An Act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes
PL 82-375 (H.R.6947), enacted 06/05/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 375-JUNE 5, 1952 
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Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30,1952, and 
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for other purposes. 
CHAPTER 369 
Be it eTiacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes, namely. 
CHAPTER I 
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LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
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S E N A T E 
For payment to Marjorie C. Wherry, widow of Kenneth S. Wherry, 
late a Senator from the State of Nebraska, $12,500, 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
Effective April 15,1952, the appropriation for salaries of officers and 
employees of the Senate contained in the Legislative Branch Appro-
priation Act for the fiscal year 1952 is made available for the com-
pensation of one camera man. Joint Recording Facility, at the basic 
rate of $3,600 per annum. 
T h i r d Supple-
mental Appropria-
tion Act, 1952. 
65 Stat. 388. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
Folding documents: For an additional amount for folding speeches 
and pamphlets at a gross rate not exceeding $2 per thousand, $10,000. 
Senate restaurants: For an additional amount for Senate kitchens 
and restaurants, $25,000. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
For payment to Helen D. Whitaker, widow of John A. Whitaker, 
late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, $12,500: Provided^ 
That the foregoing death gratuity payment, and any other death 
gratuity payment at any time specifically appropriated by this or any 
other Act or at any time made out of the contingent fund of the House 
of Representatives or of the Senate, shall be held to have been a gift. 
For payment to Barbara Y. Schwabe, widow of George B. Schwabe, 
late a Representative from the State of Oklahoma, $12,500. 
For payment to Lyla H. Murray, widow of Reid F. Murray, late a 
Representative from the State of Wisconsin, $12,500. 
For payment to Anna M. Byrne, and Elizabeth B. Turkenkoph, 
sisters of William T. Byrne, late a Representative from the State of 
New York, one-half to each, $12,500. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
Office of the Doorkeeper 
For an additional amount for "Office of the Doorkeeper", $38,895. 
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE 
For an additional amount, salaries and expenses, studies and exam-
inations of executive agencies, $35,000. 
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CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF T H E HOUSE 
For payment to Walter B. Huber, contestant, for expenses incurred 
in the contested election case of Huber versus Ayres as audited and 
recommended by the Committee on House Administration, $2,000. 
For payment to William H, Ayres, contestee, for expenses incurred 
in the contested election case of Huber versus Ayres as audited and 
recommended by the Committee on House Administration, $2,000. 
For payment to W. Kingsland Macy, contestant, for expenses 
incurred in the contested election case of Macy versus Greenwood as 
audited and recommended by the Committee on House Administration, 
$2,000. 
For payment to Ernest Greenwood, contestee, for expenses incurred 
in the contested election case of Macy versus Greenwood as audited and 
recommended by the Committee on House Administration, $2,000. 
For payment to Maurice S. Osser, contestant, for expenses incurred 
in the contested election case of Osser versus Scott as audited and 
recommended by the Committee on House Administration, $2,000. 
For payment to Hardie Scott, contestee, for expenses incurred in 
the contested election case of Osser versus Scott as audited and recom-
mended by the Committee on House Administration, $2,000. 
Stationery (Revolving Fund) 
For an additional amount for "Stationery (revolving fund)", first 
session of the Eighty-second Congress, $500, to remain available until 
expended. 
Special and Select Committees 
For an additional amount for expenses of "Special and select com-
mittees", $75,000. 
ARCHITECT OF T H E CAPITOL 
Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For an 
additional amount, not to exceed $300, to be derived by transfer from 
the appropriation "Capitol Buildings". 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
WORKING CAPITAL AND CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING 
The limitation under this head in the Legislative Branch Appropria-
65 Stat. 401. 
^JQjj ^QI^ 1962, on the amount available for printing, binding, and 
distributing the Federal Register, is increased from "$480,000" to 
"$650,000". 
CHAPTER I I 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
LEGAL ACTIVITIES AND GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
FEES A N D E X P E N S E S OF WITNESSES 
For an additional amount for "Fees and expenses of witnesses", 
$100,000. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, CLAIMS OF PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses, claims of per-
sons of Japanese ancestry", $12,500,000. 
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IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE 
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
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For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $4,000,000; 
and the limitation under this head in the Department of Justice 
Appropriation Act, 1952, on the amount available for personal serv- 
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ices, is increased from "$30,159,900" to "$33,117,250": Provided, That 
appropriations granted under this head for the fiscal year 1952 shall 
be available for the purchase of not to exceed forty passenger motor 
vehicles in addition to those heretofore provided, and for purchase or 
construction of buildings and adjunct facilities for detention of aliens. 
FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM 
SUPPORT OF UNITED STATES PRISONERS 
For an additional amount for "Support of United States prisoners", 
$750,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
CIVIL AERONAUTICS ADMINISTRATION 
ESTABLISHMENT OF AIR NAVIGATION FACILITIES 
The limitation under this head in the Department of Commerce 
Appropriation Act, 1952, on the amount available for personal services, 
^s stat. 587. 
is increased from "$4,965,300" to "$5,950,000". 
CLAIMS, FEDERAL AIRPORT ACT 
For an additional amount for "Claims, Federal Airport Act", 
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$701,170, to remain available until June 30,1953, as follows: Municipal note. 
Airport, Dothan, Alabama, $50,901; Municipal Airport, Tucson, Ari-
zona, $25,544; Yuma County Airport, Yuma, Arizona, $3,114; Delano-
Kern County Airport, Delano, California, $403; Palm Springs Airport, 
Palm Springs, California, $29,979; Municipal Airport, Colorado 
Springs, Colorado, $108,757; Municipal Airport, Statesboro, Georgia, 
$46,398; Henry Tift Myers Airport, Tifton, Georgia, $93,931; Munici-
pal Airport, Valdosta, Georgia, $85,069; Hammond Airport, Ham-
mond, Louisiana, $24,538; Lafayette Airport, Lafayette, Louisiana, 
$44,368; Municipal Airport, Glasgow, Montana, $36,487; Municipal 
Airport, Omaha, Nebraska, $44,440; Municipal Airport, Bismarck, 
North Dakota, $13,924; Clatsop Airport, Astoria, Oregon, $8,915; 
Municipal Airport, Roanoke, Virginia, $63,161; Walla Walla City-
County Airport, Walla Walla, Washington, $21,241. 
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS 
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS 
For an additional amount for "Federal-aid highways", to remain 
available until expended, $69,500,000, which sum is composed of 
$14,491,000, the remainder of the amount authorized to be appropriated 
for the fiscal year 1950, and $55,009,000, a part of the amount authorized 
to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1951. 
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
OFFICE OF THE TREASURER 
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $450,000. 
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CONTINGENT EXPENSES, PUBLIC MONEYS 
For an additional amount for "Contingent expenses, public moneys", 
$25,000. 
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For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $20,000,000. 
B U R E A U OF THE 
M I N T 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses"', $225,000: 
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Provided, That appropriations granted under this head for the fiscal 
year 1952, shall be available for paying wage increases from the date 
of approval by the Treasury Department. 
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT 
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(Out of the postal revenues) 
POSTAL OPERATIONS 
For an additional amount for "Postal operations", $10,000,000. 
