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, 1956, and for other purposes
PL 84-131 (H.R.6239), enacted 07/05/1955

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[69 STAT. 
Public Law 131 
CHAPTER 272 
July 5, 1955 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 6239] 
Making appropriations for the Government of the District of Columbia and 
other activities chargeable in vphole or in part against the revenues of said 
District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for other purposes. 
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
District of C o -
lumbia Appropria-
t e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Rep7'e8entatives of the 
United States of America 
in (fongress assenihled, That there are 
tion Act, "1956. 
appropriated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending 
June 30,1956, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia 
(unless otherwise herein specifically provided), hereinafter known as 
the general fund, such fund being composed of the revenues of the 
District of Columbia other than those applied by law to special 
funds, and $18,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose 
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be 
advanced July 1, 1955, and of which $6,250,000 shall be available for 
capital outlay only), (2) the highway fund (when designated as pay-
able therefrom), established by law (D. C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), 
(3) the w^ater fund (when designated as payable therefrom), estab-
lished by law (D. C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,302,000, which is 
hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1955), (4) the 
sanitary sewage works fund (when designated as payable therefrom), 
68Stat. 101. 
established by law (Public Law 364, 83d Congress), and $590,700, 
which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 
1955), and (5) the motor vehicle parking fund (when designated as 
payable therefrom), established by law (D. C. Code, title 40, ch. 8), 
sums as follows: 
OPERATING E X P E N S E S 
For expenses necessary for the offices and agencies named under this 
general head: 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE 
Executive office, plus so much as may 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 
in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; compensation and 
expenses of members of the Apprenticeship Council and the Rede-
velopment Land Agency; aid in support of the National Conference 
of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; general advertising in 
newspapers (including the District of Columbia Register) 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 public 
hearings, publication of orders and regulations, tax and school notices, 
and notices of changes in regulations; expenses of Youth Council and 
Board of Appeals and Review; ceremony expenses; carrying out a 
comprehensive program for urban renewal and slum clearance, by 
contract or otherwise, 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 investi-
gations ; $308,000: Provided, That the certificate of the Commissioners 
shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of $1,500 of this appro-
priation for such purposes, exclusive of ceremony expenses, as they 
may deem necessary. 
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DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
Department of General Administration, including the rental of 
postage meters and affiliation with the National Safety Council, 
Incorporated, $3,081,850, of which $60,000 shall be payable from the 
highway fund, $15,000 from the water fund, $2,950 from the sanitary 
sewage works 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 assessments, together with penal-
ties 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 Commis-
sioners for each lot or piece of property advertised: Provided 
further, 
That this appropriation shall be available for refunding, wholly or 
in part, school tuition, lost library books, building permits, cigarette 
and alcoholic beverage tax stamps, occupational and professional fees 
which have not been earned, and other payments Avhich have been 
erroneously made during the present and past three years. 
OrncE or CORPORATION COUNSEL 
, 
Office of the Corporation Counsel, including extra compensation 
for the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Public Utilities 
Commission; $10,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $250 
each 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 
ac.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; $442,900, of which $20,000 shall be payable 
from the highway fund. 
COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND EXPENSES 
Compensation and retirement fund expenses, including District 
government employees' compensation; administrative expenses, work-
men's compensation, to be transferred to the Bureau of Employees' 
('!ompensation for administration of the law providing compensation 
for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain 
employments in the District of Columbia; unemployment compensa-
tion for District government employees; financing the liability of the 
government of the District of Columbia to the "Civil service retire-
ment and disability fund" and the "Teachers' retirement and annuity 
fund"; and relief and other allowances as authorized by law for 
policemen and firemen; $10,036,000, of which $2,640,000, including 
$211,400 payable from the highway fund, $108,300 from the water 
fund, and $4,500 from the motor vehicle parking fund, shall be placed 
to the credit of the "Civil service retirement and disability fund": 
Provided, That $260,000 for District government employees' com-
pensation shall remain available until expended. 
REGULATORY AGENCIES 
Regulatory agencies, including juror fees, repairs to the morgue, 
and uniforms and caps for guards and morgue employees, $967,000. 
