Chapter 393. Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to charge a fee for the issuance of transcripts from the records of the health department
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CHAP. 393.— An Act Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to charge a fee for the issuance of transcripts from the records of the health department. March 3, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Commissioners ofDistrict of Columbia.Fee for copies from health records. the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to collect a fee of fifty cents, to be paid to the collector of taxes, and by him to be deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia for each transcript from the records of births, deaths, and marriages in the health department of said District: *Provided*, That no one transcript shall be made so as to apply to more*Proviso*. than one birth, death, or marriage: *And provided further*, That no feeLimit.No charge for official purposes. shall be charged for transcript furnished the various departments of the United States Government for official purposes.
Sec. 2 That this Act shall take effect thirty days alter its passage.Effect. Approved, March 3, 1897.