An Act to amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemens Salary Act of 1953
PL 83-139 (S.2394), enacted 07/20/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 138-JULY 20, 1953 
[67 ST A T , 
Electric-utility 
contracts. 
31 u s e 665. 
Repeal. 
66 Stat. 643. 
"(d) The Atomic Energy Commission is authorized in connection 
with the construction or operation of the Oak Ridge, Paducah, and 
Portsmouth installations of the Commission, without regard to section 
3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to enter into new contracts 
or modify or confirm existing contracts to provide for electric-utility 
services for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, and such contracts 
shall be subject to termination by the Commission upon payment of 
cancellation costs as provided in such contracts, and any appropriation 
presently or hereafter made available to the Commission shall be 
available for the payment of such cancellation costs. Any such 
cancellation payments shall be taken into consideration in deter-
mination of the rate to be charged in the event the Commission or any 
other agency of the Federal (jovernment shall purchase electric-utility 
services from the contractor subsequent to the cancellation and during 
the life of the original contract." 
SEO. 2. The first proviso under the appropriation to the Commission 
for "Plant and equipment" in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 
1953, is hereby repealed. 
Approved July 17, 1953. 
July 20, 1953 
[H. R . 4072] 
Public Law 138 
CHAPTER 230 
AN ACT 
Relating to the disposition of certain former recreational demonstration project 
lands by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the School Board of Meclclenburg 
County, Virginia. 
Me c k l e nb ur g 
County, Va. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwithstand-
ing section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the disposition 
of recreational demonstration projects, and for other purposes", ap-
proved June 6,1942 (56 Stat. 326; 16 U. S. C , 1946 edition, sec. 459t), 
the Commonwealth of Virginia is hereby authorized to convey to the 
School Board of Mecklenburg County for school, recreational, or high-
way-widening purposes, that portion of the former Mecklenburg way-
side recreational demonstration project which is situated on the west 
and north side of United States Highway Numbered 1, comprising 
approximately forty acres. Any conditions providing for a reversion 
of title to the United States that may be contained in the conveyance 
of such lands by the United States to the Commonwealth of Virginia 
are hereby released as to the particular lands herein authorized to be 
transferred. 
Approved July 20, 1953. 
July 20,1953 
[S. 2394] 
Public Law 139 
CHAPTER 231 
AN ACT 
To amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1953. 
D. C. firemen. 
Pay period. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That subsection (c) 
of section 405 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary 
Act of 1953 (67 Stat. 77) is amended by adding after the word "work-
weeks" the following: "except that with respect to employees of the 
Fire Department the first pay period shall be for the period July 1 
to July 11,1953, inclusive". 
SEC. 2. Section 405 of such Act is amended by adding thereto the 
following: 
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"(d) (1) For the purpose of computing pay of officers and mem-
bers of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia for the pay 
period July 1 to July 11,1953, inclusive, any day off taken by any such 
officer or member during the period July 1 to July 4, 1953, inclusive, 
shall be considered as a workday if such officer or member worked or 
was otherwise in a pay status for an equivalent day in the period 
June 28 to June 30, 1953, inclusive: Provided^ That any such day off 
falling on July 4, 1953, shall not entitle any such officer or member to 
additional holiday compensation for that day, 
"(2) For the purpose of this subsection the term 'day off' means 
any of the days off duty in each seven-day period to which each officer 
and member of such Fire Department is entitled pursuant to section 
2 of the Act approved June 19,1948 (62 Stat. 498) but such term does 
not include any 'platoon change day off', as such term is used in such 
Fire Department." 
Approved July 20, 1953. 
Pay 
tion. 
c o m p u t a -
••Day off»». 
D. C. 
404a. 
C o d e 4-
Public Law 140 
CHAPTER 232 
AN ACT 
To provide for an additional Assistant Postmaster General in the Post Office 
Department. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be 
in the Post Office Department an additional Assistant Postmaster 
General, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, shall perform such duties as the Post-
master General may designate, and shall receive compensation at the 
rate of $15,000 per annum or at such other rate as may hereafter be 
provided by law for Assistant Postmasters General. 
Approved July 20, 1953. 
July 20. 1953 
[H. R. 5302] 
Public Law 141 
CHAPTER 233 
AN ACT 
To authorize films, and related material, for educational use to be transmitted 
through the mails at the rate provided for books. 
July 20, 1953 
[S. 971] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Repr'esentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 204 (d) 
of the Postal Rate Revision and Federal Employees Salary Act of 
1948 (39 U. S. C, sec. 292a (d)) is amended by inserting "(1)" after 
" ( d ) " and by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"(2) The rate provided in paragraph (1) for books may apply to 
sixteen-millimeter films and sixteen-millimeter film catalogs when 
sent through the mails except when sent to commercial theaters." 
SEC. 2. Section 204 (e) of the Postal Rate Revision and Federal 
Employees Salary Act of 1948 (39 U. S. C, sec. 292a (e)) is amended 
by inserting "(1)" after " ( e ) " and by adding at the end thereof the 
following: 
"(2) The rate provided in paragraph (1) for books may apply to 
sixteen-millimeter 
films, 
filmstrips, 
projected transparencies and 
slides, microfilms, sound recordings, and catalogs of such materials 
when sent to or from (A) schools, colleges, universities, or public 
libraries, and (B) religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic, 
Films, etc. 
Book r a t e post* 
age. 
62 Stat. 1263. 
62 Stat. 1264.