An Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes
PL 83-468 (H.R.9517), enacted 07/01/1954

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Public Law 468 
CHAPTER 449 
July 1, 1954 
[H. R. 9517] 
AN ACT 
District of 
C o -
lumbia Appropria-
tion Act, 1955. 
Ante, p. 104. 
Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other 
activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes. 
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That there are appro-
priated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 
30, 1955, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia 
(unless otherwise herein specifically provided), hereinafter known as 
the general fund, such fund being composed of the revenues of the 
District of Columbia other than those applied by law to special funds, 
and $20,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced 
July 1, 1954, and of which $7,000,000 shall be availaole for capital 
outlay only), (2) the highway fund (when designated as payable 
therefrom), established by law (D. C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), (3) the 
water fund (when designated as payable therefrom), established by 
law (D. C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,298,000, which is hereby 
appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1,1954), (4) the sanitary 
sewage works fund (when designated as payable therefrom), estab-
lished by law (Public Law 364, 83d Congress), and $592,000, which is 
hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1,1954), and (5) the 
motor vehicle parking fund (when designated as payable therefrom), 
established by law (D. C. Code, title 40, ch. 8), sums as follows: 
OPERATING E X P E N S E S 
For expenses necessary for the offices and agencies named under this 
general head: 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE 
Executive office, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate 
the Engineer Commissioner at a rate equal to each civilian member of 
the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, hereafter 
in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; compensation and 
expenses of members of the Apprenticeship Council and the Redevel-
opment Land Agency; aid in support of the National Conference of 
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; general advertising in news-
papers (including the District of Columbia Register) and legal peri-
odicals in the District of Columbia but not elsewhere, unless the need 
for advertising outside the District of Columbia shall have been 
specifically approved by the Commissioners, including notices of pub-
lic hearings, publication of orders and regulations, tax and school 
notices, and notices of changes in regulations; expenses of Youth 
Council; ceremony expenses; development of a comprehensive pro-
gram for slum clearance, by contract or otherwise, as may be deter-
mined by the Commissioners; and expenses in case of emergency, such 
as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, flood, fire, or storm, 
and for expenses oi investigations; $307,565, of which $25,000 shall 
be available for expenditure by the American Legion 1954 Convention 
Corporation in connection with the 1954 National Convention of the 
American Legion, subject to reimbursement from the American Legion 
if receipts exceed expenses: Provided^ That the certificate of the Com-
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missioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of $1,500 of 
this appropriation for such purposes, exclusive of ceremony expenses, 
as they may deem necessary. 
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
Department of General Administration, including the rental of 
postage meters and affiliation with the National Safety Council, 
Incorporated, $2,945,522, of which $60,000 shall be payable from the 
highway fund, $15,000 from the water fund, and $800 from the motor 
vehicle parking fund: Provided^ That this appropriation shall be 
available for advertising, for not more than once a week for two weeks 
in the regular issue of one newspaper published in the District of 
Columbia, the list of all taxes on real property and all special assess-
ments, together with penalties and costs, in arrears, the cost of such 
advertising to be reimbursed to the general fund by a charge to be 
fixed annually by the Commissioners for each lot or piece of property 
advertised: Provided further^ That this appropriation shall be avail-
able for refunding, wholly or in part, school tuition, lost library 
books, building permits, and other payments which have been erro-
neously made during the present and past three years. 
OFFICE OF CORPORATION 
COUNSEL 
Office of the Corporation Counsel, including extra compensation 
for the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Public Utilities 
Commission; $10,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of 
$250 each in accordance with the Act of February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 
1160), as amended by the Act of June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); and 
D. c. code 1-902. 
judicial expenses, including witness fees and expert services, in District 
of Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the 
District of Columbia; $428,585, of which $12,000 shall be payable 
from the highway fund. 
COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND 
EXPENSES 
Compensation and retirement fund expenses, including District 
government 
employees' 
compensation; 
administrative 
expenses, 
workmen's compensation, to be transferred 
to the Bureau of 
Employees' Compensation for administration of the law providing 
compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to 
employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia; 
financing the liability of the government of the District of Columbia 
to the "Civil service retirement and disability fund" and the "Teachers' 
retirement and annuity fund"; and relief and other allowances as 
authorized by law for policemen and firemen; $10,207,000, of which 
$2,532,000 shall be placed to the credit of the "Civil service retirement 
and disability fund''. 
REGULATORY AGENCIES 
Regulatory agencies, including juror fees, repairs to the morgue, 
and uniforms and caps for guards, $918,204. 
DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 
Department of Occupations and Professions, including compensa-
tion at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of three members of 
the Board of Accountancy, five members of the Board of Examiners 
and Registrars of Architects, two members of the Board of Barber 
Examiners, three members of the Board of Cosmetology, five mem-
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60 Stat. 810. 
Double salaries. 
39 Stat. 120. 
5 u s e 58, 59. 
bers of the Board of Dental Examiners, five members of the Board of 
Examiners in the Basic Sciences, five members of the Board of Exam-
iners in Medicine and Osteopathy, five members of the Board of 
Kegistration of Professional Engineers, five members of the Nurses' 
Examining Board, five members of the Board of Optometry, five mem-
bers of the Board of Pharmacy, three members of the Board of 
Podiatry Examiners, two members of the Real Estate Commission, 
five members of the Board of Examiners of Veterinary Medicine, 
two members of the District Boxing Commission, four members of the 
Electrical Examining Board, two members of the Plumbing Board, 
two members of the Board of Examiners of Steam and Other Oper-
ating Engineers, one member of the Motion Picture Operators' Ex-
amining Board, and five members of the Undertakers' Examining 
Committee, $264,000. 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
Public schools, for the administration of and supervision and 
instruction in the public school system of the District of Columbia, 
including the education of foreigners of all ages in the Americaniza-
tion schools; not to exceed $65,000 for the purchase, cleaning, and 
repair of athletic apparel and accessories; subsistence supplies for 
pupils enrolled in classes for crippled children; maintenance and 
instruction of deaf, dumb and blind children of the District of Colum-
bia by contract entered into by the Commissioners upon recommenda-
tion by the Board of Education of the District of Columbia; trans-
portation of children attending schools or classes established for 
physically handicapped pupils; for carrying out the provisions of 
the Act of December 16, 1944 (58 Stat. 811) ; distribution of surplus 
commodities and relief milk to public and charitable institutions, and 
for the carrying out, under regulations to be prescribed by the Board 
of Education, of a "penny milk" program for the schoolchildren of 
the District, including the purchase and distribution of milk under 
agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture; 
$300,950 for development of vocational education in the District of 
Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended; 
operation, repair, maintenance and improvement of public school 
buildings, grounds and equipment; purchase of equipment including 
not to the exceed $25,000 for the purchase and repair of musical instru-
ments and related equipment and supplies; and purchase, operation, 
repair, maintenance and insurance of passenger-carrying motor 
vehicles, including District-owned or borrowed passenger motor 
vehicles; $27,626,570, of which $3,000 shall be available for the services 
of experts and consultants as authorized by section 15 of the Act of 
August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates not exceeding $50 per 
diem plus travel expenses for such individuals: Provided^ That the 
compensation for summer school personnel may be charged to the 
appropriation for the fiscal year .in which the pay periods end: Pro-
vided further^ That collections from the milk program shall be paid 
to the Collector of Taxes, District of Columbia, for deposit in the 
Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District. 
Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropria-
tion Act, approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply from 
July 1 to August 28, 1954, to teachers of the public schools of the 
District of Columbia when employed by any of the executive 
departments or independent establishments of the United States 
Government. 
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PUBLIC LIBRARY 
Public Library, including extra services on Sundays and holidays; 
music records, sound recordings, and educational films; alterations, 
repairs; fitting up buildings; care of grounds; and rent of suitable 
quarters for branch libraries in Anacostia and Woodrid^e without 
reference to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 
D^c!c:o<if M43. 
1945, $1,611,000. 
RECREATION DEPARTMENT 
Recreation Department, for operation and maintenance of recrea-
tion facilities in and for the District of Columbia, $1,641,000. 
METROPOLITAN POLICE 
Metropolitan Police, including pay and allowances; the inspector in 
charge of the traffic division with the rank and pay of deputy chief; 
one captain who shall be assigned to the traffic division with the rank 
and pay of inspector; one inspector who shall be property clerk; the 
lieutenants in command of the homicide squad, robbery squad, general 
assignment squad, special investigation squad, with the rank and pay 
of captain while so assigned; the detective sergeants in command of 
the automobile and bicycle squad, and the check and fraud squad with 
the rank and pay of lieutenant while so assigned; the detective sergeant 
assigned as administrative assistant to the chief of detectives with the 
rank and pay of lieutenant while so assigned; the present acting ser-
geant in charge of police automobiles with the rank and pay of ser-
geant ; the present sergeant in charge of the police radio station with 
the rank and pay of lieutenant; the present sergeant in charge of 
purchasing and accounts with the rank and pay of lieutenant; the 
lieutenant in charge of the Metropolitan Police "Boys' Club with the 
rank and pay of captain; the lieutenant assigned as harbor master 
with the rank and pay of captain; not to exceed one detective 
in the salary grade of captain; civilian crossing guards including uni-
forms and equipment, at rates of pay and hours of employment to be 
fixed by the Commissioners; compensation of civilian trial board mem-
bers at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; allowances for privately 
owned automobiles used by deputy chiefs and inspectors in the per-
formance of official duties at $480 per annum for each automobile; 
meals for prisoners; rewards for fugitives; medals of award; photo-
graphs, rental, purchase, and maintenance of radio and teletype sys-
tems ; travel expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime; 
expenses of attendance, without loss of pay or time, at specialized police 
training classes and pistol matches, including tuition and entrance 
fees; expenses of the police training school, including travel 
expenses of visiting lecturers or experts in criminology; expenses of 
traffic school; police equipment and repairs to same; insignia of office, 
uniforms, and other official equipment, including cleaning, alteration, 
and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, or 
damaged in the performance of duty; purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles; expenses of harbor patrol; and the maintenance of a suitable 
place for the reception and detention of girls and women over sev-
enteen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against 
any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or 
held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise; 
$12,757,520, of which amount $1,675,000 shall be payable from the high-
way fund and $49,440 from the motor vehicle parking fund, and 
$35,000 shall be exclusively available for expenditure bv the Chief of 
Police for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate, 
approved by the Commissioners and every such certificate shall be 
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deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have 
been expended. 
c<^en«^^*^^*'" 
Metropolitan Police (additional municipal services, American 
Overtime, etc. 
Legiou Couvention), to enable the Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia to provide additional municipal services in said District 
from August 26 to September 7, 1954, both inclusive, including the 
employment of personal services, payment of allowances, payment at 
basic salary rates for services performed by members of the uniformed 
force in excess of eight hours per day (but not to exceed a total of 
twelve hours overtime pay to any individual member performing serv-
ice within such period), traveling expenses, hire of means of trans-
portation, cost of removing and relocating streetcar-loading platforms; 
and for the construction, rent, maintenance, and expenses incident to 
the operation of temporary public comfort stations, first-aid stations, 
and information booths, during the period aforesaid, and other inci-
dental expenses in the discretion of the Commissioners; $80,000. 
FIRE DEPARTMENT 
Fire Department, including pay and allowances; compensation of 
civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; 
uniforms and other official equipment, including cleaning, alteration, 
and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another or 
damaged in the performance of duty; purchase and maintenance of 
radio equipment; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; repairs and 
improvements to buildings and grounds; $6,266,641: Provided, That 
the Commissioners in their discretion may authorize the construction, 
in whole or in part, of fire-fighting apparatus in the Fire Department 
repair shop. 
VETERANS' SERVICES 
Veterans'services, $93,000. 
OFFICE OP CIVIL DEFENSE 
Office of Civil Defense, including personal services without ref-
erence to the civil service laws as related to recruitment, purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles, and a shelter survey by contract or otherwise, 
as may be determined by the Commissioners, $150,000: Provided^ That 
not to exceed $50,000 of any funds from appropriations available to 
the District of Columbia may be used to match financial contributions 
from the Federal Civil Defense Administration to the District of 
Columbia Office of Civil Defense for the purchase of civil defense 
equipment and supplies approved by the Federal Civil Defense 
Administration, when authorized by the Commissioners. 
