An Act to authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment and provide certain services to the Boy Scouts of America for use at the Fourth National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, and for other purposes.
PL 84-638 (S.2771), enacted 07/02/1956

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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 transporta-
tion necessary, but only as to such latter cases when the same is 
approved by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be trans-
ferred 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. All funds (including existing unexpended balances and 
income from investments) derived from the action of any board, 
commission, or committee for which appropriations are provided 
herein, shall be deposited to the general revenues of the District of 
Columbia. 
SEC. 15. Appropriations in tliis Act shall be available, when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for the rental of quarters without refer-
ence to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945. 
SEC. 16. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the fur-
nishing of uniforms when authorized by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 17. This Act may be cited as the '"District of Columbia Appro-
priation Act, 1957." 
Approved June 29, 1956, 
July 2, 1956 
[S. 2771] 
Public Law 638 
CHAPTER 487 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air 
Force equipment and provide certain services to the Boy Scouts of America 
for use at the Fourth National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
A^ericl.''*'"*' °^ United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Secre-
Arme'd Forces tary of Defense is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he 
equipment. 
^ ^ ^ prescribe, to lend to the Boy Scouts of America, a corporation 
created under the Act of June 15,1916, for the use and accommodation 
of the approximately fifty thousand Scouts and officials who are to 
attend the Fourth National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America 
to be held as a part of the national program "Onward for God and 
My Country" during the period beginning in June 1957, and ending 
in July 1957, at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, such tents, cots, blankets, 
commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, and other equipment and 
services as may be necessary or useful to the extent that items are in 
stock and available and their issue will not jeopardize the national 
defense program. 
(b) Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time prior 
to the holding of such jamboree, and to be returned at such time after 
the close of such jamboree, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary 
of Defense and the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. 
No 
expense shall be incurred by the United States Government for the 
delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of such equipment. 
(c) The Secretary of Defense, before delivering such property, 
shall take from the Boy Scouts of America a good and sufficient bond 
for the safe return of such property in good order and condition, and 
the whole without expense to the United States. 
Approved July 2, 1956. 
Bond.