An Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes
PL 83-173 (H.R.5471), enacted 07/31/1953

PUBLIC LAW 173-JULY 31, 1953 
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Public Law 173 
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July 31,1953 
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AN ACT 
[H.R. 5471] 
Making appropriations for the government of tlie District of Columbia and other 
activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District 
for the fiscal year ending June 30,1954, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
lumbia ^Appropri^ United States of America in Congress assembled^ That there are appro-
tion Act, 1954. 
priated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 
30, 1954, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia, 
hereinafter known as the general fund, such fund being composed of 
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the revenues of the District of Columbia other than those applied by 
law to special funds, and $11,000,000, which is hereby appropriated 
for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1953), (2) highway funds, 
established by law (D. C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), (3) the water fund, 
established by law (D. C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,000,000, which 
is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treas-
ury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1953), and 
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(4) the motor vehicle parking fund, established by law (D. C. Code, 
title 40, ch. 8), sums as follows: 
From the general fund: All sums appropriated under the following 
heads unless otherwise specifically provided: General administration, 
compensation and retirement fund expenses, District debt service, 
regulatory agencies, public schools. Public Library, Recreation 
Department, Metropolitan Police, Fire Department, Veterans' Serv-
ices, Office of Civil Defense, courts. Health Department, Department 
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^1 Corrections, public welfare, public works, National Guard, National 
Capital Parks, and National Zoological Park; 
From the highway fund: All sums appropriated under public w^orks 
designated as payable from the highway fund; 
From the water fund: All sums appropriated under public works 
and Washington aqueduct, designated as payable from the water 
fund;and 
From the motor vehicle parking fund: All sums appropriated under 
public works designated as payable from the motor vehicle parking 
fund. 
DISTRIBUTION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
The sums hereinafter specified for any office or agency abolished 
66 Stat. 824. 
under the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1952 are 
appropriated to the Board of Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia to enable the Commissioners to provide for performance 
of the functions heretofore assigned to any such office or agency. 
Such 
sums may be allocated by the Commissioners to offices, agencies, or 
other organizational units established by or pursuant to said plan, 
but shall be available only for the functions provided for herein, and 
only in the amounts respectively appropriated for such functions, 
namely: 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses necessary for the offices named under this general 
head: 
Executive office, plus so much as maj' be necessary to compensate 
the Engineer Commissioner at a rate equal to each civilian member 
of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, hereafter 
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in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; compensation of mem-
bers of the Apprenticeship Council and the Redevelopment Land 
Agency; aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners 
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on Uniform State Laws; general advertising in newspapers and legal 
periodicals in the District of Columbia but not elsewhere, unless the 
need for advertising outside the District of Columbia shall have been 
specifically approved by the Commissioners, including notices of pub-
lic hearings, publication of orders and regulations, tax and school 
notices, and notices of changes'in regulations; revision of zoning regu-
lations and building code by contract or otherwise, or by transfer to 
the National Capital Planning Commission, as may be determined by 
the Commissioners; and expenses in case of emergency, such as riot, 
pestilence, public insanitary conditions, flood, fire, or storm, and for 
expenses of investigations; $418,161, of which $195,000 is to remain 
available until June 30, 1955: Provided^ That the certificate of the 
Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of $1,500 
of this appropriation for such purposes as they may deem necessary. 
Department of General Administration, including the rental of 
postage meters and affiliation with the National Safety Council, 
Incorporated, $2,775,000, of which $60,000 shall be payable from the 
highway fund, $15,000 from the water fund, and $800 from the motor 
vehicle parking fund: Provided^ That this appropriation shall be 
available for advertising, for not more than once a week for two weeks 
in the regular issue of one newspaper published in the District of 
Columbia, the list of all taxes on real property and all special assess-
ments, together with penalties and costs, in arrears, the cost of such 
advertising to be reimbursed to the general fund by a charge to be fixed 
annually by the Commissioners for each lot or piece of property 
advertised: Provided further^ That this appropriation shall be avail-
able for refunding, wholly or in part, school tuition, lost library books, 
building permits, and other payments which have been erroneously 
made during the present and past three years. 
For ceremony expenses, $10,000. . 
Office of the Corporation Counsel, including extra compensation for 
the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Public Utilities Com-
mission ; $10,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $250 each 
claims, 
in accordance with the Act of February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as 
amended by the Act of June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500) ; and judicial 
D. c. code 1-902. 
expenses, including witness fees and expert services, in District of 
Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the 
District of Columbia; $360,000, of which $12,000 shall be payable from 
the highway fund. 
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COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND EXPENSES 
For compensation and retirement fund expenses, as follows: 
District government employees' compensation, $223,000. 
Workmen's compensation, administrative expenses: For transfer to 
the Bureau of Employees' Compensation for administration of the 
law providing compensation for disability or death resulting from 
injury to employees in certain employments in the District of 
Columbia, $175,000. 
District government retirement and relief funds: For financing the 
liability of the government of the District of Columbia to the "Civil 
service retirement and disability fund" and the "Teachers' retirement 
and annuity fund", and to provide relief and other allowances as 
authorized by law for policemen and firemen, $8,823,000, of which 
$2,430,000 shall be placed to the credit of the "Civil service retirement 
and disability fund": Provided, That hereafter the Treasury Depart-
ment shall prepare the estimates of the annual appropriations required 
to be made to the teachers' retirement fund, and shall make actuarial 
valuations of such fund at intervals of five years, or oftener if deemed 
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necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Commissioners are 
authorized to expend from money to the credit of the "Teachers' 
retirement and annuity fund, District of Columbia" not exceeding 
$6,000 per annum for this purpose, including personal services. 
DISTRICT DEBT SERVICE 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned, in com-
^D^c.code 8-106 pUance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
amended, $500,000. 
REGULATORY AGENCIES 
66 Stat. 376. 
For expenses necessary for agencies under this general heading in 
the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1963, and for Office of 
Administrator of Rent Control, including the purchase of samples, 
juror fees, repairs to the morgue, maintenance and repairs to markets, 
purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with 
investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, 
uniforms and caps for guards, and uniforms for dog catchers; 
$1,230,000, of which not less than $23,340 shall be available for payment 
of terminal leave only for Office of Administrator of Rent Control. 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
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49 Stat. 1488. 