COURTS 
Courts, including the Juvenile Court, the Municipal Court, the 
Municipal Court of Appeals, and the District of Colunibia Tax Court, 
including pay of retired judges; lodging and meals for jurors, bailiffs, 
and deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, 
when ordered by the courts; meals for prisoners; and reimbursement 
to the United States for services rendered to the District of Columbia 
by the Judiciary, General Services Administration, and the Depart-
ment of Justice; $3,163,410, of which $20,000 shall be available for 
payment to the United States Public Health Service for furnishing 
psychiatric service to the Juvenile Court, including the detail of neces-
sary medical and other personnel, and $230,000 shall be available for 
advances on reimbursement to the General Services Administration 
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for one-half of the cost of operation, maintenance, and repair of the 
Federal Courts Building, as provided in the Act of May 14, 1948 
(62 Stat. 235) : Provided^ That deposits made on demands for jury ^^\ ^' ^°^^ ^^' 
trials in accordance with rules prescribed by the Municipal Court 
under authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 
3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days 7
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before the time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holi-
days, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or 
settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. 
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC 
HEALTH 
Department of Public Health, including services for tuberculosis, 
venereal disease, hygiene and sanitation work in schools, dental health, 
maternal and child health, housekeeping assistance in cases of authentic 
indigent sick, handicapped and crippled children, cancer control, 
control of heart disease, public health engineering, nursing, psychiatry, 
ambulances, laboratories, out-patient relief of the poor, medical and 
surgical supplies, artificial limbs and appliances, eyeglasses, fees to 
physicians under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health 
and approved by the Commissioners, contract investigational service, 
uniforms, rent, manufacture of serum in indigent cases, allowances 
for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official 
duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate of 7 cents per mile but 
not more than $840 per annum for each automobile, subsistence in lieu 
of salary for the full-time employment of persons for the purpose of 
securing training and experience in their future vocations; not to 
exceed $1,000 for attendance without loss of pay or time at specialized 
medical or public health training courses or institutes, tuition and 
entrance fees, and travel expenses and fees for visiting lecturers or 
experts in public health and related fields; operation of hospitals, com-
pensation of consulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by 
the Commissioners, compensation of convalescent patients to be 
employed in essential work and as an aid to their rehabilitation at rates 
and under conditions to be determined by the Commissioners (but 
nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as conferfing employee 
status on patients whose services are so utilized), classroom supplies, 
uniforms for guards, training school for nurses, repairs and improve-
ments to buildings and grounds, support of indigent insane, deporta-
tion of nonresident insane persons (including persons held in the 
psychopathic ward of the District of Columbia General Hospital), 
reimbursement to the United States for services rendered to the Dis-
trict of Columbia by Freedmen's Hospital, and for care and treatment 
of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Director of Pub-
lic Health of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commis-
sioners with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, Children's 
Hospital, Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, Episcopal Eye, 
Ear and Throat Hospital, Garfield Memorial Hospital, George Wash-
ington University Hospital, Georgetown University Hospital, Provi-
dence Hospital, Washington Home for Incurables, and Children's 
Convalescent Home, $22,636,000: Provided, That the in-patient rate 
under such contracts and for services rendered by Freedmen's Hospital 
shall not exceed $14 per diem and the out-patient rate shall not exceed 
$2.40 per visit: Provided further, That amounts to be determined by 
the Commissioners may be expended for special services in detecting 
adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk and other 
products and services subject to inspection by the Department of 
Public Health: Provided 
further, 
That employees using privately 
owned automobiles for the deportation of nonresident insane may be 
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5 use 835 note, reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 1949 (63 Stat. 166), 
but not to exceed $900 for any one individual. 
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 
Department of Corrections, inchiding subsistence of interns; com-
pensation of consulting physicians, dentists, and other specialists at 
rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; attendance of guards at pistol 
and rifle matches; uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel 
necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; 
rental of motion picture films; repairs and improvements to buildings 
and grounds; purchase of motorbusses; support, maintenance, and 
transportation of prisoners transferred from the District of Columbia; 
interment or transporting the remains of deceased prisoners to their 
relatives or friends in the United States; electrocutions; identifying, 
pursuing, recapturing (including rewards therefor), and returning to 
institutions, escaped inmates and parole and conditional-release vio-
lators ; and returning released prisoners to their residences, or to such 
other place within the United States as may be authorized by the 
Director, and the furnishing of suitable clothing, and in the discretion 
of the Director, an amount of money not to exceed $30, regardless of 
length of sentence; $4,374,674. 
PUBLIC WEU'ARE 
Department of Public Welfare, including the general administration 
of public welfare in the District of Columbia, contract investigational 
services, certification of persons eligible for any public benefits which 
are or may become available under rules and regulations prescribed by 
the Commissioners, or their designated agent, relief and rehabilitation 
for purposes of employment of indigent residents of the District of 
Columbia (to be expended under rules and regulations prescribed by 
the Commissioners or their designated agent or agency), vocational 
rehabilitation of disabled residents, aid to dependent children, assist-
ance against old-age want, aid for needy blind persons, services for 
children in their own homes, maintenance pending transportation, and 
transportation of indigent persons (including veterans and their 
families), burial of indigent residents of the District of Columbia, 
placing and visiting children, board and care of children committed to 
the guardianship of the Department of Public Welfare by the courts 
of the District and children accepted by said Department of Public 
Welfare for care as authorized by law, temporary care of children 
pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, 
with authority to pay for the care of children in institutions under 
sectarian control, continuous maintenance of foster homes for tem-
porary or emergency board and care of nondelinquent children, care 
and maintenance of women and children under contracts to be made 
by the Commissioners or their duly authorized agent with the Florence 
Crittenton Home, Saint Ann's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital, 
the House of Mercy, and other institutions caring for unmarried 
mothers, burial of children dying while beneficiaries under this appro-
priation, operation of protective institutions, repairs and improve-
ments to buildings and grounds, purchase of passenger, truck and bus 
motor vehicles, maintenance of a suitable place in a building entirely 
separate and apart from the house of detention for the reception and 
detention of children under eighteen years of age arrested by the police 
on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of 
Columbia or committed to the guardianship of the Department of 
Public Welfare, or held as witnesses or held temporarily, or pending 
hearing, or otherwise, and male witnesses eighteen years of age or 
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over shall be held at the District of Columbia General Hospital, 
subsistence in lieu of salary for full-time employment of persons for 
the purpose of securing training and experience in their future voca-
tions, supervision of students performing voluntary services for the 
purpose of obtaining training and experience in their future vocations, 
compensation of consulting physicians and veterinarians at rates to 
be fixed by the Commissioners, securing suitable homes for paroled 
or discharged children, and care and maintenance of boys committed 
to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District 
of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Commissioners or 
their designated agent with the Attorney General at a rate of not to 
exceed the actual cost for each boy committed, $8,885,061: Provided^ 
That when specifically authorized by the Commissioners this appro-
priation may be used for visiting any ward of the Department of 
Public Welfare placed outside of the District of Columbia and the 
States of Virginia and Maryland, and the Department of Public 
Welfare shall have power to discharge from guardianship any child 
committed to its care: Provided further^ That employees using pri-
vately owned automobiles for the transportation of indigent persons 
or the placing of children may be reimbursed as authorized by the 
Act of June 9, 1949 (63 Stat. 166), but not to exceed $900 for any 
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one individual: Provided further^ That hereafter the Industrial Home gchoofs"/^**^""" °^ 
School for Colored Girls shall be combined with and become a part of 
the Industrial Home School for Colored Children. 
