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, 1960, and for other purposes
PL 86-104 (H.R.5676), enacted 07/23/1959

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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 30,1960, 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 
appropriated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending 
June 30,1960, 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 $25,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be ad-
vanced July 1,1959), (2) the highway fund (when designated as pay-
able 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.C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,532,000, which is 
hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1959), (4) the 
sanitary sewage works fund (Vhen designated as payable therefrom), 
established bv law (Public Law 364, 83d Congress), and $686,000, 
which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1959), 
and (5) the motor vehicle parking fund (when designated as pay-
able 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, $34,300,000, which, to-
gether 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), and the Act of June 6, 1958 (72 
Stat. 183), to be advanced upon request of the Commissioners to 
the following funds: general fund, $20,000,000, highway 
fund, 
$13,100,000, and water fund, $1,200,000. 
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, here-
after in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; compensation and 
expenses of members of the Apprentices¥ip 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 period-
icals in the District of Columbia but not elsewhere, unless the need 
for advertising outside the District of Columbia shall have been 
specifically approved b]^ the Commissioners, including notices of 
public hearings, publication of orders and regulations, tax and school 
July 23, 1959 
[H. R. 5676] 
The District of 
Columbia Appro-
priation Act, 1960. 
50 
Stat. 
675,681. 
D. C. Code 47-
1901; D. C. Code 
40-103. 
D. C. Code 43-
1523. 
68 Stat. 104. 
D. C. Code 4 > 
1602. 
56 Stat. 93. 
D. C. Code 40-
808. 
68 Stat. 103. 
D. C. Code 43-
1540; D. C. Code 
9-220. 
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notices, and notices of changes in regulations; expenses of Youth 
Council, Board of Elections, Washington Metropolitan Regional 
Conference, White House Conference on Children and Youth, and 
Board of Appeals and Review; ceremony expenses; carrying out a 
comprehensive program for urban renewal and slum clearance and a 
survey of the "downtown business" area, by contract or otherwise, 
as may be determined 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; $590,000: Pro-
vided^ That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient 
voucher for the expenditure of $2,500 of this appropriation for such 
purposes, exclusive of ceremony expenses, as they may deem necessary. 
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
Department of General Administration, including District govern-
ment employees' compensation; administrative expenses, wonjmen's 
compensation, to be transferred to the Bureau of Employees' Compen-
sation for administration of the law providing compensation for dis-
ability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employ-
ments in the District of Columbia; unemployment compensation for 
District government employees; rental of postage meters; and affilia-
tion with the National Safety Council, Incorporated; $5,119,000, of 
which $130,000 shall remain available until expended and $83,000 shall 
be payable from the highway fund, $17,000 from the water fund, 
$3,000 from the sanitary sewage works fund, and $1,000 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: Pro-
vided further. That, for the purpose of assessing and reassessing real 
property in tne District of Columbia, $5,000 of this appropriation 
shall be available for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act 
60 Stat. 810. 
of August 2, 1946 ^5 U.S.C. 55a), but at rates for individuals not in 
excess of $100 per aiem. 
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. 
D.c.code 1-902. 1160), as Emended by the Act of June 6, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); and 
judicial expenses, including witness fees and expert services, in Dis-
trict of Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and 
of the District of Columbia; $755,000, of which $44,000 shall be pay-
able from the highway fund. 
REGULATORY AGENCIES 
Regulatory agencies, including juror fees, $1,570,500. 
DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 
Department of Occupations and Professions, $327,000. 
