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59TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. J REPORT 2d Session. No. 6714.

PROHIBITING THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS NEAR CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

JANUARY 25, 1907.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SIMS, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. 4267.]

The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 4267) to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors near the Government Hospital for the Insane and the District almshouse, report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it do pass when amended as follows:

In line 5 strike out the words "District almshouse" and insert "Home for the Aged and Infirm."

Amend the title so as to read: "A bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors near the Government Hospital for the Insane and the Home for the Aged and Infirm."

Your committee adopts the following from the report in the Senate on this measure:

This bill was referred to the District Commissioners, and they returned the same with a favorable recommendation. It is in line with legislation that obtains in almost every State in the Union, prohibiting the sale of liquors within certain prescribed distances of hospitals, asylums, and similar institutions.

In view of all the conditions, your committee report it back favorably and urge its early enactment into law.

The amendments suggested by your committee are for the purpose of correctly designating one of the institutions named in the bill, and were recommended by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in the following letter:

OFFICE COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
Washington, December 29, 1906.

DEAR SIR: The Commissioners have the honor to recommend that Senate bill 4267 "to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors near the Government Hospital for the Insane and the District almshouse," which passed the Senate without amendment on the 18th instant, be amended by inserting the words "Home for the Aged and Infirm" for the words "District almshouse" wherever they occur in said bill, as the former term is the legal designation of the institution in question.

A copy of the bill amended as suggested is herewith inclosed.
Very respectfully,

Hon. J. W. BABCOCK,

HENRY B. F. MACFARLAND,

President Board of Commissioners District of Columbia.

Chairman Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives.

SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS FOR CEMETERY PURPOSES.

JANUARY 25, 1907.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. FRENCH, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. 6229.]

AN ACT To authorize the sale of public lands for cemetery purposes.

The Committee on the Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill (S. 6229) authorizing the sale of public lands for cemetery purposes, having had the same under consideration, respectfully submit the following report:

The bill, as it passed the Senate, reads as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell and convey to any municipal, corporation, religious or fraternal associa tion, or private corporation, empowered by the laws under which such corporation or association is organized or incorporated to hold real estate for cemetery purposes, not to exceed forty acres of any unappropriated nonmineral public lands of the United States for cemetery purposes, upon the payment therefor by such corporation or association of the sum of not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.

The House Committee on the Public Lands recommend that the words "municipal corporation" in line 4 be stricken from the bill, as a law now exists authorizing the sale of lands for cemetery purposes to municipal corporations.

The committee further recommends that the word "forty," in line 8, be stricken from the bill and the word "eighty" inserted in lieu thereof.

In its amended form the bill reads as follows:

AN ACT To authorize the sale of public lands for cemetery purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell and convey to any religious or fraternal association, or private corporation, empowered by the laws under which such corporation or association is organized or incorporated to hold real estate for cemetery purposes, not to exceed eighty acres of any unappropriated nonmineral public lands of the United States for cemetery purposes, upon the payment therefor by such corporation or association of the sum of not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.

As so amended, the committee recommends that the bill pass.

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