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, 1957, and for other purposes.
PL 84-637 (H.R.10003), enacted 06/29/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 637-JUNE 29, 1956 
Public Law 637 
CHAPTER 479 
June 29, 1956 
[H.R. 10003] 
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, 1957, and for other purposes. 
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representative.^ of the 
United States of America 
in Conqress assembled. That there are , °t.?*"'i* '^L,^^' 
appropriated lor the District oi Columbia for the fiscal year ending uon Act, 1957. 
June 30, 1957, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Colum-
bia (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, 1956, and of which $7,000,000 shall be available 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), estab-
lished by law (D. (\ (^ode, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,813,950, which is 
hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treas-
ury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1956), (4) 
the sanitary sewage works fund (when designated as payable there 
from), established by law (Public I^w 364, 83d Congress), and $744, 
700, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money 1602. 
in the Treasury not otlierwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 
1956), and (5) the motor vehicle parking fund (when designated as 
payable therefrom), established by law (D, C. Code, title 40, ch. 8), 
sums as shown herein; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $10,700,000, which, 
together with balances of previous appropriations for this purpose, 
shall remain available until expended, for loans authorized by the 
Act of May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 101), to be advanced upon request of 
the Commissioners to the following funds: highway fund, $5,400,000, 1546. 
and water fund, $5,300,000. 
68 Stat. 104. 
D. C. Code 43-
56 Stat. 93. 
68 Stat. 103. 
D. C. Code 43» 
OPERATING E X P E N S E S 
For expenses necessary for the ofKces and agencies named under 
this general head: 
EXECUTIVE OFFIOE 
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 ex-
penses of members of the Apprenticeship Council and the Redevelop-
ment Land Agency; aid in support of the National Conference of 
Commissioners on I^niform 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, Board of Elections, and Board of Appeals and Review; cere-
mony expenses; carrying out a comprehensive program for urban 
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renewal and 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 of investigations; $323,000: Provided^ That 
the certificate of the Commissioners 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, $3,475,000, of which $75,190 shall be payable from the 
highway fund, $15,000 from the water fund, $2,950 from the sanitary 
sewage works 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, water charges, sanitary sewer service charges, 
and all special assessments, 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 available for refunding, wholly or in part, 
school tuition, lost library books, building permits, cigarette and alco-
holic beverage tax stamps, occupational and professional fees which 
have not been earned, and other payments which have been erroneously 
made during the present and past three years: Provided further^ That, 
for the purpose of assessing and reassessing real property in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, $10,000 of this appropriation shall be available for 
services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 
60 Stat, 810. 
XJ. S. C. 55a), but at rates for individuals not in excess of $100 per 
diem. 
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 
D.C. Code 1-902. 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 judicial 
expenses, including witness fees and expert services, in District of 
Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the Dis-
trict of Columbia; $480,000, of which $20,000 shall be payable from the 
highway fund. 
COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND EXPENSES 
Compensation and retirement fund expenses, including District 
government employees' compensation; administrative expenses, work-
men'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; unemployment compensa-
tion for District government employees; financing the liability of the 
government of the District of Columbia to the "Civil service retire-
ment and disability fund" and the "Teachers' retirement and annuity 
fund"; and relief and other allowances as authorized by law for police-
men and firemen; $11,100,000, of which $2,633,000, including $210,300 
payable from the highway fund, $91,700 from the water fund, $80,400 
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from the sanitary sewage works fund, and $6,700 from the motor 
vehicle parkii^ fund, shall be paid by voucher and deposited to the 
credit of the "Civil service retirement and disability fund": 
Provided, 
That $260,000 for District government employees' compensation shall 
remain available until expended. 
EEGULATORY AGENCIES 
Regulatory agencies, including juror fees, and repairs to the 
morgue, $1,058,440. 
DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 
Department of Occupations and Professions, including compensa-
tion at rates to be fixed W the Commissioners of three members of the 
Board of Accountancy, nve members of the Board of Examiners and 
Registrars of Architects, two members of the Board of Barber Ex-
aminers, three members of the Board of Cosmetology, five members of 
the Board of Dental Examiners, five members of the Board of Ex-
aminers in the Basic Sciences, five members of the Board of Ex-
aminers in Medicine and Osteopathy, five members of the Board of 
Registration 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 Podia-
try 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 Operat-
ing Engineers, one member of the Motion Picture Operators' Ex-
amining Board, tw^o members of the Refrigeration and Air-Condition-
ing Board, and five members of the Undertakers' Examining Commit-
tee, $262,000. 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
Public schools, including the education of foreigners of all ages in 
the Americanization 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; mainte-
nance and instruction of deaf, mute and blind children of the District 
of Columbia by contract entered into by the Commissioners upon 
recommendation by the Board of Education of the District of Colum-
bia; transportation of children attending schools or classes established 
for physically handicapped pupils; distribution of surplus commodi-
ties 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 school children of the 
District, including the purchase and distribution of milk under agree-
ment with the United States Department of Apiculture; $350,908 
for development of vocational education in the District of Columbia 
in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended; operation, f" us*c isPAote. 
repair, maintenance and improvement of public school buildings, 
grounds and equipment; purchase of equipment including not to 
exceed $25,000 for the purchase and repair of musical instruments 
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; 
$32,515,750, of which $3,000 shall be available for the services of 
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experts and consultants as authorized by section 15 of the Act of 
60 Stat. 810. 
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-
1-ided 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. 
?9"stat.^uor*^* 
Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 
s use *58, 59. 
Act, approved May 10,1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 
to August 25, 1956, to teachers of the public schools of the District 
of Columbia when employed by any of the branches of the United 
States Government. 
PUBLIC LIBRARY 
Public Library, including recordings and educational films; repairs 
to buildings; and care of grounds; $1,783,000. 
RECREATION DEPARTMENT 
Recreation Department, for operation and maintenance of recre-
ation facilities in and for the District of Columbia, $1,903,000. 
METROPOLITAN POLICE 
Metropolitan Police, including 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 in-
spector; one inspector who shall be property clerk; the lieutenants 
in command of the homicide squad, robbery squad, general assign-
ment squad, special investigation squad, with the rank and pay of 
captain while so assigned; the detective sergeants in command of the 
automobile 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 sergeant in 
charge of police automobiles with the rank" and pay of sergeant; 
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 harbormaster 
with the rank and pay of captain; not to exceed one detective in the 
salary grade of captain; civilian crossing guards including uniforms 
and equipment, at rates of pay and hours of employment to be fixed 
by the Commissioners; compensation of civilian trial board members 
ait 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; re-
wards for fugitives; photographs, rental, purchase, and maintenance 
of radio and teletype systems; 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; official equipment, including 
cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one in-
dividual to another, or damaged in the performance of duty; purchase 
of passenger motor vehicles; and the maintenance of a suitable place 
for the reception and detention of girls and women over seventeen 
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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; $13,-
773,000, of which amount $1,837,000 shall be payable from the high-
way fund and $43,300 from the motor vehicle parking fund, and $35,-
000 shall be exclusively available for expenditure by the Chief of Po-
lice for prevention and detection of crime, under his certificate ap-
proved by the Commissioners, and every such certificate shall be 
deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have 
been expended. 
ADDITIONAL MUNICIPAL SERVICES, INAUGURAL CEREMONIES, DISTRICT 
OF COLUMBIA 
Metropolitan Police (additional municipal services, inaugural cere-
monies), to enable the Commissioners to provide additional municipal 
services in said District from January 15 to January 24, 1957, both 
inclusive, including employment of personal services without regard 
to the civil-service and classification laws; payment at basic salary 
rates for services performed by officers and members of the police and 
fire departments in excess of the regular tours of duty (but not to 
exceed a total of sixteen hours overtime pay to any individual officer 
or member performing service within such period) ; travel expenses 
of enforcement personnel from other jurisdictions; hire of means of 
transportation; meals for policemen and firemen; cost of removing 
and relocating streetcar loading platforms; construction, rent, main-
tenance, and expenses incident to the operation of temporary public 
comfort stations, first-aid stations, and information booths; and other 
incidental expenses in the discretion of the Commissioners; $155,000. 