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
Public schools, including the education of foreigners of all ages in 
the Americanization sohoms; subsistence supplies for pupils enrolled 
in classes for crippled children; maintenance 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 Columbia; transportation of children 
attending schools or classes established for severely handicapped 
pupils; distribution of surplus commodities and relief milk to public 
and charitable institutions, school lunch program for needy children 
attending elementary schools under rules and regulations to be deter-
mined by the Commissioners, and for the carrj^ing out, under regula-
tions to be prescribed by the Board of Education of a milk program 
for the schoolchildren of the District, including the purchase and 
distribution of milk under agreement with the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture; $517,000 for development of vocational educa-
tion in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 
^ 
1936, as amended; for development of national defense education 
2ousc*i5i^note. 
programs and for matching Federal grants under the National Defense 
Education Act of Septen3)er 2, 1958 (72 Stat, 1580); financing the 
20 use 4oinote. 
liability of the government of the District of Columbia to the "Teach-
ers' retirement and annuity fund"; operation, repair, maintenance, 
and improvement of public school buildings, grounds, and equipment; 
and operation, repair, maintenance, and insurance of passenger-
carrying motor vehicles; $46,882,000, of which $6,000 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 
«» stat. s 10. 
$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. 
Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 
Doubi.5 salaries. 
Act, approved May 10,1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 
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to August 29, 1959, to teachers of the public schools of the District note. 
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; $2,478,000. 
RECREATION DEPARTMENT 
Recreation Department, for operation and maintenance of recrea-
tion facilities in and for the District of Columbia, $2,647,100. 
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 inspector; 
the lieutenants in command of the homicide squad, robbery squad, 
general assignment squad, special investigation squad, automobile 
squad, and check and fraud squad, with the rank and pay of captain 
while so assigned; the present acting sergeant in charge of police auto-
mobiles with the rank and pay of sergeant; the present lieutenant in 
charge of purchasing and accounts with the rank and pay of captain; 
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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; compen-
sation of civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the Com-
missioners ; allowances for privately owned automobiles used by dep-
uty chiefs and inspectors in the performance of official duties at $480 
per annum for each automobile; relief and other allowances, as author-
ized by law, for policemen; rewards for fugitives; photographs, 
rental, purchase, and maintenance of radio and teletype systems; 
expenses of attendance, without loss of pay or time, at pistol matches, 
including entrance fees; expenses of the police training school, includ-
ing travel expenses of visiting lecturers or experts m criminology; 
expenses of traffic school; official equipment, including cleaning, alter-
ation and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, 
or damaged in the performance of duty; purchase of forty-one pas-
senger motor vehicles including forty for replacement only for police-
type use without regard to the general purchase price limitation for 
the current fiscal year (but not in excess of $100 per vehicle above 
such limitation), and the maintenance of a suitable place for the recep-
tion and detention of girls and women over seventeen 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; $21,750,000, of which 
amount $2,302,000 shall be payable from the highway fund and 
$104,000 from the motor vehicle parking fund, and $35,000 shall be 
exclusively available for expenditure by the Chief of Police for pre-
vention and detection of crime, under his certificate approved by 
the Commissioners, and every such certificate shall be deemed a suffi-
cient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended. 
FIRE DEPARTMENT 
Fire Department, including compensation of civilian trial board 
members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; relief and other 
allowances, as authorized by law, for firemen; official equipment, in-
cluding 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 four pas-
senger motor vehicles for replacement only; and repairs and improve-
ments to buildings and grounds; $10,547,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
Department of Veterans Affairs, $107,000. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE 
Office of Civil Defense, $60,000: 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 
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to the District of Columbia 
Office of Civil Defense for the purchase of civil defense equipment 
and supplies approved by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, 
when authorized by the Commissioners, 
DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION 
Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, $247,000. 
D. C. Code 11-
104. 
D. C. Code 11-
722. 
