09/12/1976
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"I have signed H.R. 12261, a bill 'To extend the period during which the Council of the District of Columbia is prohibited from revising the criminal laws of the District.'"
"No major revision of the District's criminal laws should be undertaken without the benefit of the Commission's recommendations."
"The prohibition on the Council's changing the Criminal Code is necessary because completion of the study for the comprehensive revision and recodification of the Criminal Code by the D.C. Law Revision..."
"I ask the Congress to give prompt consideration to the proposed rescission."