FIRE DEPARTMENT 
Fire Department, including compensation of civilian trial board 
members at rates to be fixed bv the Commissioners; 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; 
$6,755,000: Provided^ That hereafter the Commissioners in their dis-
cretion may authorize the construction, in whole or in part, of fire-
fighting apparatus in the Fire Department repair shojD. 
VETERANS SERVICE CENTER 
Veterans services, $98,500. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE 
Office of Civil Defense, $78,000: 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. 
D. C. Code 11 
105. 
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DEFARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION 
Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, $147,000. 
COURTS 
Courts, including pay of retired judges; lodging and meals for 
jurors, bailiffs and deputy United States marshals while in attend-
ance 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 Administra-
tion, and the Department of Justice; $3,972,000, of which $22,200 
shall be available for payment to the United States Public Health 
Service for furnishing psychiatric service to the Juvenile Court, in-
cluding the detail of necessary medical and other personnel, and $262,-
200 shall be available for advances on reimbursement to the General 
Services Administration for one-half of the cost of operation, main-
tenance, 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 
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to three days before the time set for such trials, including Sundays 
and legal holidays, 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 fees to physicians under 
contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health and approved 
by the Commissioners, manufacture of serum in indigent cases, allow-
ances 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 pur-
pose 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; compensation 
of consulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Com-
missioners, 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 conferring employee status on 
patients whose services are so utilized), not to exceed $1,000 for finan-
cial assistance for needy patients as determined by the Superintendent 
of Glenn Dale Hospital at rates established by the Commissioners, 
not to exceed $1,200 for fire prevention and protective services rendered 
to Glenn Dale Hospital under conditions to be determined by the Com-
missioners, purchase of passenger motor vehicles, training school for 
nurses, repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, reim-
bursement to the United States for services rendered to the District 
of Columbia by Freedmen's Hospital, and for care and treatment of 
indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Director of Public 
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-
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dence Hospital, Washington Home for Incurables, and Children's 
Convalescent Home, $25,503,400: Provided^ That the inpatient rate 
under such contracts and for services rendered by Freedmen's Hos-
pital shall not exceed $14 per diem and the outpatient rate shall not 
exceed $2.40 per visit: Provided further^ That amounts to be deter-
mined 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 Depart-
ment of Public Health: Provided 
further^ That employees using 
privately owned autombbiles for the deportation of nonresident insane 
may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9,1949 (63 Stat, 
s use 835note. 
166), but not to exceed $900 for any one individual. 
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 
Department of Corrections, including 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; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; 
purchase of motorbuses; 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 institu-
tions, escaped inmates and parole and conditional-release violators; 
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; $4,710,000. 
PUBLIC WELFARE 
Department of Public Welfare, including relief and rehabilitation 
of indigent residents, maintenance pending transportation of indigent 
persons, burial of indigent residents of the District of Columbia, tem-
porary care of children while being transferred from place to place, 
care of women and children in institutions, including those under 
sectarian control, burial of children dying while beneficiaries under 
this appropriation, repairs and improvements to buildings and 
grounds, purchase of passenger motor vehicles, maintenance of a 
suitable place of detention for 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 tem-
porarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, and male witnesses 
eighteen years of age or over shall be held at the District of Columbia 
General Hospital, subsistence in lieu of salary for employment of 
persons for the purpose of securing training and experience in their 
future vocations, supervision of students performing voluntary serv-
ices for the purpose of obtaining training and experience in their 
future vocations, compensation of consulting physicians and veteri-
narians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, and care 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 Com-
missioners or their designated agent with the Attorney General at a 
rate of not to exceed the actual cost for each boy committed, $10,-
642,500: Provided^ That when specifically authorized by the Com-
missioners this appropriation may be used for visiting any ward of 
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the Department of Public Welfare placed outside of the District of 
Columbia and the States of Virginia and Maryland: 
Provided 
further^ That employees using privately owned automobiles for the 
transportation of indigent persons or the placing of children may be 
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 BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Department of Buildings and Grounds, including maintenance of 
public convenience stations, and $5,000 exclusively for test borings 
and soil investigations, $1,780,000, of which $29,300 shall be payable 
from the highway fund. 