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OPERATING EXPENSES 
General administration, supervision and instruction: For expenses 
necessary for the administration of and supervision and instruction 
in the public school system of the District of Columbia including the 
education of foreigners of all ages in the Americanization schools; 
not to exceed $66,000 for the purchase, cleaning, and repair of athletic 
apparel and accessories; subsistence supplies for pupils enrolled in 
classes for crippled children; maintenance and instruction of deaf, 
dumb and blind children of the District of Columbia by contract 
entered into by the Commissioners upon recommendation by the Board 
of Education of the District of Columbia; transportation of children 
attending schools or classes established for physically handicapped 
pupils; for carrying out the provisions of the Act of December 16, 
1944 (68 Stat. 811) ; distribution of surplus commodities and relief 
milk to public and charitable institutions, and for the carrying out, 
under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Education, of a 
"penny milk" program for the school children of the District, includ-
ing the purchase and distribution of milk under agreement with the 
United States Department of Agriculture; $19,730,000, of which 
$3,000 shall be available for the services of experts and consultants 
as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (60 Stat. 810), 
but at rates not exceeding $60 per diem plus travel expenses for such 
individuals: Provided^ That the compensation for summer school 
personnel may be charged to the appropriation for the fiscal year in 
which the pay periods end: Provided further^ That collections from 
the milk program shall be paid to the Collector of Taxes, District of 
Columbia, for deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the 
credit of the District. 
Vocational education, George-Barden program: For 
expenses 
necessary for the-development of vocational education in the District 
of Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8,1936, as amended, 
$268,400. 
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Operation and maintenance of buildings, grounds and equipment: 
For expenses necessary for the operation, repair, maintenance and 
improvement of public school buildings, grounds and equipment; 
purchase of equipment including not to exceed $25,000 for the pur-
chase and repair of musical instruments and related equipment; and 
operation, repair, maintenance and insurance of passenger-carrying 
motor vehicles, including District-owned or borrowed passenger 
motor vehicles; $5,025,000. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
Public school construction, sites and equipment: For the acquisi-
tion of sites; for plans and specifications for a new junior high school 
in the vicinity of Forty-second and Grant Streets Northeast, and the 
Van Ness Elementary School replacement, and for the construction of 
the following school buildings including building improvements and 
alterations, treatment of grounds, and the purchase of equipment: 
Douglass Junior High School (completion of third floor), elementary 
school in the vicinity of Fifty-sixth and East Capitol Streets, North-
east, elementary school in the vicinity of Stanton and Elvans Roads, 
Southeast, Syphax Elementary School addition, and Terrell Junior 
High School replacement (completion of fourth floor) ; to remain 
available until expended, $3,189,000, of which $217,419 shall be avail-
able for the use of the Municipal Architect and shall be credited to 
the appropriation account, "Office of Municipal Architect, construc-
tion services", and $800,000 shall not become available for expendi-
ture until July 1,1954. 
Permanent improvement of public school buildings: For permanent 
improvements and alterations of public school buildings, including 
the purchase of equipment and the elimination of tire hazards, 
$124,000, to remain available until expended. 
Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 
Double salaries. 
Act, approved May 10,1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 
5^js*c*58,^5*9. 
to August 29,1953, to teachers of the public schools of the District of 
Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or 
independent establishments of the United States Government. 
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PUBLIC LIBRARY 
For expenses necessary for the operation of the Public Library, 
including extra services on Sundays and holidays; music records, 
sound recordings, and educational films; alterations, repairs; fitting 
up buildings; care of grounds; and rent of suitable quarters for 
branch libraries in Anacostia and Woodridge without reference to 
section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945, f
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$1,535,000. 
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Capital outlay: For remodeling reading room and for completing 
renovations in basement. Central Library, $43,000, to remain available 
without fiscal year limitation. 
RECREATION DEPARTMENT 
Operating expenses: For expenses necessary for operation and 
maintenance of recreation facilities in and for the District of 
Columbia, $1,589,650. 
Capital outlay: For improvement of various recreation units, 
including erection of recreation structures, preparation of archi-
tectural and landscape architectural plans without regard to the Act 
of August 24,1912 (40 U. S. C. 68), and reimbursement to the United 
37 stat. 444. 
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50 use 
1671. 
a p p . States of funds advanced in compliance with section 501 of the Act 
of October 3,1944 (58 Stat. 791), $200,000. 
Traffic school. 
Prevent 
detection 
ion 
a n d 
of crime. 
METROPOLITAN POLICE 
For expenses necessary for the Metropolitan Police, including pay 
and allowances; the inspector in charge of the traffic division with the 
rank and pay of deputy chief; one captain who shall be assigned to 
the traffic division with the rank and pay of inspector; one inspector 
who shall be property clerk; the lieutenants in command of the homi-
cide squad, robbery squad, general assignment squad, special investi-
gation squad, with the rank and pay of captain while so assigned; 
the detective sergeants in command of the automobile and bicycle 
squad, and the check and fraud squad with the rank and pay of lieu-
tenant while so assigned; the detective sergeant assigned as admin-
istrative assistant to the chief of detectives with the rank and pay of 
lieutenant while so assigned; the present acting sergeant in charge of 
police automobiles with the rank and pay of sergeant; the present 
sergeant in charge of the police radio station with the rank and pay 
of lieutenant; the present sergeant in charge of purchasing and 
accounts with the rank and pay of lieutenant; the lieutenant assigned 
as harbor master with the rank and pay of captain; not to exceed one 
detective in the salary grade of captain; civilian crossing guards, 
including uniforms and equipment, at rates of pay and hours of 
employment to be fixed by the Commissioners; compensation of 
civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the Commis-
sioners; allowances for 
privately 
owned automobiles used by 
inspectors in the performance of official duties at $480 per annum for 
each automobile; meals for prisoners; rewards for fugitives; medals 
of award; photographs; rental, purchase, and maintenance of radio 
and teletype systems; travel expenses incurred in prevention and 
detection of crime; expenses of attendance, without loss of pay or 
time, at specialized police training classes and pistol matches, includ-
ing tuition and entrance fees; expenses of the police training school, 
including travel expenses of visiting lecturers or experts in crimi-
nology; expenses of traffic school; police equipment and repairs to 
same; insignia of office, uniforms, and other official equipment, includ-
ing cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one 
individual to another, or damaged in the performance of duty; pur-
chase of passenger motor vehicles; expenses of harbor patrol; and the 
maintenance of a suitable place for the reception and detention of 
girls and women over seveirteen years of age, arrested by the police 
on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of 
Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pending final investigation or 
examination, or otherwise; $10,760,000, of which amount $1,400,000 
shall be payable from the highway fund and $35,000 shall be exclu-
sively available for expenditure by the Chief of Police for prevention 
and detection of crime, under his certificate, approved by the Com-
missioners and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient 
voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended. 
