An Act making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes
PL 82-203 (H.R.4386), enacted 10/24/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 203—OCT. 24, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
63 Stat. 43. 
12 U. S. C. §§ 1148a-
1—1148a-3. 
62 Stat. 1101. 
15 U. S. C.§604(c). 
Post, p. 740. 
Short title. 
assistance through the Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service. 
Soil Conservation Service: For an additional amount for salaries 
and expenses, $1,960,000, for emergency restoration of channel capacity 
in tributary stream channels and waterways, and related measures, 
affecting more than individual farms, in agricultural areas, damaged 
by excessive rains, runoff, and floodwaters, designated by the Secretary 
of Agriculture as disaster areas under Public Law 38, approved April 
6,1949. 
Farmers Home Administration: For an additional amount for the 
Disaster Loan Revolving Fund established under Public Law 38, 
approved April 6,1949, $30,000,000. 
DISASTER RELIEF 
For an additional amount for "Disaster relief", $5,000,000. 
RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION 
Disaster loans: Section 4 (c) of the Reconstruction Finance Cor-
poration Act, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out 
"$40,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$100,000,000": 
Provided, 
That any loan, including renewal or extension thereof, under section 
4 (a) (4) of such Act for acquisition or construction (including 
acquisition of site therefor) of housing for the personal occupancy of 
the applicant, may be made for a period of not to exceed twenty years. 
Administrative expenses: The amount authorized for administrative 
expenses of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as set forth in 
the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, is hereby increased to 
$17,750,000. 
SEC. 102. This Act may be cited as the "Flood Rehabilitation Act, 
1952". 
Approved October 24, 1951. 
Public Law 203 
CHAPTER 556 
October 24,1951 
[H. R. 4386] 
Civil Functions Ap-
propriation Act, 1952. 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the 
Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hmise of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1952, for civil func-
tions administered by the Department of the Army and for other 
purposes, namely: 
CIVIL FUNCTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF T H E ARMY 
QUARTERMASTER CORPS 
CEMETERIAL EXPENSES 
Cemeterial expenses: For maintaining and improving national ceme-
teries, including personal services and fuel for superintendents; pur-
chase of land, as authorized by law; purchase of three passenger motor 
vehicles, of which two shall be for replacement only; maintenance of 
the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, chapel, and grounds in the 
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617 
Arlington National Cemetery, and that portion of Congressional 
Cemetery to which the United States has title and the graves of those 
buried therein, including Confederate graves, and the burial site of 
Pushmataha, a Choctaw Indian chief; repair to roadways but not to 
more than a single approach road to any national cemetery; for head-
stones or markers for unmarked graves under the Act of July 1,1948 
(24 U. S. C. 279a, b); for maintenance of monuments, tablets, roads, 
fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in 
Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell; 
maintenance of the Confederate Mound in Oakwood Cemetery at 
Chicago, the Confederate Stockade Cemetery at Johnstons Island, 
the Confederate burial plats owned by the United States in Confed-
erate Cemetery at North Alton, the Confederate Cemetery, Camp 
Chase at Columbus, the Confederate Cemetery at Point Lookout, and 
the Confederate Cemetery at Rock Island; and for maintenance of 
f
raves used by the Army for burials in commercial cemeteries; 
i,450,000: Provided, That no railroad shall be permitted upon any 
right-of-way which may have been acquired by the United States 
leading to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or 
walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: 
Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for 
repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the 
corporate limits of any city, town, or village: Provided further, That 
this appropriation shall not be obligated for construction of a super-
intendent's lodge or family quarters at a cost per unit in excess of 
$14,000, but such limitation may be increased by such additional 
amounts as may be required to provide office space, public comfort 
rooms, or space for the storage of Government property within the 
same structure. 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS 
Headstones. 
62 Stat. 1215. 
Confederate ceme-
teries. 
Commercial 
teries. 
Encroachment by 
railroad. 
Roadway repairs. 
Family quarter!!, 
office space, etc. 
RIVERS AND HARBORS AND rLOOD CONTROL 
The following appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood 
control shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the 
Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $1,525,000 
civilian personnel, 
shall be available for the current fiscal year from such appropriations 
for the services of such civilian personnel as the Secretary of the Army 
may deem necessary to be employed in the Office of the Chief of 
Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers 
and harbors and flood control, surveys, and preparation for and the 
consideration of river and harbor and flood-control estimates and 
bills: Provided further, That the various appropriations for rivers 
and harbors and flood control may be used for examination of esti-
mates of appropriations in the field; purchase (for replacement only) vehlSes^nd^ m
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in the current fiscal year of two hundred and fifty passenger motor boat, 
vehicles and one motorboat (to be acquired from surplus stock where 
practicable) and the maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft: 
Provided further. That, during the current fiscal year, such appropria-
tions shall not be transferred to or used to start or resume any project 
for which funds were not allocated for construction in the preceding 
fiscal year; but this proviso shall not apply to any project for which 
funds are provided in this Act: Provided further. That the project 
known as "Buggs Island Reservoir, Virginia and North Carolina," 
shall hereafter be designated as the "John H. Kerr Dam and 
Reservoir." 