All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the Depart-
ment of Buildings and Grounds in payment of personal services em-
ployed 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 appropria-
tions in excess of $2,000,000, and appropriations specifically made in 
this Act for the preparation of plans and specifications shall be de-
ducted from any allowances authorized under this paragraph: Pro-
vided^ That reimbursements may be made to this fund from appropria-
tions contained in this Act for services rendered other activities of 
the District government, without reference to fiscal-year limitations 
on such appropriations: 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 
40 use 451-458. (.j^g provisious of the Act of October 13, 1949 (63 Stat. 841). 
OFFICE OF SURVEYOR 
Office of Surveyor, $170,000. 
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 markets; purchase of commodities and for personal services in con-
nection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and 
measure; $1,658,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS 
Department of Highways, including minor construction of bridges; 
rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of 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 expended in ac-
cordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of 
Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 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 of passenger motor vehicles; $6,535,000, of which 
$3,966,235 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided^ That 
the Commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase and install a 
D . C Code 7-701 
to 7-705. 
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municipal asphalt plant including all auxiliary plant equipment to 
be paid for from this appropriation. 
DEPARTMENT or VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC 
Department of Vehicles and Traffic (payable from highway fund), 
including $26,250 for traffic safety education without reference to any 
other law; $200 for membership in the American Association of 
Motor Vehicle Administrators; refunding collections erroneously cov-
ered into the Treasury to the credit of the highway fund during the 
present and past three fiscal years; $1,303,000: Provided^ That no 
gart of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall 
e expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar load-
ing platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish 
same, except that a permanent type of platform may be constructed 
from appropriations contained in this Act for street improvements 
when plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utili-
ties 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 Commis-
sioners 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 hereafter the 
Commissioners are authorized and directed to designate, reserve, and 
properly mark appropriate and sufficient parking spaces on the streets 
adjacent to all public buildings in the District for the use of Members 
of Congress engaged on public business: Provided further^ That this 
appropriation shall not be available for refunds authorized by sec-
tion 10 of the Act of April 23,1924. 
^3 stat. los. 
D. C. Code 47-
1910. 
MOTOR VEHICLE PARKING AGENCY 
]Motor Vehicle Parking Agency (payable from motor vehicle park-
ing fund), including installation and maintenance of parking meters, 
$295,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF SANITARY P^NGINEERING 
Department of Sanitary Engineering, including installing and re-
pairing water meters on services to private residences and business 
places as may not be required to install meters under existing regu-
lations (said meters to remain the property of the District of Colum-
bia), purchase of passenger motor vehicles, purchase of radio equip-
ment when approved by the Director of Highways, refunding of Avater 
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), contribution of the District of Columbia to the expenses 
of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, repair and 
maintenance of plants, buildings, and grounds, and fencing of public 
and private property designated by the Commissioners as public 
dumps, $10,896,200, of which $99,000 shall be payable from the high-
Avay fund for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross-
walks, and gutters, in the discretion of the Commissioners, $2,860,270 
shall be payable from the water fund, and $1,577,916 shall be payable 
from the sanitary sewage works fund: Provided^ That this appropri-
ation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse 
from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four 
or more apartments having a central heating system, or from any 
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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, $2,137,000: 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 
same, and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now pro-
vided 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 encampment; reimbursement to 
the United States for loss of property for which the District of Colum-
bia 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 encamp-
ments; 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; 
$136,500. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS 
National Capital Parks, including maintenance, care, and improve-
