An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to designate employees of the District to protect life and property in and on the buildings and grounds of any institution located upon property outside of the District of Columbia acquired by the United States for District sanitoriums, hospitals, training schools, and other institutions
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"(b) The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby 
authorized and empowered to adopt rules and regulations governing 
the filing of reports of births and the issuance of delayed birth regis-
tration certificates, in those cases where certificates of birth have not 
been recorded pursuant to subsection (a) of this section." 
Approved July 2, 1956. 
July 3, 19S6 
[S. 1275] 
Public Law 650 
CHAPTER 508 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to designate employ-
ees of the District to protect life and property in and on the buildings and 
grounds of any institution located upon property outside of the District of 
Columbia acquired by the United States for District sanitoriums, hospitals, 
training schools, and other institutions. 
urns, etc* 
Desi gn at ion of 
employees to pro-
tect property o u t -
side District* 
Powersto arrest* 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
^imi etc!*"^***'^' ^^^^^^<^ States of America in Congress assenwied, That (a) the Com-
r.i_. _
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_ ...—X missioners of the District of Columbia may designate any employee of 
the District to protect life and property in and on the buildings and 
grounds of any institution upon land outside the District acquired by 
the United States for the District of Columbia for the establishment or 
operation thereon of any sanitorium, hospital, training school, correc-
tional institution, reformatory, workhouse, or jail: Provided^ That 
such employee shall be bonded for the faithful discharge of such duties, 
and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall fix the penalty 
of any such bond. 
Whenever any employee is so designated he is 
hereby authorized and empowered (1) to arrest under a warrant within 
the buildings and grounds of any such institution any person accused 
of having committed within any such buildings or grounds any offense 
against the laws of the United States, or against any rule or regulation 
prescribed pursuant to this Act; (2) to arrest without a warrant any 
pei-son committing any such offense within such buildings or grounds, 
in his presence; or (3) to arrest without warrant within such buildings 
or grounds, any person whom he has reasonable grounds to believe has 
committed a felony in such buildings or grounds. 
(b) Any individual having the power to arrest as provided in sub-
section (a) of this section may carry firearms or other weapons and 
shall wear such uniform with such identification badge as the Commis-
sioners may direct or by regulation may prescribe. 
SEC. 2. The Commissioners may make and amend such rules and 
regulations as they deem necessary for the protection of life and 
propei'ty in or on the buildings and grounds of any such institution. 
SEC. 3. Any person who knowingly and willfully violates any rule 
or regulation prescribed under this Act shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more 
than six months or both. 
SEC. 4. The officer on duty in command of those employees desig-
nated by the Commissioners as provided in section 1 of this Act may 
accept deposit of collateral from any person charged with the viola-
tion of any rule or regulation prescribed under this Act, for appear-
ance in court or before the appropriate United States commissioner; 
and such collateral shall be deposited with the United States com-
missioner sitting in the district where the offense has been committed. 
SEC. 5. The Commissioners may enter into agreements with any of 
the States, or any political subdivision thereof, where any such insti-
tution mentioned in section 1 of this Act is located, for such govern-
mental services as the Commissioners shall deem necessary to the 
W e a p o n s , uni-
forms, etc* 
Rules and regu-
lations* 
Deposit of c o 1 
lateral* 
Agreements with 
States* 
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efficient and proper government of such institution, and they may, 
from time to time, agree to modifications in anj such agreement: 
Provided, That where the charge for any such service is established by 
the hiws of the State within whose territorial limits such institution is 
situated, the Commissioners may not pay for such service an amount 
in excess of the charge so established. 
There is hereby authorized to 
be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the making of 
payment for services under any such agreement. 
Approved July 3, 1956. 
.^propri ation« 
Public Law 651 
CHAPTER 509 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of August 27, 1954, so as to provide for the erection of appro-
priate markers in national cemeteries to honor the memory of certain members 
of the Armed Forces who died or were liilled while serving in such forces. 
July 3, 19S6 
[S.2512] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemmed^ That the Act entitled 
"An Act to provide for the erection of appropriate markers in national 
cemeteries to honor the memory of members of the Armed Forces miss-
ing in action", approved August 27,1954 (68 Stat. 880), is amended by 
adding after the word "action", the wOrds "or who died or were killed 
while serving in such forces, and whose remains have not been identi-
fied, have been buried at sea, or have been determined to be nonre-
coverable.". 
Approved July 3, 1956. 
National ceiiitt« 
teries. 
Markers. 
24 u s e 279d. 
Public Law 652 
CHAPTER 510 
AN ACT 
To provide for a continuing survey and special studies of siclsness and disability 
in the United States, and for periodic reports of the results thereof, and for 
other purposes. 
July 3, 1956 
[S. 3076] 
Be it ena/ited hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,, That this Act may 
be cited as the "National Health Survey Act". 
SEC. 2. (a) The Congress hereby finds and declares— 
(1) tnat the latest information on the number and relevant 
characteristics of persons in the country suffering from heart dis-
ease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis and rheumatism, and other dis-
eases, injuries, and handicapping conditions is now seriously out 
of date; and 
(2) that periodic inventories providing reasonably current 
information on these matters are urgently needed for purposes 
such as (A) appraisal of the true state of health of our popula-
tion (including both adults and children), (B) adequate planning 
of any programs to improve their health, (C) research in the 
field of chronic diseases, and (D) measurement of the numbers of 
persons in the working ages so disabled as to be unable to perform 
gainful work. 
(b) It is, therefore, the purpose of this Act to provide (1) for a 
continuing survey and special studies to secure on a non-compulsory 
basis accurate and current statistical information on the amount, dis-
tribution, and effects of illness and disability in the United States and 
the services received for or because of such conditions; and (2) for 
National Health 
Survey Act. 
Decl a r a t i o n of 
Congress. 
Purpose.