F I R E DEPARTMENT 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Fire Depart-
ment, including pay and allowances; the first deputy fire marshal with 
the rank and pay comparable to battalion chief; compensation of 
civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; 
uniforms and other official equipment, including cleaning, alteration,, 
and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another or 
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damaged in the performance of duty; purchase and maintenance of 
radio equipment; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; repairs and 
improvements to buildings and grounds; $5,307,841: Provided^ That 
the Commissioners, in their discretion may authorize the construction, 
in whole or in part, of fire-fighting apparatus in the Fire Department 
repair shop. 
Capital outlay: For construction of a new fire engine house in the 
vicinity of Forty-ninth and East Capitol Streets, Southeast, includ-
ing instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house to the 
fire alarm system, $240,000, to remain available until expended. 
VETERANS' SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to provide services to veterans, $90,000. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE 
For expenses necessary for the Ofltice of Civil Defense, including 
personal services without reference to the civil service laws as related 
to recruitment, $90,000: Provided^ That not to exceed $50,000 of any 
funds from appropriations available to the District of Columbia 
may be used to match financial contributions from the Federal Civil 
Defense Administration to the District of Columbia Office of Civil 
Defense for the purchase of civil defense equipment and supplies 
approved by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, when author-
ized by the Commissioners: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of existing law, the Administrator of Civil 
Defense is authorized to coordinate the activities of such office with 
those civil defense activities located outside the District of Columbia. 
COURTS 
District of Columbia courts: For expenses of the Juvenile Court, 
the Municipal Court, the Municipal Court of Appeals, and the District 
of Columbia Tax Court, including pay of retired judges; lodging and 
meals for jurors, bailiffs, and deputy United States marshals while 
in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the courts; and meals for 
prisoners; $1,200,000, of which $20,000 shall be available for payment 
to the United States Public Health Service for furnishing psychiatric 
service to the Juvenile Court, including the detail of necessary medical 
and other personnel: Provided, That deposits made on demands for 
jury trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the Municipal Court 
under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 
1921 (41 Stat. 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before 
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the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a 
new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, 
or demands for jury trials be waived. 
United States courts: For reimbursement to the United States for 
services rendered to the District of Columbia by the Judiciary, General 
Services Administration, and the Department of Justice, $1,780,000, 
of which $230,000 shall be available for advances on reimbursement, to 
the General Services Administration for one-half of the cost of opera-
tion, maintenance, and repair of the Federal Courts Building, as 
provided in the Act of May 14,1948 (62 Stat. 235). 
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HEALTH 
DEPARTMENT 
Automobile al-
lowances. 
Special services. 
Patient rates. 
General administration, Health Department: For expenses neces-
sary for the Health Department (excluding hospitals), including 
services for tuberculosis, venereal disease, hygiene and sanitation work 
in schools, dental health, maternal and child health, housekeeping 
assistance in cases of authentic indigent sick, handicapped and crippled 
children, cancer control, control of heart disease, public health engi-
neering, nursing, psychiatry, ambulances, laboratories, and out-patient 
relief of the poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial 
limbs and appliances, eyeglasses, and fees to physicians under contracts 
to be made by the Director of Public Health and approved by the 
Commissioners; such expenses to include contract investigational 
service; uniforms; rent; manufacture of serum in indigent cases; and 
allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance 
of official duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate of 7 cents per 
mile but not more than $840 per annum for each automobile; $2,900,-
000: Provided^ That amounts to be determined by the Commissioners 
may be expended for special services in detecting adulteration of 
drugs and foods, including candy and milk and other products and 
services subject to inspection by the Health Department. 
Operating expenses, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For ex-
penses necessary, including compensation of consulting physicians and 
dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; compensation of 
convalescent patients to be employed in essential work of the sana-
torium and as an aid to their rehabilitation at rates and under condi-
tions to be determined by the Commissioners; but nothing in this 
paragraph shall be construed as conferring employee status on patients 
whose services are so utilized; classroom supplies; uniforms for 
guards; and repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; 
$2,579,411. 
Capital outlay, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For equip-
ment installation for building housing high tension electrical distri-
bution system, $20,000. 
Operating expenses, Gallinger Municipal Hospital and the Tuber-
culosis Hospital: For expenses necessary including expenses of the 
training school for nurses and repairs and improvements to build-
ings and grounds, $5,835,000. 
Capital outlay, Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For replacing boilers 
and roofs at the Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur 
Streets, Northwest, and converting present service elevator shafts in 
medical building to incinerator, $75,700. 
Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients 
under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health of the 
District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with insti-
tutions, as follows: Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital; 
Children's Hospital; Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital; 
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital; Garfield Memorial Hos-
pital; George Washington University Hospital; Georgetown Uni-
versity Hospital; Providence Hospital; Washington Home for Incur-
ables; and Children's Convalescent Home; $770,000: Provided^ That 
the in-patient rate shall not exceed $13.44 per diem and the out-patient 
rate shall not exceed $2 per visit. 
Freedmen's Hospital: For reimbursement to the United States for 
services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hospital, 
$300,000: Provided, That the in-patient rate shall not exceed $13.44 
per diem and the out-patient rate shall not exceed $2 per visit. 
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DEPAKTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 
Operating expenses: For expenses necessary for the Department 
of Corrections, including subsistence of interns; compensation of con-
sulting physicians, dentists, and other specialists at rates to be fixed 
by the Commissioners; attendance of guards at pistol and rifle matches; 
uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employ-
ees in the performance of their official duties; rental of motion picture 
films; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; purchase 
of motorbusses; support, maintenance, and transportation of prisoners 
transferred from the District of Columbia; interment or transporting 
the remains of deceased prisoners to their relatives or friends in the 
United States; electrocutions; identifying, pursuing, recapturing 
(including rewards therefor), and returning to institutions, escaped 
inmates and parole and conditional-release violators; and returning 
released prisoners to their residences, or to such other place within the 
United States as may be authorized by the Director, and the furnishing 
of suitable clothing, and in the discretion of the Director, an amount 
of money not to exceed $30, regardless of length of sentence; $4,169,353. 
Capital outlay: For completing the construction of operational 
control center building, construction of armory and entrance tower, 
and replacing oven, at the Reformatory; and beginning improvement 
of power distribution system at the Workhouse and Reformatory; 
$135,000, to remain available until expended: Provided^ That in the 
construction work hereby authorized and to be done by the Depart-
ment of Corrections, brick used in such construction shall be furnished 
without charge by the Working Capital Fund. 
