An Act to amend section 7 of ""An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes"", approved July 1, 1902, as amended, so as to provide for the bonding of persons licensed to engage in a business, trade, profession, or calling involving the collection of money for others
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set forth in the constitution and bylaws of the said association as of 
January 1, 1957, and such purposes shall be deemed to include the 
housing and care of such firefighting equipment belonging to the Dis-
trict of Columbia or to said association as was being housed and 
cared for by said association as of January 1, 1956. No conveyance 
pursuant to this Act shall be effective until such time as there shall 
be filed with the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia a 
certified copy of said constitution and bylaws, and an itemization of 
said firefighting equipment approved by the said Board of Commis-
sioners : Provided^ That the said Board of Commissioners may, with-
out effecting a reverter, withdraw from the custody of said association 
such of the firefighting equipment as is the property of the District 
of Columbia. 
SEC. 2. The property referred to in the first section of this Act is 
part of lot 47 in square 1200 described as follows: 
Beginning for the same at a point on the south line of M Street, 
said point of beginning bein^ 127.50 feet west of the west line of 
Wisconsin Avenue; and running thence east along the south line of 
M Street 38.38 feet to the centerline of the west wall of the premises 
3208 M Street northwest; thence in a southerly direction along the 
centerline of said wall and a continuation thereof 90.0 feet; thence 
in a westerly direction along a line parallel to the south line of M 
Street 38.88 feet, more or less, to a point 127.50 feet west of the west 
line of Wisconsin Avenue; thence in a northerly direction 90.0 feet 
to the point of beginning: all as shown on plat of survey recorded 
in the Office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia in survey 
book 51, page 66. 
SEC. 3. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be conditional 
upon the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of 
Columbia paying to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 
as consideration for the property conveyed an amount equal to 50 
per centum of its fair market value as determined by the Commis-
sioners after appraisal of such property. 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
Description. 
F a i r 
m a r k e t 
value. 
Public Law 86-217 
AN ACT 
To amend section 7 of "An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses 
of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes", approved 
•July 1, 1902, as amended, so as to provide for the bonding of persons licensed 
to engage in a business, trade, profession, or calling involving the collection 
of money for others. 
September 1, 1959 
[H. R. 2;il7] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That paragraph 
numbered 46 of section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act making appro-
priations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District 
of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
and three, and for other purposes", approved July 1,1902, as amended 
(sec. 47-2345, D.C. Code, 1951 edition), is amended by adding thereto 
the following subparagraph: 
"(c) The Commissioners may in their discretion require that any 
class or subclass of licensees licensed under the authority of this section 
to engage in a business, trade, profession or calling involving an ex-
press or implied agreement to collect money for others shall give bond 
to safeguard against financial loss those persons with whom such 
class or subclass of licensees may so agree. 
C o l l e c t i o n 
agencies, D, C, 
Licensing, 
47 Stat. 5()3. 
B o n d 
ments. 
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Violations. 
Right of action, 
"The bond which may be required by the Commissioners under the 
authority of this subparagraph shall be a corporate surety bond in an 
Limitation o
f amouut to be fixed by the Commissioners, but not to exceed $15,000, 
'°""*' 
conditioned upon the observance by the licensee and any agent or 
employee of said licensee of all laws and regulations in force in the 
District of Columbia applicable to the licensee's conduct of the busi-
ness, trade, profession, or calling licensed under the authority of this 
section, for the benefit of any person who may suffer damages result-
ing from the violation of any such law^ or regulation by or on the 
part of such licensee, his agent or employee. 
"Any person aggrieved by the violation of any law or regulation 
applicable to a licensee's conduct of a business, trade, profession, or 
calling involving the collection of money for others shall have, in 
addition to his right of action against such licensee, a right to bring 
suit against the surety on the bond authorized by this subparagraph 
(c), either alone or jointly with the principal thereon, and to recover 
in an amount not exceeding the penalty of the bond any damages 
sustained by reason of any act, transaction, or conduct of the licensee 
and any agent or employee of said licensee which is in violation of 
law or regulation in force in the District of Columbia relating to the 
business, trade, profession, or calling licensed under this section; and 
the provisions of the second, third (except the last sentence thereof), 
and fifth subparagraphs of paragraph (b) of the first section of the 
Act entitled 'An Act to grant additional powers to the Commission-
ers of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes', approved 
December 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 820; sec. 1-244(b), D.C. Code, 1951 edi-
tion), shall be applicable to such bond as if it were the bond author-
ized by the first subparagraph of such paragraph (b) of the first 
section of said Act approved December 20,1944: Provided^ That noth-
ing in this subparagraph (c) shall be construed to impose upon the 
surety on any such bond a greater liability than the total amount 
thereof or the amount remaining unextinguished after any prior 
recovery or recoveries. 
"This subparagraph (c) shall not be applicable to persons when 
engaged in the regular course of any of the following professions or 
businesses: 
"(1) Attorneys at law. 
"(2) Persons regularly employed on a regular wage or salary, 
in the capacity of creditmen or in a similar capacity, except as 
an independent contractor. 
"(3) Banks and financing and lending institutions. 
"(4) Common carriers. 
"(5) Title insurers and abstract companies while doing an 
escrow business. 
"(6) Licensed real estate brokers. 
"(7) Employees of any class or Subclass of licensees required 
to give bond under this subparagraph." 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
P r of e ssions or 
businesses. 
Exemption. 
September 1, i.959 
[H. R. 7948] 
Public Law 86-218 
AN ACT 
To declare nonnavigable a part of the west arm of the South Fork of the South 
Branch of the Chicago River situated in the city of Chicago in the State of 
Illinois, as hereinafter described. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
so^^th'sfan^h non- United Sttttcs of America in Congress assembled^ That the portion of 
navigable.