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lumbia without a permit therefor from the Commissioners of the District, founded upon a report from the major and superintendent of police as to the good repute and integrity of the person applying for such permit. Any person violating any section of this provision shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding $20.

SEC. 3. For the purposes of these regulations the word "person signifies and includes firms, corporations, and companies; and words of one number signify and include persons and things of both numbers, respectively; and words of one gender signify and include persons and animals of both the masculine and feminine genders; and, except when inconsistent with the manifest intent and meaning of these regulations, the word "street" signifies each and every place or space mentioned in section 1 of article 9 of these regulations.

SEC. 4. Any person, corporation, principal, agent, servant, or employee who shall violate any provision of any regulation, now or hereafter made, or any amendment thereof, or who shall refuse or neglect to obey, fulfill, or.comply with any of said provisions, or any amendment now or hereafter made for which violation, refusal, or neglect no penalty other than by this section or any amendment thereof has been or shall be prescribed shall, on conviction of such violation, refusal, or neglect be punished by a fine therefor of not less than $1 nor more than $40.

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Laws of Congress Germane to Police

Regulations

CARRYING OR SELLING OF DEADLY OR DANGEROUS
WEAPONS WITHIN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

CARRYING WEAPONS

SEO. 855. (District of Columbia Code of Laws.) Any person who shall within the District of Columbia have concealed about his person any deadly or dangerous weapon, or who shall carry openly any such weapon, with intent to unlawfully use the same, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than 500, or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both: Provided, That the officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or of any regularly Organized Militia company, police officers, officers guarding prisoners, officials of the United States or the District of Columbia engaged in the execution of the laws for the protection of persons or property, when any of such persons are on duty, shall not be liable for carrying necessary arms for use in performance of their duty: Provided further, That nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to prevent any person from keeping or carrying about his place of business, dwelling house, or premises any such dangerous or deadly weapon, or from carrying the same from place of purchase to his dwelling house or place of business, or from his dwelling house or place of business to any place where repairing is done to have the same repaired and back again: Provided further, That nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to apply to any person who shall have been granted a written permit to carry such weapon or weapons by any judge of the police court of the District of Columbia; and authority is hereby given to any such judge to grant such permit for a period of not more than one month at any one time, upon satisfactory proof to him of the necessity for the granting thereof, and, further, upon the filling with such judge of a bond, with sureties to be approved by said judge, by the applicant for

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such permit, conditioned to the United States in such penal sum as said judge shall require for the keeping of the peace, save in the case of necessary self-defense by such applicant during the continuance of said permit, which bond shall be put in suit by the United States for its benefit upon any breach of such condition.

SEC. 856. All such weapons, as hereinbefore described, which may be taken from any person offending against any of the provisions of the last preceding section shall, upon conviction of such person, be disposed of as may be ordered by the judge trying the case, and the record shall show any and all such orders relating thereto as a part of the judgment in the case.

SELLING, ETC., TO MINORS

SEC. 857. Any person or persons who shall, within the District of Columbia, sell, barter, hire, lend, or give to any minor under the age of 21 years any such weapon as herein before described shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $100 or be imprisoned not more than three months, or both. No person shall engage in or conduct the business of selling, bartering, hiring, lending, or giving any weapon or weapons of the kind hereinbefore named without having previously obtained from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia a special license authorizing the conduct of such business by such person, and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to grant such license, without fee therefor, upon the filing with them by the applicant therefor of a bond, with sureties to be by them approved, conditioned in such penal sum as they shall fix, to the United States, for the compliance by said applicant with all the provisions of this section, and upon any breach or breaches of said condition said bond shall be put in suit by said United States for its benefit, and said commissioners may revoke said license. Any person engaging in said business without having previously obtained said special license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500, of which one-half shall be paid to the informer, if any, whose information shall lead to the conviction of the person paying said fine; and in default of payment of said fine shall be imprisoned for not more than six months. All persons whose business is to sell, barter, hire, lend, or give any such weapon or weapons shall be, and they hereby are, required to keep a written register of the name and residence of every

purchaser, barterer, hirer, borrower, or donee of any such weapon or weapons, together with a full description of such weapon, which register shall be subject to the inspection of the major and superintendent of the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia, and, further, to make a report, under oath, on or before the first Tuesday of each and every month to said major and superintendent of all such sales, barterings, hirings, lendings, or gifts, together with the respective names and residences of the persons buying or receiving such weapon. Any person failing to keep such register or to make such reports shall be fined not more than $100, and the commissioners may revoke his license.

Ordered, March 11, 1905: That under authority of section 857, District of Columbia Code, authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to grant special licenses to dealers in dangerous and deadly weapons, upon the filing by the applicant therefor of a bond with sureties to be approved by the commissioners "in such penal sum as they shall fix to the United States," the amount of said bond is hereby fixed at $1,000 (Audr. 4174) (L. S. 143874 C. O.).

ERECTION OF SIGNS AND BILL POSTING

PAR. 39. That billposters and persons engaged in the business of painting or placing signs or advertisements on land, buildings, billboards, fences, or other structures in the District of Columbia visible from a street or other public space shall pay an annual tax of $20 before engaging in said business. No person shall place, exhibit, maintain, or continue any advertisement or poster except upon such land, houses, buildings, billboards, fences, or other structures as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, in their discretion, authorize in writing for that purpose. The said written authority shall only be granted in resident streets upon application made in writing and signed by a majority of the residents on the side of the square in which said display is to be made and also the side of the confronting square: Provided, That nothing in this paragraph shall apply to persons who advertise a business, exhibition, or entertainment on the premises where the same is conducted, nor to signs relating to the sale, rent, or lease of lands when the sign or advertisement is on the land referred to in said sign or advertisement. Any person violating any of the provisions of this paragraph shall, upon conviction thereof

in the police court of the District of Columbia, be punished by a fine of not more than $200, and after conviction of any such violation the offender shall be liable to a further fine of not more than $10 for each and every day thereafter that said violation of law shall continue. (32 Stat. pt. 1, 627.) Approved July 1, 1902.

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SEC. 21. Fifth. Billposters shall pay $20 annually. Every person whose business it is to post advertising bills or distribute circulars shall be regarded as a billposter: Provided, That no license shall be required of any dealer who may post or distribute advertisements of his own business. (Act Legislative Assembly, August 23, 1871.)

NOTE. The corporation counsel holds that this law is still in force.

REAL-ESTATE SIGNS

SEC. 7. That hereafter no sign or advertisement relating to the sale, rent, or lease of land or premises shall be located on the sidewalk or parking of any street, avenue, or road in the District of Columbia. One painted or printed sign or advertisement for the sale, rent, or lease of lands or premises may, with the written consent of the owner or legal representative of the owner, be placed, by any one of not exceeding three real estate agents, on any lot, piece, or parcel of land abutting on a street, avenue, or road in said District, or attached to the exterior of any building fronting thereon. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to use the police authority vested in them to require the removal of any sign or advertisement in violation of this provision and to institute prosecutions in the Police Court of the District of Columbia against persons violating the provisions hereof, and every such person, upon conviction of such violation, shall be fined in the sum of not less than $5 nor more than $25.

District of Columbia appropriation act, approved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat., pt. 1, 974.)

AN ACT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE PUBLIC PEACE AND THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to destroy, injure,

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