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 rirrrixiarn coucanss. sms. 1. cH. size. woe. 305 bia, and may be made at any time, and every license shall date from the first day of the month in which it is issued and shall expire on the thirty-first day of October following its issue, unless sooner revoked. Every application for such license shall contain the full name of the applicant therefor, together with his place of residence by street and number if so designated. If the applicant is a corporation, the application must specify the names and like addresses of the president, treasurer, and secretary thereof, or other officers performing corresponding duties and under different names; and the said Commissioners may, in their discretion, require the names and like addresses of all the officers, including the directors, of any corporate applicant for a license. lf the ap licant is a partnership or unincorporated association, the names andp like addresses of all the members thereof must be specified in the application. The application must be subscribed by the applicant or applicants therefor, if natural persons, and if a corporation in the corporate name, by the president or chief officer thereof, attested by the secretary or assistant secretary, with the corporate seal attached, and each application must be acknowledged. Each application must state that the applicant or applicants is or are the person or persons who have the sole beneficial interest in the business established or to be established under said license, and also the place, by street and number and such other description as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine, where it is proposed to conduct such employment agency. The said Commissioners may refuse to receive any application for such license which does not meet the requirements of this section. The Commissioners of the Character of appli- District of Columbia must be satisfied that the applicant is a person of °”"°‘ . good general character, or, if a corporation, that the officers thereof and those under whose direction the business of the employment agency is to be carried on are persons of good general character, and may for that purpose require any other statements to be made in the application for the license or otherwise which said Commissioners deem necessary. A license fee of twenty-five dollars shall be paid annually, ree. which sum shall accompany each application for a license, which fee A shall be returned if the license is not granted. Every application for a license shall be filed not less than one week prior to the granting thereof, and notice thereof shall be posted in the office of the assessor of said District, and a written protest may be made by any person against the granting of such license; and if said protest is ma e, the said Commissioners shall give a public hearing before a determination is made upon such application. Any person who conducts or intends Lodging houses. to conduct a lodging house, separate and apart from such employment agency, shall not be granted a license unless the fact of conducting such lodging house is set forth in the application, which fact shall also be designated in the certificate of Such license. The said Commis- léejectivn of ¤pp1i· sinners shall have power to reject any application for license and also °° °°”’ to revoke any license for violation of or noncompliance with any of ' the provisions of this Act in addition to any other penalty in this Act provided. BoND. Sec. 4. That each application for a license shall be accompanied by B°" a bond, in due form, to the District of Columbia in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, with two or more sufficient sureties, who may be required to justify, and conditioned that the obligor will not violate any of the duties, terms, conditions, provisions or requirements of this Act and the Act of Congress approved August first, eighteen hun- V°l· "•l" “°· dred and ninety~two (Twentyseventh Statutes, page three hundred and forty), commonly known as the labor law. The execution of any vox. xxxxv, rr 1-—20