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D E P A R T M E X T O F OcCUrATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 
Department of Occupations and Professions, including compensa-
tion at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of three members of the 
Board of Accountancy, five members of the Board of Examiners and 
Registrars of Architects, two members of the Board of Barber Exam-
iners, three members of the Board of Cosmetology, five members of the 
Board of Dental Examiners, five members of the Board of Examiners 
in the Basic Sciences, five members of the Board of Examiners in 
Medicine and Osteopathy, five members of the Board of Registration 
of Professional Engineers, five members of the Nurses' Examining 
Board, five members of the Board of Optometry, five members of the 
Board of Pharmacy, three members of the Board of Podiatry Exam-
iners, two members of the Real Estate Commission, five members of 
the Board of Examiners of Veterinary Medicine, two members of the 
District Boxing Commission, four members of the Electrical Exam-
ining Board, two members of the Plumbing Board, two members of 
the Board of Examiners of Steam and Other Operating Engineers, 
one member of the Motion Picture Operators' Examining Board, and 
five members of the Undertakers' Examining Committee, $248,500. 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
Public schools, 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 Americaniza-
tion schools; not to exceed $65,000 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 (58 Stat. 811) ; distribution 
of surplus commodities and relief milk to public and charitable insti-
tutions, 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, including the purchase and distribution of 
milk under agreement with the United States Department of Agri-
culture; $306,950 for development of vocational education in the 
20 free is^^note. District of Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936, as 
amended; operation, repair, maintenance and improvement of public 
school buildings, grounds and equipment; purchase of equipment 
including not to exceed $25,000 for the purchase and repair of musical 
instruments and related equipment and supplies; and purchase, opera-
tion, repair, maintenance and insurance of passenger-carrying motor 
vehicles, including District-owned or borrowed passenger motor 
vehicles; $28,130,000, of which $3,000 shall be available for the services 
of experts and consultants as authorized by section 15 of the Act of 
60 Stat. 810. 
August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates not exceeding $50 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. 
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Section 6 of the Lejrislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 
^g g^^t ^fio"^'' 
Act, approved May 10, 1916, a
v
S amended, shall not apply from July 1 
s use ss, sb. 
to August 27,1955, 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. 
PUBLIC LIBRARY 
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, 
D*C* code 1-243 
1945, $1,639,800. 
RECREATION DEPARTMENT 
Recreation Department, for operation and maintenance of recrea-
tion facilities in and for the District of Columbia, $1,688,500. 
METROPOLITAN POLICE 
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 homicide squad, robbery 
squad, general assignment squad, special investigation 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 lieutenant while so assigned; the 
detective sergeant assigned as administrative 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 lieu-
tenant ; the lieutenant in charge of the Metropolitan Police Boys' Club 
with the rank and pay of captain; 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 uni-
forms and equipment, at rates of pay and hours of employment to be 
fixed by the Commissioners; comf>ensation of civilian trial board mem-
bers at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; allowances for privately 
owned automobiles used by deputy chiefs and inspectors in the per-
formance of official duties at $480 per annum for each automobile; 
meals for prisoners; rewards for fugitives; medals of award; photo-
graphs, rental, purchase, and maintenance of radio and teletype sys-
tems ; travel expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime; 
expenses of attendance, without loss of pay or time, at specalized 
police training classes and pistol matches, including tuition and 
entrance fees; expenses of the police training school, including travel 
expenses of visiting lecturers or experts in criminology; expenses of 
traffic school; police equipment and repairs to same; insignia of 
office, uniforms, and other official equipment, including cleaning, 
alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to 
another, or damaged in the performance of duty; purchase of pas-
senger motor vehicles; expenses of harbor patrol; and the maintenance 
of a suitable place for the reception and detention of girls and women 
over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of 
offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held 
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as witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, or 
otherwise; $12,808,000, of which amount $1,692,000 shall be payable 
from the highway fund and $40,300 from the motor vehicle parking 
fund, and $35,000 shall be exclusively available for expenditure by 
the Chief of Police for prevention and detection of crime, under his 
certificate, approved by the Commissioners and every such certificate 
shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to 
have been expended. 
FIRE DEPARTMENT 
Fire Department, including pay and allowances; 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 
damaged in the performance of duty; purchase and maintenance of 
radio equipment; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; repairs and 
improvements to buildings and grounds; $6,257,900: 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. 
VETERANS SERVICE CENTER 
Veterans services, $92,200. 
OrnCE OF CIVIL DEFENSE 
Office of Civil Defense, including personal services without refer-
ence to the civil service laws as related to recruitment, and purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles, $75,000: 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 etjuipment 
and supplies approved by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, 
when authorized by the Commissioners. 
DEPARTMENT OP VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION 
Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, including rent of suit-
able quarters, $140,000. 