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Department of Buildings and Grounds, including uniforms and caps 
for guards and elevator operators and maintenance of public con-
venience stations, and $5,000 exclusively for test borings and soil 
investigations, $1,675,642, of which $8,900 shall be payable from the 
highway fund. 
All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the Department 
of Buildings and Grounds in payment of personal services employed 
on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be 
based on an amount not exceeding 4 per centum of a total of not more 
than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects 
and not exceeding 3% per centum of a total of the appropriations in 
excess of $2,000,000, and appropriations specifically made in this Act 
for the preparation of plans and specifications shall be deducted from 
any allowances authorized under this paragraph: Provided^ That 
reimbursements may be made to this fund from appropriations con-
tained in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District 
government, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appro-
priations: Provided 
further, That this fund shall be available for 
advance planning subject to subsequent reimbursement from funds 
loaned by the Administrator of General Services under the provisions 
of the Act of October 13, 1949 (63 Stat. 841). 
OFFICE OF SURVEYOR 
Office of the Surveyor, $149,200. 
DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND 
INSPECTIONS 
Department of Licenses and Inspections, including the enforcement 
of the Act requiring the erection of fire escapes on certain buildings 
and the removal of dangerous or unsafe or insanitary buildings; com-
pensation at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of members of 
the unsafe structure and excavation board; maintenance and repairs to 
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markets; purchase of commodities and for personal services in con-
nection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and 
measure; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement 
only; $1,378,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS 
Department of Highways, including operation, minor construction, 
maintenance, and repair of bridges; repairs to streets, avenues, roads, 
sidewalks, and alleys; reconditioning existing gravel streets and roads; 
purchase, installation, modification, operation of electric traffic lights, 
signals, controls, markers, signs, and directional signs; installation 
and maintenance of parking meters; operation and maintenance of the 
District's communication systems, including rental, purchase, installa-
tion, and maintenance of telephone, telegraph, and radio services; 
street lighting, including the installation and maintenance of public 
lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all 
kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, to be ex-
pended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the 
District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 
D^c.^code 7-701 Stat. 1008), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia 
Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat, 181), and other 
laws applicable thereto; purchase, propagation, maintenance and 
planting of trees and shrubs, and maintenance of landscaping of public 
space along streets; refunding collections erroneously covered into 
the Treasury to the credit of the highway fund during the present 
and past three fiscal years; such expenses to include purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles; $5,768,600, of which $3,761,612 shall be 
payable from the highway fund: Provided^ That the Commissioners 
are hereby authorized to purchase and install a municipal asphalt 
plant including all auxiliary plant equipment to be paid for from 
this appropriation at a cost not to exceed $150,000: Provided 
further^ 
That this appropriation shall not be available for refunds authorized 
43 stau 108. 
by sectlou 10 of the Act of April 23,1924. 
to 7-705. 
D. C. Code 47-
1910. 
DEPARTMENT OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC 
Department of Vehicles and Traffic (payable from highway fund), 
including purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic 
signals and controls; purchase of motor-vehicle identification number 
plates; $25,000 for traffic safety education without reference to any 
other law; $200 for membership in the American Association of Motor 
Vehicle Administrators; purchase of not to exceed two passenger 
motor vehicles; expenses of the Motor-Vehicle Parking Agency; and 
uniforms for motor vehicle inspectors and permit 
examiners; 
$1,238,365, of which $235,406 Shall be payable from the motor-vehicle 
parking fund and $9,000 payable from the general fund: 
Provided., 
That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar 
loading platforms and lights of any description employed to dis-
tinguish same, except that a permanent type of platform may be con-
structed from appropriations contained in this Act for street improve-
ments when plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public 
Utilities Commission and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic and 
the street-railway company shall after construction maintain, mark, 
and light the same at its expense: Provided further^ That the Com-
missioners are authorized and empowered to pay the purchase price 
and the cost of installation of new parking meters or devices from 
fees collected from such new meters or devices, which fees are hereby 
appropriated for such purpose: Provided further., That the Commis-
sioners are authorized and directed to designate, reserve, and properly 
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mark appropriate and sufficient parking spaces on the streets adjacent 
to all public buildings in the District for the use of Members of Con-
gress engaged on public business: Provided further^ That the incum-
bent on July 1, 1944, of the authorized position of Registrar of Titles 
and Tags, whose duties shall be as prescribed in the District of Colum-
bia Appropriation Act, 1945, shall hereafter be continued for com- 
xu%Tcldl' AO-
pensation purposes in grade 9 of the general schedule under the eoa'a. 
Classification Act of 1949, as amended. 
"us*c*io^7^i*note. 
DEPARTMENT OF SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Department of Sanitary Engineering, including operation and 
maintenance of the District of Columbia water distribution system, 
installing and repairing Avater meters on services to private residences 
and business places as may not be required to install meters under exist-
ing regulations (said meters to remain the property of the District of 
Columbia), replacement of old watermains, service pipes, and divide 
valves, water waste and leakage survey, repair of reservoirs, purchase 
of passenger motor vehicles, purchase and replacement of uniforms 
for water meter inspectors, refunding of water rents and other water 
and sewer service charges erroneously paid in the District of Columbia 
(to be refunded in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding 
of erroneously paid taxes and to be available for such refunds of 
payments made within the present and past three fiscal years), clean-
ing and repairing sewers and basins, operation and maintenance of the 
sewage pumping service arid sewage-treatment plant, repairs to equip-
ment, machinery, and structures, control and prevention of the spread 
of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia, contribution of the District 
of Columbia to the expenses of the Interstate Commission on the 
Potomac River Basin, collection and disposal of refuse and street 
cleaning, repair and maintenance of plants, buildings, and grounds, 
and fencing of public and private property designated by the Com-
missioners as public dumps, $9,732,740, of which $99,000 shall be 
payable from the highway fund for cleaning snow and ice from streets, 
sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters, in the discretion of the Com-
missioners, $2,578,303 shall be payable from the water fund, and 
$1,250,686 shall be payable from the sanitary sewage works fund: 
Provided^ That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting 
ashes or miscellaneous reiuse from hotels and places of business or 
from apartment houses of four or more apartments having a central 
heating system, or from any building or connected group of buildings 
operated as a rooming, boarding, or lodging house having a total of 
more than twenty-five rooms. 
