An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate barbers in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved June 7, 1938, and for other purposes.
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Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for the 
expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal 
year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other 
D. c. Code §47-113. purposes", approved June 6,1900 (31 Stat. 555), under the subheading 
"For Auditor's Office" under the heading "General Expenses" as 
reads: "deputy disbursing officer, who shall hereafter, in the absence 
of the disbursing officer, be authorized to transact all duties pertaining 
to said disbursing officer, and who shall be required to give bond to 
the said disbursing officer in the sum of $25,000i conditioned on the 
faithful performance of the duties of his office,'but said disbursing 
officer to be responsible to the United States, District of Columbia, 
and the people whom he pays, as now required by law, $1,500;". 
Approved July 30, 1951. 
July 30, 1951 
[S. 573] 
Public Law 89 
CHAPTER 251 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate barbers in the District of Columbia, 
and for other purposes", approved June 7, 1938, and for other purposes. 
District of Colum-
bia Barber Act, amend-
ments. 
D.C. Code §2-1112. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 12 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to regulate barbers in the District of Colum-
bia, and for other purposes'', approved June 7,1938 (52 Stat. 622), be 
amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 12, The Commissioners are authorized and directed to provide 
suitable quarters for the Board. The compensation of each member 
of the Board, other than the secretary-treasurer, shall be fixed by the 
Commissioners at not to exceed $20 for each day actually and neces-
sarily spent in their duties as such members: Provided^ That the total 
compensation payable to each such member shall not exceed $600 per 
annum. 
The Commissioners are also authorized and directed to 
appoint such clerks, inspectors, and other personnel as they deem to 
be necessary to assist the Board in carrying out the provisions of this 
Act: Provided, That such inspectors shall be qualified barbers, each 
of whom shall have been engaged in the practice of barbering in the 
District of ('olumbia for a period of five years immediately prior to 
their appointment and shall be appointed after a competitive exami-
nation held for said positions by the Board. Compensation of such 
clerks, inspectors, and other personnel, including the secretary-
treasurer of the Board, shall be fixed by the Commissioners. 
Pay-
ments for expenses of the Board, including those authorized by this 
section, shall not exceed the amount received from the fees provided 
for in this Act; and if at the close of any fiscal year there be any funds 
unexpended in excess of the sum of $1,000 such excess shall be paid 
into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of 
Columbia: Provided 
further^ That no expense incurred under this 
Act shall be a charge against the funds of the United States or the 
District of Columbia." 
D.C.Code§»-iii4. 
SEC. 2. Subsection (B) of section 14 of such Act is amended by 
striking therefrom "not less than $25" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"not more than $200". 
SEC. 3. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are author-
ized by regulation to require the owner or the manager of every barber 
shop in the District of Columbia to post on a sign or signs the prices 
of services rendered to the public and they may specify in such regu-
lations the sizes of the sign or signs, the lettering thereon, and the 
location thereof upon which prices are required to be posted. 
The 
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Commissioners are further authorized to prescribe in such regulations 
that for each violation thereof there may be imposed a fine not exceed-
ing $200. 
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on the first day of the second month 
Effective date. 
following its enactment. 
Approved July 30, 1951. 
Public Law 90 
CHAPTER 2 5 2 
JOiNT RESOLUTION 
To provide that an aircraft carrier sliall be named the Porrestal. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That when and if the United 
States completes construction of the aircraft carrier known as the 
United States, the construction of which was discontinued on April 
23, 1949, or the aircraft carrier authorized in Public Law 3, Eighty-
second Congress, first session, it shall be named the Forrestal. 
Approved July 30, 1951. 
July 30, 1951 
[H. J. Res. 67] 
Anle, p. 4. 
Public Law 91 
CHAPTER 2 5 3 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain land to the village of 
Highland Falls, New York. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized and directed to convey, without considera-
tion, to the village of Highland Falls, New York, all right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to that tract or parcel of land in 
the town of Highlands, Orange County,- New York, described as 
follows: 
Beginning at a point in the southerly boundary of State Highway 
Numbered 5328 (Old Route 9W) approximately twenty-three feet 
west of the Stoney Lonesome Creek, and running thence on a line 
which produced will be twenty feet from the center of the south 
concrete culvert wall through which Stoney Lonesome Brook flows, 
south twenty-three degrees west passing through an iron pipe on the 
northerly bank of the Highland Falls Brook, ninety-eight feet, more 
or less, to the center of the Highland Falls Brook (also know^n as 
Buttermilk Falls Brook); thence in an easterly direction along the 
center line of said brook two hundred and twenty feet, more or less, 
to a point; thence north twenty-three degrees east passing through 
an iron pipe on the northerly bank of the Highland Falls Brook 
seventy-five feet, more or less, to the southerly boundary of State 
Highway Numbered 5328; thence along the southerly boundary of 
State Highway Numbered 5328 north fifty-one degrees fifty-seven 
minutes thirteen seconds west twenty-three feet, more or less, to an 
angle in the southerly boundary of said highway; thence north fifty-
eight degrees thirteen minutes forty-nine seconds west one hundred 
nineteen and sixty one-hundredths feet; thence north seventy degrees 
twenty-six minutes eleven seconds west seventy-nine feet, more or less, 
to the point of beginning. 
SEC. 2. The deed effecting the conveyance provided for in section 1 
shall contain (a) such provisions as may be deemed necessary by the 
Secretary of the Army to insure that the property is used for the con-
July 30, 1951 
[H. R.385] 
H i g h l a n d Falls, 
N. Y. 
Conveyance.