COURTS 
Courts, including the Juvenile Court, the Municipal Court, the 
Municipal Court of Appeals, and the District of Cohimbia 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; meals for prisoners; and reimbursement 
to the United States for services rendered to the District of Columbia 
by the Judiciary, General Services Administration, and the Depart-
ment of Justice; $3,369,674, 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, and $250,000 shall be available 
for advances on reimbursement to the General Services Administra-
tion for one-half of the cost of operation, maintenance, and repair 
of the Federal Courts Building, as provided in the Act of May 14, 
1
0
5
*
. ^' ^°**' "• 1^48 (62 Stat. 235) : 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, 
72^- c. Code 11- ^0)21 (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. 
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH 
Department of Public Health, 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, con-
trol of heart disease, public health engineering, nursing, psychiatry, 
ambulances, laboratories, outpatient relief of the poor, medical and 
surgical supplies, artificial limbs and appliances, eyeglasses, fees to 
physicians under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health 
and approved by the Commissioners, contract investigational service, 
uniforms, rent, manufacture of serum in indigent cases, 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, subsistence in lieu of 
salary for the full-time employment of persons for the purpose of 
securing training and experience in their future vocations; not to 
exceed $1,000 for attendance without loss of pay or time at specialized 
medical or public health training courses or institutes, tuition and 
entrances fees, and travel expenses and fees for visiting lecturers or 
experts in public health and related fields; operation of hospitals, 
compensation of consulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed 
by the Commissioners, compensation of convalescent patients to be 
employed in essential work and as an aid to their rehabilitation at 
rates and under conditions to be determined by the Commissioners 
(but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as conferring 
employee status on patients wliose services are so utilized), not to 
exceed $1,000 for financial assistance for needy patients as determined 
by the Superintendent of Glenn Dale Hospital at rates established 
by the Commissioners, classroom supplies, uniforms for guards, train-
ing school for nurses, repairs and improvements to buildings and 
grounds, support of indigent insane, deportation of nonresident insane 
persons (including persons held in the psychopathic ward of the 
District of Columbia General Hospital), reimbursement to the United 
States for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's 
Hospital, and for care and treatment of indigent patients under con-
tracts to be made by the Director of Public Health of the District of 
Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with Central Dis-
pensary and Emergency Hospital, Children's Hospital, Eastern 
Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat 
Hospital, Garfield Memorial Hospital, George Washington University 
Hospital, Georgetown University Hospital, Providence Hospital, 
Washington Home for Incurables, and Children's Convalescent Home, 
$28,592,000: Provided^ That the inpatient rate under such contracts 
and for services rendered by Freedmen's Hospital shall not exceed 
$14 per diem and the outpatient rate shall not exceed $2.40 per visit: 
Provided further, That amounts to be determined by the Commis-
sioners 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 Department of Public Health: 
Provided further, That employees using privately owned automobiles 
for the deportation of nonresident insane may be reimbursed as author-
ized by the Act of June 9,1949 (63 Stat. 166), but not to exceed $900 
suscsssnote. 
for any one individual. 
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DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 
Department of (Corrections, including subsistence of interns; com-
pensation of consulting 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 employees in the performance of their official duties; 
rental of motion picture films; repairs and improvements to buildings 
and grounds; purchase of motorbuses; 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 vio-
lators; 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; $4,526,820. 