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COURTS 
Courts, including pay of retired judges; lodging and meals for 
jurorSj bailiffs and deputy United States marshals while in attendance 
upon jurors, when ordered by the courts; employment of consulting 
physicians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; meals for pris-
oners ; and reimbursement to the United States for services rendered 
to the District of Columbia by the Judiciary, General Services Admin-
istration, and the Department of Justice; $5,396,000: Provided^ That 
this appropriation shall be available for advances on reimbursement 
to the General Services Administration 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 fur-
ther^ That deposits made on demands tor 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 before the time set for such trials, 
including Sundays and le^al holidays, a new date for trial be set by 
the court, cases be discontmued 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, care of alcoholics, manufacture of serum in in-
digent cases, allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the 
performance of official duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate of 8 
cents per mile but not more than $1,250 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; travel expenses and fees for visiting lecturers or experts 
in public health and related fields; compensation of consulting phy-
sicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, compen-
sation of convalescent patients to be employed in essential work and 
as an aid to their rehaoilitation 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 financial 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 Commis-
sioners, training school for nurses, repairs and iniprovements to 
buildings and grounds; reimbursement to the United States for serv-
ices rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hospital; and 
for care and treatment of indigent patients in institutions, including 
those under sectarian control, und!er contracts to be made by the 
Director of Public Health; $34,883,076: Prov^<^e6^, That the inpatient 
rate under such contracts and for services rendered by Freedmen's 
Hospital shall not exceed $21.20 per diem and the outpatient rate shall 
not exceed $3.50 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 pri-
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vately owned automobiles for the deportation of nonresident insane 
may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9,1949 (63 Stat. 
5 use 835 note, jgg) ^ 
feu^ 
^Q^ ^0 exceed $900 for any one individual. 
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 
Department of Corrections^ including subsistence of interns j 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; support, maintenance, and transportation of prisoners trans-
ferred 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 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; $6,000,000. 
DEPARTMENT or PUBLIC WELEARE 
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 sec-
tarian control, burial of children dying while beneficiaries under this 
appropriation, repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, 
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 temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, and 
male witnesses eighteen years of age or over shall be held at the Dis-
trict of Columbia General Hospital, subsistence in lieu of salary for 
employment of persons for the purpose of securing training and ex-
perience in their future vocations, supervision of students performing 
voluntary services for the purpose of obtaining training and experi-
ence in their future vocations, compensation of consulting physicians 
and veterinarians 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 
Commissioners or their designated agent with the Attorney General 
at a rate of not to exceed the actual cost for each boy committed, 
$17,370,000: Provided, That employees using privately owned auto-
mobiles for the transportation of indigent persons or the placing of 
children may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 1949 
suse835 note. 
(53 g^^^. 166), but not to cxcecd $900 for any one individual: Pro-
vided further, That when specifically authorized by the Commissioners 
this appropriation may be used for visiting any ward of the Depart-
ment of Public Welfare placed outside of the District of Columbia 
and the States of Virginia and Maryland. 
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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, $2,435,000, of which $30,000 shall be payable 
from the highway fund. 
CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OP BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the Department 
of Buildings and Grounds in payment of personal services, retire-
ment costs of persons employed on construction work, and other 
expenses provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an 
amount not exceeding 6 per centum of appropriations for such con-
struction projects, 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 
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 the provisions 
of the Act of October 13,1949 (63 Stat. 841). 
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OFFICE OF SURVEYOR 
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Office of Surveyor, $200,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND INSPECTIONS 
Department of Licenses and Inspections, including the enforce-
ment of the Act requiring the erection of fire escapes on certain build-
ings and the removal of dangerous or unsafe or insanitary buildings; 
compensation at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of members 
of boards to survey unsafe structures and excavations; administration 
and enforcement of zoning regulations; purchase of two passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only; maintenance and repairs to mar-
kets ; purchase of commodities and for personal services m connection 
with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure; 
and to obtain evidence necessary for prosecution in connection with 
the business of pawnbrokers, mediums, secondhand dealers, and other 
businesses requiring a license; $2,294,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND TRAFFIC 
Department of Highways and Traffic, including minor construction 
of bridges; rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of radio 
services; purchase of twenty-one passenger motor vehicles including 
eighteen for replacement only; and purchase of driver-training 
vehicles from proceeds of sale of similar vehicles; $8,045,000, of which 
$5,083,000 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provvded^^ 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: Provided 
further^ That the 
Commissioners 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 purposes. 
