Joint resolution making temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1952, and for other purposes
PL 82-70 (H.J.Res.277), enacted 07/01/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 70—JULY 1, 1951 
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SEC. 3. The Act of June 30, 1950 (Public Law 590, Eighty-first 
Congress) is hereby amended by striking out "July 1,1951" and insert-
ing in lieu thereof "August 1,1951". 
Approved June 30, 1951, 
64 Stat. 308. 
60 U. S. C. app. 
S 633 note. 
Public Law 70 
CHAPTER 202 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making temporary appropriations for the 
fiscal 
year 1952, and for otlier purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That there are hereby appro-
priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, 
for the several departments, agencies, corporations, and other organ-
izational units in each branch of the Government— 
(a) Such amounts as may be necessary for the carrying out of proj-
ects or activities (not otherwise specifically provided for in this joint 
resolution) for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were 
available during the fiscal year 1951 and for which appropriations, 
funds, or other authority (subject to limitations, restrictions, and per-
missive provisions) would be made available by any appropriation 
Act enumerated in this subsection, to the extent and in the manner 
which would be provided for in such Act: Provided^ That in any 
case where the amount to be made available or the authority to be 
granted under such Act as passed by the House of Representatives is 
different from that to be made available or granted under such Act as 
passed by the Senate, the pertinent project or activity shall be carried 
out under whichever amount is lesser or whichever authority is more 
restrictive: Provided further. That wiiere an item is included in any 
such appropriation Act which has been passed by only one House, 
or where an item is included in only one version of such an Act which 
has been passed by both Houses, such project or activity shall be car-
ried on under the appropriation, funds, or authority granted by the 
one House: Provided further, That in no case shall the amount made 
available under this subsection for any project or activity exceed the 
amount provided for by the Budget estimates for the fiscal year 1952 
for the period involved: Provided further, That no provision which 
is included in any appropriation act enumerated in this subsection 
but which was not included in the applicable appropriation act for 
the fiscal year 1951, and which by its terms is applicable to more than 
one appropriation, fund, or authority, shall be applicable to any 
appropriation, fund, or authority provided in this joint resolution 
unless such provision shall have been included in identical form in 
such bill as enacted by both the House and the Senate: 
Provided 
further, That this subsection shall apply to the following: 
Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1952; 
Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1952; 
Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1952; 
Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952; 
Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1952; 
Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1952; 
Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1952. 
(b) Such amounts as may be necessary for carrying out projects 
and activities (not otherwise specifically provided for in this joint 
resolution) under the agencies enumerated in this subsection, at a rate 
not in excess of that which obtained for any such project or activity 
in the first quarter (except Department of Defense or in the case of 
July 1,1951 
[H. J. Res. 277] 
Temporary appro-
priations, 1952. 
1951 piojects. 
Restrictions. 
Applicability of sub-
section . 
Rate for operations. 
76100 O- 52 (PT. I)- 10, 
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Applicability of sub-
section. 
Defense Production 
Act, 1950; Housing 
and Rent Act, 1950. 
64 Stat. 798, 255. 
50 U. S. C . a p p . 
J 5 2061, 1884 note. 
64 Stat. 801, 802. 
50 U. S. C. a p p . 
§§2092,2093, 2094 (b), 
(c). 
projects or activities which were initiated during a subsequent quarter) 
of the fiscal year 1951: Provided^ That, with the approval of the 
Director of the Bureau of the Budget, the amount made available 
hereunder may be increased, where necesesary to provide for seasonal 
variations, on the basis of an annual rate for operations not in excess 
of that consistent with the rate which obtained in the last quarter 
of the fiscal year 1951: Provided further. 
