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PUBLIC LAW 424-JUNE 22, 1954 CHAPTER 337

AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to sell certain property" owned by the District of Columbia located in Montgomery County, Maryland, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, for the best interests of the District of Columbia, to sell and convey, in whole or in part, to the highest bidder at public or advertised sale, real estate now owned in fee simple by the District of Columbia consisting of approximately seventeen and seventeen one-hundredths acres of land located in Montgomery County, in the State of Maryland, and described in two certain deeds, namely, (1) a deed made November 7, 1898, from Damaris A. Sellman and Frederick O. Sellman to the District of Columbia, recorded on November 21, 1898, in liber T. D. numbered 6, folio 238, one of the land records of Montgomery County, Maryland, and (2) a deed made April 1, 1899, from Damaris A. Sellman and Frederick O. Sellman to the District of Columbia, recorded April 12, 1899, in liber T. D. numbered 8, folio 141, one of the land records of Montgomery County, Maryland. SEC. 2. The said Commissioners are further authorized to pay the reasonable and necessary expenses of sale of each parcel of land sold pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and shall deposit the net proceeds thereof in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. Approved June 22, 1954. Public Law 424

June 22, 1954 [S. 2654]

D. C. land s a l e. M o nt gomery County, Md.

Deposit of proceeds.

CHAPTER 338

AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia".

June 22, 1954 [S« 2657]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 39 of p"aVtVc"e^ A c*t! the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art ^*p^!^^?^% to protect the public health in the District of Columbia", approved oiations.^*^ February 27, 1929 (45 Stat. 1338, as amended; sec. 2-130, D. C. Code, 3951 edition), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 39. (a) Any person violating the provisions of this Act, except section 2 hereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 D.C.Code 2-102. or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. "(b) Any person violating the provisions of section 2 of this Act shall be punished, for the first offense, by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; for the second offense, by a fine oi not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and for the third and subsequent offenses, by a fine of not more than $5,C00 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. "(c) For the purposes of subsection (b) of this section, an offender shall be considered a second or subsequent offender, as the case may be, if he previously has been convicted of the offense of practicing medicine or the healing art without a license, either in the District of

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