Joint resolution to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to promulgate  special regulations for the period of the ninety-first annual session of the Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America, to be held in Washington, District of Columbia, in July 1965, to authorize the granting of certain permits to ""Imperial Shrine Convention, 1965, Incorporated,"" on the occasions of such sessions, and for other purposes
PL 88-386 (H.J.Res.888), enacted 07/28/1964

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Public Law 88-386 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to promulgate . 
special regulations for the period of the ninety-first annual session of the 
Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine 
for North America, to be held in Washington, District of Columbia, in July 
1965, to authorize the granting of certain permits to "Imperial Shrine Con-
vention, 1965, Incorporated," on the occasions of such sessions, and for other 
purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That for the period of the 
ninety-first annual session of the Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic 
Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America^ to be 
held in the District of Columbia from July 13 to July 15, 1965, both 
dates inclusive, the Commissioners are authorized and directed to 
make all reasonable regulations necessary to secure the preservation 
of public order and protection of life, health, and property; to make 
special regulations respecting the standing, movement, and operation 
of vehicles of whatever character or kind during said period; and to 
grant under such conditions as they may impose, special licenses to 
peddlers and vendors for the privilege of selling goods, wares, and 
merchandise in such places in the District of Columbia, and to charge 
such fees for such privilege, as they may deem proper. 
SEC. 2. For the purposes of this Act— 
(a) The term "Commissioners" means the Commissioners of the 
District of Columbia or their designated agent or agents; 
(b) The term "corporation" means the "Imperial Shrine Conven-
tion, 1965, Incorporated", or its designated agent or agents; 
(c) The term "meeting" means the ninety-first annual session of the 
Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine for North America, to be held in the District of Columbia on 
July 13,14, and 15,1965; 
(d) The term "period" or "meeting period" means the ten-day pe-
riod beginning July 8, 1965, and ending July 17, 1965, both dates 
inclusive; 
(e) The term "Secretary of Defense" means the Secretary of De-
fense or his designated agent or agents; and 
(f) The term "Secretary of the Interior" means the Secretary of the 
Interior or his designated agent or agents. 
SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary, payable in like manner as other appropriations 
for the expenses of the District of Columbia, to enable the Com-
missioners to provide additional municipal services in said District 
during the meeting period, including employment of personal services 
without regard to the civil service and classification laws; travel ex-
penses of enforcement personnel, including sanitarians, from other 
jurisdictions; hire of means of transportation; meals for police, fire-
men, and other municipal employees; construction, rent, maintenance, 
and expenses incident to the operation of temporary public comfort 
stations, first-aid stations, and information booths; and other inci-
dental expenses in the discretion of the Commissioners. 
SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of such 
officer as may exercise jurisdiction over any of the Federal reservations 
or grounds in the District of Columbia, is authorized to grant to the 
corporation permits for the use of such reservations or grounds during 
the meeting period, including a reasonable time prior and subsequent 
thereto; and the Commissioners are authorized to grant like permits 
for the use of public space under their jurisdiction. Each such permit 
shall be subject to such restrictions, terms, and conditions as may be 
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[H. J. Res. 888] 
D.C., Shrine 
Convention, 1965. 
Special regula-
tions. 
Definitions. 
Appropri at io ns. 
Use of public 
space. 
Conditions. 
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Lighting, public 
places. 
Conditions. 
Equipment, 
loans. 
Authorization 
and conditions. 
Regulations. 
Enforcement. 
imposed by the grantor of such permit. With respect to public space, 
no reviewing stand or any stand or structure for the sale of goods, 
wares, merchandise, food, or drink shall be built on any sidewalk, 
street, park, reservation, or other public grounds in the District of 
Columbia, except with the approval of the corporation, and with the 
approval of the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioners, as 
the case may be, depending on the location of such stand or structure. 
The reservation, ground, or public space occupied by any such stand 
or structure shall, within ten days after the end of the meeting period, 
be restored to its previous condition. The corporation shall indemnify 
and save harmless the District of Columbia and the appropriate 
agency or agencies of the Federal Government against any loss or 
damage to such property and against any liability arising from the 
use of such property, either by the corporation or a licensee of the 
corporation. 
SEC. 5. The Commissioners are authorized to permit the corporation 
to install suitable overhead conductors and install suitable lighting or 
other electrical facilities, with adequate supports, for illumination or 
other purposes. If it should be necessary to place wires for illuminat-
ing or other purposes over any park, reservation, or highway in the 
District of Columbia, such placing of wires and their removal shall 
be under the supervision of the official in charge of said park, reserva-
tion, or highway. 