PUBLIC WELFARE 
For expenses necessary for the general administration of public 
welfare in the District of Columbia, including contract investigational 
services; $99,724. 
Agency services: For expenses necessary for certification of persons 
eligible for any public benefits which are or may become available as 
may be approved by the Commissioners; relief and rehabilitation for 
purposes of employment of indigent residents of the District of 
Columbia, to be expended under rules and regulations prescribed by 
the Commissioners or their designated agent or agency; vocational 
rehabilitation of disabled residents; aid to dependent children; assist-
ance against old-age want; aid for needy blind persons; services for 
children in their own homes; maintenance pending transportation, 
and transportation, of indigent persons, including veterans and their 
families; deportation of nonresident insane persons, including per-
sons held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hos-
pital; burial of indigent residents of the District of Columbia; for 
placing and visiting children; board and care of all children com-
mitted to the guardianship of the Board of Public Welfare by the 
courts of the District, and all children accepted by said Board for 
care as authorized by law; temporary care of children pending inves-
tigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority 
to pay for the care of children in institutions under sectarian control; 
for continuous maintenance of foster homes for temporary or emer-
gency board and care of nondelinquent children; care and mainte-
nance of women and children under contracts to be made by the Board 
of Public Welfare and approved by the Commissioners with the 
Florence Crittenton Home, Saint Ann's Infant Asylum and Mater-
nity Hospital, the House of Mercy, and other institutions caring for 
unmarried mothers; and for burial of children dying while bene-
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5 u s e 835 note. 
Industrial Home 
School for Colored 
Girls. 
66 Stat. 382. 
64 Stat. 359; 65 
Stat. 163. 
ficiaries under this appropriation; including repair and upkeep of 
building; $4,610,000: Provided^ That no part of this appropriation 
shall be used for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of 
Public Welfare placed outside of the District of Columbia and the 
States of Virginia and Maryland, and a ward placed outside said 
District and the States of Virginia and Maryland shall be visited not 
less than once a year by a voluntary agent or correspondent of said 
Board, and said Board shall have power to discharge from guardian-
ship any child committed to its care: Provided further^ That employees 
using privately owned automobiles for the deportation of nonresident 
insane, the transportation of indigent persons, or the placing of chil-
dren may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 1949 
(63 Stat. 166), but not to exceed $900 for any one individual. 
Operating expenses, protective institutions: For expenses necessary 
for the operation of protective institutions, including the Temporary 
Home for Former Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines; maintenance, under 
jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare, of a suitable place in a 
building entirely separate and apart from the house of detention for 
the reception and detention of children under eighteen years of age 
arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force 
in the District of Columbia or committed to the guardianship of the 
Board, or held as witnesses or held temporarily, or pending hearing, 
or otherwise, and male witnesses eighteen years of age or over shall be 
held at Gallinger Hospital; subsistence in lieu of salary for the full 
time employment of persons for the purpose of securing training and 
experience in their future vocation; compensation of consulting physi-
cians and veterinarians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; 
repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; securing suitable 
homes for paroled or discharged children; and care and maintenance 
of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the 
courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the 
Board of Public Welfare with the Attorney General at a rate of not 
to exceed the actual cost for each boy so committed; purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles; $3,465,000: Provided^ That hereafter the 
National Training School for Girls shall be known as the Industrial 
Home School for Colored Girls. 
Capital outlay, protective institutions: For construction of perma-
nent improvements to the Industrial Home School for Colored Chil-
dren; furnishing and equipping the new infirmary at the Home for 
Aged and Infirm and the new Industrial Home School; construction 
of a new Industrial Home School for Colored Children near Laurel, 
Maryland, including utility services and improvements to grounds; 
$4,024,000, of which $78,750, together with the appropriation of $86,000 
for plans and specifications for an Industrial Home School for Colored 
Girls contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1953, 
shall be available for the use of the Municipal Architect and shall be 
credited to the appropriation account "Office of Municipal Architect, 
Construction Services", and $2,800,000 shall not become available for 
expenditure until July 1,1954. 
The appropriations for "Capital outlay, protective institutions", 
contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts, 1951 and 
1952, shall be available for constructing such additional sewage dis-
posal and treatment facilities at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, as 
may be necessary to provide for sewage from the District Training 
School and the Children's Center, under agreements to be entered into 
between the Commissioners and the Secretary of the Army. 
Saint Elizabeths Hospital: 
For support of indigent insane, 
$9,480,000. 
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PUBLIC WORKS 
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F ire e s c a p e s , 
etc. 
For expenses necessary for agencies named under this general head: 
Office of Municipal Architect, $112,769, of which $3,000 shall be 
exclusively for test borings and soil investigations. 
All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the Office 
of Municipal Architect in payment of personal services employed on 
construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based 
on an amount not exceeding 4 per centum of a total of not more than 
$2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and 
not exceeding 3% per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess 
of $2,000,000, and appropriations specifically made in this Act for 
the preparation of plans and specifications shall be deducted from any 
allowances authorized under this paragraph: Provided^ That reim- 
Reimbursements, 
bursements may be made to this fund from appropriations contained 
in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District govern-
ment, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appropria-
tions : Provided further. That this fund shall be available for advance 
planning subject to subsequent reimbursement from funds loaned by 
the Administrator of General Services under the provisions of the 
Act of October 13, 1949 (63 Stat. 841). 
Operating expenses. Office of Superintendent of District Buildings, 
including rental of postage meter equipment, uniforms and caps for 
guards and elevator operators, maintenance of public convenience 
stations, $1,523,610, of which $8,900 shall be payable from the highway 
fund. 
Surveyor's office, $149,634. 
Department of Inspections, including the enforcement of the Act 
requiring the erection of fire escapes on certain buildings and the 
removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings; compen-
sation at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of two members of 
the plumbing board, two members of the board of examiners, steam 
engineers (the inspector of boilers to serve without additional compen-
sation), members of board of survey, other than the inspector of 
buildings, while actually employed in surveys of such dangerous and 
unsafe Duildings, three members of board of special appeal, one 
member of motion-picture operators examining board, four members 
of electrical examining board, and two members of elevator examining 
board; $882,900. 
Operating expenses, Electrical Division: For expenses necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of the District's communication 
systems, including rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of 
telephone, telegraph, and radio services; and street lighting, including 
the installation and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street 
designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, 
roads, alleys, and public spaces, to be expended in accordance with the 
provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appro-
priation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat. 1008), and with the 
provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal 
year 1913 (37 Stat. 181), and other laws applicable thereto; $1,786,193, 
of which $2,000 shall be payable from the highway fund. 
