Chapter 531.
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CHAP. 531.— An act relating to junk dealers, dealers in secondhand personal property, and pawnbrokers in the District of Columbia.March 3, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Junk dealers, etc., D. C. That the act of the late legislative assembly of the District of Columbia approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled “An act imposing a license on trades, business, and professions practiced or carried on in the District of Columbia,” be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: that is to say. by striking out all of paragraph thirty-two of section twenty-one of said act and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
" “32. Junk dealers and dealers in secondhand personal propertyLicense tax on junk and secondhand dealers. Definition. of any kind or description whatsoever shall pay to the District of Columbia a license tax of forty dollars annually. Every person whose business it is to buy or sell old iron, rags, paper, secondhand clothing, or any secondhand personal property of any kind or description whatsoever, shall be subject to the provisions of this act and to all the laws and regulations now in force in the District of Columbia and to all the valid regulations which may hereafter be provided relating to junk dealers or dealers in secondhand personal property: *Provided, nevertheless*, That no sale shall be made by junk*Proviso*. dealers and dealers in secondhand personal property in their possessionSales. until after the expiration of ten days from and after the time at which report has been made to the major of police of theReport to police. purchase thereof, as provided by the police regulations of the district of Columbia,” " Sec. 2.
That section seven of chapter four hundred and thirteenPawnbrokers. of the second session of the Fiftieth Congress, entitled “An act toVol. 25, p. 1007., amended regulate pawnbrokers in the District of Columbia,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby repealed, and the following is enacted in lieu thereof: " Sec. 7. That no pawnbroker shall ask, demand, or receive aInterest allowed on loans on personal property. greater rate of interest than three per centum per month on any loan secured by pledge of personal property, under penalty of one hundred dollars for every such offense, to be recovered for the use of the District of Columbia: *Provided, however*, That where the loan is*Proviso*. secured by the pledge of personal property requiring extra care toProperty requiring extra care. prevent injury during disuse a pawnbroker may charge such reasonable sum for storing or taking care of the same as the Commissioners for the District of Columbia may from time to time prescribe.
” " Sec. 3. That all prosecutions under said chapter four hundred andProsecutions. thirteen of the second session of the Fiftieth Congress, and amendmentsVol. 25, p. 1006. thereof, shall be upon the information of the attorney for, 842FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 531-533. 1891. and in the name of, the District of Columbia: *Provided, however*,*Proviso*. That the provisions of this act shall not apply to dealers in Dealers in secondhand books excepted.secondhand books, or to the business of dealing in secondhand books.
Approved, March 3, 1891.