PunLic WELFARE 
Department of Public Welfare, including the general administra-
tion of public welfare in the District of Columbia, contract investiga-
tional services, certification of persons eligible for any public bene-
fits which are or may become available under rules and regulations 
prescribed by the Commissioners, or their designated agent, 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), 
aid to dependent children, assistance against old-age want, aid for 
needy blind persons, services for children in their own homes, main-
tenance pending transportation, and transportation of indigent per-
sons (including veterans and their families), burial of indigent resi-
dents of the District of Columbia, placing and visiting children, 
board and care of children committed to the guardianship of the 
Department of Public Welfare by the courts of the District and chil-
dren accepted by said Department of Public Welfare for care as 
authorized by law, temporary care of children pending investigation 
or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay 
for the care of children in institutions under sectarian control, con-
tinuous maintenance of foster homes for temporary or emergency 
board and care of nondelinquent children, care and maintenance of 
women and children under contracts to be made by the Commissioners 
or their duly authorized agent with the Florence Crittenton Home, 
Saint Ann's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital, the House of 
Mercy, and other institutions caring for unmarried mothers, burial of 
children dying while beneficiaries under this appropriation, opera-
tion of protective institutions, repairs and improvements to buildings 
and grounds, purchase of passenger, truck and bus motor vehicles, 
maintenance 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 Department of Public Welfare, 
or held as witnesses or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or other-
wise, and male Avitnesses eighteen years of age or over shall be held at 
the District of Columbia General Plospital, subsistence in lieu of 
salary for full-time employment of persons for the purpose of secur-
ing training and experience in their future vocations, supervision of 
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students performing voluntary services for the purpose of obtaining 
training and experience in their future vocations, compensation of 
consulting physicians and veterinarians at rates to be fixed by the 
Commissioners, 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 Commissioners or their designated 
agent with the Attorney General at a rate of not to exceed the actual 
cost for each boy committed, $9,600,000: Provided, That when specifi-
cally authorized by the Commissioners this appropriation may be 
used for visiting any ward of the Department of Public Welfare 
placed outside of the District of Columbia and the States of Virginia 
and Maryland, and the Department of Public Welfare shall have 
power to discharge from guardianship any child committed to its 
care: Provided further, That employees using privately owned auto-
mobiles for the transportation of indigent persons or the placing of 
children may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 1949 
(63 Stat. 166), but not to exceed $900 for any one individual. 
s use sssnote. 
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Department of Buildings and Grounds, including uniforms and caps 
for guards and elevator operators and maintenance of public con-
venience stations, and $5,000 exclusively for test borings and soil inves-
tigations, $1,687,000, of which $29,300 shall be payable from the high-
way fund. 
All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the Department 
of Buildings and Grounds 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 
reimbursements may be made to this fund from appropriations con-
tained in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District 
government, Avithout reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appro-
priations: 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). 
4o use 451-458. 
OFFICE OF SURVEYOR 
Office of the Surveyor, $153,920. 
DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND INSPECTIONS 
Department of Licenses and Inspections, including the enforcement 
of the Act requiring the erection of fire escapes on certain buildings 
and the removal of dangerous or unsafe or insanitary buildings; com-
pensation at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of members of the 
unsafe structure and excavation board; maintenance and repairs to 
markets; purchase of commodities and for personal services in con-
nection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and 
measure; $1,546,276. 
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DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS 
Department of Highways, including operation, minor construction, 
maintenance, and repair of Ijridges; repairs to streets, avenues, roads, 
sidewalks, and alleys; reconditioning existing gravel streets and roads; 
purchase, installation, modification, operation of electric traffic lights, 
signals, controls, markers, signs, and directional signs; operation and 
maintenance of the District's communication systems, including rental, 
purchase, installation, and maintenance of telephone, telegraph, and 
radio services; street lighting, including the installation and mainte-
nance 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 Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1&12 (36 
to°7-7d5?°'**^"'°* 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; purchase, propagation, maintenance and 
planting of trees and shrubs, and maintenance of landscaping of public 
space along streets; 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; $5,967,000, of which $3,855,000 shall be payable from 
the highway fund: Promded^ That the Commissioners are hereby 
authorized to purchase and install a municipal asphalt plant including 
alj auxiliary plant equipment to be paid for from this appropriation: 
Provided further^ That this appropriation shall not be available for 
a ^f*ciidf'47- refunds authorized by section 10 of the Act of April 23,1924. 
1910. 
DEPARTMENT OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC 
Department of Vehicles and Traffic (payable from highway fund), 
including purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic 
signals and controls; purchase of motor-vehicle identification number 
plates; $22,000 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; $1,107,000, of which $9,000 shall be payable 
from the general fund: 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 distinguish same, except that a perma-
nent type of platform may be constructed from appropriations con-
tained 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 em-
powered 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: Pro-
vided 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 busi-
ness: Provided further^ That the incumbent on July 1, 1944, of the 
authorized position of Registrar of Titles and Tags, Avhose duties shall 
58 stat^527. ^^^ |^g ^^ prescribed in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945, 
603a. ' 
shall hereafter be continued for compensation purposes in grade 9 
suiifioff^note. 
of the general schedule under the Classification Act of 1949, as 
amended. 
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MOTOR VEHICLE PARKING AGENCY 
Motor Vehicle Parking Agency (payable from motor-vehicle park-
ing fund), including installation and maintenance of parking meters 
and uniforms for fringe parking guards, $350,000. 
