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Private Law 87–208
To confer upon the domestic relations branch of the municipal court for the District of Columbia jurisdiction to hear and determine the petition for adoption filed by Marie Taliaferro.
Approved September 26, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To confer upon the domestic relations branch of the municipal court for the District of Columbia jurisdiction to hear and determine the petition for adoption filed by Marie Taliaferro.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the domestic relations branch of the municipal court for the District of Columbia to hear, determine, and render a final or interlocutory decree of adoption upon, the petition for adoption filed by Marie Taliaferro and now pending before such court (adoption numbered A52–60).
Proceedings for the determination of such petition shall be in the same manner as in the case of a petition for adoption regularly filed under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to prescribe and regulate the procedure for adoption in the District of Columbia”,
D. C. Code 16–208 – 16–225
approved June 8, 1954 (68 Stat. 240), except that the provisions of section 4 of such Act providing that no petition shall be considered by the court unless petitioner’s spouse, if he has one, joins in the petition shall not be applicable.
Sec. 2.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as directing the domestic relations branch of the municipal court for the District of Columbia to grant the petition for adoption referred to in the first section of this Act.
Approved September 26, 1961.