ment of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propa-
gating 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 oi 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 President's Cup Regatta, and expenses incident to the 
conducting of band concerts in the parks; such expenses to include 
pay and allowances of the I^'^nited States Park Police force; per diem 
employees at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Interior, 
not exceeding current rates of pay lor 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 
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passenger motor vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, and self-propelled 
machinery; the hire of draft animals, with or without drivers at local 
rates approved by the Secretary of the Interior; the purchase and 
maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; $2,585,000, 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 appropriated under or transferred to this head 
for services rendered by the National Park Service shall be advanced 
to said service and shall be credited as a I'epayment 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 tlie appro-
priation 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 transporta-
tion of specimens; purchase of motorcycles and passenger motor 
vehicles; revolvers and ammunition; purchase of uniforms and equip-
ment for police, and uniforms for keepers and assistant keepers; 
$720,000: Provided, That funds appropriated under this head shall 
be advanced 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 unex-
pended balance to be returned to this appropriation not later than 
two full fiscal years after the close of the current fiscal year. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
DISTRICT DEBT SERVICE 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned in compli-
ance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as xoi\o\i^ioi 
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amended, the Act of May 14, 1948 (62 Stat. 235), and section 108 of 
the Act of May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 103), including interest as required ^p^^ c. code 4,j. 
thereby, $394,500, of which $95,500 shall be payable from the water 
fund. 
PUBLIC BUILDING (CONSTRUCTION 
Capital outlay, public building construction: For acquisition of 
public school and motor vehicle safety inspection station sites; prep-
aration of plans and specifications for the following buildings: Senior 
High School in the vicinity of Congress Heights area Southeast and 
an elementary school in the vicinity of Texas Avenue and Burns 
Street Southeast; erection of the following structures, including build-
ing improvement and alteration and the treatment of grounds; ele-
mentary school in the vicinity of Fifty-sixth and Eads Streets North-
east, new Health School for Crippled Children in the vicinity of 13th 
and Allison Streets, Northwest, Young Elementary School addition, 
Eliot Junior High School addition, elementary school in the vicinity 
of Sixth and (liesapeake Streets Southeast, Paul Junior High School 
addition, Kenilworth Elementary School addition, and a motor vehicle 
safety inspection station (including equipment) ; $348,900 for pur-
chase of equipment for new school buildings: and permanent improve-
ment of buildings and grounds (including purchase and installation 
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[70 STAT. 
of furnishings and equipment, eliminatioii of fire hazards, and road 
construction) of schools, firehouses, hospitals, welfare institutions, and 
other District of Columbia buildings; to remain available until 
expended, $6,221,700 of which $3,160,700 shall not become available 
for expenditure until July 1,1957, and $600,000 shall be payable from 
the highway fund, and $381,000 shall be available for construction 
services by the Director of Buildings and Grounds or by contract for 
architectural engineering services, 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, "Con-
struction Services, Department of Buildings and Grounds": Provided^ 
That the unexpended balances of the amounts appropriated in prior 
fiscal years under "Capital outlay, miscellaneous , may be transferred 
to this account for use for the same purposes as appropriated. 
DEPARTMENT OF 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 proj-
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^^^^ under 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 Commis-
sioners ; for carrying out the provisions of existing laws which author-
ize the Commissioners to open, extend, straighten, or widen streets, 
avenues, roads, or highways, in accordance with the plan of the per-
manent 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 assessment 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, including the 
purchase of property and improvements from the National Capital 
Housing Authority in the vicinity of the East Capitol Street Bridge 
facility, and of areas less than two hundred and fifty feet square at 
the intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Colum-
bia, to be selected by the Commissioners; placing underground, relo-
cating, 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 expended, $14,528,000, of which 
$14,128,000 shall be payable from the highway fund: 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 for the 