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DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES 
Department of Motor Vehicles (payable from highway fund), 
including $27,000 for traffic safety education without reference to any 
other law, and $200 for membership in the American Association of 
Motor Vehicle Administrators, $1,202,000. 
MOTOR VEHICLE PARKING AGENCY 
Motor Vehicle Parking Agency (payable from motor vehicle park-
ing fund), including installation and maintenance of parking meters, 
$230,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Department of Sanitary Engineering, including installing and 
repairing water meters on services to private residences and business 
places as may not be required to install meters under existing regula-
tions (said meters to remain the property of the District of Columbia), 
installing and repairing water meters on services and connections from 
the District water supply system for the direct use of any federally 
owned property used and occupied by any department or agency of 
the Government of the United States situated in the District of 
Columbia, purchase of nine passenger motor vehicles for replacement 
only, purchase of radio equipment when approved by the Director of 
Highways, 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; $15,080,000, of which $150,000 shall be payable from the high-
way fund for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, 
and gutters, in the discretion of the Commissioners, $3,640,000 shall be 
payable from the water fund, and $3,127,000 shall be payable from 
the sanitary sewage works fund: Provided^ That this appropriation 
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 build-
ing 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; purchase of three passenger motor vehicles, including two 
for replacement only; and fluoridation of water; $2,480,000: Provided. 
That transfer of appropriations 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 suj)erintendence 
and control of the Secretary of the Army over the Washington Aque-
duct, its rights, aj)purtenances, and fixtures connected with the same, 
and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided 
by law. 
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NATIONAL, GUARD 
National Guard of the District of Columbia, including compensa-
tion to the commanding general at not to exceed $11,600 per annum; 
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; reim-
bursement 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 mainte-
nance 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 recruit-
ing ; care and repair of armories, offices, storehouses, and machinery; 
alterations and additions to present structures; and construction of 
buildings for storage and other purposes; $168,000. 
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 of stands, furnishing and placing of 
chairs, and services incident thereto in connection with national, patri-
otic, civic, and recreational functions held in the parks, including the 
President'ls Cup Regatta, and expenses incident to the conducting of 
band concerts m the parks; such expenses to include pay and allow-
ances of the United States Park Police force; per diem employees 
at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceed-
ing 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 equip-
ment and the rental of teletype service; the purchase of 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; and the purchase and maintenarice of draft animals, 
harness, and wagons; $3,074,000, 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 fuHher, That funds appropri-
ated under or transferred to this head for services rendered by the 
National Park Service shall be advanced to ^aid 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 
of specimens; revolvers and ammunition; and purchase of uniforms 
amended, the Aot of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 896), as amended, the 
Act of May 14, 1948 (62 Stat. 285), and section 108 of the Act of 
^°D.*°c."o?de 43- May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 103), including interest as required thereby,. 
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and equipment for police, and uniforms for keepers and assistant 
keepers; $1,125,000: 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 unexpended balance to be returned to this appropriation not later 
than two full fiscal years after the close of the current fiscal year. 
PERSONAL SERVICES, WAGE-SCALE EMPLOYEES 
For pay increases and related retirement cost for wage-scale 
employees, to be transferred by the Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1960 from which 
said employees are properly payable, $1,543,000, of which $116,000 
shall be payable frorn the highway funds, $145,000 from the water 
fund, and $75,000 from the sanitary sewage works fund. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
DISTRICT DEBT SERVICE 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned in com-
no?e.^' ^"^^ ^^°^ pliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
D. C. Code Il-
ea to 11-105. 
D. C. Code 43- 
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1540. 