That in no case shall the 
amount made available under this subsection for any project or 
activity exceed the amount provided for by the Budget estimates for 
the fiscal year 1952 for the period involved and in the case of the 
Department of Defense that the rate for operation shall not exceed 
by more than 50 per centum the rate obtained during the last quarter 
of the fiscal year 1951: Provided further^ That this subsection shall 
apply to the following: 
Legislative Branch: 
Senate; 
Architect of the Capitol (Senate items); 
Department of State; 
Department of Justice; 
Department of Commerce; 
Department of Defense; 
The Judiciary; 
National Security Council; 
National Security Resources Board; 
Reconstruction Finance Corporation; 
General Services Administration (emergency operating expenses); 
National Science Foundation; 
Federal Civil Defense Administration; 
Selective Service System; 
Government and Relief in Occupied Areas; 
Government in Occupied Areas of Germany. 
(c) Such amounts as may be necessary for the carrying out, at 
a rate for operations (except as otherwise provided for in this sub-
section) not in excess of that which obtained in the month of June 
1951, of projects and activities, including the Office of Defense Mo-
bilization, under the Defense Production Act of 1950, and the Housing 
and Rent Act of 1950: Provided^ That, during the period covered by 
this joint resolution, obligations outstanding at any one time for 
expanding defense production under sections 302 and 303 of the 
Defense Production Act of 1950 shall not exceed, in the aggregate, 
the total of the amounts made available and authorized to be made 
available by subsections 304 (b) and (c) of said Act as originally 
enacted: Provided further^ That no appropriation or authorization 
contained herein shall be available for the carrying out of any project 
or activity (except for liquidation of projects or activities being car-
ried out on June 30, 1951) under the Defense Production Act of 
1950 or the Housing and Rent Act of 1950 except those which by the 
terms of said Acts may be continued after June 30, 1951, or those 
which may be authorized to be carried out after said date by any 
extension of, amendment to, or supplementation of, either of said 
Acts. 
(d) Such additional amounts as may be necessary to provide for 
continuance of an increasing rate for operations under projects or 
activities for which appropriations, funds, or authorizations are made 
available under subsections (a), (b), or (c), and for which an increas-
ing rate obtained during the last quarter of the fiscal year 1951 pur-
suant to appropriations available for that purpose: Provided^ That 
in no event shall the rate for operations for Department of Defense 
permitted by this subsection exceed by more than 50 per centum the 
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rate obtained during the last quarter of the fiscal year 1951: Provided^ 
however^ That with respect to other Departments and agencies in no 
event shall the rate for operations permitted by this subsection exceed 
that contemplated by the Budget estimates for the fiscal year 1952: 
Provided further^ That the amounts provided for in this subsection 
shall be available only to the extent authorized by the Director of 
the Bureau of the Budget. 
(e) Such amounts (but not to exceed $2,500,000 for international 
Development) as may be necessary for the carrying out, at a rate not 
in excess of that which obtained in the fourth quarter of the fiscal 
year 1951, of projects and activities under applicable appropriations 
as follows: 
Mutual Defense Assistance; 
China Area Aid; 
Economic Cooperation (not to exceed $145,000,000); 
International Development; 
Institute of Inter-American Affairs; 
and, in addition to the amounts herein appropriated, funds heretofore 
appropriated for Mutual Defense Assistance, Economic Cooperation 
(to be available only for the purposes of the "India Emergency Food 
Aid Act of 1951"), and China Area Aid shall remain available (but not 
beyond the limiting date specified in clause (c) of section 4) for 
programs, projects, and activities initiated prior to July 1,1951. 
SEC. 2. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are author-
ized to incur obligations and to make expenditures therefor from 
applicable funds and revenues of said District, as may be necessary 
to carry out projects and activities for which appropriations, funds, or 
other authority were available thereunder during the fiscal year 1951, 
to the extent and in the manner provided for by the District of 
Columbia Appropriation Act, 1952, as passed by the House of Repre-
sentatives, but the rate of operation for such projects and activities 
shall not exceed that which obtained in the first quarter of the fiscal 
year 1951: Provided^ That obligations and expenditures hereunder 
shall be subject to the provisions of section 3 of this Act insofar as 
applicable: Provided 
further^ That the Commissioners are further 
authorized to incur obligations and make expenditures, as provided 
for herein, for the Office of Civil Defense and the Office of Adminis-
trator of Rent Control of said District, but the rate of operations for 
such offices shall not exceed that which obtained in the fourth quarter 
of the fiscal year 1951: Provided further^ That the provisions of this 
section relating to the Office of Administrator of Rent Control 
shall be effective (except for liquidation of projects or activities being 
carried out on June 30, 1951) only to such extent as may be provided 
for by any extension of, amendment to, or supplementation of the 
District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act. 