DEPARTMENT or SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Department of Sanitary Engineering, including operation and 
maintenance of the District of Columbia water distribution system, in-
stalling and repairing water meters on services to private residences 
and business places as may not be required to install meters under exist-
ing regulations (said meters to remain the property of the District of 
Columbia), replacement of old w^ater mains, service pipes, and divide 
valves, water waste and leakage survey, repair of reservoirs, purchase 
of passenger motor vehicles, purchase and replacement of uniforms 
for water meter inspectors, refunding of water rents and other water 
and sewer service charges erroneously paid in the District of Columbia 
(to be refunded in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding 
of erroneously paid taxes and to be available for such refunds of pay-
ments made within the present and past three fiscal years), cleaning 
and repairing sewers and basins, operation and maintenance of the 
sew^age pumping service and sewage-treatment plant, repairs to equip-
ment, machinery, and structures, control and prevention of the spread 
of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia, contribution of the District 
of Columbia to the expenses of the Interstate Commission on the 
Potomac River Basin, collection and disposal of refuse and street 
cleaning, repair and maintenance of plants, buildings, and grounds, 
and fencing of public and private property designated by the Com-
missioners as public dumps, $10,285,000, 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 Commis-
sioners, $2,715,000 shall be payable from the water fund, and $1,480,000 
shall be payable from the sanitary sewage works fund: Provided^ That 
this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscel-
laneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment 
houses of four or more apartments having a central 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. 
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT 
Washington Aqueduct (payable from the water fund), for the 
operation, maintenance, repair, and protection of Washington water 
supply facilities and their accessories, and maintenance of MacArthur 
Boulevard; including replacement and maintenance of water meters 
on Federal services; purchase of two passenger motor vehicles; and 
fluoridation of w^ater, $2,120,000: Provided, That transfer of appro-
priations for operating expenses and capital outlay may be made 
between the Department of Sanitary Engineering of the District of 
Columbia and the Washington Aqueduct upon mutual agreement of 
the Commissioners and the Secretary of the Army. 
Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence 
and control of the Secretary of the Army over the AVashington Aque-
duct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same, 
and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided 
by law\ 
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[69 STAT. 
NATIONAL GUARD 
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 tor en-
listed men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States 
property at home stations on days immediately preceding and imme-
diately following the annual encampments; 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, gym-
nastic, and recreational equipment at armory or field encampments; 
practice marches, drills, and parades; rents of armories, drill halls, 
and storehouses; advertising incident to recruiting; care and repair 
of armories, offices, storehouses, machinery, and dock, including dredg-
ing alongside of dock; alterations and additions to present structures; 
construction of buildings for storage and other purposes; $119,800. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS 
National Capital Parks, including maintenance, care, and improve-
ment of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagat-
ing 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 maintaining portions of the parks in condition for 
outdoor sports, erection of stands, furnishing and placing of chairs, 
and services incident thereto in connection with national, patriotic, 
civic, and recreational functions held in the parks, including the 
President's Cup Regatta, and expenses incident to the conducting of 
band concerts in the parks; such expenses to include pay and allow-
ances 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 Colum-
bia; 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 purchase 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 maintenance of 
draft animals, harness, and wagons; $2,389,000, 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 war-
rant 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 PARK 
National Zoological Park, including erecting and repairing build-
ings ; care and improvement of grounds; travel, including travel for 
the procurement of live specimens; purchase, care, and transportation 
of specimens; purchase of motorcycles and passenger motor vehicles; 
revolvers and ammunition; purchase of uniforms and equipment for 
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257 
police, and uniforms for keepers and assistant keepers; $669,300: 
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 repayment 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 appro-
priation not later than two full fiscal years after the close of the 
current fiscal year. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
DISTRICT DEBT SERVICE 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned, in com-
pliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
amended, the Act of May 14, 1948 (62 Stat. 235), and section 108 of lo^'t^nPi^i! ^^" 
the Act of May 18,1954 (68 Stat. 103), including interest as required 
thereby, $443,800, of which $144,800 shall be payable from the water 
fund. 
PUBLIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 
Capital outlay, public building construction: For acquisition of 
public school and branch library sites; preparation of plans and speci-
fications for the following buildings: Eliot Junior High School 
addition, School for Crippled Children in the vicinity of Mount Olivet 
Road and Holbrook Street Northeast, branch library buildings in 
Tenley and Washington Highlands, repair shop for Fire Department, 
replacement of dormitory for resident physicians and interns at the 
District of Columbia General Hospital, and a detention unit and two 
junior units at the Children's Center; erection of the following struc-
tures, including building improvement and alteration and the treat-
ment of grounds: elementary school in the vicinity of Sixth Street 
and Riggs Road Northeast, addition and alterations to McKinley 
Senior High School, Garfield Elementary School addition, Anacostia 
Senior High School addition, four eight-room and three four-room 
demountable school buildings, new operating suite at the District of 
(yolumbia General Hospital (including equipment), and nursery cot-
tage, laundry addition, and incinerator at the Children's Center; 
$421,300 for purchase of equipment for new school buildings; and 
permanent improvement of buildings and grounds (including purchase 
and installation of furnishings and equipment, elimination of fire 
hazards, and road construction) of schools, firehouses, hospitals, wel-
fare institutions, and other District of Columbia buildings; to remain 
available until expended, $7,544,400 of which $3,091,900 shall not be-
come available for expenditure until July 1,1956, and $439,050 shall be 
available for construction services by the Director of Buildings and 
(xrounds or by contract for architectural engineering services, as may 
be determined by the (Commissioners, and the funds for the use of the 
Director of Buildings and Grounds shall be advanced to the appro-
priation account, "Construction Services, Department of Buildings 
and Grounds". 
The appropriation for "Capital outlay, public building construc-
tion", contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1955, 
^^ ^*"*- ^®^' 
shall be available for constructing and equipping a maximum security 
cottage at Children's Center. 
CAPITAL OTTTLAY, MISCELLANEOUS 
Capital outlay, miscellaneous: For improvement of various recrea-
tion units, including preparation of architectural plans and erection 
54402 O - 55 - 17 
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37 Stat. 444. 
of recreation structures without regard to the Act of August 24,1912 
(40 U. S. C 68); improvements and alterations to heating plant at 
Reformatory; construction of dormitory at the Women's Reforma-
tory; 
beginning 
construction 
of 
Youth 
Correctional 
Center; 
preparation of plans and specifications for an industrial facility at 
the Reformatory and for a reception center at the Workhouse; to 
remain available until expended, $1,260,300, of which $360,000 shall 
not become available for expenditure until July 1, 1956, and $97,600 
shall be available for construction services by the Director of Buildings 
and Grounds or by contract for architectural engineering services, as 
may be determined by the Commissioners, and the funds for the use 
of the Director of Buildings and Grounds shall be advanced to the 
appropriation account, "Construction Services, Department of Build-
ings and Grounds": Provided^ That in the construction work hereby 
authorized and to be done by the Department of Corrections, bricK 
used shall be furnished without charge by the Working Capital Fund, 
Workhouse and Reformatory. 
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS 
Capital outlay. Department of Highways: For expenses necessary 
for the grading, surfacing, paving, repaving, widening, altering, pur-
chase 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 
proper traffic light control and channelization 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 proj-
23 tree Aih' 
6cts 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 Commis-
sioners ; for carrying out the provisions of existing laws which author-
ize the Commissioners to open, extend, straighten, or widen streets, 
avenues, roads, or highways, in accordance with the plan of the per-
manent system of highways for the District of Columbia, and alleys 
and minor streets, and for the establishment of building lines in the 
District of Columbia, 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, in-
cluding purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and 
of areas less than two hundred and fifty feet square at the inter-
section of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to 
be selected by the Commissioners; placing underground, relocat-
ing, 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; to remain available until expended, $13,535,000, of which 
$13,135,000 shall be payable from the highway fund; and, when 
requested by the Commissioners, $6,000,000, or so much thereof as 
may be necessary (which is hereby appropriated for that purpose 
from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated), shall 
be advanced by the Secretary of the Treasury to the highway fund 
of the District of Columbia for highway construction pursuant to 
the provisions of the Act of May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 101) : Provided, 
That in connection with the purchase and installation of a municipal 
asphalt plant on District-owned property the Commissioners are 
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259 
authorized to make expenditures from this appropriation for the 
preparation of the site, including the construction of seawalls, dock 
facilities, and a railroad siding: Provided further^ That in connec-
tion with the highway-planning survey, involving surveys, plans, 
engineering, and economic investigations of projects for future con-
struction in the District of Columbia, as provided for under section 
10 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, and in connection with 
§| ff|^' ^^^^' 
the construction of Federal-aid highway projects under section 1 (b) 
of said Act, and highway-structure projects financed wholly from 
23u#c*4^ib' 
the highway fund, this appropriation and the appropriation "Operat-
ing expenses, Def)artment of Highways'' 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. ooa), and for engineering and 
eo stat. sio. 
incidental expenses: Provided further^ That this appropriation and 
the appropriation "Operating expenses, Department of Highways" 
shall be available for the construction and repair of pavements of 
street railways, in accordance with the j^rovisions of the Merger Act 
(47 Stat. 752), and the proportion of the amount thus expended which 
D. C. Code 7-604 
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 providecl by section 5 of the 
Act of June 11,1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appro- 
20 sjat. loe. 
priation for the fiscal year in which it is collected: Pr6'y^We<//wr2!Ae^', 604'. 