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TRANSPORTATION OP MAILS 
For an additional amount for "Transportation of mails", fiscal 
year 1951, $61,578,000. 
For an additional amount for "Transportation of mails", $100,-
000,000. 
CLAIMS 
For an additional amount for "Claims", $250,000. - • " 
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
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For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $988,000; 
and the limitation under this head in the Department of Labor Ap-
es Stat. 210. 
propriation Act, 1952, on the amount available for personal services, 
is increased from "$4,200,000" to "$5,746,000": Provided, 
That the 
limitation in the appropriation granted the Department of Labor in the 
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joint resolution of August 16, 1951 (Public Law 113), on the dura- 
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tion of temporary employment of Mexican nationals, is repealed. 
BUREAU OF EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION 
EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION FUND 
For an additional amount for "Employee's compensation fund", 
$2,200,000. 
FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES, BUREAU OF OLD-AGE AND SURVIVORS INSURANCE 
The amount authorized to be expended from the Federal old-age and 
survivors insurance trust fund, for "Salaries and expenses. Bureau of 
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance", by the Federal Security Agency 
Appropriation Act, 1952, is increased from "$58,000,000" to "$60,100,- 
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OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR 
SURPLUS PROPERTY DISPOSAL 
For an a'dditional amount for "Surplus property disposal", $40,000. 
DEFENSE C O M M U N I T Y FACILITIES AND SERVICES 
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For an additional amount for "Defense community facilities and 
services". Federal Security Agency, $4,000,000, to remain available 
until June 30,1953; and the amount of the appropriation for "Salaries 
and expenses, defense community facilities and services", granted in 
the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, shall be available 
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until June 30, 1953, for necessary expenses of the Federal Security 
Agency in connection with its functions under the Defense Housing 
and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1951, including services 
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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD (TRUST FUND) 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses. Railroad 
Retirement Board (trust fund)", $1,600,000, to be derived from the 
railroad retirement account; and the limitation under this head in 
the Railroad Retirement Board Appropriation Act, 1952, on the 
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amount available for personal services, is increased from "$3,799,724" 
to "$5,259,000". 
CHAPTER V 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FOREST SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
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For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", for fighting 
forest fires, $3,250,000. 
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SMOKE JUMPER FACILITIES 
For expenses necessary for the establishment of facilities for forest 
fire control operations pursuant to the Act of October 24,1951 (Public 
65 Stat. 609. 
Law 198), $700,000, to remain available until expended; Provided^ 
That the amount made available herein shall be the full cost of the 
acquisition of land and construction of facilities: Provided 
further^ 
That hereafter the authorization granted in section 3 of said Act to 
enter into contracts for the foregoing purposes shall not be exercised. 
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $3,500,000. 
CHAPTER VI 
DEPARTMENT OF T H E INTERIOR 
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For an additional amount for "Operation and maintenance", 
$240,000; and the limitation under this head in the Interior Depart-
65 Stat. 250. 
meut Appropriation Act, 1952, on the amount available for personal 
services is increased from "$3,983,862" to "$4,264,862". 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For an additional amount for "Management of lands and resources", 
$250,000; and the restrictions contained within the Interior Depart-
65 Stat. 251. 
meut Appropriation Act, 1952, limiting the amounts which may be 
expended from appropriations to the Bureau of Land Management 
for personal services, are hereby waived to the extent necessary to meet 
the cost of fire suppression. 
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 
For an additional amount for "Resources management", $175,000; 
and the restrictions contained within the Interior Department Appro-
65 Stat. 252. 
priation Act, 1952, limiting the amounts which may be expended from 
appropriations to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for personal services, 
are hereby waived to the extent necessary to meet the cost of fire 
suppression. 
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 
CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION 
The limitation under this head in the Interior Department Appro-
65 Stat. 255. 
priatioii Act, 1952, as amended by the Supplemental Appropriation 
Act, 1952, on the amount available for personal services, is increased 
from "$38,570,172" to "$42,976,462". 
65 Stat. 742. 
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BUREAU OF MINES 
COXSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES 
The limitation under this head in the Interior Department Appro-
priation Act, 1952, on the amount available for personal services, is 
^s stat. 259. 
increased from "$10,446,575" to "$11,454,000". 
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 
MAINTENANCE AND REHABILITATION OF PHYSICAL FACILITIES 
The limitation under this head in the Interior Department Appro-
priation Act, 1952, on the amount available for personal services, is 
^5 stat. 260. 
increased from "$4,193,747" to "$4,543,900". 
OFFICE OF TERRITORIES 
CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, ALASKA 
The limitation under this head in the Interior Department Appro-
priation Act, 1952, on the amount available for personal services, is 
^5 stat. 263. 
increased from "$2,493,000" to "$2,844,700". 
A D M I N I S T R A T I O N OF TERRITORIES 
For an additional amount for "Administration of Territories", 
$163,000; and the limitation under this head in the Interior Depart-
ment Appropriation Act, 1952, on the amount available for personal 
^s stat. 262. 
services, is increased from "$811,865" to "$879,200". 
CHAPTER VII 
INDEPENDENT OFFICES 
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION 
Investigations: For the establishment of a revolving fund which 
shall be available to the Civil Service Commission without fiscal year 
limitation for financing investigations, the costs of which are required 
or authorized by Public Law 298, Eighty-second Congress, or any 
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other law to be borne by appropriations or funds of other Gov-
ernment departments and agencies, $4,000,000: Provided, That said 
fund shall be reimbursed from available funds of such departments 
and agencies for investigations made for them at rates estimated 
by the Commission to be adequate to recover expenses of operation, 
including provision for accrued annual leave and depreciation of 
equipment purchased by the fund: Provided 
further, 
That any 
surplus accruing to the fund in any fiscal year shall be paid into 
the general fund of the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts during 
the ensuing fiscal year: Provided 
further, 
That any such surplus 
may be applied first to restore any impairment of the capital of the 
fund by reason of variations between the rates charged for work or 
services and the amount subsequently determined by the Commission 
to be the cost of performing such work or services. 
COMMISSION ON RENOVATION OF THE EXECUTIVE MANSION 
For an additional amount for "Commission on Renovation of the 
Executive Mansion", $20,000. 
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DISPLACED PERSONS COMMISSION 
For an additional amount for "Displaced Persons Commission", 
$3,074,500; and appropriations granted under this head for the fiscal 
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year 1952 shall remain available until August 31, 1952. 
FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $313,000; 
and the limitation under this head in the Independent Offices Appro-
65 Stat. 273. 
priation Act, 1952, on the amount available for travel, is increased 
from "$240,000" to "$252,000". 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
FEDERAL SUPPLY AND RECORDS BUILDING 
For the acquisition of a site in or near Kansas City, Kansas, or 
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Kansas City, Missouri, and the construction thereon of a building for 
use as a supply and records center, including related equipment, 
approaches, ramps, roadways, railroad spurs, and other appurtenant 
facilities, pursuant to the provisions of the Public Buildings Act of 
44 Stat. 630. 
j^^y 25, 1926, as amended (40 U. S. C. 341), $4,400,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
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HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY 
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DEFENSE COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES 
For an additional amount for "Defense community facilities and 
services", $9,375,000, to remain available until expended: Provided^ 
That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be used for the 
construction of any project unless funds are available for the 
completion of such project. 