$939,000, of which $539,000 shall be payable from the water fund. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, PUBLIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 
For accjuisition of public school sites; preparation of plans and 
specifications for the following buildings: elementary school in the 
vicinity of Twelfth and E Streets Southeast, junior high schools in 
the vicinity of South Dakota Avenue and Hamilton Street Northeast 
and Fifty-eighth and Dix Streets Northeast, and infirmary and ad-
missions building at Junior Village; for conducting the following 
preliminary survey: elimination of fire hazards in secondary schools; 
erection of the following structures, including building improvement 
and alteration and the treatment of grounds: Whittier Elementary 
School addition, Lenox Elementary School addition, Rudolph Ele-
mentary School addition, elementary school in the vicinity of Fif-
teenth and Rosedale Streets Northeast, Maury Elementary School 
addition, elementary school in the vicinity of Forty-ninth and Lee 
Streets Northeast, elementary school in the vicinity of Sixth and K 
Streets Northeast, Fort Davis branch library, replacement of Fire 
Department repair shop (including space for Seventh Engine Com-
pany) , training school for Fire Department at Blue Plains, hospital 
replacement at the Reformatory, and school building at District Train-
ing School, and warehouse for public schools and Department of 
Buildings and Grounds (including shop facilities and record center); 
equipment for new buildings; improvement of various recreation 
units, including preparation of architectural plans and erection of 
recreation structures without regard to the Act of August 24, 1912 
(40 U.S.C. 68) ; $243,200 for purchase of equipment for new school 
buildings; and permanent improvement of buildings and grounds (in-
cluding purchase and installation of furnishings and equipment, 
elimination of fire hazards, sanitary and stormwater sewer construc-
tion, and road construction) of schools, firehouses, hospitals, welfare 
institutions, and other District of Columbia and National Zoological 
37 Stat. 444. 
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235 
Park buildings; to remain available until expended, $13,866,400, of 
which $4,889,000 shall not become available for expenditure until 
July 1, 1960, and $905,800 shall be available for construction services 
by the Director of Buildings and Grounds or b^ contract for archi-
tectural engineering services, as may be determined by the Commis-
sioners, and the funds for the use of the Director of Buildings and 
Grounds shall be advanced to the appropriation account, "Construc-
tion services. Department of Buildings and Grounds": Provided^ That 
amounts appropriated, hereafter, under "Capital Outlay," together 
with such amounts previously appropriated under "Capital Outlay," 
shall be available within the appropriations involved without regard 
to fiscal year project limitations. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND TRAFFIC 
For expenses necessary for the grading, surfacing, paving, repaving, 
widening, altering, purchase 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 section 1(b) of the Federal Aid 
Highway Act of 1938, and highway structure projects financed wholly 
^2 ^*^-*^.5'^,**-
from the highway fund upon the approval of plans for such structures 103(b). 
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 Colum-
bia, and alleys and minor streets, and for the establishment of build-
ing lines in the District of Columbia, including the procurement of 
chains of title; and for assessment and permit work, paving of road-
ways 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 Commissioners; 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 availaole until expended, $18,039,000, of which $17,-
409,000 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 high-
way-planning survey, involving surveys, plans, engineering, and 
economic investigations 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 
52 stat. 633. 
Federal-aid highway projects under section 1(b) of said Act, and 
highway-structure proiects financed wholly from the highway fund, 
this appropriation and the appropriation "Operating expenses, De-
partment of Highways and Traffic" shall be available for the employ-
ment of engineering or other professional services by contract or 
32716 O-60—18 
D.C. Code 7-604 
note. 
236 
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[73 STAT. 
41 use 5. 
otherwise, and without regard to section 3709 of the Kevised Statutes 
and the civil-service and classification laws, and section 15 of the Act 
60 Stat. 810. 
of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), and for engineering and incidental 
expenses: Provided further^ That this appropriation and the appro-
priation "Operating expenses, Department of Highways and Traffic" 
shall be available for the construction and repair of pavements of 
street railways, in accordance with the provisions of the Merger Act 
(47 Stat. 752), and the proportion of the amount thus expended which 
under the terms of the said Act is required to be paid Iby 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 
D°c^*codl°7t604 *^® ^^* ^* ?^^^ ^^' ^^'''^' ^^^ ^^^P ^® deposited to the credit of 
the appropriation 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 
72 Stat. 919. 
Dccembsr 20, 1944, as amended, the Commissioners 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 Commissioners are hereby 
authorized to construct grade-crossing elimination and other wholly 
District construction projects or those authorized under section 8 of 
72 Stat. 894. 
the Act of Juue 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), and section 1(b) of the 
23 ^sc^^wua), Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, as amended, in accordance with 
103(b). 