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT 
Washington Aqueduct (payable from the water fund), for the 
operation, maintenance, repair, and protection of Washington water 
supply facilities and their accessories, and maintenance of MacArthur 
Boulevard; including replacement and maintenance of water meters on 
Federal services; purchase of two passenger motor vehicles; and 
fluoridation of water, $2,127,000: Provided^ That transfer of appro-
priations for operating expenses and capital outlay may be made 
between the Department of Sanitary Engineering of the District of 
Columbia and the Washington Aqueduct upon mutual agreement of 
the Commissioners and the Secretary of the Army. 
Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence 
and control of the Secretary of the Army over the Washington 
Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the 
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[68 STAT, 
same, and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now 
provided by law. 
NATIONAL GUARD 
National Guard of the District of Columbia, including attendance 
at meetings of associations pertaining to the National Guard; expenses 
of camps, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for 
enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States 
property at home stations on days immediately preceding and 
immediately following the annual encampments; reimbursement to 
the United States for loss of property for which the District of 
Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and repairing uniforms, 
arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and maintenance of 
athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at armory or field 
encampments; practice marches, drills, and parades; rents of armories, 
drill halls, and storehouses: advertising incident to recruiting; care 
and repair of armories, offices, storehouses, machinery, and dock, 
including dredging alongside of dock; alterations and additions to 
present structures; construction of buildings for storage and other 
purposes; $114,800. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS 
National Capital Parks, including maintenance, care, and improve-
ment of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagat-
ing gardens and greenhouses, and the tourists' camp on its present 
site in East Potomac Park under the jurisdiction of the National Park 
Service; placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition 
for outdoor sports, erection of stands, furnishing and placing of chairs, 
and services incident thereto in connection with national, patriotic, 
civic, and recreational functions held in the parks, including the Presi-
dent's Cup Regatta, and expenses incident to the conducting of band 
concerts in the parks; such expenses to include pay and allowances of 
the United States Park Police force; per diem employees at rates of 
pay approved by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding current 
rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; 
uniforming and equipping the United States Park Police force; the 
purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage 
of revolvers, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equipment and the 
rental of teletype service; and the purchase of passenger motor vehicles, 
bicycles, motorcycles, and self-propelled machinery; the hire of draft 
animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the Secre-
tary of the Interior; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, 
harness, and wagons; $2,344,000, of which $25,000 shall be payable 
from the highway fund: Provided., That not to exceed $15,000 of the 
amount herein appropriated may be expended for the erection of 
minor auxiliary structures: Provided 
further., That funds appro-
priated under or transferred to this head for services rendered by the 
National Park Service shall be expended by expenditure warrant as 
an advance to said service and shall be credited as a repayment and 
maintained in a special account. The amounts so advanced will be 
available for the objects specified herein or in the appropriation from 
which such funds are transferred, any unexpended balance to be 
returned to the appropriation concerned not later than two full fiscal 
years after the close of the current fiscal year. 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
National Zoological Park, including erecting and repairing build-
ings ; care and improvement of grounds; travel, including travel for 
the procurement of live specimens; purchase, care, and transportation 
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389 
of specimens; purchase of motorcycles and passenger motor vehicles; 
revolvers and ammunition; purchase of uniforms and equipment for 
police, and uniforms for keepers and assistant keepers; $645,000: 
Provided^ That funds appropriated under this head shall be expended 
by expenditure warrant as an advance to the National Zoological Park 
and shall be credited as a repayment and maintained in a special 
account. The amounts so advanced will be available for the objects 
herein specified, any unexpended balance to be returned to this appro-
priation not later than two full fiscal years after the close of the cur-
rent fiscal year. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
DISTRICT DEBT SERVICE 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned, in com-
pliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
^^ ^c^^^'ct^i; g. 
amended, $250,000. 
loe'note. 
PUBLIC BUILDING 
CONSTItUCTION 
Capital Outlay, Public Building Construction: For acquisition of 
public school sites; preparation of plans and specifications for the fol-
lowing buildings: replacement of the Amidon-Greenleaf Elementary 
School, elementary school in the vicinity of Sixth Street and Riggs 
Road Northeast, elementary school in the vicinity of Thirteenth and S 
Streets Northwest, branch library building in Woodridge, operating 
suite addition at the District of Columbia General Hospital, and new 
Metropolitan Police Women's Bureau Building; erection of the 
following structures, including building improvement and alteration 
and the treatment of grounds: Patterson Elementary School addition. 
Draper Elementary School addition, Junior High School in the 
vicinity of Fourth Street and Mississippi Avenue Southeast, Junior 
High School in the vicinity of Minnesota Avenue and Foote Street 
Northeast, Shepherd Elementary School addition, Van Ness Elemen-
tary School replacement, Calvin Coolidge Senior High School Sta-
dium, branch library building ^n Anacostia, addition to Cleveland 
Park branch library, new tuberculosis and psychiatric buildings at the 
District of Columbia General Hospital (including equipment), build-
ings for employees at the Children's Center, Receiving Home addition, 
and two infirmary ward buildings at the District Training School; 
$400,000 for purchase of equipment for new school buildings; and per-
manent improvement of buildings and grounds (including purchase of 
furnishings and equipment, elimination of fire hazards, and road 
construction) of schools, firehouses, hospitals, welfare institutions, 
and other District of Columbia buildings; to remain available until 
expended, $15,712,000, of which $8,000,000 shall not become available 
for expenditure until July 1, 1955, and $631,400 shall be available 
for construction services by the Director of Buildings and Grounds 
or by contract with architectural engineering firms, as may be 
determined by the Commissioners, and the funds for the use of the 
Director of Buildings and Grounds shall be advanced to the 
appropriation 
account, "Construction 
Services, Department 
of 
Buildings and Grounds": Provided^ That the unexpended balance of 
the appropriation of $343,500 for the Cleveland Park branch library, 
contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1952, 
^s stat. 159. 
shall be available toward construction of the addition provided for 
herein. 