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DEFENSE HOUSING 
For an additional amount for "Defense housing", $12,500,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided^ That no part of the fore-
going appropriation shall be used for the construction of any project 
unless funds are available for the completion of such project. 
ALASKA HOUSING 
For an additional amount for "Alaska housing", $1,125,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
PUBLIC HOUSING ADMINISTRATION 
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For an additional amount for "Annual contributions", $3,600,000. 
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For an additional amount for "Maintenance and operation of prop- 
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RENEGOTIATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND E X P E N S E S 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $100,000. 
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SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $2,955,000; 
and the limitations under this head in the Supplemental Appropri-
ation Act, 1952, on the amount available for expenses of National 
^s stat. 745. 
Administration, Planning, Training, and Records Management is 
increased from "$1,856,000" to "$2,042,000", and on the amount avail-
able for expenses of State Administration, Planning, Training, and 
Records Servicing is increased from "$6,454,000" to "$7,360,000": Pro-
vided^ That effective as of the first day of the first pay period which 
began after June 30, 1951, and within ninety days from the date of 
enactment of this Act, the rate of compensation of any employee of a 
local board or appeal board may be increased pursuant to the authority 
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made retroactively effective on the same basis as if they had been 
authorized by Public Law 201, approved October 24, 1951. 
^s stat. 612. 
VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION 
COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS 
For an additional amount for "Compensation and pensions", 
$60,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
READJUSTMENT BENEFITS 
For an additional amount for "Readjustment benefits", $148,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
NATIONAL SERVICE LIFE INSURANCE 
For an additional amount for "National service life insurance", 
$50,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
S E R V I C E M E N ' S INDEMNITIES 
For 
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amount 
for "Servicemen's 
indemnities", 
$2,300,000, to remain available until expended. 
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SERVICE-DISABLED 
VETERANS 
INSURANCE 
FUND 
For the "Service-disabled veterans insurance fund", authorized by 
section 620 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as 
65 Stat. 36. 
amended (38 U. S. C. 821), $250,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
VETERANS 
SPECIAL TERM INSURANCE F U N D 
For the "Veterans special term insurance fund", authorized by sec-
tion 621 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended 
65 Stat. 37. 
(33 j j . S. C. 822 (a)), $250,000, to remain available until expended. 
AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER CONVEYANCES FOR DISABLED 
VETERANS 
To enable the Administrator to provide, or assist in providing, auto-
mobiles or other conveyances for disabled veterans, as authorized by 
38 us*c"'5 2a- the Act of October 20, 1951 (Public Law 187), $25,000,000, to remain 
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available until expended. 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
MARITIME ACTIVITIES 
OPERATING-DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDIES 
The last proviso under the head "Operating-differential subsidies", 
65 Stat. 284. 
in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952, is amended to 
read as follows: '•'•Provided further^ That no part of the foregoing 
appropriation shall be available for obligation, nor any obligation 
made, for the payment of an operating-differential subsidy for any 
number of voyages, during the current fiscal year, in excess of fourteen 
hundred, of which sixty shall be for new operators, which number shall 
include the number of voyages under contracts hereafter awarded." 
M A R I T I M E TRAINING 
For an additional amount for "Maritime training", $43,500, and the 
limitation under this head in the Independent OflSces Appropriation 
65 Stat. 285. 
Act, 1952, ou the amount available for personal services, is increased 
from "$2,236,500" to "$2,263,500". 
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY—CIVIL FUNCTIONS 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS 
Rivers and Harbors and Flood Control 
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Flood control, general (emergency fund) 
For an additional amount for "Flood control, general (emergency 
fund)", $5,750,000, to be derived by transfer from "Flood control, 
general" and to remain available until expended. 
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FOREIGN 
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DEPARTMENT 
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DEFENSE 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY—Civile FUNCTIONS 
GOVERNMENT AND RELIEF I N OCCUPIED AREAS 
After the termination of the occupation government in Japan, there 
may be transferred, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, 
to appropriations of the Department of State for the purposes thereof 
in the areas for which the funds were appropriated during fiscal year 
1952, such unobligated balances of the appropriations granted under 
this head for the fiscal year 1952, and such property related thereto, 
as may be determined to be necessary, and any limitations in said 
appropriations to the Department of State are hereby waived to the 
extent necessary to accomplish the purposes of such transfers. 
CHAPTER X 
EMERGENCY AGENCIES 
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATION 
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $200,000, to 
be derived by transfer from the appropriation for "Salaries and 
expenses", Office of Defense Mobilization. 
SMALL DEFENSE PLANTS ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the Small 
Defense Plants Administration, including expenses of attendance at 
meetings concerned with the purposes of this appropriation, and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles, $825,000. 
CHAPTER X I 
INCREASED PAY COSTS 
For additional amounts for appropriations for the fiscal year 1952, 
for increased pay costs authorized by Public Laws 201 and 204, 
approved October 24,1951, and Public Law 207, approved October 25, 
1951, and comparable pay increases granted by administrative action ^^e^sstat. 612,622, 
pursuant to law, as follows: 
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
Senate: 
"Salaries, officers and employees", $782,896; 
Contingent expenses of the Senate: 
"Senate policy committees", $9,910; 
"Joint Committee on the Economic Report", $7,690; 
"Joint Committee on Atomic Energy", $12,925; 
"Joint Committee on Printing", $2,792; 
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"Vice President's automobile", $355; 
"Automobile for the President pro tempore'', $355; 
"Automobile for majority and minority leaders", $710: 
"Reporting Senate proceedings", $10,253; 
"Furniture", cleaning and so forth, $290; 
"Inquiries and investigations", $92,120; 
"Folding documents", $2,890; 
"Miscellaneous items", $15,060; 
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House of Representatives: 
"Salaries, officers and employees", $150,000; 
"Clerk hire, Members and Delegates", $500,000; 
Contingent expenses of the House: 
"Furniture", $8,850; 
"Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation", $7,475; 
"Office of the Coordinator of Information", $5,630; 
"Folding documents", $5,250; 
"Revision of laws", $800; 
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"Speaker's automobile", $485; 
"Office of Legislative Counsel", $16,065, of which $7,600 shall be 
disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $8,465 by the Clerk of 
the House of Representatives; 
Capitol police: "Capitol Police Board", $1,795; 
"Education of Senate and House pages", $2,940; 
Architect of the Capitol: 
Office of the Architect of the Capitol: "Salaries", $8,100; 
Capitol Buildings and Grounds : 
"Capitol Buildings", $39,000; 
"Capitol Grounds", $18,100; 
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"Legislative garage", $2,400; 
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"Senate Office Building", $55,400; 
"House Office Buildings", $78,000; 
"Capitol Power Plant", $35,400; 
Library buildings and grounds: "Structural and mechanical 
care", $16,700; 
Botanic Garden: "Salaries and expenses", $14,700, 
Library of Congress: 
"Salaries, Library proper", $293,634; 
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Legislative reference service: "Salaries and expenses", $66,300; 
Distribution of catalog cards: "Salaries and expenses, $55,359; 
Union catalogs: "Salaries and expenses", $1,230; 
Library buildings: "Salaries and expenses", $74,860; 
Government Printing Office, Office of Superintendent of Documents: 
"Salaries and expenses", $117,120; 
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T H E J U D I C I A R Y 
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Supreme Court of the United States: 
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"Salaries", $52,000; 
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"Care of the building and grounds", $11,800; 
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals: "Salaries and expenses", 
$7,000; 
Customs Court: "Salaries and expenses", $23,835; 
. 
