The purchase of supplies and the procurement of services for all branches of the District of Columbia militia service may be made in open market, in the manner common among businessmen, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed $100.
D.C. Code § 49-217
Purchase of supplies
May 26, 1908, 35 Stat. 308, ch. 198, § 1
Official source: D.C. Law Library (Council of the District of Columbia). Reproduced from public-domain District of Columbia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.