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57TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
1. 't &5[on. ~No. 2.
AMENDING DISTRICT CODE.
DEcEMBER 12, 1901.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. PRITCHARD, from the Committee on the District of Columbia,
submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 493.]
The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred
the bill (S. 493) to amend an act entitled An act to establish a code
of law for the District of Columbia, respectfully report as follows:
Almost all of the amendments suggested are made to correct cleri-
cal errors or manifest oversights. The object of most of the others
is sufficiently shown by the amendment itself. The following are the
more important amendments calling for explanation:
Section 39: The substitute offered for this section is intended to
make more explicit and complete the manner and time in which the
business of the fifteen justices of the peace whose terms end when the
code goes into effect shall be transferred to the smaller number of
new justices of the peace who are to be appointed under the code.
Sections 115a to 115f: These sections are in all respects the same
as sections 167 to 177 of the code, which it is proposed to strike out.
The only effect of this is to transfer the sections from one place in the
code to another. When the code was originally submitted to Con-
g ress, it provided that the office of register of wills of the District of
Columbia should be abolished, and that the duties of that official
should be performed by the clerk of the supreme court of the District
of Columbia and his deputies. As this would put the special term for
probate business on the same footing as the other special terms, it was
intended to transfer to it some of the duties of the equity court relat-
ing to proceedings for the sale of estates of lunatics and infants and
the care of property of habitual drunkards. But as Congress has
declined to abolish the office of register of wills and amended the code
accordingly, it is now necessary to transfer these sections from the
part of the code which deals with the powers of the probate court to
that which deals with the business of the equity special term.
Section 204: This amendment is intended to remove what it is sug-
gested might prove a serious inconvenience to the courts of the District
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