,,, 
Court of Claims: "Salaries and expenses", $7,000; 
Other courts and services: 
"Salaries of clerks of courts", $398,000; 
"Probation system", $197,000; 
"Salariesof criers", $51,000; 
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'^Miscellaneous salaries"', ^239,900: 
"Salaries of court reporters*', $94,400; 
"Administrative Office of the United States Courts", $40,300; 
"Expenses of referees"', $15,000; 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
"Executive Mansion and grounds", $20,000; 
Bureau of the Budget: "Salaries and expenses", $246,000; 
Council of Economic Advisers: "Salaries and expenses", $17,800; 
National Security Resources Board: "Salaries and expenses", 
$30,000; 
INDEPENDENT OFFICES 
Civil Service Commission: "Salaries and expenses", $1,000,000; 
Economic Stabilization Agency: "Salaries and expenses", $5,000,000; 
"Export-Import Bank of Washington" (increase of $70,000 in the 
limitation upon the amount which may be used for administrative 
expenses); 
Federal Civil Defense Administration: "Operations", $365,000; 
Federal Communications Commission: "Salaries and expenses", 
$488,900; 
Federal 
Mediation 
and 
Conciliation 
Service: "Salaries 
and 
expenses", $203,775; 
Federal Power Commission: "Flood-control surveys", $14,000; 
Federal Trade Commission: "Salaries and expenses", $274,000; 
General Accounting Office: "Salaries", $1,500,000; 
Indian Claims Commission: "Salaries and expenses", $3,900; 
Interstate Commerce Commission: 
"General expenses", $719,000; 
. , 
"Railroad safety", $60,000; 
"Locomotive inspection", $45,000; 
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: "Salaries and 
expenses", $1,400,000; 
National Labor Relations Board: "Salaries and expenses", $432,250; 
National Mediation Board: "Salaries and expenses", $20,900; and 
the amount made available under the head "Salaries and expenses, 
National Railroad Adjustment Board", in the National Mediation 
Board Appropriation Act, 1952, for compensation and expenses of 
^^ ^*^*' 222. 
referees is decreased from "$250,000" to "$231,000"; 
Securities and Exchange Commission: "Salaries and expenses", 
$435,000; 
Smithsonian Institution: 
"Salaries and expenses, Smithsonian Institution", $162,000; 
"Salaries and expenses, National Gallery of Art", $90,000; 
Tariff Commission: "Salaries and expenses", $87,000; 
The Tax Court of the United States: "Salaries and expenses", 
$42,000; 
Veterans' Administration: "Administration, medical, hospital, and 
domiciliary services", $32,254,000; 
FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY 
« • 
Columbia Institution for the Deaf: "Salaries and expenses", $26,600, 
to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Promotion and 
further development of vocational education", Office of Education; 
Food and Drug Administration: "Salaries and expenses", $343,300; 
Freedmen's Hospital: "Salaries and expenses", $193,800; 
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Howard University: "Salaries and expenses", $260,300, of which 
$216,100 shall be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Pro-
motion and further development of vocational education", Office of 
Education; 
Office of Education: "Salaries and expenses", $202,300, to be derived 
by transfer from the appropriation "Promotion and further develop-
ment of vocational education", Office of Education ; 
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation: "Salaries and expenses", 
$38,000; 
Public Health Service: 
"Venereal diseases", $146,300; 
"Tuberculosis", $61,750; 
"Assistance to States, general", $95,000; 
"Communicable diseases", $272,650; 
"Engineering, sanitation, and industrial hygiene", $104,500; 
"Disease and sanitation investigations and control. Territory 
of Alaska", $18,050; 
"Salaries and expenses, hospital construction services", $63,650; 
"Hospitals and medical care", $1,346,150; 
"Foreign quarantine service", $148,200; 
"National Institutes of Health, operating expenses", $256,500; 
"National Cancer Institute", $156,750; 
"Mental health activities", $42,750; 
"National Heart Institute", $82,650; 
"Dental health activities", $19,000; 
"Salaries and expenses", $167,200; 
Saint Elizabeths Hospital: "Salaries and expenses", $199,025; 
Social Security Administration: 
"Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Federal Credit Unions", 
$54,150; 
"Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Public Assistance", $96,900; 
"Salaries and expenses. Children's Bureau", $90,250; 
"Salaries and expenses, Office of the Commissioner", $14,250, 
together with not to exceed $7,325 to be transferred from the Fed-
eral old-age and survivors insurance trust fund; 
Office of the Administrator: 
"Salaries, Office of the Administrator", $156,275, together with 
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not to exceed $30,400 to be transferred from the Federal old-age 
and survivors insurance trust fund; 
"Salaries and expenses, Division of Service Operations", $28,975, 
together with not to exceed $3,700 to be transferred from the 
Federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund; 
"Salaries, Office of the General Counsel", $28,500, together with 
not to exceed $1,900 to be transferred from the appropriation 
"Salaries and expenses, certification and inspection services", and 
not to exceed $29,250 to be transferred from the Federal old-age 
and survivors insurance trust fund; 
Provided, That the Administrator may transfer from any appropria-
tion available for salaries and expenses of the Federal Security Agency 
or any constituent part thereof to any of the foregoing appropriation 
accounts of the Federal Security Agency such additional amounts as 
65 Stat. 612. 
j^ay be necessary to meet increased pay costs under Public Law 201, 
approved October 24, 1951; 
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
"Operating expenses", $5,759,000; 
HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY 
OflEice of the Administrator: 
"Salaries and expenses", $207,000; 
"Advance planning of non-Federal public works", $63,500; 
"Salaries and expenses, defense housing and community facili-
ties and services", $44,700; 
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"Salaries and expenses, defense production activities", $40,000; 
"Federal National Mortgage Association" (increase of $244,000 
in the limitation upon the amount which may be used for adminis-
trative expenses) ; 
Loans for prefabricated housing (increase of $18,000 in the 
limitation upon the amount which may be used for administrative 
expenses in connection wnth loans for prefabricated housing) ; 
"Home Loan Bank Board" (increase of $31,000 in the limitation 
upon the amount which may be used for administrative expenses, and 
increase of $95,000 in the limitation upon the amount which may be 
used for nonadministrative expenses for the examination of Federal 
and State chartered institutions) ; 
"Federal Housing Administration" (increase of $J^34,000 in the 
limitation upon the amount which may be used for administrative 
expenses, and increase of $1,175,000 in the limitation upon the amount 
^^•hich may be used for nonadministrative expenses) ; 
"Public Housing Administration" (increase of $833,000 in the limi- 
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tation upon the amount which may be used for administrative expenses, 
and increase of $1,031,000 in the limitation upon the amount which may 
be used for nonadministrative expenses) ; 
"Administrative expenses", $601,000; 
DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE 
"Research and Marketing Act of 1946", $222,000; 
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics: 
427j, 1621-1629. 
