An Act to provide for the orderly transaction of the public business in the event of the death, incapacity, or separation from office of a disbursing officer of the military department
PL 83-174 (S.2078), enacted 07/31/1953

PUBLIC LAW 174-JULY 31, 1953 
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Restriction. 
Snow removal. 
66 Stat. 826. 
Balances. 
C onsolidation. 
Recission. 
D e par t ment of 
S a n i t a r y 
Engi-
neering. 
O p e r a t i n g ex-
pense s. 
Short title. 
of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the 
assignment 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 transportation 
necessary, but only as to such latter cases when the same is approved 
by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from 
the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of 
the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 15. Appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, 
Division of Sanitation, and the Water Division shall be available for 
snow removal when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. 
SEC. 16. The authority of the Commissioners to establish agencies 
and offices in the government of the District of Columbia pursuant to 
section 4 of Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1952, and to effect transfers 
of unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds 
pursuant to section 5 of said Plan, shall not extend beyond June 30, 
1954. 
SEC. 17. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to consolidate 
under appropriate current account titles the unexpended balances of 
such unexpired District of Columbia capital outlay appropriations of 
prior years as may be requested by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 18. The balances of all general-fund and water-fund contract 
authorizations heretofore granted to the Commissioners which remain 
unobligated on June 30, 1954, are rescinded. 
SEC. 19. Operating expenses of the Department of Sanitary Engi-
neering properly chargeable to two or more appropriations available to 
that Department may De charged initially to an appropriate fiscal year 
account which is hereby authorized to be established. Advances shall 
be made to this account in such amounts as determined necessary by 
the Commissioners of the District of Columbia from appropriations 
available to the Department of Sanitary Engineering. AH charges to 
this account shall be distributed at least monthly to the applicable 
appropriations. 
SEC. 20. This Act may be cited as the "District of Colupibia Appro-
priation Act, 1954." 
Approved July 31, 1953. 
July 31, 1953 
[S. 2078] 
Public Law 174 
CHAPTER 300 
AN ACT 
To provide for the orderly transaction of the public business in the event of the 
death, incapacity, or separation from office of a disbursing officer of the 
military department. 
Armed Forces. 
Disbursing o f ' 
fleers. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That in case of 
the death, incapacity, or separation from office of a disbursing officer 
of any of the military departments the accounts of such disbursing 
officer may be continued and payments made in his name by his deputy 
disbursing officer for a period of time not to extend beyond the last 
day of the second month following the month in which such death, 
incapacity or separation shall occur. 
Such accounts and payments 
shall be allowed, audited, and settled in the manner prescribed by law; 
and the checks signed in the name of the former disbursing officer 
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shall be honored by the Treasurer of the United States, in the same 
manner as if the former disbursing officer had continued in office. 
The former disbursing officer, his estate, or the surety on his official 
bond, shall not be subject to any legal liability or penalty for the official 
acts and defaults of the deputy disbursing officer acting in the name or 
in the place of the former disbursing officer under this Act, but the 
deputy disbursing officer and his surety, shall be responsible therefor 
under his bond. 
The bond of the deputy disbursing officer shall be an 
amount at least equal to the minimum amount of the bond required 
of the disbursing officer. 
The Secretary of the military department 
concerned may, from time to time, require the deputy disbursing 
officer to renew and increase his bond to the United States. 
Approved July 31, 1953. 
Public Law 175 
CHAPTER 301 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making additional appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the 
fiscal year 1954, and for other purposes. 
July 31, 1953 
[H. J. Res. 305] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States 
of America 
in Congress assembled^ That there are hereby 
appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, the following sums: 
DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
D e par tment of 
AgricultTore. 
A d d i t i onal ap-
propriations, 1954. 
DISASTER LOAN REVOLVING FUND 
For an additional amount for the disaster loan revolving fund 
established under the Act of April 6, 1949, as amended (12 U. S. C. 
1148a-l to 1148a-3), $130,000,000: Provided, That when used for loans 
under section 2 (c) of said Act such fund shall not be subject to the 
minimum loan limitation of $2,500: Provided further, That not more 
than $40,000,000 of such fund may be used for emergency feed and 
seed assistance under section 2 (d) of said Act, including reimburse-
ment to the President's Emergency Fund for costs incurred in furnish-
ing assistance in the form of livestock feed in drought areas designated 
as disaster areas by the President, under authority of the Act of 
September 30, 1950(42 U. S. C. 1855), as amended, between June 25 
and July 15, 1953: Provided further, That not more than $300jl00 of 
the funds provided by this paragraph may be used for administrative 
expenses for loans during fiscal 1954. 
FARMERS' HOME ADMINISTRATION 
LOAN AUTHORIZATION 
63 Stat. 43; 64 
Stat. 414. 
64 Stat. 1109. 
For an additional amount for loans under title I I of the Bankhead-
Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, $20,000,000, to be borrowed in 
the same account as is authorized under this head in the Department 
of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1964. 
Approved July 31, 1953. 
50 Stat. 524. 
7 u s e 1007-1009. 
Ante, p. 219.