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Chap. 133: To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property in connection with the presidential inauguration ceremonies in 1929. 1929-02-02 133 Chapter 45 Stat. 1146 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 133.— Joint Resolution To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property in connection with the presidential inauguration ceremonies in 1929.
February 2, 1929.[[S. J. Res. 198](href=/us/bill/70/sjres/198).][[Pub. Res., No. 79](/us/bill/70/pubres/79).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Inauguration of the President, 1929.Amount authorized for maintenance of order, etc., during the ceremonies.*Post*, p. 1629. That $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable in like manner as other appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia, is hereby authorized to be appropriated to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to maintain public order and protect life and property in said District from the 28th of February to the 10th of Authority of the Commissioners.March, 1929, both inclusive, including the employment of personal services, payment of allowances, traveling expenses, hire of means of transportation, cost of removing and relocating street car loading platforms, and other incidental expenses in the discretion of the Regulations to be made.commissioners.
Said commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to make all reasonable regulations necessary to secure such preservation of public order and protection of life and property, and to make special regulations respecting the standing, movements, and operating of vehicles of whatever character or kind during said Licenses to peddlers, etc.period; and to grant, under such conditions as they may impose, special licenses to peddlers and vendors to sell goods, wares, and merchandise on the streets, avenues, and sidewalks in the District of Columbia, and to charge for such privilege such fees as they may deem proper.
Time of enforcing regulations, etc.Such regulations and licenses shall be in force one week prior to said inauguration, during said inauguration, and one week subsequent thereto, and shall be published in one or more of the daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia, and in such other manner as the commissioners may deem best to acquaint the public with the same; and no penalty prescribed for the violation of any of such1147regulations shall be enforced until five days after such publication.
Any person violating any of such regulations shall be liable for eachPenalties. such offense to a fine not to exceed $100 in the police court of said District, and, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment in the workhouse of said District for not longer than sixty days. And theAmount for temporary comfort stations, personal services, etc.*Post*, p. 1629. sum of $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby likewise authorized, to be expended by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the construction, rent, maintenance, and expenses incident to the operation of temporary public-comfort stations, first-aid stations, and information booths, during the period aforesaid, including the employment of personal services.
Approved, February 2, 1929.
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