ’*PP°°1· District of Columbia. Sec. 3. That any person in the District of Columbia who shall tort- Abuse, abandonure, cruelly beat, abuse, or otherwise willfully maltreat any child under m°¤f» °’ w;¤¤s,f¤1 the age of eighteen years; or any person, having the custody and pos- :f,°,§’d°y,'f;$?m°Q, : session of a child under the age of fourteen years, who shall expose, or misdemeanor; aid and abet in exposing, such child in any highway, street, iield, house, punishable by fine 0ut·house, or other place, with intent to abandon it; or any person, °¤d¤¤P¤°°¤m°¤*· having in his custody or control a child under the age of fourteen years, who shall in any way dispose of it with a view to its being employed as an acrobat, or a gymnast, or a contortionist, or a circusrider, or a ropewalker, or in any exhibition of like dangerous charactexgoras a beggar, or mendicant, or pauper, or street-singer, or street-musician; or any person who shall take, receive, him, employ, use, exhibit, or have in custody any child of the age last named for any of the purposes last enumerated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and when convicted thereof shall be subject to punishment by a fine of not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both. Sec. 4. That any person who shall entice, decoy, place, take, or re- Dnticing female ceive any female child under the age of eighteen years into any house dum *?tb°°°m° of ill-fame or disorderly house, for the purpose of prostitution, or any LQ; l}:,,",:,,'},,,,',;,]: person who, having in his custody or control such child, shall dispose Pm-P,,,,,,,,, punish. of it to be so received, or to be received in or for any obscene, indecent, able by Hue and or immoral purpose, exhibition, or practiceilshall be deemed guilty of a “¤P¤¤°m¤°¤*- misdemeanor, and when convicted thereof s allbe subjectto punishment by a flue of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or both. Approved, February 13th, 1885. CHAP. 59.-An act to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to February 13, 1885. maintain public order during the ceremonies of the inauguration of the President *‘·*—;"‘ and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House leiéllielrrcaentaiéivcs of the United States of A·me·r€oa in Congress aasensbled, at such sum as may be neces- Dl•¤‘*¤* <¤` C<>- sary, one half payable from any money in the Treasury not otherwise l“”M*· appropriated and one half from the revenues of the District of Colum- Appropx-lation bia not to exceed eight thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated-to enable the Commissioners to maintain public order and to protect life and prop- To pr¤¢<3¤¢ lif¤ erty during the ceremonies of the inanguaration of the President from 3”d.m'l:;;f·}“‘;:ld,:: the twentieth day of February to the sixth day of March eighteen hun- 0,°??:§,gum'Q,?°n 0,- dred and eighty-five inclusive; and the Commissioners of the District President in 1885.