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PUBLIC LAW 89-682-OCT. 15, 1966

attorney to make prompt compliance with the order of the panel or the trial commissioner a full statement of the circumstances shall be incorporated in the report of the panel. " (g) The Court of Claims is hereby authorized and directed, under such regulations as it may prescribe, to provide the facilities and services of the office of the clerk of the court for the filing, processing, hearing, and dispatch of congressional reference cases and to include within its annual appropriations the costs thereof and other costs of administration, including (but without limitation to the items herein listed) the salaries and traveling expenses of the commissioners serving as trial commissioners and panel members, mailing and service of process, necessary physical facilities, equipment, and supplies, and personnel (including secretaries and law clerks)." SEC. 3. Section 792(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "The Court shall designate one of the commissioners to serve at the will of the court as chief commissioner." Approved October 15, 1966.

Provision of f a c i l i t i e s and services.

Commissioners. 67 Stat. 226.

Public Law 89-682 AN ACT

October 15, 1966

To require premarital examinations in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

[H. R. 3314]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprei^entatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all applications ^.c. ^ ^^^ for marriage licenses shall be open to inspection as public records. All aminaTfons^, re-" such applications upon which licenses have not yet been issued shall be quirement. kept together in a separate file readily accessible to public examination. SEC. 2. No application for a marriage license shall be received unless there shall be filed therewith a statement or statements, upon a form prescribed by the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, signed by (1) a person in the District of Columbia certified by the Department of Public Health as duly qualified to administer and interpret a standard laboratory blood test, (2) a physician licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the District of Columbia, a State, or a territory or possession of the United States, or (3) a commissioned medical officer in the military service or in Public Health Service of the United States, that the applicant has submitted to a standard laboratory blood test within thirty days prior to the filing of such application, and that, in the opinion of such certified person, physician, or medical officer, based upon the result of that test, the applicant is not infected with syphilis in a stage of that disease in which it can be transmitted to another person. Such statement shall not disclose the technical data upon which it is based. Any such statement shall include the name of the person or laboratory administering the test, the name of the test administered, the exact name of the applicant, and the date of the test. SEC. 3. If a judge of the United States District Court for the District Waiver. of Columbia determines that public policy or the physical condition of either of the persons applying for a marriage license requires the intended marriage to be celebrated without delay, he may waive the provisions of section 2 of this Act and section 2 of the Act of August 12, 1937 (D.C. Code, sec. 30-109), and a license may be issued without 50 Stat. 626. regard to such sections. Fin ncial SEC. 4. I n any case in which a person is unable for financial reasons bility aprovi- d i s a to obtain the services of— sion. (1) a private physician, or

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