"Economic investigations", $170,500; 
"Crop and livestock estimates", $234,500; 
Agricultural Research Administration: 
"Office of Administrator", $41,000; 
"Research on agricultural problems of Alaska", $20,000; 
"Research on strategic and critical agricultural materials", 
$32,000; 
Office of Experiment Stations: "Salaries and expenses", $23,000; 
"Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics", $86,000; 
Bureau of Animal Industry: Salaries and expenses: 
"Animal research", $215,000; 
"Animal disease control and eradication", $395,800; 
"Marketing agreements, hog cholera virus and serum", 
$4,200; 
"Meat inspection", $1,040,000; 
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"Bureau of Dairy Industry", $98,000; 
"Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry", $450,000; 
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering: 
"Plant, soil, and agricultural engineering research", 
$745,920; 
"National Arboretum", $12,080; 
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Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine: 
Salaries and expenses: 
"Insect investigations", $265,500; 
"Insect and plant-disease control", $297,900; 
"Plant quarantines", $192,600; 
"Control of emergency outbreaks of insects and plant dis-
eases" (not to exceed $42,000 of the amount of this appro-
; 
priation which may be apportioned for use only to meet emer-
;
, . '; 
gency conditions, pursuant to the provision under this head 
65 Stat. 231. 
j ^ the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1952, 
may be used to meet increased pay costs under the Act of 
" ^*^*- «*2. 
October 24,1951 (Public Law 201)) ; 
Forest Service: 
Salaries and expenses: 
"National forest protection and management", $1,492,000; 
"Forest research", $308,000; 
"State and private forestry cooperation", $48,000; 
Production and Marketing Administration: "Marketing serv-
ices", $740,000; 
"Commodity Exchange Authority", $12,000; 
Rural Electrification Administration: "Salaries and expenses", 
$540,000; 
Farmers' 
Home 
Administration: 
"Salaries 
and 
expenses", 
$1,745,000; 
"Commodity Credit Corporation" (not to exceed $1,080,000 of the 
amount placed in reserve pursuant to the last proviso under this head 
65 Stat. 244. 
in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1952, may be 
used to meet increased pay costs under the Act of October 24, 1951 
65 Stat. 612. 
(Public Law 201)) ; 
"Farm Credit Administration", $31,000; 
"Federal intermediate credit banks" (increase of $53,756 in the 
limitation upon the amount which may be used for administrative 
expenses); 
"Production credit corporations" (increase of $49,015 in the 
limitation upon the amount which may be used for administrative 
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expenses); 
Extension Service: "Salaries and expenses", $58,000; 
"Office of the Secretary", $160,000; 
"Office of the Solicitor", $172,000; 
"Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations", $40,000; 
"Office of Information'', $48,000; 
"Library", $46,000; 
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
. 
Office of the Secretary: 
"Salaries and expenses", $100,000; 
"Technical and scientific services", $10,000; 
v: 
"Salaries 
and 
expenses, 
defense 
production 
activities", 
$2,500,000; 
Bureau of the Census: 
, s : , <. 
"Salaries and expenses", $450,000; 
"Seventeenth decennial census", $660,000; 
Civil Aeronautics Administration: 
i 
"Salaries and expenses", $6,000,000; 
"Technical development and evaluation", $70,000; 
"Maintenance and operation, Washington National Airport", 
$80,000; 
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"Federal-aid airport program, Federal Airport Act" ($150,000 
49 5sc'u\ii'note. 
of the amount made available for projects in the States to be 
available for necessary planning, research, and administrative 
expenses) ; 
Civil Aeronautics Board: "Salaries and expenses", $250,000; 
Coast and Geodetic Survey : "Salaries and expenses", $46.9,000; 
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: 
"Departmental salaries and expenses", $209,000; 
"Field office service", $92,00(5; 
"Export control", $124,000; 
Maritime activities: "Salaries and expenses", $719,300; and increase 
the limitations thereunder as follows: 
Administrative expenses, $642,300; 
Maintenance of shipyard facilities, $41,000; 
Reserve fleet expenses, $36,000; 
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Patent Office: "Salaries and expenses", $750,000; 
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National Bureau of Standards: 
"Operation and administration", $40,000; 
"Research and testing", $250,000; 
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"Radio propagation and standards", $70,000; 
Weather Bureau: "Salaries and expenses", $1,470,000; 
"Inland Waterways Corporation" (increase of $10,000 in the limita-
tion upon the amount which may be used for administrative expenses) ; 
DEPARTMENT OF D E F E N S E 
Department of the Army—Civil functions: 
Quartermaster Corps: "Cemeterial expenses", $47,500; 
"United States Soldiers' Home" ($135,000, to be paid from the 
Soldiers' Home permanent fund) ; 
"Canal Zone Government", $550,000; 
"Postal service", $50,000; 
"Panama Canal Company" (increase of $15,000 in the limita-
tion upon the amount which may be used for administrative 
expenses); 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
. 
... 
Office of the Secretary: 
"Enforcement of the Connally Hot Oil Act", $11,000; 
tluscVis-'yisk. 
"Operation and maintenance. Southeastern Power Adminis-
tration", $16,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation 
"Construction, Southeastern Power Administration"; 
"Salaries and expenses, defense production activities", $250,000; 
Commission of Fine Arts: "Salaries and expenses'', $1,200; 
Bonneville Power Administration: "Construction", $590,000; 
Bureau of Land Management: "Management of lands and resources", 
$335,000; 
Bureau of Indian Affairs: 
"Health, education, and welfare services", $2,175,000; 
"Resources management", $388,000; 
"General administrative expenses", $224,900; 
"Payment to Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, Okla-
homa", $1,500; 
"Tribal funds" (from tribal funds), $79,000; 
Bureau 
of 
Reclamation: 
"General 
administrative 
expenses'", 
$300,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Construc-
tion and rehabilitation"; 
Geological 
Survey: 
"Surveys, 
investigations, 
and 
research", 
$649,000; 
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Bureau of Mines: 
"Conservation and development of mineral resources'', $650,000; 
"Health and safety'', $285,000; 
''General administrative expenses", $84,000; 
National Park Service: 
"Management and protection", $440,000; 
"Maintenance and rehabilitation of physical facilities'*, $79,000; 
"General administrative expenses", $83,000; 
Fish and Wildlife Service: 
"Management of resources", $275,000; 
"Investigations of resources", $170,000; 
"General administrative expenses", $55,000; 
Office of Territories: "Operation and maintenance of roads, Alaska", 
$40,000; _ 
Administration, 
Department of the Interior: 
"Salaries and 
expenses"', $140,000; 
DEPARTMENT OP JUSTICE 
Legal activities and general administration: 
"Salaries and expenses, general administration", $160,000; 
"Salaries and expenses, general legal activities", $400,000; 
"Salaries and expenses. Antitrust Division", $245,000; 
"Salaries and expenses, United States attorneys and marshals", 
$800,000; 
Federal Prison System: "Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prisons", 
$1,130,000; 
Office of Alien Property (trust fund) : "Salaries and expenses" 
(increase of $240,000 in the limitation upon the amount which may be 
used for administrative expenses); 
"Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated" (increase of $21,000 in 
the limitation upon the amount which may be used for administrative 
expenses, and increase of $29,000 in the limitation upon the amount 
which may be used for expenses of vocational training of prisoners); 
DEPARTMENT or LABOR 
Office of the Secretary: 
"Salaries and expenses", $76,000; 
"Salaries and expenses, Office of the Solicitor", $109,200; 
"Salaries and expenses. Bureau of Labor Standards", $43,700; 
"Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Veterans' Reemployment 
Rights", $18,000; 
"Salaries and expenses, defense production activities", $120,000; 
Bureau of Apprenticeship: "Salaries and expenses", $166,300; 
Bureau of Employees' Compensation: "Salaries and expenses", 
$138,700; 
Bureau of Labor Statistics: 
"Salaries and expenses", $323,000; 
"Revision of consumers'price index", $83,600; 
Women's Bureau: "Salaries and expenses", $16,200; 
Wage and Hour Division: "Salaries and expenses", $521,500; 
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT 
(Out of the postal revenues) 
"General administration", $1,675,000; 
"Postal operations", $241,479,000; 
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
S. 