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 re-
imbursement 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 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: Pro-
vided 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 paving materials 
as well as in price: Provided further, That this appropriation and the 
appropriation "Operating expenses. Department of Highways and 
Traffic" shall be available for advance payments to Federal agencies 
for work to be performed, when ordered by the Commissioners, subject 
to subsequent adjustment: Provided further. That no part oi 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 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 Utilities Commission and the De-
partment of Highways and Traffic and the street-railway company 
shall after construction maintain, mark, and light the same at its 
expense. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, DEPARTMENT OF SANirARY ENGINEERING 
For construction of incinerator numbered 4, including treatment 
of grounds; construction 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, 
maintenance, and repair of sewers and water mains; continuing con-
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237 
struction on aeration plant and secondary sedimentation tanks, recon-
struction, enlargement, rehabilitation, major repair and replacement 
of grit removal, sludge digestion, heating and other existing equip-
ment and facilities; rehabilitation and replacement 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; to remain available 
until expended, $10,215,000, of which $2,500,000 shall not become avail-
able for expenditure until July 1,1960, and $2,300,000 shall be payable 
from the sanitary sewage works fund: Provided, That this appropria-
tion and the appropriation "Operating expenses. Department of Sani-
tary Engineering" shall be available for the employment of engineer-
ing or other professional services by contract or otherwise, and for 
engineering and incidental expenses. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT 
For continuing construction of Dalecarlia filter and chemical build-
ings; miscellaneous betterments, replacements, and engineering plan-
ning of water supplj^ f 
acilitieSj including continuing raw-water conduit 
rehabilitation, utility relocations, and plant system rearrangements 
and interconnections; acquisition by gift, exchange, purchase, or con-
demnation 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 
by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 IJ.S.C. 55a), but at rates 
for individual consultants not in excess of $100 per diem; to remain 
available until expended, $3,500,000 (payable from water fund). 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, MOTOR VEHICLE PARKING AGENCY 
For acquisition of sites, grading, surfacing, and erection of struc-
tures incident to the construction of off-street parking facilities; 
widening and channelizing streets in the vicinity of off-street parking 
facilities and to relieve traffic congestion caused by a lack of parking 
facilities; to remain available until expended, $125,000 (payable from 
motor vehicle parking fund). 
60 Stat. 810. 
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 the designated certifying official and the vouchers 
as approved shall be paid by checks issued by the designated dis-
bursing official without countersignature. 
SEC. 3. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an 
appropriation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such 
amount, unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maxi-
mum amount which may be expended for said purpose or object rather 
than an amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 4. 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 8 
cents per mile but not to exceed $25 a month for each automobile, 
unless otherwise therein specifically provided, except that 
fifty-two 
suph allowances at not more than $410 each per annum may be author-
ized or approved by the Commissioners. 
Vouchers. 
Maximum amount. 
Automobile al-
io ^vances. 
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[73 ST A T . 
Dues. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Advances. 
Restrictions. 
Street lighting. 
Pa s s en ger ve-
hicles. 
60 Stat. 810; 68 
Stat. 1126. 
40 u s e 491. 
Snow removal. 
R e ntal of quar-
ters. 
58 Stat. 532. 
Uniforms. 
D. C. Code 47-
1910. 
Restriction. 
70 Stat. 78. 
D. C. Code 47-
1586J. 
68 Stat. 393. 
SEC. 5. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the pay-
ment of dues of organizations concerned with the work of the District 
of Columbia government, when authorized by the Commissioners: 
Provided^ That the total expenditures for this purpose shall not exceed 
$40,000. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for services 
as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a). 
