Chapter 25. to regulate the award of and compensation for public advertising in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 25.— An Act to regulate the award of and compensation for public advertising in the District of Columbia.Jan. 21, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public advertising in District of Columbia—award and compensation regulated.R. S. 3828.*Proviso.* That all advertising required by existing laws to be done in the District of Columbia by any of the departments of the government shall be given to one daily and one weekly newspaper of each of the two principal political parties and to one daily and one weekly neutral newspaper: *Provided*, That the rates of compensation for such service shall in no case exceed the regular commercial rate of the ne wspapers selected; nor shall any advertisement be paid for unless published in accordance with section thirty-eight hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes.
Sec. 2. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, January 21, 1881.