Maintenance, etc., of 
aircraft. 
John H. Kerr Dam 
and Reservoir. 
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[65 STAT. 
RIVERS AND HARBORS 
Maintenance and improvement of existing river and harbor works: 
For expenses necessary for the preservation and maintenance of 
existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such 
projects heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the inter-
ests of commerce and navigation; for surveys of northern and north-
western lakes and other boundary and connecting waters as heretofore 
authorized, including the preparation, correction, printing, and 
issuing of charts and bulletins, and the investigation of lake levels; 
for prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor 
c^miss^^n'* °®^"® ^^^ adjacent waters of New York City; for expenses of the California 
Debris Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act 
27Stat. 507. 
approved March 1, 1893, as amended (33 U. S. C. 661, 678, and 683); 
for removing sunken vessels or craft obstructing or endangering 
navigation as authorized by law; for operating and maintaining, 
keeping in repair, and continuing in use without interruption any 
lock, canal (except the Panama Canal), canalized river, or other 
public works for the use and benefit of navigation belonging to the 
student officers. 
United States; for payment annually of tuition fees of not to exceed 
eighteen student officers of the Corps of Engineers at civil technical 
institutions under the provisions of section 127a of the National 
41 Stat. 785. 
Defense Act, as amended (10 U. S. C. 535); for examinations, sur-
veys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors; for the execution of 
detailed investigations and the preparation of plans and specifications 
Printing o
f surveys f^^ projects heretofore authorized; for printing, either during a 
recess or session of Congress, of surveys authorized by law, and such 
surveys as may be printed during a recess of Congress shall be printed, 
with illustrations, as documents of the next succeeding session of 
ve^sTe??*""'"^ '"'" Congress; $192,657,613: Provided, Th&t no part of this appropriation 
shall be expended for any preliminary examination, survey, project, 
Harbor channels, 
or estimate uot authorized by law: Provided further, That from this 
appropriation the Secretary of the Army may, in his discretion and 
on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers based on the recom-
mendation by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in the 
review of a report or reports authorized by law, expend such sums as 
may be necessary for the maintenance of harbor channels provided 
by a State, municipality, or other public agency outside of harbor 
lines and serving essential needs of general commerce and navigatiom 
such work to be subject to the conditions recommended by the Chiei 
tio^ai"commiSio™of ^^ Engineers in his report or reports thereon: Provided further, That 
thTcongress o
f Navi- not to exceed $5,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be 
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available for the support and maintenance of the Permanent Interna-
tional Commission of the Congress of Navigation and for the payment 
of the expenses of the properly accredited delegates of the United 
States to the meeting of the Congresses and of the Commission: 
Transfer o
f funds. 
Provided 
further, 
Tliat from this appropriation not to exceed 
$1,725,000 shall be available for transfer to the Secretary of the 
Interior for expenditure for the purposes of and in accordance with 
6
0 stat^932,1080.^^ the provlsious of the Act of August 8,1946 (16 U. S. C. 756), and the 
661-666C. • 
' Act of August 14, 1946. 
FLOOD CONTROL 
Flood control, general: For expenses necessary for the construction 
and maintenance of certain public works on rivers and harbors for 
flood control, and for other purposes, in accordance with the provisions 
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of the Flood Control Act, approved June 22, 1936, as amended and 
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supplemented, including preliminary examinations, surveys, and con-
^^saimonRiver.Alas- tingeucies in couuection with flood control; $316,544,100: 
Provided, 
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That funds appropriated herein may be used for flood-control work on 
the Salmon River, Alaska, as authorized by law: Provided 
fv/rther^ 
That not more than $300,000 of the funds appropriated herein may be 
used for the construction of water conservation and utilization facili-
ties at the Lavon Eeservoir authorized in the River and Harbor Act 
of March 2, 1945, and modified in the River and Harbor Act of July 
24, 1946: Provided further, That funds appropriated herein may be 
used to execute detailed surveys and prepare plans and specifications, 
necessary for the construction of flood-control projects heretofore or 
hereafter authorized or for flood-control projects considered for selec-
tion in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Flood Con-
trol Act approved June 28, 1938, and section 3 of the Flood Control 
Act approved August 18, 1941 (55 Stat. 638) : Provided further, That 
the expenditure of funds for completing the necessary surveys shall 
not be construed as a commitment of the Government to the con-
struction of any project: Provided 
further, 
That not more than 
$200,000 of the funds available for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir 
project on the Missouri River shall be available to pay to lawful occu-
pants of properties within the towns of Sanish and Van Hook, 
North Dakota, for their improvements which will be rendered use-
less by the construction of the project, but for which compensa-
tion may not be made under existing law because of the occupants' 
limited right of occupancy: Provided further, That payment in each 
case shall be limited to the fair value of the improvements, or the 
cost of moving such improvements to the site of the new combined 
town, whichever is less, as determined by the Secretary of the Army: 
Provided 
further, 
That funds appropriated shall not be expended 
for the payment of business losses or other losses incident to the 
acquisition of lands for this project. 
