Chapter 194. To regulate the business of storage in District of Columbia
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CHAP. 194.— An Act To regulate the business of storage in District of Columbia.May 18, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That every person, firm, association, District of Columbia. Storage. or corporation lawfully engaged in the business of storing goods, wares, merchandise, or personal property of any description shall have a lien first, except for taxes thereon for the agreed charges for Lien for charges. storing the same, and for all moneys advanced for freight, carriage, labor, insurance, and other necessary expenses thereon.
Said lien for such unpaid charges, upon at least one year’s storage and for the aforesaid advances in connection therewith, may be enforced by sale at Sale, etc. public auction, after thirty days’ notice in writing mailed to the last-known address of the person or persons in whose name or names the said property so in default was stored, and said notice shall also be published for six days in a daily newspaper in the District of Columbia. And after deducting all storage charges, advances, and expenses of sale, any balance arising therefrom shall be paid by the bailee to the bailor of such goods, wares, merchandise, or personal property, his assigns or legal representatives.
Said property may be so sold either in bulk or in separate pieces, articles, packages, or parcels, as will in the judgment of the lien holder secure the largest obtainable price: *Provided,* That if the person or *Proviso.* Notice to assignee. persons storing said property shall have assigned or transferred the title thereto and have duly recorded said assignment or transfer upon the books of the storage warehouse, the written notice of sale shall also be mailed to said transferee or assignee.
Sec. 2. That whenever the title or right of possession to any goods, Delivery of property in litigation. wares, merchandise, or personal property on storage shall be put in issue by any judicial proceeding, the same shall be delivered upon the order of court after prepayment of the storage charges and cash advances then due, by the person at whose instance such change of possession is so ordered, and who shall be entitled to recover such payment as part of the costs in such proceeding, or, if defeated therein, he shall be credited with such payment in taxation of costs against him.
And unless the person, firm, association, or corporation so conducting a storage business shall claim some right, title, or interest in said stored property otherwise than the lien hereinabove authorized, he, it, or they shall not be made a party to said judicial proceedings. Approved, May 18, 1896.