Volume 52
Public Law 75–381
To provide for the establishment of a commissary or vending stand in the Washington Asylum and Jail.
Approved June 14, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the establishment of a commissary or vending stand in the Washington Asylum and Jail.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the superintendent
Washington Asylum and Jail, D. C.
Operation of vending stand by Louis Haag authorized.
of the jail in the District of Columbia, known as the Washington Asylum and Jail, is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Board of Public Welfare, to permit Louis Haag to operate as a concession a commissary or vending stand in such jail, where the same may be most properly and satisfactorily operated, for the purpose of vending periodicals, confections, tobacco products, and such other articles as may, in the judgment of said superintendent, be properly sold to persons or prisoners therein.
Approved, June 14, 1938.