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
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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 elimi-
nate them from the Acadia National Park. 
Approved March 4, 1968. 
Public Law 90-263 
March 11, 1968 
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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'. 
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of liens. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the first sen-
tence of subsection (a) of section 15-101 of the District of Columbia 
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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 ren-
dered 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." 
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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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Court for the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Court 
of General Sessions upon a judgment entered in such court may be 
levied on all legal leasehold and freehold estates of the debtor in land, 
but only after such judgment has been filed and recorded in the office 
of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia." 
SEC. 4. (a) The amendments made by the first section and section 2 
of this Act shall apply only with respect to judgments or decrees 
rendered in, or recognizances declared forfeited by, the United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia on and after April 1,1968. 
(b) The amendment made by section 3 of this Act shall apply only 
with respect to writs of fieri facias issued by the United States District 
Court iov the District of Columbia on and after April 1,1968. 
Approved March 11, 1968. 
Effective dates. 
Public Law 90-264 
AN ACT 
March 12, 1968 
To supplement the purposes of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 479), 
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by authorizing agreements and leases with respect to certain properties in the 
District of (Columbia, for the purpose of a national visitor center, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Re'presentatives of the 
United States of America in Gonqress assembled. That this Act may „ National visitor 
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be cited as the "National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968'. 
Act of i968. 
TITLE I—NATIONAL VISITOR CENTER 
SEC. 101. The Secretary of the Interior (hereafter in this Act 
referred to as the "Secretary"), in consultation with the Administrator 
of General Services (hereafter in this Adt referred to as the "Admin-
istrator"), is authorized to negotiate and enter into agreements and 
leases with The Washington Terminal Company, its successors or 
assigns (hereafter in this Act referred to as the "Company"), the 
owner of the property in the District of Columbia known as Union 
Station, for use of all or a part of such property for a national visitor 
center to be known as the National Visitor Center and a parking facility 
in connection therewith. 
SEC. 102. (a) The agreements and leases authorized by section 101 
of this Act shall be subject to the following terms and conditions: 
(1) the Company shall agree to make such alterations of the 
Union Station Building as the Secretary determines necessary to 
provide adequate facilities for visitors, which facilities, including 
the parking facility under paragraph (3), shall be representative 
of the highest standards of excellence of design and function; 
(2) the lease of the Union Station Building shall commence on 
a date to be mutually agreed upon contingent upon when such 
facilities are available for public use, and shall not be for a term 
of more than twenty-five years; 
(3) the Company, in consultation with the Secretary, shall con-
struct a parking facility, including necessary approaches and 
ramps, to accommodate as nearly as possible four thousand motor 
vehicles in the air space northerly of and adjacent to the existing 
Union Station Building, and such facility shall, upon completion, 
be leased to the United States for a term not to exceed twenty-five 
years; 
(4) the Company shall, and it is hereby authorized to, construct 
a new railroad passenger station in the area beneath or adjacent to 
the parking facility referred to in paragraph (3) ; 
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