Chapter CXLVIII. *prohibiting Gift Enterprises in the District of Columbia*
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CHAP. CXLVIII.— An Act *prohibiting Gift Enterprises in the District of Columbia*. Feb. 17, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Gift enterprises prohibited in the District of Columbia. That so much of the act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, entitled “An act imposing a license on trades, business, and professions practiced or carried on in the District of Columbia,” approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as authorizes gift enterprises therein and licenses to be issued therefor, is disapproved and repealed; and hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to engage in said business in any manner as defined in said act or otherwise; and any person or persons Penalty.so doing, on conviction thereof in the police court of said District, on information tiled for and on behalf of said District, in the manner provided for in the sixteenth section of the act creating the police court in said District, for the enforcement of laws or ordinances of the late corporations of Washington, Georgetown, and the levy court, shall pay a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail of said District for a period of not less than one nor more than six months, Appeal.or both, in the discretion of the court: *Provided*, That any party deeming himself aggrieved by the judgment of said court may appeal therefrom to the criminal court of said District, in the manner provided for in other cases of convictions in the said police court, and the judgment of said criminal court shall be final.
Approved, February 17, 1873.