"Salaries and expenses", $4,200,000; 
"International information and educational activities", $1,750,000; 
"Government in occupied areas", $700,000; 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
Office of the Secretary: "Salaries and expenses", $175,000, to be 
derived by transfer from the appropriation "Operating expenses, 
Coast Guard"; 
Bureau of Accounts: 
"Salaries and expenses", $65,000, to be derived by transfer from 
the appropriation "Operating expenses. Coast Guard"; 
"Salaries and Expenses, Division of Disbursement", $750,000, 
to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Operating 
expenses. Coast Guard"; 
Bureau of the Public Debt: "Administering the public debt", $617,-
000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Operating 
expenses, Coast Guard"; 
Bureau of Customs: "Salaries and expenses", $3,000,000; 
Bureau of Narcotics: "Salaries and expenses", $130,000, to be derived 
by transfer from the appropriation "Operating expenses, Coast 
Guard"; 
Secret Service Division: 
"Salaries and expenses", $172,000, to be derived by transfer 
from the appropriation "Operating expenses. Coast Guard"; 
"Salaries and expenses, White House police", $10,000, to be 
derived by transfer from the appropriation "Operating expenses, 
Coast Guard"; 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
(Out of revenues of the District of Columbia) 
General Administration: 
"Executive office", $19,400; 
"Office of the corporation counsel", $18,000; 
"Purchasing Division", $8,500; 
"Board of Tax Appeals", $1,200; 
Fiscal Service: "Salaries and expenses. Fiscal Service", $106,700; 
Compensation and retirement fund expenses: 
"Workmen's compensation, administrative expenses", $14,000; 
"District government retirement and relief funds", $70,000; 
Regulatory agencies: 
"Alcoholic Beverage Control Board", $4,800; 
"Board of Parole", $2,400; 
"Coroner's office", $4,300; 
"Department of Insurance", $700; 
"Department of Weights, Measures, and Markets", $11,400; 
"License Bureau", $6,700; 
"Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board", $6,500; 
. 
. 
"Office of Recorder of Deeds", $10,000; 
"Poundmaster's office", $3,100; 
"Office of Administrator of Rent Control", $1,200; 
"Zoning Commission", $2,100; 
Public schools: 
"General administration", $1,557,000; 
"Vocational education, George-Barden program", $19,000; 
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"Operation and maintenance of buildings, grounds and equip-
ment", $221,000; 
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Public Library: "Operating expenses", $68,000; 
Recreation Department: "Operating expenses", $133,000; 
"Metropolitan Police", $944,000, of which $132,650 shall be payable 
from the highway fund; 
Fire Department", $440,000; 
Courts: "District of Columbia courts", $42,100, of which $1,700 shall 
be available for payment to the United States Public Health Service; 
Health Department: 
"General administration", $56,000; 
"Operating expenses, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium", 
$94,000; 
"Operating expenses, Gallinger Municipal Hospital and the 
Tuberculosis Hospital", $341,000; 
Department of Corrections: "Operating expenses", $150,500; 
Public welfare: 
"General administration", $4,400; 
"Agency services", $12,600; 
. , ! 
"Operating expenses, protective institutions", $97,000; 
"Saint Elizabeths Hospital", $575,000; 
Public works: 
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, 
"Office of chief clerk", $5,700; 
"Office of Municipal Architect", $8,800; 
"Operating expenses. Office of Superintendent of District Build-
ings", $79,000; 
. , 
"Department of Inspections", $36,000; 
"Operating expenses, Electrical Division", $14,000; 
"Central garage", $5,900; 
"Operating expenses. Street and Bridge Divisions" (payable 
from highway fund), $60,000; 
"Capital outlay. Street and Bridge Divisions" (payable from 
highway fund), $13,000; 
"Department of Vehicles and Traffic" (payable from highway 
fund), $32,000; 
"Division of Trees and Parking" (payable from highway fund), 
$21,300; 
"Operating expenses. Division of Sanitation", $331,000; 
"Operating expenses. Sewer Division", $85,000; 
"Operating expenses, Water Division" (payable from water 
fund), $105,000; 
Washington Aqueduct: "Operating expenses" (payable from water 
fund), $20,000; 
"National Guard", $3,500; 
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"National Capital Parks", $146,000; 
. 
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"National Zoological Park", $29,800; 
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DIVISION o r EXPENSES 
The sums appropriated in this Act for the District of Columbia shall, 
unless otherwise specifically provided, be paid out of the general 
fund of the District of Columbia, as defined in the District of Columbia 
Appropriation Act of 1952. 
65 Stat. 155. 
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GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Appropriations or other funds made available by this or any other 
Act for personal services during the fiscal year 1952 shall be available 
for pay increases, comparable to those provided by Public Law 201, 
65 Stat. 612. 
approved October 24, 1951, granted by administrative action pursuant 
to law: Provided^ That such pay increases may be made retroactively 
effective on the same basis as if they had been authorized by said law: 
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Provided further^ That this section shall not affect the availability of 
funds for compensation of personnel employed, by contract, pursuant 
to section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 IT. S. C. 55a), or other 
similar authority, or of employees whose rates of pay are fixed in 
accordance with prevailing local wage rates upon recommendation of 
wage boards or other similar authority: Provided further, That (1) 
the position of Administrative Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 
established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 26 of 1950, the position 
of Administrative Assistant Attorney General established by Reor-
ganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1950, the position of Administrative 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior established by Reorganization Plan 
Numbered 3 of 1950, the position of Administrative Assistant Secre-
tary of Commerce established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 
of 1950, and the position of Administrative Assistant Secretary of 
Labor established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 6 of 1950, shall 
be filled without reference to section 1310 of Public Law 253 of the 
Eighty-second Congress, as amended, shall be subject to the Classifica-
tion Act of 1949, as amended, shall be placed in the highest grade set 
forth in the general schedule of such Act without regard to section 
505 (b) of such Act, as amended, and shall be in addition to the 
number of positions authorized to be placed in such grade under such 
section, and (2) in the case of any other position for which compensa-
tion is expressly established by law at a rate equal to the rate payable 
prior to the enactment of Public Law 201, Eighty-second Congress, 
under the highest grade of the Classification Act of 1949, the rate of 
compensation shall hereafter be equal to the rate payable for such 
grade under said Public Law 201. 