Flood-control, general (emergency fund): For rescue work and 
for repair, restoration, or maintenance of any flood-control work 
threatened or destroyed by flood in accordance with section 210 of 
the Flood Control Act of 1950 (Public Law 516, approved May 17, 
1950), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: For expenses neces-
sary for prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15,1928, as amended 
(33 U. S. C. 702a), $60,500,000. 
Emergency fund for flood control on tributaries of Mississippi 
River: For rescue work and for repair or maintenance of any flood-
control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened 
or destroyed by flood, in accordance with section 9 of the Flood Con-
trol Act, approved June 15, 1936 (33 U. S. C. 702g-i), $500,000. 
Flood control, Sacramento River, California: For prosecuting work 
of flood control, Sacramento River, California, in accordance with 
the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1917, as amended (33 
U. S. C. 703,704; 50 Stat. 849; 55 Stat. 638-651), $1,000,000. 
Lavon Reservoir. 
59 Stat. 10, 18. 
60 Stat. 634, 637. 
Surveys, plans, etc. 
52 Stat. 1216. 
33 U. S. C. §§ 701J, 
702a-l%, 702a-12. 
Garrison Dam and 
Reservoir project. 
64 Stat. 183. 
33 U. S. C. § 701n. 
45 Stat. 534. 
49 Stat. 1511. 
33 U. S. C. 5 702g-l. 
39 Stat. 949. 
MISCELLANEOUS CIVIL WORKS 
Maintenance and operation. Certain Federal Water Mains Outside 
the District of Columbia: For the maintenance, operation, improve-
ment, extension, and protection of Federal water lines located outside 
the District of Columbia required to serve nearby Government estab-
lishments and facilities with water from the water supply system of 
the District of Columbia, including interconnections with other w3-ter 
systems for emergency use wherever located, to be expended under 
the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of 
the Chief of Engineers, $16,000. 
Federal water mains 
outside D. C. 
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[65 STAT. 
UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' HOME 
64 Stat. 1068. 
Hospitalization 
members. 
of 
For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers' Home, 
to be paid from the Soldiers' Home permanent fund, $3,366,000, of 
which $373,000 shall remain available until expended for equipment 
for the new construction provided under this head in the Supplemental 
Appropriation Act, 1951: Provided^ That this appropriation shall not 
be available for the payment of hospitalization of members of the 
Home in United States Army hospitals at rates in excess of those 
prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, upon the recommendation 
of the Board of Commissioners of the Home and the Surgeon General 
of the Army. 
T H E PANAMA CANAL 
37 Stat. 560. 
48 U. S. C. 5 1301. 
Travel expenses. 
Blood transfusions. 
64 Stat. 1041. 
Transfer of funds. 
64 Stat. 1042. 
CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT 
For expenses necessary for the Canal Zone Government, including 
construction of additional facilities; purchase (not to exceed eight in 
the current fiscal year, for replacement only) and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized 
in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incident to conducting hearings 
and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; not to 
exceed $10,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings, when authorized 
by the Governor, of organizations concerned with activities pertaining 
to the Canal Zone Government; not to exceed $2,000 for travel and sub-
sistence expenses of employees of the Canal Zone Government incident 
to their special training as authorized by law (63 Stat. 600); con-
tingencies of the Governor, including not to exceed $3,000 for enter-
tainment, to be expended in his discretion; medical aid and support 
of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons 
legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation 
when practicable; and payments of not to exceed $50 in any one case 
to persons within the Government service who shall furnish blood for 
transfusions; $11,595,000, of which $421,000 for construction shall 
remain available until expended: Provided^ That all expenses of the 
Canal Zone Government shall be reimbursable to the United States 
Treasury, pursuant to section 7 of the Act of September 26, 1950 
(Public Law 841), except expenses of experiment gardens, corrosion 
tests, the Corozal Hospital, the United States share of garbage collec-
tion in the Republic of Panama, and the Palo Seco Leprosarium: 
Provided further^ That after all transfers from the appropriations for 
"Maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal", "Sanitation", 
"Civil government", and "Repatriation of unemployed aliens", to the 
Panama Canal Company have been effected pursuant to section 10 of 
the Act of September 26, 1950 (Public Law 841), the then remaining 
balances of such appropriations shall be transferred to and merged 
with this appropriation and shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further^ That the obligated balance of the appropriation for 
"Construction of additional facilities, Panama Canal", remaining on 
June 30,1951, shall also be transferred to and merged with this appro-
priation and remain available until expended. 