That in connection with projects to be undertaken as Federal-aid 
projects under the provisions of the Federal Aid Plighway Act of 
December 20, 1944, as amended, the Commissioners are authorized to 
58 stat. 838. 
enter into contract or contracts for those projects in such amounts as 
^^ "^^ 60-63. 
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 wholly 
District construction projects or those authorized under section 8 of 
the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), and section 1 (b) of the 
23 use 24a. 
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, as amended, in accordance with 
52 stau^3^. 
the provisions of said Acts, and this appropriation may be used for 
payment to contractors and other expenses in connection with the 
expenses of surveys, design, construction, and inspection pending 
reimbursement to the District of Columbia by the Bureau of Public 
Roads, Department of Commerce, or other parties participating in 
such projects, reimbursement to be credited to the appropriation from 
which payment was made: Promded 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: Pro-
vided 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 specifiations for such work shall be so 
prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving mate-
rials as well as in price: Provided further^ That 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 re-
])airs are necessary during the four years following the said one-year 
l)eriod, due to inferior work or defective materials, such repairs shall 
be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by 
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[69 STAT. 
the contractor shall be liable for such expense: Provided 
further^ 
That the appropriations for "Capital outlay, Street and Bridge 
Divisions", contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Stat. ^*88'. ^^^' *' ^^^^ ^^^ t^® fiscal years 1953 and 1954, shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further^ That this appropriation and the appro-
priation "Operating expenses, Department of Highways" shall be 
available for advance payments to Federal agencies for work to be 
performed, when ordered by the Commissioners, subject to subsequent 
adjustment. 
DEPAKTMENT OF SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Capital outlay, Department of Sanitary Engineering: For con-
struction of sewers and extension of the District of Columbia water-
distribution system; assessment and permit work; purchase or con-
demnation of rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and repair 
of public sewers; continuing construction on aeration plant and sec-
ondary sedimentation tanks and restoration of superintendent's resi-
dence at the Sewage Treatment Plant; laying water mains in advance 
of paving and installing fire and public hydrants; constructing trunk 
water mains and low service reservoir in Brentwood Park; to remain 
available until expended, $9,662,000, of which $1,500,000 shall not 
become available for expenditure until July 1, 1956, and $2,300,000 
shall be payable from the water fund, and $3,000,000 shall be payable 
from the sanitary sewage works fund; and, when requested by the 
Commissioners, $700,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary 
(which is hereby appropriated for that purpose from any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated), shall be advanced by the 
Secretary of the Treasury to the sanitary sewage works fund of the 
District of Columbia for sanitary sewage works construction pursuant 
to the provisions of the Act of May 18,1954 (68 Stat. 101) : Provided^ 
That this appropriation and the appropriation "Operating expenses, 
Department of Sanitary Engineering" shall be available for the 
employment of engineering or other professional services by contract 
or otherwise, and for engineering and incidental expenses. 
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 
Capital outlay, Washington Aqueduct (payable from water fund) : 
For continuing construction of Little Falls pumping station, dam and 
rising tunnel; construction of Dalecarlia filter and chemical buildings; 
miscellaneous betterments, replacements, and engineering planning of 
Avater supply facilities, including continuing raw-water conduit reha-
bilitation, utility relocations, and plant system rearrangements and 
interconnections; purchase and installation of traveling screens for 
Georgetown Castle Gatehouse; purchase and installation of Federal 
meters; 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 
Document 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, $3,000,000; and, when requested by the Commissioners, 
so much thereof as may be necessary (which is hereby appropriated for 
that purpose from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated), shall be advanced by the Secretary of the Treasury to the 
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261 
water fund of the District of Columbia for waterworks construction 
pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 101). 
GENERAL PROVISIOXS 
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 counter-
signature. 
