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FlI<`TY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 854;. 1901. 1435 the District of Columbia in force in said District on the day of the passage of this act are hereby repealed, exce nt: First. Acts and parts of acts relating to the rights, powers, duties, '°"°°*’“°“* or obligations of the United States. Second. Acts and parts of acts relating to the Court of Claims. Third. Acts and parts of acts relating to the organization of the District government, or to its obligations, or the powers or duties of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or their subordinates or employees, or to police regulations, and generally all acts and parts of acts relating to municipal affairs only, including those regulating the charges of public-service corporations. Fourth. Acts and parts of acts relating to the militia. Fifth. All penal statutes authorizing punishment by fine only or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. rixth. Acts and parts of acts of Congress relating solely to the Departments of the General Government in the District of Columbia, or any of them. - Seventh. Acts or parts of acts authorizing, defining, and prescribing the organization, powers, duties, fees, and emoluments of the register of wills of the District of Columbia and his office. Eighth. An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the District of Columbia, approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight; an act for the regulation of- they practice of dentistry in the District of Columbia, and for the rotection of the people from empiricism in relation thereto, approved §une sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety- two; an act regulating the construction of buildings along alleyways in the District of Columbia, approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; an act for the promotion of anatomical science, and to prevent the desecration of graves in the District of Columbia, approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; an act to rovide for the incorporation and regulation of medical and dental coileges in the District of Columbia, approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; an act relating to the testimony of physicians in the courts of the District of Columbia, received by the resident May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; an act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, to license physicians and surgeons, and to punish persons violating the provisions thereof in the District of Columbia, approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and, generally, all acts or parts of acts relating to medi- _ cine, dentistry, pharmacy, the commitment of the insane to the Gov- _ ernment Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia, the abatement of nuisances, and public health. 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 H}§%0;l§>{¤tggg`ggg§;é permanent provision taken from an act making appropriations, or from taken from appropriaan act containing other provisions of a private or temporary character, “°“ am "“`· 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 —r¤§¢¤1Sg¤tt¤¤ff<=ct whole or in part, shall not affect any act done or any right accruing pen mg' G C" °HuSeS' 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: Prorvided, 1>»·¤r·zr0. That the provisions of this code relating to procedure or practice and —procedure, em. not affecting the substantial rights of parties shall apply to pending suits or proceedings civil or criminal.