Except where specifically increased or decreased elsewhere in this 
Act, the restrictions contained within appropriations, or provisions 
affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the fiscal 
year 1952, limiting the amounts which may be expended for personal 
services, or for specified types of personal services, or for other pur-
poses involving personal services, or amounts which may be trans-
ferred between appropriations or authorizations available for or 
involving such services, are hereby increased to the extent necessary 
to meet increased pay costs authorized by Public Laws 201 and 204, 
approved October 24, 1951, and Public Law 207, approved October 25, 
1951, and comparable pay increases granted by administrative action 
pursuant to law. 
CHAPTER X I I 
60 Stat. 810. 
64 Stat. 1280. 
5 u s e 
133Z-15 
note. 
6 4 Stat. 12 6 1-
1263. 
5 u s e 
133Z-15 
note. 
65 Stat. 757. 
5 u s e 43 note. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
65 Stat. 612. 
65Stat. 612, 622, 
636. 
CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES, AUDITED CLAIMS, AND JUEXiMENTS 
For payment of claims for damages as settled and determined by 
departments and agencies in accord with law, audited claims certified 
to be due by the General Accounting Office, and judgments rendered 
against the United States by United States district courts and the 
United States Court of Claims, as set forth in House Document 
Numbered 471, Eighty-second Congress, and Senate Document Num-
bered 108, Eighty-second Congress, $6,490,662, together with such 
amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when sj^ecified in 
such judgments or in certain of the settlements of the (xeneral Ac-
counting Office or provided by law) and such additional sums due to 
increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in 
foreign currency: Provided, That no judgment herein appropriated 
for shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against 
the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: 
Provided further, That, unless otherwise specifically required by law 
c-r by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for 
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herein shall not continue for more than thirty days after the date of 
approval of this Act. 
CHAPTER X I I I 
Strikes or oven-
t h r o w of Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
65 Stat. 
5 u s e 43 note. 
757. 
Promotions. 
R e d u c t i ons in 
amounts. 
SEC. 130L No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included 
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 who is a member of an organization of Government employees 
that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United 
States, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advo-
cates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force 
or violence: Provided^ That for the purposes hereof an affidavit 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, is not a member of an 
organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike 
against the Government of the United States, or that such person 
does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advo-
cates, the overthrow of the Government 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 who is a mem-
ber of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right 
to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the over-
throw 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 or fund contamed 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 sub-
stitution for, any other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 1302. Section 1310 of Public Law 253 of the Eighty-second 
Congress is hereby amended as follows: 
At the end of subsection "a" before the period, insert: ": Provided 
further^ That any agency may promote any employee permanently to 
a position if such promotion will not increase the number of employees 
holding permanent positions in the grade of such position in such 
agency above the number in such grade in such agency prior to Sep-
tember 1,1950: Provided further, That permanent promotions may be 
made to any position in a category for which the Civil Service Com-
mission authorizes permanent appointments under the terms hereof". 
And in the last proviso of subsection "c", after "register," insert: 
"or is eligible for appointment, in accordance with a regular appoint-
ment system or procedure established prior to September 1,1950, to a 
higher grade position outside the competitive Civil Service,". 
And at the end of subsection "c", before the period, insert: "or 
being advanced to a grade level not exceeding that for which he had 
previously established eligibility as required by the terms hereof: 
Provided further, That, notwithstanding the provisions hereof, and in 
order to avoid undue hardship or inequity, the Civil Service Commis-
sion, when requested by the head of the agency involved, may authorize 
promotions in individual cases of meritorious nature". 
SEC. 1303. Amounts made available for pay increases in this Act, 
by appropriation, increase in administrative expense limitation, 
transfer and otherwise are hereby reduced in the sums hereinafter set 
forth, and such sums (except corporate funds, trust funds, and funds 
under the title "Control of emergency outbreaks of insects and plant 
diseases") shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the 
Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act, as follows: 
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
National Security Resources Board: "Salaries and expenses", 
$3,000; 
INDEPENDENT OFFICES 
Civil Service Commission: "Salaries and expenses", $40,000; 
Defense Production Administration: "Salaries and expenses", 
(transfer) ($130,000) ; 
Economic Stabilization Agency: "Salaries and expenses", $2,500,000; 
"Export-Import Bank of Washington" (administrative expenses) 
($7,000) ; 
Federal Communications Commission: "Salaries and expenses", 
$20,000; 
Federal Power Commission: "Flood-control surveys", $1,400; 
(xeneral Accounting Office: "Salaries", $500,000; 
Interstate Commerce Commission: 
"General expenses", $24,000; 
"Railroad, safety", $6,000; 
"Locomotive inspection", $4,500; 
National Capital Housing Authority: "Maintenance and operation 
of properties", $160; 
National Labor Relations Board: "Salaries and expenses", $22,000; 
National Mediation Board: "Salaries and expenses", $900; 
Railroad Retirement Board: "Salaries and expenses", (trust fund) 
($35,000) ; 
Selective Service System: "Salaries and expenses", $100,000; 
Smithsonian Institution: "Salaries and expenses, National Gallery 
of Art", $4,000; 
The Tax Court of the United States: "Salaries and expenses", 
$1,000; 
FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY 
Food and Drug Administration: "Salaries and expenses", $17,300; 
Howard University: "Salaries and expenses", $4,420; 
Howard University: "Salaries and expenses", (transfer) ($21,610); 
Office of Vocational Rehabilitation: "Salaries and expenses", $2,000; 
Social Security Administration: 
"Salaries and expenses. Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors 
Insurance", (trust fund) ($173,000); 
"Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Public Assistance", $3,900; 
"Salaries and expenses. Children's Bureau", $5,250; 
"Salaries and expenses, Office of the Commissioner", $250; 
"Salaries and expenses. Office of the Commissioner", (transfer) 
($325); 
Office of the Administrator: 
"Salaries, Office of the Administrator", $6,275; 
"Salaries, Office of the Administrator", (transfer) ($2,400) ; 
"Salaries and expenses. Division of Service Operations", $975; 
"Salaries and expenses. Division of Service Operations", (trans-
fer) ($700); 
HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY 
Office of the Administrator: 
"Salaries and expenses", $20,700; 
"Advance planning of non-Federal public works", $6,350; 
"Salaries and expenses, defense housing and community facili-
ties and services", $4,470; 
"Salaries and expenses, defense production activities", $4,000; 
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"Federal National Mortgage Association", (administrative ex-
pense limitation) ($24,400); 
"Loans for prefabricated housing", (administrative expense 
limitation) ($1,800); 
Home Loan Bank Board: 
' * 
"Administrative expense limitation", ($6,000) ; 
"Nonadministrative expense limitation", ($9,500); 
Federal Housing Administration: 
"Administrative expense limitation", ($33,400) ; 
"Nonadministrative expense limitation", ($117,500); 
Public Housing Administration: 
"Administrative expenses", $60,100; 
"Administrative expenses limitation", ($83,300); 
. 
