An Act to provide for the suspension of the imposition or execution of sentence in certain cases in the municipal court for the District of Columbia and in the juvenile court of the District of Columbia
PL 83-69 (H.R.1832), enacted 06/18/1953

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of fare for the service furnished as he may establish. All moneys col-
lected as fares from such employees shall be accounted for and shall 
be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of mis-
cellaneous receipts. The authority herein granted the Administra-
tor of Veterans' Affairs shall be exercised with respect to any station 
only after determination by the ^Administrator that existing private 
and other facilities are not and cannot be rendered adequate by other 
means, and that its exercise will result in the most efficient method 
of supplying transportation to the personnel concerned and a proper 
utilization of transportation facilities. 
Approved June 18, 1953. 
Public Law 69 
CHAPTER 128 
AN ACT 
To provide for the suspension of the imposition or execution of sentence in certain 
cases in the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia and in the Juvenile 
Court of the District of Columbia. 
June 18, 1953 
[H. R. 1832] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Co7igress assembled. That in all cases in 
the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, and in the Juvenile 
Court of the District of Columbia, the municipal court or the juvenile 
court, as the case may be, shall have power upon conviction to suspend 
the imposition of sentence or to impose sentence and suspend the 
execution thereof, if it should appear to the satisfaction of the court 
that the ends of justice and the best interests of the public and of the 
defendant would be served thereby. In each case of the imposition of 
sentence and the suspension of the execution thereof, the municipal 
court may, in its discretion, place the defendant on probation as pro-
vided by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 864; sec. 24-102, 
D. C. Code, 1940), and the juvenile court may, in its discretion, place 
the defendant on probation as provided by the Act approved June 1, 
1938 (52 Stat. 601; sec. 11-919, D. C. Code, 1940), by the Act approved 
March 23,1906, as amended (34 Stat. 86; sec. 22-903, D. C. Code, 1940), 
or by the k.Q,t approved February 4, 1925 (43 Stat. 807; sec. 31-207, 
D. d. Code, 1940), as the case may be. 
Approved June 18, 1953. 
D. C. municipal 
and 
j u v e n i l e 
courts. 
Sentence powers. 
Public Law 70 
CHAPTER 129 
AN ACT 
To revive and reenact the Act of December 21, 1944, authorizing the City of Clin-
ton Bridge Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and 
approaches thereto across the Mississippi River, at or near the cities of Clinton, 
Iowa, and Fulton, Illinois, as amended. 
June 18, 1953 
[H. R. 2761] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act ap-
proved December 21,1944, entitled "An Act creating the City of Clin-
ton Bridge Commission and authorizing said commission and its 
successors to acquire by purchase or condemnation and to construct, 
maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi River 
at or near Clinton, Iowa, and at or near Fulton, Illinois", as amended, 
be, and is hereby, revived and reenacted: Provided, That this Act shall 
be null and void unless the actual construction of the bridge herein 
referred to be commenced within two years and completed within four 
years from the date of approval hereof. 
Bridge. 
58 Stat. 846.