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 Ignited States or the government of the 
District of Columbia, or who is a member of an organization of Gov-
ernment employees that asserts the right to strike against the Govern-
ment of the United States or the government of the District of 
Columbia, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that 
advocates, 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 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 not 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 Gov-
ernment of the United States by force or violence, and accepts 
employment the salary or Avages for which are paid from any appro-
priation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon con-
viction, 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 
))rovisions 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 
M'hich may be expended for said purpose or object rather than an 
amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 5. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized or approved by the Commissioners, for allowances for privately 
oAvned 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, except that 
fifty-two 
such allowances at not more than $360 each per annum may be author-
ized or approved by the Commissioners: Provided,, That the total 
expenditures for this purpose shall not exceed $83,000, excluding the 
automobile allowances for the deportation of nonresident insane by the 
Department of Public Health and the transportation of indigent 
persons and the placing of children by the Department of Public 
Welfare. 
Vouchers. 
Strikes or over-
throw of Govern-
ment, 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Maximum amount. 
Automobile 
lowances. 
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Att endance at 
meetings. 
I n v e s t m e n t in 
U.S. securities. 
Services. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Advanc e s 
money. 
o £ 
D.C. Code 8-211. 
Restrictions. 
SEC. 6. 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 
expenditures for this purpose shall not exceed $25,000. 
SEC. 7. The Commissioners are hereby authorized in their discretion 
to invest and reinvest at any time in United States Government securi-
ties, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, any part 
of the general, special, 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 invest-
ment 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. 8. 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. 9. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is author-
ized 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 Licenses and Inspections, $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); 
Chief 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 Health, $900, to be used for deportation of non-
resident insane; 
Director of Public Welfare, $1,100, to be used for placing and 
visiting children, returning parolees and wards of the Department of 
Public Welfare, and deportation of nonresident indigent persons 
including maintenance pending transportation; 
Superintendent of Schools, $1,000, which shall be used in connection 
with the central food services. 
SEC. 10. 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 regu-
lations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public 
Utilities Commission. 
SEC. 11. 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. 
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263 
SEC. 12. 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. p . 77, 78), and shall be under the direction and control 
of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change 
the assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration or inter-
changeable 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. 13. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department 
of Highways and the Department of Sanitary Engineering shall be 
available for snow and ice control work when ordered by the Com-
missioners in writing. 
SEC. 14. The Commissioners are authorized to establish a working 
fund without fiscal-year limitation for the purpose of printing, dupli-
cating, and photographing; and the unexpended balances in the mis-
cellaneous trust fund accounts "Operating Account, Printing" and 
"Operating Account, Blueprinting" shall be deposited to said work-
ing fund; and the fund shall be reimbursed for all services performed 
tliereunder. 
SEC. 15. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appro-
priation Act, 1956." 
Approved July 5, 1955. 
P a s s 
h i d e s . e n ger ve-
60 Stat. 810. 
Snow removal. 
Printing, photo-
graphing, etc. 
Short title. 
Public Law 132 
CHAPTER 278 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of April 6, 1949, as amended, and the Act of August 31, 1954, 
so as to provide that the rate of interest on certain loans made under such Acts 
shall not exceed 3 per centum per annum. 
July 7, 1955 
[S. 1755] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congr-ess assembled^ That subsection (a) 
of section 2 of the Act of April 6, 1949, as amended (63 Stat. 43; 
12 U. S. C , sec. 1148a-2 (a)), is amended by striking out the last 
sentence of such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
"Such loans shall be made at such rate of interest, not to exceed 3 per 
centum per annum, and on such general terms and conditions as the 
Secretary shall prescribe for such area or region.". 
SEC. 2. Subsection (b) of section 2 of the Act of April 6, 1949, as 
amended (12 U. S. C, sec. 1148a-2 (b)), is amended by striking out 
the last sentence of such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof the 
following: "Such loans shall be made at such rate of interest, not to 
exceed 3 per centum per annum, and on such general terms as the 
Secretary shall prescribe for such area.". 
SEO. 3. Clause (4) of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to pro-
vide emergency credit", approved August 31, 1954 (68 Stat. 999), is 
amended to read as follows: %e made at such rate of interest, not to 
exceed 3 per centum per annum, and on such terms and conditions as 
the Secretary shall prescribe for such area or areas; and". 
Approved July 7, 1955. 
Agriculture. 
Disaster 
loans, 
interest. 
67 Stat. 149. 
Emergency loans. 
12 u s e 
1148a-l 
note.