Capital outlay, Electrical Division, including placing underground, 
relocating, and extending the telephone, police-patrol, and fire-alarm 
cable and circuit distribution systems; installing and extending radio 
systems; and purchase of lampposts, street designations, and fixtures 
of all kinds; $220,000. 
Central garage, including the purchase of passenger motor vehicles 
(including three for the Executive Office for replacement only, at not 
to exceed $3,500 each), work cars, field wagons, ambulances, and 
D. C. 
C o d e 
701 to 7-705. 
D. C. C o d e 
701. 
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[67 ST AT. 
Working fund. 
Muni c i p a l as-
phalt plant. 
43 Stat. 108. 
D. C. Code 47-
1910. 
52 Stat. 633. 
23 u s e 41b. 
64 Stat. 196. 
„ 52 Stat. 636; 53 
Stat. 1066. 
busses, $135,262: Provided^ That the Commissioners are authorized 
to establish a working fund, which shall be available without fiscal-
year limitation, for necessary expenses of maintenance and repair of 
vehicles of the government of the District of Columbia; and said fund 
shall be reimbursed, or credited in advance if required bv the super-
intendent of the Central Garage and District Auto Repair Shop, for 
the costs of all work performed thereunder. 
Operating expenses. Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from 
highway fund), including operation, minor construction, maintenance, 
and repair of bridges; repairs to streets, avenues, roads, sidewalks, and 
alleys; reconditioning existing gravel streets and roads; refunding 
collections erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the 
highway fund during the present and past three fiscal years; such 
expenses to include purchase of passenger motor vehicles; $2,775,000: 
Provided^ That the Commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase 
and install a municipal asphalt plant including all auxiliary plant 
equipment to be paid for from this appropriation at a cost not to 
exceed $150,000: Provided further^ That this appropriation shall not 
be available for refunds authorized by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 
1924. 
Capital outlay. Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from highway 
fund) : For expenses necessary for the grading, surfacing, paving, 
repaving, widening, altering, purchase and installation of traffic lights, 
and otherwise improving streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, including 
curbing and gutters, directional and pedestrian islands at various 
intersections to permit of proper traffic-light control and channeliza-
tion of traffic, drainage structures, culverts, suitable connections to 
storm-water sewer system, retaining walls, replacement and relocation 
of sewers, water mains, fire hydrants, traffic lights, street lights, fire-
alarm boxes, police-patrol boxes, and curb-line trees, when necessary. 
Federal-aid highway projects under section 1 (b) of the Federal Aid 
Highway Act of 1938, and highway structure projects financed wholly 
from the highway fund upon the approval of plans for such structures 
by the Commissioners; for carrying out the provisions of existing laws 
which authorize the Commissioners to open, extend, straighten, or 
widen streets, avenues, roads, or highways, in accordance with the plan 
of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, 
and alleys and minor streets, and for the establishment of building 
lines in the District of Columljia, including the procurement of chains 
of title; and for assessment and permit work, paving of roadways 
under the permit system, and construction of sidewalks and curbs 
around public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, 
including purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and 
of areas less than two hundred and fifty square feet at the intersection 
of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected 
by the Commissioners, $7,706,000, to remain available until June 30, 
1955, and the limit of cost of the bridge over the Anacostia River in 
the vicinity of East Capitol Street, as specified in the Act of June 2, 
1950 (Public Law 534), is increased to $16,000,000: Promded, That in 
connection with the purchase and installation of a municipal asphalt 
plant on District-owned property the Commissioners are authorized to 
make expenditures from this appropriation in an amount not exceeding 
$150,000 for the preparation of the site, including the construction of 
sea walls, dock facilities, and a railroad siding: Provided 
further^ 
That in connection with the highway-planning survey, involving 
surveys, plans, engineering, and economic investigations of projects 
for future construction in the District of Columbia, as provided for 
under section 10 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, and in 
connection with the construction of Federal-aid highway projects 
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289 
under section 1 (b) of said Act, and highway-structure projects 
financed wholly from the highway fund, this appropriation shall be 
available for the employment of engineering or other professional 
services by contract or otherwise, and without regard to section 3709 
of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classification laws, 
and section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and for 
engineering and incidental expenses: Provided further^ That no part 
of this appropriation shall be available for the preparation of plans 
for a crossing of the Potomac Eiver which will be inconsistent with 
the general plan for the development of Theodore Roosevelt Island 
adopted and approved under the provisions of the Act of Congress 
approved May 21, 1932 (47 Stat. 163) : Provided 
further, That no 
part of this appropriation or any appropriation heretofore made shall 
be used to defray the cost of any construction or relocation or removal 
of railroad track or tracks or the construction of any structure which 
will prevent continuous rail transportation by standard railroad equip-
ment by and between the railroad tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio 
Railroad and the premises of the Benning plant of the Potomac 
Electric Power Company via the tracks of the East Washington Rail-
way Company and the Capital Transit Company, except that nothing 
herein shall be construed to preclude the construction of an overpass 
at Deane Avenue in compliance with this proviso or to preclude tem-
porary interruption of the railroad transportation service herein 
described when necessary to any construction on Kenilworth Avenue 
for which funds are appropriated herein or a relocation of such tracks 
which will permit such continuous railway transportation: Provided 
further, That this appropriation and the appropriation "Operating 
expenses. Street and Bridge Divisions, highway fund", shall be avail-
able for the construction and repair of pavements of street railways, 
in accordance with the provisions of the Merger Act (47 Stat. 752), 
and the proportion of the amount thus expended which under the terms 
of the said Act is required to be paid by the street-railway company 
shall be collected, upon the neglect or the refusal of such street-railway 
company to make such payment, from the said street-railway company 
in the manner provided by section 5 of the Act of June 11, 1878, and 
shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal 
year in which it is collected: Provided further, That in connection with 
projects to be undertaken as Federal-aid projects under the provisions 
of the Federal Aid Highway Act of December 20, 1944, as amended, 
the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts 
for those projects in such amounts as shall be approved by the Bureau 
of Public Roads, Department of Commerce: Provided further, 
That 
the Commissioners are hereby authorized to construct grade-crossing 
elimination and other construction projects authorized under section 
8 of the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), and section 1 (b) of 
the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, as amended, in accordance with 
the provisions of said Acts, and this appropriation may be used for 
payment to contractors and other expenses in connection with the 
expenses of design, construction, and inspection pending reimburse-
ment to the District of Columbia by the Bureau of Public Roads, 
Department of Commerce, reimbursement to be credited to the appro-
priation from which payment was made: Provided further. That the 
Commissioners are authorized to fix or alter the respective widths of 
sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all 
highways that may be improved under appropriations contained in 
this Act: Provided further, That no appropriation in this Act shall be 
available for repairing, resurfacing, or paving any street, avenue, or 
roadway by private contract unless the specifications for such work 
shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in 
52 Stat. 633. 
23 u s e 41b. 