"Nonadministrative expenses limitation", ($103,100); 
DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE 
7°us*c 427° 42'7h- 
"Research and Marketing Act of 1946", $10,000; 
427j, 1621-1629. 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics: 
"Economic investigations", $10,500; 
Agricultural Research Administration: 
"Research on Agricultural problems of Alaska", $2,000; 
"Research on strategic and critical agricultural materials", 
$3,200; 
Bureau of Animal Industry: Salaries and expenses: 
"Animal disease control and eradication", $15,800; 
"Marketing agreements, hog cholera virus and serum", $200; 
Bureau of Dair^ Industry: "Salaries and expenses", $3,000; 
"Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry", $25,000; 
, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering: 
"Plant, soil, and agricultural engineering research", $30,920; 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine: 
"Control of emergency outbreaks of insects and plant diseases", 
(language) ($4,200); 
Forest Service: 
"State and private forestry cooperation", $3,000; 
Production and Marketing Administration: "Marketing Services", 
$74,000; 
"Commodity Exchange Authority", $1,200; 
Rural Electrification Administration: "Salaries and expenses", 
$5,000; 
Farmers' Home Administration: "Salaries and expenses", $174,500; 
"Commodity Credit Corporation" (language) ($108,000) ; 
Farm Credit Administration: "Salaries and expenses", $3,100; 
"Office of the Secretary", $10,000; 
"Office of the Solicitor", $17,000; 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
Office of the Secretary: 
"Technical and scientific services", $1,000; 
"Salaries 
and 
expenses. 
Defense 
production 
activities", 
$400,000; 
Civil Aeronautics Administration: 
"Technical development and evaluation", $7,000; 
"Maintenance and operation, Washington National Airport", 
$8,000; 
Civil Aeronautics Board: "Salaries and expenses", $15,000; 
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: "Export Control", 
$12,400; 
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Maritime activities: "Maritime training", $2,000; 
Patent Office : "Salaries and expenses"', $25,000; 
"Inland Waterways Corporation", (administrative expenses limi-
tation) ($1,000) ; 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
'' 
, 
Department of the Army—Civil Functions: 
"Canal Zone Government", $55,000; 
"Postal service", $5,000; 
"Panama Canal Company", (administrative expenses limita-
' 
tion) ($1,500); 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
Office of the Secretary: "Salaries and expenses, defense j^roduction 
activities", $15,000; 
Bonneville Power Administration: 
"Operation and Maintenance", $16,000; 
"Construction", $59,000; 
, Bureau of Land Management: 
' 
"Management of lands and resources", $15,000; 
Bureau of Indian Affairs: "Health, education, and welfare services", 
$75,000; _ 
Geological Survey: "Surveys, investigations, and research", $64,900; 
Bureau of Mines: "Conservation and development of mineral re-
sources", $65,000; 
Fish and Wildlife Service: 
"Management of resources", $10,000; 
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"Investigations of resources", $5,000; 
Office of Territories: "Administration of Territories", $16,300; 
Administration, 
Department 
of the Interior: "Salaries 
and 
, . 
expenses", $4,000; 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
Legal Activities and General Administration: 
"Salaries and expenses, general legal activities", $40,000; 
. -
"Salaries and expenses, Antitrust Division", $24,500; 
Federal Prison System: "Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Prisons", 
$113,000; 
DEPARTMENT or LABOR 
Office of the Secretary: 
, , , . , . . 
"Salaries and expenses", $1,500; 
"Salaries and expenses. Office of the Solicitor", $2,200; 
"Salaries and expenses. Bureau of Labor Standards", $700; 
"Salaries and expenses. Bureau of Veterans' Reemployment 
Rights", $300; 
"Salaries and expenses, defense production activities", $3,000; 
Bureau of Apprenticeship: "Salaries and expenses", $3,500; 
Bureau of Employees' Compensation: "Salaries and expenses", 
$2,700; 
Bureau of Employment Security: "Salaries and expenses", $9,000; , 
Bureau of Labor Statistics: 
. 
"Salaries and expenses", $6,000; 
"Revision of consumers'price index", $1,600; 
Women's Bureau: "Salaries and expenses", $200; 
Wage and Hour Division: "Salaries and expenses", $11,500; 
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POST O F F I C E 
DEPARTMENT 
^ 
(Out of the postal revenues) 
"General Administration", $16,750; 
"Postal operations", $2,414,790; 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
"Salaries and expenses", $250,000; 
"International information and educational activities", $175,000; 
"Government in occupied areas", $70,000; 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
Bureau of the Public Debt: "Administering the public debt", 
(transfer) ($75,000); 
Bureau of Narcotics: "Salaries and expenses", (transfer) ($13,000) ; 
Secret Service Division: "Salaries and expenses. White House 
Police", (transfer) ($5,000). 
^«^bnc^ity or 
SEC. 1304. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not heretofore author-
ized by the Congress. 
Short title. 
This Act may be cited as the "Third Supplemental Appropriation 
Act, 1952". 
Approved June 5, 1952. 
Public Law 376 
CHAPTER 370 
June 5, 1952 
[S. 2736] 
R e c o r dation of 
instruments, D.C. 
Index. 
V o i d i n s t r u -
ments. 
AN ACT 
To amend the Code of Law of the District of Columbia in respect to the recording, 
in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, of bills of sale, mortgages, deeds of 
trust, and conditional sales of personal property, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) the first 
paragraph of section 546, subchapter 3 of chapter 16 of the Act entitled 
"An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia", 
approved March 3, 1901, as amended, revised, and reenacted by the 
Act approved March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1103, ch. 417; title 42, sec. 101, 
D. C. Code, 1940), is hereby renumbered as section 546-A; and (b) 
section 547 of such subchapter (title 42, sec. 103, D. C. Code, 1940) 
is hereby amended by striking therefrom the last two sentences and 
by renumbering such section as section 546-B. 
SEC. 2. The second paragraph of section 546 of such subchapter 
(title 42, sec. 102, D. C. Code, 1940) is hereby renumbered and amended 
to read as follows: 
"SEC. 546-C. It shall not be necessary for the Recorder of Deeds 
to spread upon the records of his office the instruments filed pursuant 
to section 546-A or section 546-B of this subchapter, but the same 
shall be indexed and, except as hereinafter provided, shall be kept 
on file and shall be open to inspection by the public, and shall have 
the same force and legal effect as if they were actually recorded in 
the books of said office." 
SEC. 3. Subchapter 3 of chapter 16 of such Act is further amended 
by adding thereto the following new sections: 
"SEC. 5 4 6 - D . Every instrument filed with the Recorder of Deeds 
pursuant to section 546-A or section 546-B of this subchapter, and 
instruments filed with said Recorder or presented for recording pur-