PANAMA CANAL COMPANY 
The following corporation is hereby authorized to make such ex-
penditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority avail-
able to it in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commit-
ments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 
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621 
104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as may be necessary 
in carrying out the programs set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 
1952 for such corporation, except as hereinafter provided: 
Not to exceed $300,000 of the funds available to the Panama Canal 
Company shall be available during the current fiscal year for adminis-
trative expenses of the Company, which shall be computed on an 
accrual basis. 
59 Stat. 598. 
31 U. S. C. § 849. 
A v a i l a b i l i t y 
funds. 
of 
REDUCTION IN APPROPRIATION 
The appropriation granted under the head, "Cemeterial expenses, 
no year", in the "Civil Functions Appropriations Act, 1949" is reduced 
by the sum of $27,000,000. 
Stat. 1019. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds made available for expenditure by any corporation 
included 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 United 
States 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 who advocates, or who 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, is not a 
member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the 
right to strike against the Government of the United States or that 
such person does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization 
that advocates, the overthrow of the Government 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 who is a 
member of an organization of Government employees that asserts 
the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or 
who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, 
the overthrow of the Government of the United States by iforce or 
violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are 
paid from any appropriation or fund contained in this Act shall be 
f
uilty of a felony and, upon conviction, 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 provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 103. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employment in 
case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services 
rendered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, tech-
nical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless 
such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the 
Republic of Panama: Provided^ however, (1) That, notwithstanding 
the provision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409) 
limiting employment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of 
the United States from and after the date of approval of said Act, 
citizens of Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at no 
time shall the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-
mentioned positions exceed the number of citizens of the United States 
so employed, if United States citizens are available in continental 
Persons engaging, 
etc., in strikes against 
or advocating over-
throw of U. S. Gov-' 
ernment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty clause. 
Canal Zone. 
Citizenship require-
ments. 
E m p l o y m e n t of 
Panamanian citizens. 
48 U. S. C. § 1307 
note. 
Limitation. 
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[65 STAT. 
Employees with 15 
years' service. 
Selection of person-
nel. 
Hours of employ-
ment; pay rates. 
Applicability. 
Suspension of com-
pliance. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Informational and 
editorial functions. 
Short title. 
United States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall 
prohibit the continued employment of any person who shall have 
rendered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service on 
the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, 
technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, 
the controlling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, 
experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama 
and the United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, adminis-
trative, executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under the 
terms of this Act (a) shall normally be employed not more than forty 
hours per week, (b) may receive as compensation equal rates of pay 
based upon rates paid for similar employment in continental United 
States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to 
persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, execu-
tive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly 
by any branch of the United States Government or by any corporation 
or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United 
States Government: Provided further^ That the President may sus-
pend from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section 
if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. 
SEC. 104. The Governor of the Canal Zone and the Chief of 
Engineers, Department of the Army, are authorized to employ serv-
ices as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 tJ. S. C. 
55a), in amounts not exceeding $15,000 for the Canal Zone Govern-
ment and not exceeding $150,000 for the Corps of Engineers, Depart-
ment of the Army: Provided, That the rates for individuals shall not 
exceed $100 per diem. 
SEC. 105. No part of the money appropriated by this Act which is in 
excess of 75 per centum of the amount required to pay the compensa-
tion of all persons the budget estimates for personal services hereto-
fore submitted to the Congress for the fiscal year 1952 contemplated 
would be employed by the Department of the Army from appropria-
tions for civil functions during such fiscal year in the performance of— 
(1) functions performed by a person designated as an informa-
tion specialist, information and editorial specialist, publications 
and information coordinator, press relations officer or counsel, 
photographer, radio expert, television expert, motion-picture 
expert, or publicity expert, or designated by any similar title, or 
(2) functions performed by persons who assist persons per-
forming the functions described in (1) in drafting, preparing, 
editing, typing, duplicating, or disseminating public information 
publications or releases, radio or television scripts, magazine 
articles, photographs, motion pictures, and similar material, 
shall be available to pay the compensation of persons performing the 
functions described in (1) or (2). 
SEC. 106. This Act may be cited as the "Civil Functions Appropria-
tion Act, 1952". 
Approved October 24, 1951. 
Public Law 204 
CHAPTER 557 
October 24, 1951 
[S. 355] 
AN ACT 
To adjust the salaries of postmasters, supervisors, and employees in the field 
service of the Post Office Department. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Qrfdes^and salaries. United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the Act entitled