41 use 5. 
60 Stat. 810. 
D. e . e o d e 8-
164. 
D. e . C o d e ? -
604 note. 
20 Stat. 106. 
D. e . e o d e 7-
604. 
58 Stat. 838. 
23 u s e 60-63. 
23 u s e 24a. 
23 u s e 41b. 
Widths o f side-
w a l k s and road-
ways. 
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[67 ST A T . 
V e h i c l e s and 
traffic. 
5 8 Stat. 527. 
D. C. Code 40-
603a. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
C o l l e c t ! o n of 
refuse from hotel s, 
etc. 
paving materials as well as in price: Provided further^ Tliat in addition 
to the provision of existing law requiring contractors to keep new 
pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date of the 
completion of the work, the Commissioners shall further require that 
where repairs are necessary during the four years following the said 
one-year period, due to inferior work or defective materials, such 
repairs shall be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond 
furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense: Provided 
further^ That this appropriation and the appropriation "Operating 
expenses, Street and Bridge Divisions," shall be available for advance 
E
ayments to Federal agencies for work to be performed, when ordered 
y the Commissioners, subject to subsequent adjustment. 
Department of Vehicles and Traffic (payable from highway fund), 
including purchase, installation, modification, operation, and mainte-
nance of electric traffic lights, signals, controls, markers, and direc-
tional signs; purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates; 
installation, operation, and maintenance of parking meters in the 
District of Columbia; $20,000 for traffic safety education without 
reference to any other law; $200 for membership in the American 
Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators; and uniforms for motor 
vehicle inspectors and permit examiners; $1,248,213: Provided^ That 
no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar 
loading platforms and lights of any description employed to dis-
tinguish same, except that a permanent type of platform may be 
constructed from appropriations contained in this Act for street 
improvements when plans and locations thereof are approved by the 
Public Utilities Commission and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic 
and the street-railway company shall after construction maintain, 
mark, and light the same at its expense: Provided further^ That the 
Commissioners are authorized and empowered to pay the purchase 
price and the cost of installation of new parking meters or devices 
from fees collected from such new meters or devices, which fees are 
hereby appropriated for such purpose, until such time as contracts of 
purchase have been paid, and thereafter such new meters or devices 
shall become the property of the government of the District of Colum-
bia : Provided further^ That the Commissioners are authorized and 
directed to designate, reserve, and properly mark appropriate and 
sufficient parking spaces on the streets adjacent to all public buildings 
in the District for the use of Members of Congress engaged on public 
business: Provided further^ That the incumbent on July 1, 1944, of 
the authorized position of Registrar of Titles and Tags, whose duties 
shall be as prescribed in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 
1945, shall hereafter be continued for compensation purposes in grade 
9 of the general schedule under the Classification Act of 1949, as 
amended. 
Division of Trees and Parking (payable from highway fund), 
$362,575. 
Motor-Vehicle Parking Agency (payable from motor-vehicle park-
ing fund), $130,406. 
Operating expenses. Division of Sanitation: For expenses necessary 
for collection and disposal of refuse and street cleaning, including 
repair and maintenance of plants, buildings, and grounds; and fencing 
of public and private property designated by the Commissioners as 
public dumps; $4,574,933, of which $99,000 shall be payable from 
the highway fund for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, 
crosswalks, and gutters, in the discretion of the Commissioners: Pro-
vided^ That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting 
ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or 
from apartment houses of four or more apartments having a central 
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291 
heating system, or from any building or connected group of buildings 
operated as a rooming, boarding, or lodging house having a total of 
more than twenty-five rooms. 
Capital outlay. Division of Sanitation (liquidation of contract 
authorization) : For liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to 
authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for construction of 
incinerator numbered 3, $1,500,000. 
Operating expenses, Sewer Division, including cleaning and repair-
ing sewers and basins; operation and maintenance of the sewage pump-
ing service and sewage-treatment plant, including repairs to equip-
ment, machinery, and structures; control and prevention of the spread 
of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia; and for contribution of the 
District of Columbia to the expenses of the Interstate Commission on 
the Potomac River Basin; $1,605,458. 
Capital outlay. Sewer Division: For construction of sewers and 
receiving basins; for assessment and permit work; for purchase or 
condemnation of rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and 
repair of public sewers; for continuing construction on aeration plant 
and secondary sedimentation tanks at the Sewage Treatment Plant; 
and for completing construction on sludge drying and sewage chlori-
nation facilities at the Sewage Treatment Plant; to remain available 
until expended, $5,6-75,000, of which $1,330,000 shall not become avail-
able for expenditure until July 1,1954. 
Operating expenses. Water Division (payable from water fund) : 
For expenses necessary for operation and maintenance of the District 
of Columbia water distribution system; installing and repairing water 
meters on services to private residences and business places as may not 
be required to install meters under existing regulations, said meters 
to remain the property of the District of Columbia; replacement of 
old mains, service pipes, and divide valves, and repair of reservoirs; 
water waste and leakage survey; such expenses to include purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles; purchase and replacement of uniforms for 
water meter inspectors; and refunding of water rents and other water 
charges erroneously paid in the District of Columbia, to be refunded 
in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding of erroneously 
paid taxes; $2,485,000, to be available for such refunds of payments 
made within the present and past three years. 
Capital outlay: Water Division (payable from water fund) : For 
extension of the District of Columbia water-distribution system; 
laying of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment 
system; laying mains in advance of paving and installing fire and 
public hydrants; constructing trunk water mains; and pumping 
facilities at the Anacostia pumping station; $1,565,000, of which not 
to exceed $810,000 for trunk water mains, and $120,000 for pumping 
facilities at the Anacostia pumping station shall remain available 
until expended. 
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell United States 
securities now held for and on account of the water fund of the Dis-
trict of Columbia in such amounts as may be certified by the Commis-
sioners as necessary and credit the proceeds of such sale to said water 
fund. 
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT 
Operating expenses (payable from water fund) : For expenses 
necessary for the operation, maintenance, repair, and protection of 
Washington water supply facilities and their accessories, and main-
tenance of MacArthur Boulevard; including replacement and main-
tenance of water meters on Federal services; purchase of two passen-
ger motor vehicles; and fluoridation of water, $2,000,000: Provided, 
ment Plant. 
fan 
Meters on Fed-
eral services. 
