Public Law 27.
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(/us/bill/74/pl/26).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Name of Leffler Place changed to Second Place. That the street designated as Leffler Place Northwest, running north from Oglethorpe Street to Peabody Street Northwest, be, and the same is hereby, changed to Second Place, thereby conforming to the general practice in the naming of short streets of this character in the District of Columbia.
Approved, April 5, 1935. To authorize the acceptance on behalf of the United States of the bequest of the late Charlotte Taylor of the city of Saint Petersburg, State of Florida, for the benefit of Walter Reed General Hospital. 1935-04-05 49 Stat. 110 44 Chapter 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 44.] JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the acceptance on behalf of the United States of the bequest of the late Charlotte Taylor of the city of Saint Petersburg, State of Florida, for the benefit of Walter Reed General Hospital.
April 5, 1935.[[H. J. Res. 24](/us/bill/74/sjres/24).][[Pub. Res., No. 10](/us/bill/74/pubres/10).] Resolved by the Senate and Home of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, Charlotte Taylor.Acceptance of bequest of, for benefit of Walter Reed Hospital authorized. That the commanding officer Walter Reed General Hospital be, and is hereby, authorized to accept the bequest of the late Charlotte Taylor, or the city of Saint Petersburg, State of Florida, as contained in her last will and testament and such interest as may have accrued on the funds covered by such bequest, and to receipt therefor on behalf of the United States, and to deposit the funds so received in the Treasury of the United States as a special fund dedicated to the111 purchase of radio equipment or similar means of entertainment for bedridden soldiers or other patients in said hospital, said fund to be subject to disbursement for such purposes upon vouchers submitted by the commanding officer Walter Reed General Hospital under authority of the Secretary of War and to be available until expended.
Approved, April 5, 1935. To provide for the conservation and settlement of estates of absentees and absconders in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 1935-04-08 49 Stat. 111 46 Chapter 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 46.] AN ACT To provide for the conservation and settlement of estates of absentees and absconders in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
April 8, 1935.[[H. R. 83](/us/bill/74/hr/83).][[Public, No. 27](/us/bill/74/pl/27).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That if a personDistrict of Columbia.Settlement of estates of absentees and absconders.Petition; filing. entitled to or having an interest in property in the District of Columbia has disappeared or absconded from the District of Columbia, and it is not known where he is, or if such person, having a wife or minor child, dependent to any extent upon him for support, has disappeared or absconded without making sufficient provision for such support, and it is not known where he is, or if his whereabouts is known and he has been without the District of Columbia continuously for two years or longer, anyone who would under the law of the District of Columbia be entitled to administer upon the estate of such absentee if he were deceased, or if no one is known to be so entitled, any suitable person, or such wife, or someone in her or such minor’s behalf,Contents. may file a petition under oath in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting in equity, stating the name, age, occupation, and last known residence or address of such absentee, the date and circumstances of the disappearance or absconding, and the names and residence of other persons, whether members of such absentee’s family or otherwise, of whom inquiry may be made, and containing a schedule of his property, real and personal, so far as known, withinSchedule of property. the District of Columbia, and praying that such property may be taken possession of and a receiver thereof appointed under the provisions of this Act.
The United States attorney in and for the Notice to United States attorney for District.District of Columbia shall be made a party to every such petition and shall be given due notice of all subsequent proceedings under this law. Sec. 2. The court may thereupon issue a warrant directed to theWarrant; issue of. United States marshal in and for the District of Columbia, commanding him to take possession of the property named in said schedule and hold it subject to the order of the court and make return ofReturn of. said warrant as soon as may be, with a statement of his actions thereon and a schedule of the property so taken.
The marshal shallPosting and recording. post a copy of the warrant upon each parcel of land named in the schedule and cause so much of the warrant as relates to land to be recorded with the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia. He shall receive such fees for serving the warrant as the court allows,Fees of marshal. but not more than those established by law for similar service upon a writ of attachment. If the petition is dismissed, said fees andCosts. the cost of publishing and serving the notice hereinafter provided shall be paid by the petitioner; but if a receiver is appointed, they shall be paid by the receiver and allowed in his account.
Sec. 3. Upon the return of such warrant, the court may issue aNotice to interested parties. notice reciting the substance of the petition, the warrant, and the marshal’s return, which shall be addressed to such absentee and to all persons who claim of record an interest in said property, or who are known to petitioner to claim an interest in said property, and to all112 whom it may concern, citing them to appear at a time and place named and show cause why a receiver of the property named in the marshal’s schedule should not be appointed and said property held and disposed of under the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 4. Return day of notice. The return day of said notice shall be not less than thirty nor more than sixty days after its date unless otherwise ordered by Publication of.the court. The court shall order said notice to be published not less than once in each of three successive weeks in one or more newspapers within the District of Columbia, and a copy to be posted in a conspicuous place and upon each parcel of land named in the marshal’s schedule, and a copy to be mailed to the last known address of such absentee.
