Joint resolution requesting and authorizing the President of the United States to officially proclaim the week of June 7-14, 1953, as ""Aid to Korea Week"".
PL 83-51 (S.J.Res.80), enacted 06/06/1953

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crease of fees. 
(14) The Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act for the regulation 
of the practice of dentistry in the District of Columbia, and for the 
protection of the people from empiricism in relation thereto, approved 
June 6, 1892, and Acts amendatory thereof", approved July 2, 1940 
(ch. 513, 54 Stat. 716; title 2, ch. 3, D. C. Code, 1951 edition). 
(15) The Act entitled "An Act to regulate boxing contests and 
exhibitions in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", 
approved December 20, 1944 (ch. 612, 58 Stat. 823, as amended; title 
2, ch. 12, D. C. Code, 1951 edition). 
(16) The Act entitled "An Act defining and regulating the practice 
of the profession of engineering and creating a Board of Registration 
for Professional Engineers in the District of Columbia", approved 
September 19, 1950 (ch. 953, 64 Stat. 854; title 2, ch. 18, D. C. Code, 
1951 edition). 
SEC. 2. The Commissioners may after public hearing increase or 
decrease the fees authorized to be charged by each of the Acts listed 
in the first section of this Act to sucTi amounts as may, in the judgment 
of the Commissioners, be reasonably necessary to defray the approxi-
mate cost of administering each of said Acts. 
Approved June 5, 1953. 
Public Law 51 
CHAPTER 102 
June 6, 1953 
[S. J. Res. 80] 
'•Aid to K o r e a 
Week". 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Requesting and authorizing the President of the United States to officially 
proclaim the week of June 7-14, 1953, as "Aid to Korea Week". 
Whereas the people of the United States feel a strong bond of friend-
ship toward the people of the Republic of Korea in our common 
fight in defense of freedom; and 
Whereas Korean women, children, aged, and maimed have been sub-
ject to the ravages of war for almost three years; and 
Whereas the facilities of the Government of the Republic of Korea 
and the magnanimous aid of private relief agencies have not to 
date been nearly adequate for the monumental task of rehabili-
tation of the millions of injured, destitute, and homeless Koreans; 
and 
Whereas the American military forces in Korea have been so moved 
by the suffering of the civilians there that they have contributed 
millions of dollars of their own money to help these stricken 
people; and 
Whereas recent reports estimate there are nine million dislocated per-
sons, one hundred thousand orphans, three hundred thousand war 
widows, and fifteen thousand amputees in desperate need in that 
land which has borne such sacrifice to retain its freedom and 
independence and to resist Communist aggression; and 
Whereas the practice of assistance through private relief agencies is 
in the best American tradition: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the /Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the President of the 
United States is requested and authorized to officially proclaim the 
week of June 7-14, 1953, as "Aid to Korea Week": And be it further 
Resolved^ That the President shall by this proclamation call upon 
the American people, by their observance of this week, to demonstrate 
their friendship and affection for the distressed people of the Republic 
of Korea. 
Approved June 6, 1953.