preparation of the site, including the construction of seawalls, dock 
facilities, and a railroad siding: Provided further^ That in connection 
with the highway-planning survey, involving surveys, plans, engi-
neering, and economic investigations of projects for future construc-
tion in the District of Columbia, as provided for under section 10 of 
53 Stat. 1066. 
^^^ Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, and in connection with the 
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461 
construction of Federal-aid highway projects under section 1 (b) of 
said Act, and highway-structure projects financed wholly from the 
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highway fund, this appropriation and the appropriation "Operating 
expenses. Department of Highways" shall be available for the employ-
ment of engineering or other professional services by contract or 
otherwise, and without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes 
and the civil-service and classification laws, and section 15 of the Act 
of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and for engineering and incidental 
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expenses: Provided further^ That this appropriation and the appro-
priation "Operating expenses. Department of Highways" shall be 
available for the construction and repair of pavements of street rail-
ways, in accordance with the provisions of the Merger Act (47 Stat. 
752), and the proportion of the amount thus expended which under no?e.^ Code 7-604 
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 to the credit of the appro- 
Dlc.*codl°^^604. 
priation for the fiscal year in which it is 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 Commissioners are authorized to 
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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 Commissioners are hereby 
authorized to construct grade-crossing elimination and other wholly 
District construction projects or those authorized under section 8 of 
the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), and section 1 (b) of the 
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Federal Aid Highw^ay Act of 1938, as amended, in accordance with 
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the provisions of said Acts, and this appropriation may be used for 
payment to contractors and other expenses in connection with the 
expenses of surveys, design, construction, and inspection pending 
reimbursement to the District of Columbia by the Bureau of Public 
Roads, Department of Commerce, or other parties participating in 
such projects, reimbursement to be credited to the appropriation from 
which payment was made: Provided 
further^ That the Commis-
sioners are authorized to fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks 
and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) of all highw^ays 
that may be improved under appropriations contained in this Act: 
Provided further^ That no appropriation in this Act shall be avail-
able for repairing, resurfacing, or paving any street, avenue, or road-
way by private contract unless the specifications for such work shall 
be so prepared as to permit of fair and open competition in paving 
materials as well as in price: Provided further^ That in addition to 
the provision of existing law requiring contractors to keep new pave-
ments in repair for a period of one year from the date of the comple-
tion 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 repairs 
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 apropriation 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. 
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DEI»ARTMENT OF SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Capital outlay, Department of Sanitary Engineering: For con-
struction of sewers and extension of the District of Columbia water-
distribution system; assessment and permit work; purchase or 
condemnation of lands and rights-of-way for construction, mainte-
nance, and repair of sewers, water mains, and Sewage Treatment 
Plant; continuing construction on aeration plant and secondary sedi-
mentation tanks, reconstruction, enlargement, rehabilitation, major 
repair and replacement of grit removal, sludge digestion, heating and 
other existing equipment and facilities; rehabilitation and replace-
ment of screening and flow control facilities at the main sewerage 
pumping station; laying water mains and sewers 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, $10,068,000, of which $1,200,000 shall not become 
available for expenditure until July 1, 1957, and $4,610,000 shall be 
payable from the water fund, and $5,458,000 shall be payable from 
the sanitary sewage works fund: 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 engi-
neering 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. 
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT 
Capital outlay, Washington Aq^ueduct (payable from water fund) : 
For continuing construction of Little Falls pumping station, dam and 
rising tunnel; continuing construction of Dalecarlia filter and chemi-
cal buildings; beginning construction of 
flocculation-sedimentation 
basin at Dalecarlia; miscellaneous betterments, replacements, and 
engineering planning of water supply facilities, including continuing 
raw-water conduit rehabilitation, utility relocations, and plant system 
rearrangements and interconnections; Georgetown conduit metering 
installation; acquisition by gift, exchange, purchase, or condemna-
tion 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 expenses incident thereto; including services as authorized 
60 Stat. 810. 
by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at 
rates for individual consultants not in excess of $150 per diem; to 
remain available until expended, $3,500,000. 
