An Act to amend the act entitled ""An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia.""
PL 83-424 (S.2657), enacted 06/22/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 424-JUNE 22, 1954 
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Public Law 423 
CHAPTER 337 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to sell certain 
property" owned by the District of Columbia located in Montgomery County, 
Maryland, and for other purposes. 
June 22, 1954 
[S. 2654] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and em-
powered, in their discretion, for the best interests of the District of 
Columbia, to sell and convey, in whole or in part, to the highest bidder 
at public or advertised sale, real estate now owned in fee simple by the 
District of Columbia consisting of approximately seventeen and seven-
teen one-hundredths acres of land located in Montgomery County, 
in the State of Maryland, and described in two certain deeds, namely, 
(1) a deed made November 7, 1898, from Damaris A. Sellman and 
Frederick O. Sellman to the District of Columbia, recorded on No-
vember 21, 1898, in liber T. D. numbered 6, folio 238, one of the land 
records of Montgomery County, Maryland, and (2) a deed made April 
1, 1899, from Damaris A. Sellman and Frederick O. Sellman to the 
District of Columbia, recorded April 12,1899, in liber T. D. numbered 
8, folio 141, one of the land records of Montgomery County, Maryland. 
SEC. 2. The said Commissioners are further authorized to pay the 
reasonable and necessary expenses of sale of each parcel of land sold 
pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and shall deposit the net 
proceeds thereof in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of 
the District of Columbia. 
Approved June 22, 1954. 
D. C. land sale. 
M o n t g o m e r y 
County, Md. 
Deposit of pro-
ceeds. 
Public Law 424 
CHAPTER 338 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to 
protect the public health in the District of Columbia". 
June 22, 1954 
[S« 2657] 
D.C.Code 2-102. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 39 of p"aVtVc"e^ A c*t! 
the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art ^*p^!^^?^% 
to protect the public health in the District of Columbia", approved oiations.^*^ 
February 27, 1929 (45 Stat. 1338, as amended; sec. 2-130, D. C. Code, 
3951 edition), is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 39. (a) Any person violating the provisions of this Act, except 
section 2 hereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 
or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment. 
"(b) Any person violating the provisions of section 2 of this Act 
shall be punished, for the first offense, by a fine of not more than $500 
or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine 
and imprisonment; for the second offense, by a fine oi not more than 
$1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such 
fine and imprisonment; and for the third and subsequent offenses, by a 
fine of not more than $5,C00 or imprisonment for not more than five 
years, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
"(c) For the purposes of subsection (b) of this section, an offender 
shall be considered a second or subsequent offender, as the case may 
be, if he previously has been convicted of the offense of practicing 
medicine or the healing art without a license, either in the District of