Chapter 83. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys of the District of Columbia,” approved September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen
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CHAP. 83.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys of the District of Columbia,” approved September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. May 23, 1918.[[H. R. 11628](/us/bill/65/hr/11628).][[Public, No. 156](/us/pl/65/156).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Alley dwellings prohibition postponed until after the war.Vol. 38, p. 717.*Ante*, p. 553.
That the operation of the second paragraph of section one (relating to the use or occupation of alley buildings as dwellings), of the Act of Congress approved September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys in the District of Columbia,” be, and the same hereby is, postponed until the expiration of one year following the date of the proclamation by the President of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty of peace between the United States and the Imperial German Government.
Approved, May 23, 1918.