REDUCTION IN APPROPRIATIONS 
The following appropriation is hereby reduced in the sum herein-
after set forth, such sum to be covered into the general fund of the 
District of Columbia: Capital outlay, public building construction, 
for new tuberculosis building at the District of Columbia General 
68 Stat. 389. 
Hospital, including equipment (Act of July 1, 1954), $2,600,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Vouchers. 
gj,(, 2. Exccpt as othcrwisc 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 
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453 
officer for the District of Columbia and the vouchers as approved 
shall be paid by checks issued by the Disbursing Officer without 
SEC. S.From and after July 1, 1956, the provisions of Public Law th^*'^^* of^oover^ 
330, Eighty-fourth Congress, approved August 9, 1955, shall be ap- ""^^^^ ^24, 
plicable to the government of the District of Columbia. 
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SEC. 4. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an 
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appropriation 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. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author- lowmce^****"* "'" 
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 
fifty-two 
such allowances at not more than $360 each per annum may be 
authorized or approved by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the payment me'^ung..**""*'* "* 
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. 7. Hereafter the Commissioners are authorized in their discre- rT^S^"*.\j«ri'" 
tion to invest and reinvest at any time m United btates 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. 8. Appropriations in this Act shall oe available, when author- 
servicas. 
ized by the Commissioners, for services as authorized by section 15 
of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a). 
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SEC. 9. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is author- m<^e:r.*"*'** '
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ized to advance to such officials as may be designated by the Com-
missioners upon requisitions previously approved by the accounting 
officer of the District of Columbia such amounts and for such pur-
poses as the Commissioners may determine. 
SEC. 10. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in 
Reatrictiona. 
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 regula-
tions applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public 
Utilities Commission. 
SEC. 11. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the 
payment of rates for electric current for street lighting in excess of 
those authorized 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. 12. All motor-propelled passenger-carryiiig vehicles (includ- hiJie'!*"*^*' ^*" 
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 
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of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the 
assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration or interchangeable 
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Snow removala 
58 Stat. 532. 
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Short title. 
use of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, except 
as otherwise provided in this Act. "Official purposes" shall not apply 
to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or in cases of officers 
and employees the character of whose duties makes such transporta-
tion necessary, but only as to such latter cases when the same is 
approved by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be trans-
ferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the 
government of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 13. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department 
of Highways and the Department of Sanitary Engineering shall be 
available for snow and ice control work when ordered by the Com-
missioners in writing. 
SEC. 14. All funds (including existing unexpended balances and 
income from investments) derived from the action of any board, 
commission, or committee for which appropriations are provided 
herein, shall be deposited to the general revenues of the District of 
Columbia. 
SEC. 15. Appropriations in tliis Act shall be available, when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for the rental of quarters without refer-
ence to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945. 
SEC. 16. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the fur-
nishing of uniforms when authorized by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 17. This Act may be cited as the '"District of Columbia Appro-
priation Act, 1957." 
Approved June 29, 1956, 
July 2, 1956 
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Public Law 638 
CHAPTER 487 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air 
Force equipment and provide certain services to the Boy Scouts of America 
for use at the Fourth National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
A^ericl.''*'"*' °^ United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Secre-
Arme'd Forces tary of Defense is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he 
equipment. 
^ ^ ^ prescribe, to lend to the Boy Scouts of America, a corporation 
created under the Act of June 15,1916, for the use and accommodation 
of the approximately fifty thousand Scouts and officials who are to 
attend the Fourth National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America 
to be held as a part of the national program "Onward for God and 
My Country" during the period beginning in June 1957, and ending 
in July 1957, at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, such tents, cots, blankets, 
commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, and other equipment and 
services as may be necessary or useful to the extent that items are in 
stock and available and their issue will not jeopardize the national 
defense program. 
(b) Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time prior 
to the holding of such jamboree, and to be returned at such time after 
the close of such jamboree, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary 
of Defense and the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. 
No 
expense shall be incurred by the United States Government for the 
delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of such equipment. 
(c) The Secretary of Defense, before delivering such property, 
shall take from the Boy Scouts of America a good and sufficient bond 
for the safe return of such property in good order and condition, and 
the whole without expense to the United States. 
Approved July 2, 1956. 
Bond.