The court may order other and further notice to be given within or without the District of Columbia. Sec. 5. Court action if absentee appears. The absentee or any person who claims an interest in any of the property may appear and show cause why the prayer of the petition should not be granted. The court may after hearing dismiss the petition and order the property in possession of the marshal to be returned to the person entitled thereto, or it may appoint a receiver of the property which is in the possession of the marshal and named If receiver appointed.in his schedule.
If a receiver is appointed, the court shall find and record the date of the disappearance or absconding of the absentee; Bond.and such receiver shall give bond to said court in such sum and with such condition as the court orders, with a corporate surety thereon approved by the court. Sec. 6. Transfer of property to receiver. After the approval of such bond the court may order the marshal to transfer and deliver to such receiver the possession of the property under the aforesaid warrant, and the receiver shall file in said court a schedule of the property received by him.
Sec. 7. Additional property of absentee. Such receiver upon petition filed by him may be authorized and directed by the court to take possession of any additional property within the District of Columbia which belongs to such absentee and to demand and collect all debts due such absentee from any person within the District of Columbia, and hold the same as if it had been transferred and delivered to him by the marshal. Sec. 8. Debts due absentee. If such absentee has left no corporeal property within the District of Columbia, but there are debts and obligations due or owing to him from persons within the District of Columbia, a Petition may be filed.petition may be filed as provided in section 1, stating the nature and amount of such debts and obligations, so far as known, and Receiver; appointment.praying that a receiver thereof may be appointed.
The court may thereupon issue a notice as above provided, without issuing a warrant, and may, upon the return of said notice and after a summary Collection of debts by.hearing, dismiss the petition or appoint a receiver and authorize and direct him to demand and collect the debts and obligations Bond.specified in said petition. The receiver shall give bond as provided in section 5, and shall hold the proceeds of such debts and obligations and all property received by him, and distribute the same as Authority of receiver.hereinafter provided.
The court may confer upon the receiver such further authority as may be conferred under section 7. Sec. 9. Conservation of property. The court may make orders for the care, custody, leasing, and investing of all property and its proceeds in the possession of the receiver. After the appointment of a receiver, upon his petition and after notice, the court may order all or part of said property, including the rights of the absentee in land, to be mortgaged, or sold at public or private sale, to supply money for payments authorized by this Act or for reinvestment approved by the court.
Sec. 10. Use of property or proceeds. The court may order said property or its proceeds acquired by mortgage, lease, or sale to be applied in payment of charges incurred or that may be incurred in the support and maintenance of113 the absentee’s wife and minor children, and to the discharge of such debts and claims for alimony as may be proved against said absentee. Sec. 11. The court may authorize the receiver to adjust byAdjustment of claims. arbitration or compromise any demand in favor of or against the estate of such absentee.
Sec. 12. The receiver shall be allowed such compensation andCompensation of receiver. disbursements as the court orders, to be paid out of said property or proceeds. If within fourteen years after the date of theAccounting; when. disappearance and absconding as found and recorded by the court, such absentee appears, or an administrator, executor, assignee in insolvency, or trustee in bankruptcy of such absentee is appointed, such receiver shall account for, deliver, and pay over to him the remainder of said property.
If such absentee does not appear and claim said When rights of absentee deemed divested.property within such fourteen years, all his right, title, and interest in said property, real or personal, or the proceeds thereof shall cease, and no action shall be brought by him on account thereof. Sec. 13. If at the expiration of such fourteen years said propertyDistribution of remainder. has not been accounted for, delivered, or paid over under the provisions of the preceding section, the court shall order the distribution of the remainder to the persons to whom, and in the shares and proportions in which, it would have been distributed if such absentee had died intestate within the District of Columbia on the day fourteen years after the date of the disappearance or absconding as found and recorded by the court.
Sec. 14. If such receiver is not appointed within thirteen yearsProvisions where receiver not appointed within 13 years. after the date found by the court under section 5, the time limited for accounting for, or fixed for distributing, said property or its proceeds, or for barring actions relative thereto shall he one year after the date of the appointment of the receiver instead of the four-teen years provided in the two preceding sections; except that the time limited for accounting for, or fixed for distributing, any additional property or its proceeds within the District of Columbia coming into the possession of such receiver during such one-year period, or for barring actions relative thereto, shall be one year after the date possession is taken by such receiver.
Sec. 15. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed asExisting law not affected. Vol. 31, p. 1230. repealing or modifying sections 252 or 253 of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as amended. Approved, April 8, 1935. Relating to the incorporation of Trinity College of Washington, District of Columbia, organized under and by virtue of a certificate of incorporation pursuant to the incorporation laws of the District of Columbia, as provided in subchapter 1 of chapter 18 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia. 1935-04-08 49 Stat. 113 47 Chapter 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 47.] AN ACT Relating to the incorporation of Trinity College of Washington, District of Columbia, organized under and by virtue of a certificate of incorporation pursuant to the incorporation laws of the District of Columbia, as provided in subchapter 1 of chapter 18 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia. April 8, 1935.[[H. R. 3477](/us/bill/74/hr/3477).][
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