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PUBLIC LAW 90-263-MAR. 11, 1968

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thence north 23 degrees 40 minutes west and always following a northeasterly line of land belonging to the Jackson Laboratory, said land belonging formerly to the trustees of Louise D. Morrell, 492 feet to the point of beginning, and containing 4.632 acres. The conveyance of title to the lands described in this section shall eliminate them from the Acadia National Park. Approved March 4, 1968.

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AN ACT To provide that a judgment or decree of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall not constitute a lien until filed and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, 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 first sentence of subsection (a) of section 15-101 of the District of Columbia Code is amended to read as follows:

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"Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, every final judgment or final decree for the payment of money rendered in the— " (1) United States District Court for the District of Columbia; or " (2) District of Columbia Court of General Sessions— when filed and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, is enforceable, by execution issued thereon, for the period of twelve years only from the date when an execution might first be issued thereon, or from the date of the last order of revival thereof." SEC. 2. (a) Subsection (a) of section 15-102 of the District of Columbia Code is amended to read as follows: «(a) Each— "(1) final judgment or decree for the payment of money rendered in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, or the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, from the date such judgment or decree is filed and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, and "(2) recognizance taken by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, or the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, from the date the entry or order of forfeiture of such recognizance is filed and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, shall constitute a lien on all the freehold and leasehold estates, legal and equitable, of the defendants bound by such judgment, decree, or recognizance, in any land, tenements, or hereditaments in the District of Columbia, whether the estates are in possession or are reversions or remainders, vested or contingent. Such liens on equitable interests may be enforced only by an action to foreclose." SEC. 3. Section i5-311 of the District of Columbia Code is amended to read as follows: "§15-311. Property subject to levy "The writ of fieri facias may be levied on all goods and chattels of the debtor not exempt from execution, and upon money, bills, checks, promissory notes, or bonds, or certificates of stock in corporations owned by the debtor, and upon his money in the hands of the marshal or his deputy or other officer or person charged with the execution of the writ. A writ of fieri facias issued from the United States District

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