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in the District of Columbia, approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and, generally, all acts or parts of acts relating to medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, the commitment of the insane to the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia, the abatement of nuisances, and public health.

Ninth. Acts and parts of acts relating to the organization and powers of vestries, trustees, or other governing bodies of any religious denomination.

All acts and parts of acts included in the foregoing exceptions, or any of them, shall remain in force except in so far as the same are inconsistent with or are replaced by the provisions of this code.

Sec. 1637. The incorporation into this code of any general and permanent provision taken from an act making appropriations, or from an act containing other provisions of a private or temporary character, shall not repeal nor in any way affect any appropriation or any provision of a private or temporary character contained in any of said acts, but the same shall remain in force.

Sec. 1638. The repeal by the preceding section of any statute, in whole or in part, shall not affect any act done or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before such repeal, but all rights and liabilities under the statutes or parts thereof so repealed shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if such repeal had not been made: Provided, That the provisions of this code relating to procedure or practice and not affecting the substantial rights of parties shall apply to pending suits or proceedings civil or criminal.

Sec. 1639. The enactment of this code is not to affect or repeal any act of Congress which may be passed between the date of this act and the date when this act is to go into effect; and all acts of Congress that may be passed hereafter are to have full effect as if passed after the enactment of this code, and, so far as such acts may vary from or conflict with any provision contained in this code, they are to have effect as subsequent statutes and as repealing any portion of this act inconsistent therewith.

Sec. 1640. Nothing in the repealing clause of this code contained shall be held to affect the operation or enforcement in the District of Columbia of the common law or of any British statute in force in Maryland on the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and one, or of the principles of equity or admiralty, or of any general statute of the United States not locally inapplicable in the District of Columbia or by its terms applicable to the District of Columbia and to other places under the jurisdiction of the United States, or of any municipal ordinance or regulation, except in so far as the same may be inconsistent with, or is replaced by, some provision of this code.

Sec. 1641. All offenses committed and all penalties or forfeitures incurred in the District prior to the date on which this code is to take effect may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this code had not been enacted.

Sec. 1642. Where any action or proceeding by the provisions of chapter forty-one of this code would be barred at the time it goes into effect, or within one year thereafter, which would not be so barred by

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prior laws, such action or proceeding may be brought or instituted within such period of one year, anything in said chapter to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 1643. That nothing herein contained shall be held to affect the term of office of any judicial or other officer holding office when this code goes into effect and operation, except when, as in the case of the present justices of the peace and constables, a contrary intention is manifested.-Act of June 30, 1902.

Approved, March 3, 1901.

INDEX.

(References are to sections.)

ABANDONMENT-

prosecutions for criminal offense on failure of grand jury to act, 939.
ABATEMENT-

of proceedings, when, 235-251.

ABDUCTION-

offense of, punishment for, etc., 812.

ABSENCE-

presumption of death in case of, 252.

effect if found living, 253.

ACCESSORIES-

how punished, 909.

ACCOUNTS-

auditor's report in actions grounded upon, 254.

trial of exceptions to, etc., 255.

clerk of police court, audit of, etc., 59.

executor of deceased executor to make, etc., 370, 371.

to render, etc., on decedent's estate, 361-372.

guardian of infant to make, 1135.

settlement of, in probate court prima facie evidence, etc., 119.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT (see Oaths)—

absence of, in case of deeds, 514.

certificate of, to deeds by married woman to show that it was made apart from
husband, 516.

deeds, before whom, 493.

outside of District of Columbia, before whom, etc., 495.

effect of defective, 515.

judges of police court may take, 49.

notaries public may take, etc., 568.

offense of making false certificate of, 845.

valid according to certain acts, held good, 520.

ACTIONS (see also Suits)—

abatement of, when, 235-251.

barred at time code takes effect, etc., 1642.

grounded upon an account may be referred to auditor, etc., 254.

period of limitations, 1265.

ACTS-

passed after enactment of code, effect of, 1639.

repealed, specification of, 1636-1639.