SEC. 7. The disbursing officials designated by the Commissioners are 
authorized to advance to such officials as may oe approved by the Com-
missioners such amounts and for such purposes as the Commissioners 
may determine. 
SEC. 8. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in con-
nection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement 
of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requir-
ing 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 regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by 
the Public Utilities Commission. 
SEC. 9. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the 
payment of rates for electric current for street lighting in excess of 2 
cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. 
SEC. 10. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including 
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 assign-
ment 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 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. 11. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department 
of Highways and Traffic and the Department of Sanitary Engineer-
ing shall be available for snow and ice control work when ordered by 
the Commissioners in writing. 
SEC. 12. Appropriations in this 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. 13. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the fur-
nishing of uniforms when authorized by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 14. There are hereby appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for making 
refunds and for the payment of judgments which have been entered 
against the government of the District of Columbia, including refunds 
authorized by section 10 of the Act approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat. 
108) : Provided^ That nothing contained in this section shall be con-
strued as modifying or affecting the provisions of paragraph 3, sub-
section (c) of section 11 of title X I I of the District of Columbia 
income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947, as amended. 
SEC. 15. Section 5 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 
1955, is amended to read as follows: "Hereafter work performed for 
repairs and improvements may be by contract or otherwise, as deter-
mined by the Director of Buildings and Grounds for amounts not 
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239 
exceeding $5,000 and as determined by the Commissioners for amounts 
exceeding $5,000; and the Commissioners are authorized to establish 
a working fund for such purposes without fiscal year limitation, said 
fund to be reimbursed 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 necessary expenses, including allowances 
for privately owned automobiles." 
This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1960". 
Approved July 23, 1959. 
Short title. 
Public Law 86-105 
AN ACT 
July 23. 1959 
To extend certain traineeship provisions of the Health Amendments Act of 1956. —I,H. R. (
>
3
2 ]_ 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 306 of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242d) is amended (1) by 
striking out the word "two" in subsection (a) thereof and inserting in 
lieu thereof the word "seven"; and (2) by inserting at the end of 
subsection (e) thereof the following: "The Surgeon General shall, 
between June 30,1963, and December 1,1963, call a similar conference, 
and shall submit to the Congress, on or before January 1, 1964, a 
report of such conference, including any recommendations by it relat-
ing to the limitation, extension, or modification of this section." 
SEC. 2. Section 307 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
242e) is amended (1) by striking out the word "two" in subsection (a) 
thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the word "seven"; and (2') by 
inserting at the end of subsection (e) thereof the following: "The 
Surgeon General shall, between June 30, 1963, and December 1, 1963, 
call a similar conference, and shall submit to the Congress, on or bsfore 
January 1,1964, a report of such conference, including any recommen-
dations by it relating to the limitation, extension, or modification of 
this section." 
Approved July 23, 1959. 
P u b l i c 
health 
training programs. 
70 Stat. 923. 
Report. 
70 Stat. 924. 
Report. 
Public Law 86-106 
AN ACT 
To amend the District of Columbia Business Corporation Act. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 11 of 
the District of Columbia Business Corporation Act is amended by 
adding at the end thereof a new subsection (d) as follows: 
"(d) Any registered agent of a corporation may resign as such agent 
upon filing a written notice thereof, executed in triplicate, with the 
Commissioners, who shall forthwith mail one copy thereof to the cor-
poration at its registered office and another copy thereof to the corpora-
tion at its principal office in the District as shown on the records of the 
Commissioners. The appointment of such agent shall terminate upon 
the expiration of thirty days after receipt of such notice by the Com-
missioners or upon the appointment of a successor agent becoming 
effective, whichever occurs first. No fee or charge of any kind shall be 
imposed with respect to a filing under this subsection." 
July 23, 1959 
[S. 660] 
D. C. 
Business 
Corporation 
A c t , 
amendment. 
Domestic agents, 
re s i g n a t l o n pro-
cedure. 
68 Stat. 184. 
D. C. Cod« 29-
907a.