An Act to amend section 17 of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to authorize the delegation of certain duties to employee boards
PL 87-247 (H.R.8033), enacted 09/14/1961

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"(e) By renouncing all claim to any and all devises and bequests 
made to her or him by the will of her husband or his wife pursuant to 
the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, or in the event that 
a renunciation shall be deemed to be effected j>ursuant to the pro-
visions of subsection (d) of this section, the surviving spouse shall be 
entitled to such share or interest in the real and personal estate of 
the deceased spouse (including dower if elected in lieu of the legal 
share in the real estate) which she or he would have taken had the 
deceased spouse died intestate, except that in neither event shall the 
surviving spouse be entitled to more than one-half of the net estate 
bequeathed and devised by said will, or, if dower be elected, one-half 
of the net personal estate bequeathed and dower in the real estate 
devised. 
"(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law now or heretofore o'ttnL^tl "i^ag/ee' 
in effect in the District of Columbia, any valid antenuptial or post- ments. 
nuptial agreement which shall have been entered, into by the spouses 
shall govern and the provisions thereof shall determine the rights 
of the surviving spouse in the real and personal property of the 
deceased spouse, and the administration thereof, but nothing con-
tained in this subsection shall prohibit any spouse from accepting the 
benefits of any devise or bequest made to him or her by the deceased 
spouse." 
SEC. 5. Section 1165 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a code 
of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901 (D.C. 
Code, sec. 18-204), is amended to read as follows: 
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"SEC. 1165. ABSENT OR INCOMPETENT SPOUSE.—^Where any married 
person is a lunatic or insane, and has been so adjudicated by a court of 
competent jurisdiction and such adjudication remains in force, or 
where any married person has been absent or unheard of for seven 
years, the husband or wife, as the case may be, of such lunatic or 
insane or absent person may grant and convey bv his or her separate 
deed, whether the same be aosolute or by way of lease or mortgage, as 
fully as if he or she were unmarried, any real estate which he or she 
may have acquired since such adjudication or since the beginning of 
such absence." 
SEC. 6. Section 1154 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a code 
of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as 
amended (D.C. Code, sec. 30-201), is amended by striking out "of J^ ^
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subsection (b)". 
SEC. 7. Any provision of law inconsistent with the provisions and 
amendments of this Act is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 8. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall become effective 
Effective date, 
six months after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved September 14, 1961. 
Public Law 87-247 
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September ]14, 1961 
To amend section 17 of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to authorize the dele- 
[H. R. 8033] 
gation of certain duties to employee boards. 
Be it eTMcted hy the^ Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, Thac paragraph (5) 
interstatis c om-
of section 17 of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.SX!. 17(>)) is ^j^^''^' ^<='-"»*«-
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: 
E m p l o y e e 
"When deemed by the Commission to be appropriate for the efficient ''"sTstat. !)i3. 
and orderly conduct of its business, it may authorize duly designated 
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employee boards to perform, under this paragraph, functions of the 
same character as those which may be performed thereunder by duly 
designated divisions." 
Approved September 14, 1961. 
Public Law 87-248 
September 14, 1961 
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[H. R. 8032] 
rp^j amend the Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928, and for 
other purposes. 
D. C. H e a l i n g 
Arts Practice Act, 
amendment. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 5 of the 
Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928, approved 
February 27, 1929 (45 Stat. 1326, 1327), as amended (sec. 2-103, D.C. 
Code, 1951 ed.), is amended (a) by inserting the subsection designa-
tion " ( a ) " immediately before the first word of such section; and (b) 
by adding the following subsection: 
"(b) Notwithstanding the requirements of the preceding subsec-
tion relating to registration, in the case of persons presenting evidence 
of graduation from a medical school or training in a hospital not 
located in the United States, the commission is authorized to accept 
certificates from the Educational Council for Foreign Medical 
Graduates or other organizations approved by (1) the American 
Medical Association, (2) the Association of American Medical Col-
leges, (3) the Federation of State Medical Boards, and (4) the 
American Hospital Association as bein^ qualified to examine and 
evaluate the professional skill, training, and qualifications of 
graduates of foreign medical schools, such certificates to show that 
the applicants have successfully qualified under an American Medical 
Qualification Examination of such Educational Council for Foreign 
Medical Graduates, or an examination comparable in form and com-
prehensive covei'a^e of subject matter to an American Medical Quali-
fication Examination." 
SEC. 2. Section 26 of said Act approved February 27, 1929 (45 
Stat. 1326, 1336; sec. 2-122, D.C. Code 1951 ed.), is amended (a) by 
striking "studied the healing art through not less than four graded 
courses of not less than nine months each, in a professional school 
or schools registered under this Act, and has been graduated by such 
a school", and inserting in lieu thereof "been graduated from a pro-
fessional school registered under this Act"; and (b) by inserting im-
mediately after ^'Frovided^'' where it first appears in such section the 
following: "That the commission shall by rule provide for determin-
ing whether an applicant who has been graduated from a professional 
school registered under this Act at a time when such school was not 
so registered may be admitted to examination, and such commission 
shall, in determining whether any such applicant shall be admitted 
to examination under this section, take into consideration whether 
the curriculum and the qualifications of the faculty of such school were 
substantially the same during the period the school was attended by 
the applicant as they were at the time the school first became registered 
under this Act, and if the commission shall so find, such applicant 
shall be admitted to examination: Provided 
further".