ADMINISTRATION—

effect of person entitled, declining to be administrator, 291.
of proving will after grant of letters, 290.

estates by executors, etc., procedure, etc., 259-308.

of married woman the same as if unmarried, etc., 1160.
letters to be granted to whom, 276–288.

revocation of letters of, etc., 127.

ADMINISTRATOR (see Executor)—

accounts to be rendered of estates, etc., 361-372.

bond, oath, etc., of, 274.

additional, to be given on selling real estate, etc., 296.

subject to approval of probate court, 121.

special, to be given when entitled to residue of estate, etc., 275.
suit on, etc., 297.

distribution of intestate's estate by, 373-394.

enforcement of, 119.

duty of, in case of debt due by decedent, 323.

foreign, suits in District by, etc., 329.

inventory to be made of decedent's estate by, etc., 309-316.

letters de bonis non granted, when, 299.

proof of debts against estate, etc., 330-360.

register of wills to receive accounts of, etc., 121.

resignation, effect of, etc., 292.

ADOPTION—

of children, how authorized, 395.
ADULTERY-

offense of, punishment, etc., 874.

ADVERSE POSSESSION-

conveyance of land so held, 513.
perfection of title in case of, 111.

method of procedure, 111.

preservation of rights of infants, 111.

showing in proceedings in case of ejectment, 999.

AGENT-

insurance, license for, 654.

offense of embezzlement by, 834.

AGREEMENTS-

to be in writing, etc., 1117.

AGRICULTURAL COMPANIES-

provisions relative to organization and incorporation of, 605–644.

ALIEN-

ancestors, title by descent not affected by, 960.

real estate can not be held by, 396.

ALIMONY-

granted, when, etc., 975-978.

ALLEYS-

may be changed, when, 1605-1606.

obliteration or closing of, when, 1607-1610.

opening or widening of, etc., 1608.

previously opened or closed, declared valid, etc., 1614.

AMENDMENTS—

proceedings in actions at law, etc., 399–400.
costs in case of, 401.

ANCILLARY GUARDIANS-

may institute suits, etc., 1142.

"ANYTHING OF VALUE”—

defined, 905.

APPEALS AND WRITS OF ERROR-

court of appeals may review judgments upon award of referee, etc., 420.
from Commissioner of Patents, 228.

from decree requiring husband to pay alimony where divorce granted on

his application, 175.

from police court, when, 227.

from Supreme Court, 226.

petition for forfeiture of corporation's charter, etc., 792.

hearings in, when, 225.

from interlocutory orders, etc., 225.

by two justices, when, 225.

Government allowed right of, in criminal cases, 935.

justices of the peace, decisions to be reviewed in the circuit court, 74.

procedure, etc., 75.

from judgment of, to recover leased premises, 1232, 1233.

judgment of, deemed an action, 242.
time for taking, from decision of, 30.
undertaking to pay judgment, 31.

practice, forms of proceeding, etc., 32.

penalty of bond when from decision on mandamus, etc., 224.

Supreme Court, United States, from court of appeals, when, 233.

APPEARANCE-

entry of, by order of court, on failure of representative of deceased party, 249.
executor to enter, on behalf of deceased plaintiff, 236.

APPRAISAL

decedent's estate in case of concealment by executor, etc., 124.
property levied upon, etc., 1085.

APPRAISERS-

appointment in case of decedent's estate, duties, etc., 310-312.

APPRENTICES-

contracts for binding minor child, etc., 402.

probate court to approve contracts, 173.

APPROPRIATIONS-

provisions taken from acts making, not to affect appropriation, etc., 1637.
ARBITRATION AND AWARD-

causes may be submitted to, procedure, etc., 312-430.

of controversies between executor and complainant by probate court, etc., 145.
ARMS-

penalty for carrying, 855.

ARREST (see also Crimes and offenses)—

police court to issue process for, etc., 48.

release of person under, on writ of habeas corpus, 1143.

ARSON-

offense of, punishment, etc., 820-822.

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