L i t t l e 
F a l l s 
punning S t a t ion, 
etc. 
292 
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[67 STAT, 
That transfer of appropriations for operating expenses and capital 
outlay may be made between the Water Division of the District of 
Columbia and the Washington Aqueduct upon mutual agreement of 
the Commissioners and the Secretary of the Army. 
Capital outlay (payable from water fund) : For continuing construc-
tion of Little Falls pumping station, dam and rising tunnel; construc-
tion of third high reservoir at Reno (first half); miscellaneous better-
ments, replacements, and engineering planning, including continuing 
raw-water conduit rehabilitation, continuing repairs to culverts and 
bridges, MacArthur Boulevard, hydroelectric station improvements, 
cathodic protection of flocculators at Dalecarlia, auxiliary raw-water 
supply to Dalecarlia filters, ramp replacement into the McMillan slow 
sand filters, replacement of roof over Dalecarlia filtration plant, and 
utility relocations and plant and system rearrangements of intercon-
nections ; acquisition by gift, exchange, purchase, or condemnation of 
supplementary land; and for developing increased water supply for 
the District of Columbia and environs in accordance with House Docu-
ment 480, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session; and necessary 
expenses incident thereto; including services as authorized by section 
60 Stat. 810. 
15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates for indi-
vidual consultants not in excess of $150 per diem; to remain available 
until expended, $4,300,000, of which $1,988,000 shall not become avail-
able for expenditure until July 1,1954; and of the total amount appro-
priated $4,000,000 is appropriated from any moneys in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced by the Secretary of the 
64 Stat. 195. 
Treasury pursuant to the provisions of the Act of June 2,1950 (Public 
Law 533, Eighty-first Congress). 
Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence 
and control of the Secretary of the Army over the Washington Aque-
duct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same, 
and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided 
by law. 
NATIONAL GUARD 
For expenses necessary for the National Guard of the District of 
Columbia, including attendance at meetings of associations pertaining 
to the National Guard; expenses of camps, and for the payment of 
commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to 
guard or move the United States property at home stations on days 
immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encamp-
ments; reimbursement to the United States for loss of property for 
which the District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and 
repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and 
maintenance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at 
armory or field encampments; practice marches, drills, and parades; 
rents of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; care and repair of 
armories, offices, storehouses, machinery, and dock, including dredging 
alongside of dock; alterations and additions to present structures; 
construction of buildings for storage and other purposes; $115,000. 
NATIONAL 
CAPITAL 
PARKS 
For expenses necessary for the National Capital Parks, includ-
ing maintenance, care, and improvement of public parks, grounds, 
fountains, and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses, 
and the tourists' camp on its present site in East Potomac Park under 
the jurisdiction of the National Park Service; placing and maintain-
ing portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, erection of 
stands, furnishing and placing of chairs, and services incident thereto 
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in connection with national, patriotic, civic, and recreational functions 
held in the parks, including the President's Cup Kegatta, and expenses 
incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; such expenses 
to include pay and allowances of the United States Park Police force; 
per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the 
Interior, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment 
in the District of Columbia; uniforming and equipping the United 
States Park Police force; the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, 
repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers^ uniforms, ammunition, 
and radio equipment and the rental of teletype service; and the pur-
chase of passenger motor vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, and self-
propelled machinery; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers 
at local rates approved by the Secretary of the Interior; the purchase 
and maintenace of draft animals, harness, and wagons; $2,078,500, of 
which $25,000 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided^ 
That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be 
expended for the erection of minor auxiliary structures: Provided 
further^ That funds appropriated under or transferred to this head 
for services rendered by the National Park Service shall be expended 
by expenditure warrant as an advance to said service and shall be 
credited as a repayment and maintained in a special account. 
The 
amounts so advanced will be available for the objects specified herein 
or in the appropriation from which such funds are transferred, any 
unexpended balance to be returned to the appropriation concerned 
not later than two full fiscal years after the close of the current fiscal 
year. 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PAKK 
For expenses necessary for the National Zoological Park, including 
erecting and repairing buildings; care and improvement of grounds; 
travel, including travel for the procurement of live specimens; pur-
chase, care, and transportation of specimens; purchase of motorcycles 
and passenger motor vehicles; revolvers and ammunition; purchase 
of uniforms and equipment for police, and uniforms for keepers and 
assistant keepers; $625,000: Provided^ That funds appropriated under 
this head shall be expended by expenditure warrant as an advance 
to the National Zoological Park and shall be credited as a repay-
ment and maintained in a special account. 
The amounts so advanced 
will be available for the objects herein specified, any unexpended 
balance to be returned to this appropriation not later than two full 
fiscal years after the close of the current fiscal year. 
Capital outlay. National Zoological Park: For the installation of 
a steam line from the central heating plant to the birdhouse, $35,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided herein, all vouchers covering 
expenditures of appropriations contained in this Act shall be audited 
before payment by or under the jurisdiction only of the accounting 
officer for the District of Columbia and the vouchers as approved 
shall be paid by checks issued by the Disbursing Officer without 
countersignature. 
SEC. 3. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a 
strike against the Government of the United States or the government 
of the District of Columbia, or who is a member of an organization 
of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the 
Government of the United States or the government of the District 
of Columbia, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization 
Vouchers. 
Strikes or ovei* 
throw of Govern-
ment. 
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S T A T * 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
M a x i m u m a> 
motuit. 
Repairs and in^ 
prove ments. 
Automobile 
lowance. 
al-
Attend an c e 
meetings. 
I n V e 8 t m ent in 
U.S. securities. 
that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States 
by force or violence: Provided^ That for the purposes hereof an affi-
davit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making 
the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged 
in a strike against the Government of the United States or the govern-
ment of the District of Columbia, is not a member of an organization 
of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the 
Government of the United States or the government of the District 
of Columbia, or that such person does not advocate, and is iiot a mem-
ber of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Govern-
ment of the United States by force or violence: Provided 
further. 