Such conductors with their supports shall be 
removed within five days after the end of the meeting period. 
The 
Commissioners, or such other officials as may have jurisdiction in the 
premises, shall enforce the provisions of this joint resolution, take 
needful precautions for the protection of the public, and insure that 
the pavement of any street, sidewalk, avenue, or alley which is dis-
turbed or damaged is restored to its previous condition. No expense 
or damage from the installation, operation, or removal of said tem-
porary overhead conductors or said illumination or other electrical 
facilities shall be incurred by the United States or the District of 
Columbia, and the corporation shall indemnify and save harmless the 
District of Columbia and the appropriate agency or agencies of the 
Federal Government against any loss or damage and against any lia-
bility whatsoever arising from any act of the corporation or any 
agent, licensee, servant, or employee of the corporation. 
SEC. 6. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to lend to the corpora-
tion such hospital tents, smaller tents, camp appliances, hospital fur-
niture, ensigns, flags, ambulances, drivers, stretchers, and Red Cross 
flags and poles (except battle flags) as may be spared without detri-
ment to the public service, and under such conditions as he may pre-
scribe. Such loan shall be returned within five days after the end of 
the meeting period, the corporation shall indemnify the Government 
for any loss or damage to any such property, and no expense shall be 
incurred by the United States Government for the delivery, return, 
rehabilitation, replacement, or operation of such equipment. The cor-
poration shall give a good and sufficient bond for the safe return of 
such property in good order and condition, and the whole without ex-
pense to the United States. 
SEC. 7. The Commissioners, the Secretary of the Interior, and the 
corporation are authorized to permit electric lighting, telegraph, tele-
phone, radio broadcasting, and television companies to extend over-
liead wires to such points along and across the line of any parade as 
shall be deemed convenient for use in connection with such parade and 
other meeting purposes. Such wires shall be removed withm ten days 
after the conclusion of the meeting period. 
SEC. 8. The regulations and licenses authorized by this Act shall be 
in full force and effect only during the meeting period, but the expira-
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tion of said period shall not prevent the arrest or trial of any person 
for any violation of such regulations committed during the time they 
were in force and effect. 
Such regulations shall be published in one 
or more of the daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia 
and no penalty prescribed for the violation of any such regulation shall 
be enforced until five days after such publication. Any person violat-
ing any regulation promulgated by the Commissioners under the au-
thority of this Act shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned for 
not more than thirty days. Each and every day a violation of any 
such regulation exists shall constitute a separate offense, and the 
penalty prescribed shall be applicable to each such separate offense. 
SEC. 9. Whenever any provision of this Act requires the corporation 
to indemnify and save harmless the District of Columbia and the 
Federal Government or any agency thereof against loss, damage, or 
liability arising out of the acts of the corporation or its licensee, or to 
give bond to an agency of the Federal Government guaranteeing the 
safe return of property belonging to such agency, the requirements of 
tiny such provision shall be deemed satisfied upon the submission by 
the corporation to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and 
the Secretary of the Interior on behalf of the several agencies of the 
Federal Government, of an insurance policy or bond, or both an insur-
ance policy and bond, in such amount or amounts and subject to such 
terms and conditions, as the said officials in their discretion approve 
as being necessary to protect the interests of the respective govern-
ments. 
SEC. 10. Nothing contained in this Act shall be applicable to the 
United States Capitol Buildings or Grounds or other properties under 
the jurisdiction of the Congress or any committee, commission, or 
officer thereof. 
Approved July 28, 1964. 
Publication. 
Violations. 
Penalty. 
Indemnification. 
Conditions. 
Capitol grounds. 
Public Law 88-387 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Air Force or his designee to convey 0.25 acre 
of land to the city of Oroville, California. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Air Force, or his designee, is authorized to convey by quitclaim 
deed and without consideration to the city of Oroville, California, all 
the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the parcel 
of land consisting of 0.25 acre, more or less, and described as follows: 
That land formerly owned by the city of Oroville and located within 
that certain tract known as "Map of South Thermoleto", Butte County, 
State of California; said map having been filed in the office of the 
recorder of the county of Butte, State of California, April 11,1889, in 
book 2 of maps, at page 176, more particularly described as follows: 
Beginning at a point on the south boundary of lot 175 which point 
marks the junction of the south boundary of lot 175 and the north-
westerly right-of-way of the Oroville-Willows Road, said point being 
described in a deed to the United States of America dated December 
2,1942, and recorded March 17,1943, in volume 312 of official records, 
page 75; thence in a northeasterly direction along the northwesterly 
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[H. R. 7499] 
Oroville, C&lif. 
Conveyance.