The appropriations for "Capital outlay, protective institutions," 
contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts, 1951 and 
1952, shall be available for constructing such additional water stfuTeal ^^^' ^^ 
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[68 STAT. 
purification and transmission facilities at Fort George G. Meade, 
Maryland, as may be necessary to provide for a supply of water to 
the District Training School and the Children's Center under 
agreements to be entered into by the Commissioners and the Secretary 
of the Army, and the said appropriations shall be available for advance 
payment to the United States for work to be performed, subject to 
subsequent adjustment. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, MISCELLANEOUS 
Capital outlay, miscellaneous: For improvement of various recrea-
tion units, including preparation of architectural plans and erection 
of recreation structures without regard to the Act of August 24, 1912 
37 Stat. 444. 
(40 U. S. C. 68) ; improvements and alterations to heating plant at 
Keformatory; construction and equipping of dormitory at Work-
house; preparation of plans and specifications for Youth Correctional 
Center; construction of public restroom building at National Zoologi-
cal Park, including office and storage space for police and maintenance 
forces; to remain available until expended, $966,000, of which $275,280 
shall be available for construction services by the Director of Build-
ings and Grounds or by contract with architectural engineering firms, 
as may be determined by the Commissioners, and the funds for the 
use of the Director of Buildings and Grounds shall be advanced to 
the appropriation account, "Construction Services, Department of 
Buildings and Grounds": Provided, That in the construction work 
hereby authorized and to be done by the Department of Corrections, 
brick used shall be furnished without charge by the Working Capital 
Fund, Workhouse and Reformatory. 
DEPARTMENT OP HIGHWAYS 
Capital outlay, Department of Highways: For expenses necessary 
for the grading, surfacing, paving, repaving, widening, altering, pur-
chase and installation of traffic lights, and otherwise improving streets, 
avenues, roads, and alleys, including curbing and gutters, directional 
and pedestrian islands at various intersections to permit proper traffic 
light control and channelization of traffic, drainage structures, culverts, 
suitable connections to storm water sewer system, retaining walls, 
replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains, fire hydrants, 
traffic lights, street lights, fire-alarm boxes, police-patrol boxes, and 
curb-line trees, when necessary, Federal-aid highway projects under 
23 use "b.* 
section 1 (b) of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, and highway 
structure projects financed wholly from the highway fund upon the 
approval of plans for such structures by the Commissioners; for 
carrying out the provisions of existing laws which authorize the 
Commissioners to open, extend, straighten, or widen streets, avenues, 
roads, or highways, in accordance with the plan of the permanent 
system of highways for the District of Columbia, and alleys and minor 
streets, and for the establishment of building lines in the District of 
Columbia, including the procurement of chains of title; and for assess-
ment and permit work, paving of roadways under the permit system, 
and construction of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations 
and municipal and United States buildings, including purchase or 
condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and of areas less than two 
hundred and fifty feet square at the intersection of streets, avenues, 
or roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the Commis-
sioners ; placing underground, relocating, and extending the telephone, 
police-patrol and fire-alarm cable and circuit distribution systems; 
installing and extending radio systems; and purchase of lampposts, 
street designations, and fixtures of all kinds; to remain available until 
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391 
expended, $11,810,000, of which $11,410,000 shall be payable from the 
highway fund; and, when requested by the Commissioners, $3,357,000, 
or so much thereof as may be necessary (which is hereby appropriated 
for that purpose from any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated), shall be advanced by the Secretary of the Treasury to 
the highway fund of the District of Columbia for highway construc-
tion pursuant to the provisions of Public Law 364, 83d Congress: 
Ante,p. no. 
Provided, That in connection with the purchase and installation of a 
municipal asphalt plant on District-owned property the Commissioners 
are authorized to make expenditures from this appropriation in an 
amount not exceeding $150,000 for the preparation of the site, includ-
ing the construction of seawalls, dock facilities, and a railroad siding: 
Provided 
further, 
That in connection with the highway-planning 
survey, involving surveys, plans, engineering, and economic investi-
gations of projects for future construction in the District of Columbia, 
as provided for under section 10 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 
1938, and in connection with the construction of Federal-aid highway stauT^ee/^^' ^^ 
projects under section 1 (b) of said Act, and highway-structure 
2
3
* use 9a-1. 
projects financed wholly from the highway fund, this appropriation 
23 u^c 4nf.* 
and the appropriation "Operating expenses, Department of Highways" 
shall be available for the employment of engineering or other pro-
fessional services by contract or otherwise, and without regard to 
section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classi- 
•
*
^ ^^^ 5. 
fication laws, and section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 
55a), and for engineering and incidental expenses: Provided further, 
^° ^
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* *^°* 
That this appropriation and the appropriation "Operating expenses, 
Department of Highways'' shall be available for the construction and 
repair of pavements of street railways, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Merger Act (47 Stat. 752), and the proportion of the 604*nft'e.^ ° *
*
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amount thus expended which under the terms of the said Act is 
required to be paid by the street-railway company shall be collected, 
upon the neglect or the refusal of such street-railway company to make 
such payment, from the said street-railway company in the manner 
provided by section 5 of the Act of June 11,1878, and shall be deposited 
20 sjat^ioe^ ^_ 
to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which it is 604. 
collected: Provided further. That in connection with projects to be 
undertaken as Federal-aid projects under the provisions of the Federal 
Aid Highway Act of December 20, 1944, as amended, the Com- 
s| stat_. s^^^^ 
missioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for those 
projects in such amounts as shall be approved by the Bureau of Public 
Roads, Department of Commerce: Provided further, That the Com-
missioners are hereby authorized to construct grade-crossing elimina-
tion and other wholly District construction projects or those 
authorized under section 8 of the Act of June 16,1936 (49 Stat. 1521), 
23 use 24a. 