That any person who engages in a strike against the Government of 
the United States or the government of the District of Columbia or 
who is a member of an organization of Government employees that 
asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States 
or the government of the District of Columbia, or who advocates, or 
who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow 
of the Government of the United States by force or violence, and 
accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any 
appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, 
upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned 
for not more than one year, or both: Provided further^ That the above 
penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any 
other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 4. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an appro-
priation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such amount, 
unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maximum amount 
which may be expended for said purpose or object rather than an 
amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEO. 5. Work performed for repairs and improvements under 
appropriations contained in this Act may be by contract or otherwise, 
as determined by the Commissioners; and the Commissioners are 
authorized to establish a working fund for such purposes without fiscal 
year limitation, said fund to be reimbursed for repairs and improve-
ments performed under that fund from available appropriations con-
tained in this Act, and payments are authorized to be made to said 
fund in advance if required by the Director of Construction, subject 
to subsecjuent adjustment, from appropriations contained in this Act 
for repairs and improvements, and such working fund shall be avail-
able for necessary expenses including allowances for privately owned 
automobiles. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized or approved by the Commissioners, for allowances for privately 
owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties at 7 
cents per mile but not to exceed $22 a month for each automobile, 
unless otherwise therein specifically provided: Provided^ That the 
total expenditures for this purpose shall not exceed $62,000, excluding 
the automobile allowances for the deportation of nonresident insane, 
the transportation of indigent persons, and the placing of children by 
the Board of Public Welfare. 
SEC. 7. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the pay-
ment of dues and expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations 
concerned with the work of the District of Columbia government, when 
authorized by the Commissioners: Provided^ That the total expendi-
tures for this purpose shall not exceed $20,000. 
SEC. 8. The Commissioners are hereby authorized in their discre-
tion to invest and reinvest ,at any time in United States Government 
securities, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, any 
part of the general fund, highway fund, water fund, motor vehicle 
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295 
parking fund, or trust funds, of the District of Columbia, not needed 
to meet current expenses, to deposit the interest accruing from such 
investments to the credit of the fund from which the investment was 
made, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell or 
exchange such securities for other Government securities, and deposit 
the proceeds to the credit of the appropriate fund. 
SEC. 9. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for personal 
services and, when authorized by the Commissioners or by the purchas-
ing officer and the accounting officer, acting for the Commissioners, 
printing and binding may be performed by the District of Columbia 
Division of Printing and Publications without reference to fiscal-year 
limitations. 
SEC. 10. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for services as authorized by section 15 
of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a). 
SEC. 11. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is 
authorized to advance to officials upon requisitions previously approved 
by the accounting officer of the District of Columbia, not to exceed 
at any one time sums of money as follows: 
Director of Weights, Measures, and Markets, $400, to be used 
exclusively in connection with investigation of short weights and 
measures; 
Librarian of the Public Library, $50 at the first of each month, for 
the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, or 
other printed materials; 
Superintendent of recreation, $4,000, to be used for the expense of 
conducting activities of the Recreation Board under the trust fund 
created by the Act of April 29, 1942 (56 Stat. 261); 
Superintendent of Police, $5,000, to be used in the prevention and 
detection of crime; 
Chief probation officer of the juvenile court, $50, upon requisition 
previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court, to be expended 
for travel expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers; 
Director, Department of Corrections, $1,000, to be used only in 
returning escaped prisoners, conditional releasees, parolees, and for 
the payment of cash gratuities to prisoners on release; 
Director of Public Welfare, $2,000, to be used for placing and visit-
ing children, returning parolees and wards of the Board of Public 
Welfare, and deportation of non-resident insane and indigent persons 
including maintenance pending transportation; 
Superintendent of Schools, $1,000, which shall be used in connection 
with the central food services. 
SEC. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in con-
nection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of 
any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring 
the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the 
licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation 
in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regula-
tions applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public 
Utilities Commission. 
SEC. 13. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the 
payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those author-
ized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current 
for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-
hour for current consumed. 
SEC. 14. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (includ-
ing watercraft) owned by the District of Columbia shall be operated 
and utilized in conformity with section 16 of the Act of August 2. 
1946 (5 U. S. C. 77, 78), and shall be under the direction and control 
Personal serv* 
ices; printing and 
binding. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Advanc e • 
of 
money. 
D. C. Code 8-
211. 
Restrictions. 
Electric s t r e e t 
lighting. 
Passenger v e -
hicles. 
60 Stat. 810. 
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[67 S T A T . 
Restriction. 
Snow removal. 
66 Stat. 826. 
Balances. 
C onsolidation. 
Recission. 
D e par t ment of 
S a n i t a r y 
Engi-
neering. 
O p e r a t i n g ex-
pense s. 
Short title. 
of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the 
assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration or interchangeable 
use of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, except 
as otherwise provided in this Act. "Official purposes" shall not apply 
to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or in cases of officers 
and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation 
necessary, but only as to such latter cases when the same is approved 
by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from 
the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of 
the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 15. Appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, 
Division of Sanitation, and the Water Division shall be available for 
snow removal when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. 
SEC. 16. The authority of the Commissioners to establish agencies 
and offices in the government of the District of Columbia pursuant to 
section 4 of Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1952, and to effect transfers 
of unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds 
pursuant to section 5 of said Plan, shall not extend beyond June 30, 
1954. 
SEC. 17. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to consolidate 
under appropriate current account titles the unexpended balances of 
such unexpired District of Columbia capital outlay appropriations of 
prior years as may be requested by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 18. The balances of all general-fund and water-fund contract 
authorizations heretofore granted to the Commissioners which remain 
unobligated on June 30, 1954, are rescinded. 
SEC. 19. Operating expenses of the Department of Sanitary Engi-
neering properly chargeable to two or more appropriations available to 
that Department may De charged initially to an appropriate fiscal year 
account which is hereby authorized to be established. Advances shall 
be made to this account in such amounts as determined necessary by 
the Commissioners of the District of Columbia from appropriations 
available to the Department of Sanitary Engineering. AH charges to 
this account shall be distributed at least monthly to the applicable 
appropriations. 
SEC. 20. This Act may be cited as the "District of Colupibia Appro-
priation Act, 1954." 
Approved July 31, 1953. 
July 31, 1953 
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Public Law 174 
CHAPTER 300 
AN ACT 
To provide for the orderly transaction of the public business in the event of the 
death, incapacity, or separation from office of a disbursing officer of the 
military department. 
Armed Forces. 
Disbursing o f ' 
fleers. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That in case of 
the death, incapacity, or separation from office of a disbursing officer 
of any of the military departments the accounts of such disbursing 
officer may be continued and payments made in his name by his deputy 
disbursing officer for a period of time not to extend beyond the last 
day of the second month following the month in which such death, 
incapacity or separation shall occur. 
Such accounts and payments 
shall be allowed, audited, and settled in the manner prescribed by law; 
and the checks signed in the name of the former disbursing officer