Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-05-27
SALE OF WEAPONS.
Provisions of Law Governing Traffic
in the District

By recent act of Congress the law reg
ulating the sale of deadly weapons is
amended SO as to make it effective. The
act amends section of the original law
1t is now provided:
That any person or persons who shall,
within the District of Columbia, sell. bar
ter, hire, lend. or give to any person under
the age of twenty-one years, shah be
deemed guilty of "A miSdemeanor, and shall,
upon conviction thereof, pay fine of not
more than 800, or to be imprisoned in the
Jail of the District of Columbia not more
than three months. No person shall engage
IN or conduct the business of the kind here
inbefore named without having previously
obtained from the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia a special license all-
thoriZng 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
II EN- by the applicant therefor of bond
with sureties, to be byHthem approved, con-
ditioned in such penal sum they shall
fix, to the United STATES for the compliance
by said applicant with all the provisions
OF this section: and npon 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 re-
woke said license Any person engaging in
said business without having previously OBJ
tanned said special License shall be guilty
of miSdemeanof. and upon conviction
thereof shall be Sentenced to pay "a fine of
~,
not less than SlT' nor more than 500, and
in default of theTpayment of said fine the
person convicted. shall be imprisoned in
the workhouse of the District of Columbia
for period Of not more than six months
"All persons whose business ii is to sell,
barter, hire, lendler give any such weapon
weapons, shall be. and they are hereby,
required to keep, It written register of the
name and residence of every purchaser,
bartcrer, hirer, Borrower, donee of any
such weapon or 4weaponS, together with
full description Of said weapon or weapons;
which register shall be subject to the in
spection of the major and superintendent
Columbia, other person by him author
:Zed in that behalf, and further, to make
report on or before the first Tuesday in
each and every month, under oath, to said
major and superintendent, of all such sales,
bartcrings, hrings, lendings, or gifts made
during the preceding month, together with
full description of said weapon or weap-
purchaser, barterer, hirer, borrower, or
Gonee OF any such weapon or weapons.
ANY person or persons who shall refuse
neglect, or fail to keep said register as
hereinbefore provided. or shall refuse,
neglect, fail to make said report at the
time and in the manner provided for in
this section, shall be deemed guilty OF Il
thereof, pay fine of not more than Sloo
and in default of the payment of SAID hne
the person convicted shall be imprisoned IN
the workhouSc of the District of Columbia
for n period of not more than sixty days,
and the Commissioners of said District may
revoke said license. And one-half of every
fine imposed under this section shall be
paid to the informer, If any, whose lnfof-
nation shall have led to the conviction OF
the having said fine.