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 FIFTYFOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 382, 383. 1897. 635 thereof, within said District, while such association shall be so enjoined or prohibited from doing business pursuant to this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twentynve dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in said jail not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. · P ml { Sec. 15. That any person who shall act within said District as an rue sutgcmltionlstgig officer, agent, or otherwise for any association which shall have failed, g§;‘};‘;8·*'°m d°i¤S ’ neglected, or reiiised to comply with, or shall have violated any of the ` provisions of this Act, or shall have failed or neglected to procure from the assessor a proper certificate of authority to transact business as provided for by this Act, shall be subject to the penalty provided in the last preceding section for the misdemeanor therein specified. To '·‘transact business " or “doing business" under this Act means the writing of applications and the soliciting of new members so far as the penalty of the Act applies thereto. It shall not be unlawful for any organization under section one to continue the operation of its lodges or branches except in securing new members. Not S unable to Sec. 16. That nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply to any urs ansulgnw comps. - corporation, society, order, or association carrying on the business of '“°“·°“’· life, health, casualty, or accident insurance for profit or gain, and shall only apply to fraternal beneficial associations as denned by section one, _ _ and nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to affect any S°°’°°‘°°"°‘“'¥°°"d‘ grand or subordinate lodge or branch of any such fraternal beneficial societies, orders, or associations which limits its certificate holders to a particular religious denomination or to the employees of a particular town or city, designated firm, business house, or corporation, or Department or branch of the United States Government, nor the grand or subordinate lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, nor any grand, subordinate lodge, or other body of Free and Accepted Masons, nor the grand or any subordinate lodge of the Knights of Pythias, or similar orders, associations, or societies that do not have as their principal object the issuance of benefit certificates of membership in case of death or the payment of sick, funeral, or death benefits exceeding in amount one hundred dollars. Sec. 17. That the provisions of this Act shall not extend to nor apply ,,,§§‘§,‘{f*’°"“°““ °" to any association or individual who shall, in the certificate filed with the recorder of deeds, use or specify a name or style the same as that of any previously existing incorporated fraternal beneficial association in the District of Columbia. Sec. 18. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro- R"*’°°1· visions of this Act are hereby repealed: Provided, That all rights, "’°"'°'· franchises and privileges granted by this Act shall be subject to amendment or repeal by Congress. Approved, March 3, 1897. . CHAP. 383.-An Act To prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District March 3- i897· of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ f C I States of America. in Congress assembled, That for the purposes of this b,£‘“"‘°* " ° “’”‘ Act the term “contagious disease " shall beheld to mean Asiatic cholera,  •1i¤¤=¤¤¤¤· yellow fever, typhns fever, smallpox (including varioloid), leprosy, the m I m plague, and glanders, or any of these diseases by whatsoever name it may be designated; the term “ case of contagious disease " shall be held to mean any person sulierin g from any such disease. Any person shall be held to be suffering from a contagious disease who is so infected by such disease as to be capable of transmitting it to others. The presence of the ordinary clinical symptoms of any contagious disease shall be prima facie evidence that such case is or was such a disease; and the