Chapter 295. To amend section five of an Act entitled “An Act to punish the carrying or selling of deadly or dangerous weapons within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two
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CHAP. 295.— An Act To amend section five of an Act entitled “An Act to punish the carrying or selling of deadly or dangerous weapons within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. May 11, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That section five of the ActDistrict of Columbia.Carrying of concealed weapons.Vol. 27, p. 117. approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to punish the carrying or selling of deadly or dangerous weapons within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” be, and the same hereby is, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 5. That any person or persons who shall, within the District of—punishment for sale to minors. Columbia, sell, barter, hire, lend, or give to any person under the age of twenty-one years, any such weapon as hereinbefore described shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or to be imprisoned in the jail of the District of Columbia not more than three months. No person shall engage in or conduct the business of the kind hereinbeforeSpecial license for dealers in weapons. named without having previously obtained from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia a special license authorizing the conduct of such business by such person; and the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to grant such license, without fee therefor, upon the filing with them by the applicant therefor of a bond with sureties, to be by them approved, conditioned in such penal sum as they shall fix, to the United States for the compliance by said applicant with all the provisions of this section; and upon any breach or breaches of said condition said bond shall be put in suit by said United States for its benefit, and said Commissioners may revoke said license. 406 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 295–297. 1898. —penalty for dealing without license.Any person engaging in said business without having previously obtained said special license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and in default of the payment of said line the person convicted shall be imprisoned in the workhouse of the District of Columbia for a period of not more than Register of sales, etc., to be kept.six months.
All persons whose business it is to sell, barter, hire, lend, or give any such weapon or weapons, shall be, and they are hereby, required to keep a written register of the name and residence of every purchaser, barterer, hirer, borrower, or donee of any such weapon or weapons, together with a full description of said weapon or weapons; which register shall be subject to the inspection of the major and superintendent of Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia, or other person by him authorized in that behalf, and further, to make report on or before the first Tuesday in each and every month, under oath, to said major and superintendent, of all such sales, barterings, hirings, lendings, or gifts made during the preceding month, together with a full description of said weapon or weapons and the name and residence of every purchaser, barterer, hirer, borrower, or donee of any —penalty for failure.such weapon or weapons.
Any person or persons who shall refuse, neglect, or fail to keep said register as hereinbefore provided, or shall refuse, neglect, or fail to make said report at the time and in the manner provided for in this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and in default of the payment of said fine the person convicted shall be imprisoned in the workhouse of the District of Columbia for a period of not more than sixty days, and the CommissionersHalf of fine to informer. of said District may revoke said license.
And one-half of every fine imposed under this section shall be paid to the informer, if any, whose information shall have led to the conviction of the person paying said fine.” " Approved, May 11, 1898.