SEC. 3. Appropriations and funds made available, and authority 
granted, pursuant to this joint resolution shall be subject not only 
to those provisions of title X I I of the General Appropriation Act, 
1951, which constitute permanent law, but also to those provisions 
of said title (except section 1214) which were applicable only to the 
fiscal year 1951, and the provisions of section 1302 of the Supple-
mental Appropriation Act, 1951, in the same manner as if such annual 
provisions were contained in, and related to appropriations, funds, 
and authorizations made available by this joint resolution. 
SEC. 4. Appropriations and funds made available, and authority 
granted, pursuant to this joint resolution, shall be determined under 
the terms hereof by reference to the status of the pertinent appro-
priation Acts on June 30, 1951, and Budget estimates on June 22, 
1951, and shall remain available in the amount and in the manner 
Mutual Defense As-
sistance, etc. 
District of Colum-
bia. 
55 Stat. 788. 
D. C. Code 
1601 et seg. 
64 Stat. 768. 
64 Stat. 1066. 
S45-
Determinations of 
availability of funds, 
etc. 
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31 U. S. C. §065. 
Passenger motor ve-
hicles. 
S
O determined until (a) enactment into law of an appropriation for 
any project or activity provided for herein, or (b) enactment of the 
applicable appropriation Act by both Houses without any provision 
for such project or activity, or (c) July 31, 1951, whichever first 
occurs. 
SEC. 5. Expenditures from appropriations, funds, or authoriza-
tions made available pursuant to this joint resolution shall be avail-
able without regard to the time limitations set forth in subsection 
(d) (2) of section 3679, Revised Statutes, and shall be charged to 
any applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization whenever a bill 
in which such applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is 
contained is enacted into law. 
SEC. 6. No passenger-carrying motor vehicles shall be purchased 
under the terms of this resolution unless specifically authorized by 
an appropriation act for a department or agency for the fiscal year 
1952. 
Approved July 1, 1951. 
July 3, 1951 
(H. R. 1746] 
Public Law 71 
CHAPTER 205 
AN ACT 
To amend subdivisions d and e of section 58 of the Bankruptcy Act, approved 
July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. 
Bankruptcy Act, 
amendment. 
30 Stat. 561. 
11 U. S. C. § 94(d), 
(e;. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That subdivisions d 
and e of section 58 of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform 
system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", approved July 1, 
1898, as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
"d. Notices to creditors may be published as the court shall direct. 
"e. The clerk shall mail to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
and to the Comptroller General of the United States a certified copy 
of every order of adjudication forthwith upon the entry thereof. The 
court shall, in every case instituted under any provisions of this Act, 
mail, or cause to be mailed, a copy of the notice of the first meeting 
of creditors to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to the collector 
of internal revenue for the district in which the court is located, and 
to the Comptroller General of the United States. 
Whenever the 
schedules of the bankrupt, or the list of creditors of the bankrupt, 
or any other papers filed in the case disclose a debt to the United States 
acting through any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, a 
notice of the first meeting shall be mailed as w^ell to the head of such 
department, agency, or instrumentality." 
Approved July 3, 1951. 
July 3, 1951 
[H. R. 1613] 
Public Law 72 
CHAPTER 208 
AN ACT 
To amend section 2883 (d) of the Internal Revenue Code as amended by Public 
Law 448, Eighty-first Congress. 
Internal Revenue 
Code, amendment. 
64 Stat. 9. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) section 
2883 (d) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Act 
approved February 21, 1950, Public Law 448, Eighty-first Congress, 
is amended to read as follows: 
"(d) TRANsrER OF (TIN A
N
D VoDKA.—Gin and vodka of any proof 
may be transferred in bond by means of pipe lines from receiving cis-