and section 1 (b) of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, as amended, 
^^ "^^ '*^*'-
in accordance with the provisions of said Acts, and this appropriation 
may be used for payment to contractors and other expenses in con-
nection with the expenses of surveys, design, construction, and inspec-
tion pending reimbursement to the District of Columbia by the Bureau 
of Public Roads, Department of Commerce, or other parties partici-
pating in such projects, reimbursement to be credited to the appro-
priation from which payment was made: Provided further^. That the 
Commissioners are authorized to fix or alter the respective widths of 
sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all 
highways that may be improved under appropriations contained in 
this Act: Provided further, That no appropriation in this Act shall 
be available for repairing, resurfacing, or paving any street, avenue, 
or roadway by private contract unless the specifications for such work 
shall be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in 
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[68 STAT. 
paving materials as well as in price: Provided further, That in addition 
to the provision of existing law requiring contractors to keep new 
pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date of the 
completion of the work, the Commissioners shall further require that 
where repairs are necessary during the four years following the said 
one-year period, due to inferior work or defective materials, such 
lepairs shall be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond 
furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense: Provided 
further, That this appropriation and the appropriation "Operating 
expenses, Department of Highways" shall be available for advance 
payments to Federal agencies for work to be performed, when ordered 
by the Commissioners, subject to subsequent adjustment. 
DEPARTMENT OF SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Capital outlay. Department of Sanitary Engineering: For construc-
tion of sewers and extension of the District of Columbia water-dis-
tribution system; assessment and permit work; purchase or condem-
nation of rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and repair of 
public sewers; continuing construction on aeration plant and secondary 
sedimentation tanks and restoration of superintendent's residence at 
the Sewage Treatment Plant; laying water mains in advance of paving 
and installing fire and public hydrants; constructing trunk water 
mains and low service reservoir in Brentwood Park; to remain avail-
able until expended, $7,491,000, of which $1,365,000 shall be payable 
from the water fund, and $2,790,000 shall be payable from the sani-
tary sewage works fund; and, when requested by the Commissioners, 
$2,050,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary (which is hereby 
appropriated for that purpose from any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated), shall be advanced by the Secretary of the 
Treasury to the sanitary sewage works fund of the District of Colum-
bia for sanitary sewage works construction pursuant to the provisions 
Ante, p. 104. 
of PubHc Law 364, 83d Congress: Provided, That this appropriation 
and the appropriation "Operating Expenses, Department of Sanitary 
Engineering" shall be available for the employment of engineering or 
other professional services by contract or otherwise, and for engineer-
ing and incidental expenses. 
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell United States 
securities now held for and on account of the water fund of the District 
of Columbia in such amounts as may be certified by the Commissioners 
as necessary and credit the proceeds of such sale to said water fund. 
Capital outlay. Department of Sanitary Engineering (liquidation of 
contract authorization): For liquidation of obligations incurred pur-
suant to authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for 
construction of incinerator numbered 3, $270,000. 
WASHINGTON 
AQUEDUCT 
Capital outlay, Washington Aqueduct (payable from water fund) : 
For continuing construction of Little Falls pumping station, dam and 
rising tunnel; construction of Dalecarlia filter and chemical buildings; 
miscellaneous betterments, replacements, and engineering planning of 
water supply facilities, including continuing raw-water conduit 
rehabilitation, utility relocations, and plant system rearrangements 
and interconnections; reimbursable fund for advance planning of 
future capital outlay projects; purchase and installation of Federal 
meters; acquisition by gift, exchange, purchase, or condemnation of 
supplementary land; and for developing increased water supply for 
the District of Columbia and environs in accordance with House 
Document 480, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session; and necessary 
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398 
expenses incident thereto; including services as authorized by section 
15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates for 
eo stat. sio. 
individual consultants not in excess of $150 per diem; to remain avail-
able until expended, $3,900,000; and, when requested by the Commis-
sioners, $2,550,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary (which is 
hereby appropriated for that purpose from any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated), shall be advanced by the Secretary of 
the Treasury to the water fund of the District of Columbia for water-
works construction pursuant to the provisions of the Act of June 2, 
1950 (Public Law 533,81st Congress). 
S t a t . 
19 5; 
p. 103. 
C. Code 43-
64 
ante, 
D. 
1539, 43-1540. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided herein, all vouchers covering 
expenditures of appropriations contained in this Act shall be audited 
before payment by or under the jurisdiction only of the accounting 
officer for the District of Columbia and the vouchers as approved shall 
be paid by checks issued by the Disbursing Officer without counter-
signature. 
SEC. 3. No part of any appropriation contained 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 the government of the 
District of Columbia, or who is a member of an organization of Gov-
ernment employees that asserts the right to strike against the Govern-
ment of the United States or the government of the District of Colum-
bia, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, 
the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or vio-
lence: 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 or the government of 
the District of Columbia, is not a member of an organization of Gov-
ernment employees that asserts the right to strike against the Govern-
ment of the United States or the government of the District of 
Columbia, 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 
gerson who engages in a strike against the Government of the United 
tates or the government of the District of Columbia 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 
the government of the District of Columbia, 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, and accepts 
employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appro-
priation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon con-
viction, 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. 4. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an appro-
priation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such amount, 
unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maximum amount 
which may be expended for said purpose or object rather than an 
amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 5, Hereafter work performed for repairs and improvements 
may be by contract or otherwise, as determined by the Commissioners; 
and the Commissioners are authorized to establish a working fund for 
such purposes without fiscal year limitation, said fund to be reim-
Vouchers. 
Strikes or over-
t h r o w of Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Maximum amount. 
Repairs and im-
provements. 
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[68 S T A T . 
Automobile 
lowance. 
al-
A t t e n d a n c e at 
meetings. 
I n v e s t m e n t in 
U. S. securities. 
Services. 
60 Stat. 810. 
AdV a n c e s 
money. 
o f 
D. 
211. 
C. C o d e 
8-
bursed for repairs and improvements performed under that fund 
from funds available for these purposes, and payments are authorized 
to be made to said fund in advance if required by the Director of 
Buildings and Grounds, subject to subsequent adjustment, from funds 
available for repairs and improvements, and such working fund shall 
be available for necessary expenses including allowances for privately 
owned automobiles. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized or approved by the Commissioners, for allowances for privately 
owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties at 7 
cents per mile but not to exceed $22 a month for each automobile, unless 
otherwise therein specifically provided, except that forty such allow-
ances at not more than $360 each per annum may be authorized or 
approved by the Commissioners: Provided^ That the total expendi-
tures for this purpose shall not exceed $75,040, excluding the automo-
bile allowances for the deportation of nonresident insane by the Depart-
ment of Public Health and the transportation of indigent persons and 
the placing of children by the Department of Public Welfare. 
