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SENATE BILL 1552 . 
Fourth. Any exhibition to the general public, whether admission be on payment of 
money or gratuitous, of experiments on living animals, calculated to give pain, shall be 
illegal. 
Any person performing or aiding in performing such experiment shall be deemed to be 
guilty of an offense against this Act, and shall, if it be the first offense, be liable to a 
penalty not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, and if it be the second or any subse¬ 
quent offense, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court by which he is tried, to a pen¬ 
alty not exceeding three hundred dollars or to imprisonment not exceeding six months ; 
and any person publishing any notice of any such intended exhibition by advertisement 
in a newspaper, placard, or otherwise, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dol¬ 
lars. 
A person punished for an offense under this section shall not for the same offense be 
punishable under any other section of this Act. 
Sec. 3. That the Commissioners of the District may insert, as a condition of grant¬ 
ing any license, a provision in such licensee, that the place in which any such experiment 
is to be performed by the licensee is to be registered in such manner as the said Commis¬ 
sioners may from time to time by any general or special order direct : Provided , That 
every place for the performance of experimenis for the purpose of instruction shall be ap¬ 
proved by the said Commissioners, and shall be registered in such manner as the said 
Commissioners may from time to time by any general or special order direct. 
Sec. 4. That the Commissioners of the District, upon application as hereinafter pre¬ 
scribed, may license any person whom they may think qualified to hold a license to per¬ 
form experiments under this Act. Provided only that a license shall not be granted to 
any person under the age of twenty-five years, unless he be a graduate from a medical 
college, duly authorized to practice medicine in the District of Columbia. 
Sec. 5. That the Commissioners of the District may direct any person performing ex¬ 
periments under this Act from time to time to make reports to them of the methods em¬ 
ployed and the results of such experiments, in such form and with such details as the said 
Commissioners may require. 
Sec. 6. That the President of the United States shall cause all places where experi¬ 
ments on living vertebrate animals are carried on in the District of Columbia to be from 
time to time visited and inspected without previous notice, for the purpose of securing 
compliance wiih the provisions of this Act, and to that end shall appoint four inspectors, 
who shall serve without compensation, and who shall have authority to visit and inspect 
the places aforesaid, and who shall report to the President of the United States from 
time to time the results of their observations therein, which shall be made public by 
him. * 
Sec. 7. That any application for a license under this Act, and for a certificate to be 
given as in this Act mentioned, must be signed by three physicians duly licensed to prac¬ 
tice and actually engaged in practicing medicine in the District of Columbia, and also by 
a professor of physiology, medicine, anatomy, medical jurisprudence, materia medica, or 
surgery in the medical department of any duly established and reliable school or college 
in the District of Columbia : Provided , That when any person applying for a certificate 
under this Act is himself one of the persons authorized to sign such certificate, the 
signature of some other of such persons shall be substituted for the signature of the appli¬ 
cant. 
A certificate under this section may be given for such time or for such series of exper¬ 
iments as the persons signing the certificate may think expedient. 
A copy of any certificate under this section shall be forwarded by the applicant to 
the Commissioners of the District, but shall not be available until one week after a copy 
has been so forwarded. 
The Commissioners of the District may at any time disallow or suspend any certificate 
given under this section. 
Sec. 8. That the powers conferred by this Act of granting a license or giving a cer¬ 
tificate for the performance of an experiment on living animals may be exercised by an 
order in writing, under the hand of any judge of a court of record having criminal juris¬ 
diction in the District, in a case where such judge is satisfied that it is essential for the 
purposes of justice in a crimimal case to make such experiment. 
