An Act to amend section 5 of the act entitled ""An Act to authorize the apprehension and detention of insane persons in the District of Columbia, and providing for their temporary commitment in the Government Hospital for the Insane"", and for other purposes.
PL 82-99 (S.263), enacted 08/01/1951

150 
July 31, 1951 
[H. R. 3455) 
amendments. 
02 Stat. 854 
PUBLIC LAW 98—JULY 31, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Public Law 98 
CHAPTER 277 
AN ACT 
To amend section 4202 of title 18, United States Code, relating to parole of 
Federal prisoners. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Revresentatives 
of the 
SdmenYs ^ ^'"*^' ^^*?^^ States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4202 
of title 18 of the United States Code is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 
"§4202. 
Prisoners eligible 
"A Federal prisoner, other than a juvenile delinquent or a com-
mitted youth offender, wherever confined and serving a definite term 
or terms of over one hundred and eighty days, whose record shows that 
he has observed the rules of the institution in which he is confined, 
may be released on parole after serving one-third of such term or 
terms or after serving fifteen years of a life sentence or of a sentence 
of over forty-five years." 
Approved July 31, 1951. 
Public Lav^ 99 
CHAPTER 282 
August 1, 1951 
[S. 263] 
AN ACT 
To amend section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the apprehension-
and detention of insane persons in the District of Columbia, and providing for 
their temporary commitment in the Government Hospital for the Insane, and 
for other purposes", approved April 27, 1904, as amended. 
District of Colum-
bia. 
Insane persons, 
commitment, etc. 
33 Stat. 318. 
Validity 
cate. 
of certifl-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the apprehension and detention 
of insane persons in the District of Columbia, and providing for their 
temporary commitment in the Government Hospital for the Insane, 
and for other purposes", approved April 27, 1904, as amended (sec. 
21-330, D. C. CodCj 1940 edition), is hereby atnended to read: 
"That for the purpose of this Act no certificate as to the sanity or 
the insanity of any person shall be valid which has been issued (a) 
by a physician who has not been regularly licensed to practice medicine 
in the District of Columbia, unless he be a commissioned surgeon of 
the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or Public Health Service, 
or a physician employed by the Veterans' Administration; or (b) by a 
physician who is related by blood or by marriage to the person whose 
mental condition is in question. No certificate alleging the insanity 
of any person shall be valid, which has been issued by a physician who 
is financially interested in the hospital or asylum in which the alleged 
insane person is to be confined; nor, except in the case of physicians 
employed by the United States or the District of Columbia, shall any 
such certificate be valid which has been issued by a physician who is 
professionally or officially connected with such hospital or asylum." 
Approved August 1, 1951. 
August 1, 1951 
[S. 673] 
Public Law 100 
CHAPTER 2 8 3 
AN ACT 
To permit the exchange of land belonging to the District of Columbia for land 
belonging to the abutting property owner or owners, and for other purposes. 
^_District o
f coium- 
^Q {f enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Exchange o
f land. 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That where two lots 
65 STAT.1 
PUBLIC LAW 102—AUG. 2, 1951 
151 
or parcels of land abut each other and one of such lots or parcels 
belongs to the District of Columbia, the Commissioners of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, with the approval of the National Capital Park 
and Planning Commission, are hereby authorized and empowered, 
when in their judgment and discretion it is for the best interest 
of the District of Columbia, to exchange such District-owned land, 
or part thereof, for the abutting lot or parcel of land, or part thereof: 
Provided^ That no such exchange shall be made unless the Commis-
sioners of said District shall, thirty days prior thereto, publish in 
a newspaper of general circulation in the said District a notice of their 
intention to make such exchange and such notice shall include a 
description by lot or parcel number or otherwise of all lots or parcels 
to be exchanged and the appraised value thereof. 
The said Commis-
sioners are hereby authorized to execute a proper deed of conveyance 
for the land belonging to the District to be conveyed and to accept a 
proper deed of conveyance from the owner of such abutting real estate. 
If, in the opinion of the Commissioners, the value of the land to 
be conveyed to the District is in excess of the value of the land to be 
conveyed by the District, the Commissioners are authorized to pay, 
within the limitation of appropriations therefor, to the abutting prop-
erty owuier the amount of such excess as determined by the Commis-
sioners, on the basis of an appraisal, and, if the value of the land to 
be conveyed by the District is in excess of the value of the land to be 
conveyed to the District, the Commissioners shall require the abutting 
property owner to pay such excess as determined by the Commission-
ers, on the basis of an appraisal, as part of the consideration for the 
said exchange. 
Approved August 1, 1951. 
Public Law 101 
CHAPTER 286 
AN ACT 
To amend the existing law to provide the privilege of renewing expiring five-year 
level-premium-term policies of United States Government life insurance. 
August 2, 1951 
[H. R. 1072] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the second 
proviso of the first paragraph of section 301 of the World War Vet-
erans' Act, 1924, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
'•'•Provided further^ That at the expiration of any five-year period a 
five-year level-premium-term policy may be renewed for a successive 
five-year period at the premium rate for the attained age without 
medical examination." 
Approved August 2, 1951. 
World War Veter-
ans' Act, 1924, amend-
ment. 
57 Stat. 41. 
38 U. S. C. § 512. 
Public Law 102 
CHAPTER 287 
AN ACT 
To amend section 4 of the Act of March 2, 1933 (47 Stat. 1423), as amended, so 
as to provide that a mess operated under the direction of a Supply Corps officer 
can be operated either on a quantity or on a monetary-ration basis. 
August 2, 1951 
[H. R. 1201] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 4 of the 
Act entitled "An Act to effect needed changes in the Navy ration", 
approved March 2, 1933 (47 Stat. 1423), as amended, is further 
amended by striking out the words "limit of the cost of rations on 
destroyers, submarines, mine sweepers, tugs, aircraft, and other vessels 
and stations subsisted under the direction of commanding officers" and 
substituting in lieu thereof the words "monetary limit of the cost of 
Navy ration. 
34 U. S. C. § 902d.