SEC. 7. Appropriations m this Act shall be available for the payment 
of dues and expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations con-
cerned with the work of the District of Columbia government, when 
authorized by the Commissioners: Provided^ That the total expendi-
tures for this purpose shall not exceed $25,000. 
SEC. 8. The Commissioners are hereby authorized in their discre-
tion to invest and reinvest at any time in United States Government 
securities, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, any 
part of the general, special, or trust funds, of the District of Columbia, 
not needed to meet current expenses, to deposit the interest accruing 
from such investments to the credit of the fund from which the invest-
ment was made, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell 
or exchange such securities for other Government securities, and 
deposit the proceeds to the credit of the appropriate fund. 
SEC. 9. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for services as authorized by section 15 
of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a). 
SEC. 10. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is author-
ized to advance to officials upon requisitions previously approved by 
the accounting officer of the District of Columbia, not to exceed at any 
one time sums of money as follows: 
Director of Licenses and Inspections, $400, to be used exclusively in 
connection with investigation of short weights and measures; 
Librarian of the Public Library, $50 at the first of each month, for 
the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, or 
other printed materials; 
Superintendent of recreation, $4,000, to be used for the expense of 
conducting activities of the Recreation Board under the trust fund 
created by the Act of April 29, 1942 (56 Stat. 261) ; 
Chief of Police, $5,000, to be used in the prevention and detection 
of crime; 
Chief probation officer of the juvenile court, $50, upon requisition 
previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court, to be expended 
for travel expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers; 
Director, Department of Corrections, $1,000, to be used only in re-
turning escaped prisoners, conditional releasees, parolees, and for the 
payment of cash gratuities to prisoners on release; 
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395 
Director of Public Health, $900, to be used for deportation of 
nonresident insane; 
Director of Public Welfare, $1,100, to be used for placing and visiting 
children, returning parolees and wards of the Department of Public 
Welfare, and deportation of nonresident indigent persons including 
maintenance pending transportation; 
Superintendent of Schools, $1,000, which shall be used in connection 
with the central food services. 
SEC. 11. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in 
connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement 
of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring 
the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the 
licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation 
in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regu-
lations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public 
Utilities Commission. 
SEC. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the 
payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those author-
ized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric 
current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per 
kilowatt-hour for current consumed. 
SEC. 13. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (includ-
ing watercraft) owned by the District of Columbia shall be operated 
and utilized in conformity with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 
1946 (5 U. S. C. 77, 78), and shall be under the direction and control 
of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the 
assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration or interchangeable 
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 trans-
portation 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. 14. 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 Commis-
sioners in writing. 
SEC. 15. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to consolidate 
under appropriate current account titles the unexpended balances of 
such unexpired District of Columbia appropriations of prior years as 
may be requested by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 16. The Commissioners are authorized to construct on land 
owned by the District of Columbia at the District of Columbia Village 
a storehouse building for educational surplus property at a cost of 
not to exceed $30,000, to be paid from the permanent revolving fund 
created by the Act of August 16, 1950 (64 Stat. 450). 
SEC. 17. The Commissioners are authorized to establish a working 
fund without fiscal-year limitation for the purpose of printing, dupli-
cating, and photographing; and the unexpended balances in the mis-
cellaneous trust fund accounts 
Operating Account, Printing" and 
"Operating Account, Blueprinting" shall be deposited to said work-
ing fund; and the fund shall be reimbursed for all services performed 
thereunder. 
Restrictions. 
Electric s t r e e t 
lighting. 
P a s s e n g e r ve-
hicles. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Restriction. 
Snow removal. 
Unexpended bal-
ances. 
Educational sur-
p l u s p r o p e r t y 
storehouse. 
D. C. Code 31-
1302. 
Printing, photo-
graphing, etc. 
396 
PUBLIC LAW 469-JULY 1, 1954 
STAT, 
Vehicle mainte> 
nance, etc» 
Short title. 
SEC. 18. The Commissioners are authorized to establish a permanent 
working fund, which shall be available without fiscal-year limitation, 
for necessary expenses of maintenance and repair of vehicles of the 
Government of the District of Columbia; and said fund shall be reim-
bursed, or credited in advance if required by the Director, Department 
of Highways, for the costs of all work performed thereunder. 
SEC. 19. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appro-
priation Act, 1955." 
Approved July 1, 1954. 
July 1, 1954 
[S. J. R V S . 72] 
Public Law 469 
CHAPTER 454 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to further extend certain charters of 
vessels to citizens of the Philippines, and for other purposes. 
Philippines. 
Charters of ves-
•elB* 
60 Stat. 137. 
67 Stat. 110. 
50 u s e 
a p p . 
1786 note. 
Resol'ved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assernbled, That, notwithstanding any 
other provisions of existing law, the Secretary of Commerce is author-
ized to extend and continue the present charters of vessels to citizens of 
the Republic of the Philippines, which charters were made and entered 
into under the terms of section 306 (a) of the Act of April 30, 1946 
(Public Law 370, Seventy-ninth Congress), and which charters were 
extended by the Secretary of Commerce under the terms of a joint 
resolution, approved June 30, 1953 (Public Law^ 87, Eighty-third 
Congress). 
Such charters may be further extended for such periods 
of time and under such terms and conditions as the Secretary may, 
from time to time, determine to be required in the interest of the 
economy of the Philippines, but any such charter shall contain a 
provision requiring that the vessel shall be operated only in the inter-
island commerce in the Philippines. 
No such vessel shall be con-
tinued under charter, as authorized herein, beyond the completion of 
the first voyage terminating after June 30,1955. 
Approved July 1, 1954. 
js 
uly 2, 1954 
R. 9203] 
Public Law 470 
CHAPTER 455 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary Branch for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes. 
Legislative-Ju-
diciiu-y Appropria-
tion Act, 1955. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House 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 other-
wise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary 
Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30,1955, namely: 
TITLE I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
SENATE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF SENATORS, MILEAGE OF THE PRESI-
DENT o r THE SENATE AND OF SENATORS, AND SALARY AND EXPENSE 
ALLOWANCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of Senators, $1,200,000. 
For expense allowance of Senators, $240,000. 
For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, $51,000.