Joint resolution authorizing Lyle O. Snader temporarily to serve concurrently as Clerk and Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives
PL 83-106 (H.J.Res.292), enacted 07/09/1953

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agement of the airport to the public agency involved; except that the 
Secretary may not consider any request submitted to him after March 
31, 1954." 
(c) By adding thereto a new subsection (e) as follows: 
"TIME LIMITATIONS ON MAKING or CERTIFICATIONS 
" (e) No certification pursuant to this section w^ith respect to a request 
submitted to the Secretary after the date of enactment of this subsec-
tion (except a supplemental certification of the amount by w^hich the 
actual cost of accomplished rehabilitation or repair exceeds the amount 
of a prior certification which was based on the estimated cost of such 
rehabilitation or repair) shall be made to the Congress after a date 
one year from the expiration of the period prescribed by law for the 
submittal of such request." 
SEC. 2, There is hereby repealed the proviso contained in the appro-
priation to the Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Admin-
istration, headed "Claims, Federal Airport Act" in chapter I I I of the 
Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951 (Public Law 45, Eighty-
second Congress), reading as follows: '"''Provided^ That no request for 
reimbursement of the cost of rehabilitation or repair of a public air-
port filed under section 17 of the Federal Airport Act shall be con-
sidered by the Secretary unless filed prior to July 1, 1951, and the 
Secretary shall make no certification to Congress after July 1,1952, of 
the actual or estimated cost of such rehabilitation or repair." 
SEC. 3. Notwithstanding the proviso of the Third Supplemental 
Appropriation Act, 1951, cited in section 2 and the provisions of sub-
section (d) of section 17 of the Federal Airport Act, the Secretary of 
Commerce is authorized to consider, pursuant to the said section 17, 
any request for reimbursement of the cost of rehabilitation or repair 
of a public airport, which is submitted to him within six months 
following the effective date of this Act, if such request would have met 
the time requirements of the said subsection (d) had it been filed on 
some date subsequent to June 30, 1951, and prior to the effective date 
of this Act, 
SEC. 4, Notwithstanding any provision of existing law to the con-
trary, all appropriations heretofore made to the Department of Com-
merce, pursuant to certifications made by that Department to the Con-
gress under section 17 of the Federal Airport Act, for reimbursement 
of public agencies for the cost of rehabilitating or repairing public 
airports damaged by Federal agencies, shall remain available until 
expended. 
Approved July 8, 1953. 
R e p e a 1 of time 
limitation. 
65 Stat. 56. 
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Appropriations 
available. 
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Public Law 106 
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JOINT RESOLUTION 
Authorizing Lyle O. Snader temporarily to serve concurrently as Clerk and 
Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. 
July 9, 1953 
[H. J. Res. 292] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Lyle O. Snader, of the 
State of Illinois, be, and he is hereby, authorized, notwithstanding the 
provisions of any other law, to serve concurrently as Clerk and Ser-
geant at Arms of the House of Representatives until another person 
is chosen by the House of Representatives to be and duly qualifies as 
Sergeant at Arms; and while the said Lyle 0. Snader is so serving the 
compensation received by him as Clerk of the House of Representatives 
House of Repre-
sentatives. 
Sergeant at Arms. 
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shall be in full discharge for any services rendered by him to the House 
of Representatives during such period of concurrent service. 
Approved July 9, 1953. 
Public Law 107 
CHAPTER 183 
July 9, 1953 
[S. 694] 
U. S. flag. 
Display. 
56 Stat. 1075. 
AN ACT 
To prohibit the display of flags of international organizations or other nations 
in equal or superior prominence or honor to the flag of the United States 
except under specified circumstances, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 3 (c) 
of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to codify and empha-
size existing rules and customs pertaining to the display and use of 
the flag of the United States of America", approved June 22, 1942, 
as amended (36 U. S. C , sec. 175 (c)), is amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following new sentence: 
"No person shall display the flag of the United Nations or any other 
national or international flag equal, above, or in a position of superior 
prominence or honor to, or in place of, the flag of the United States 
at any place within the United States or any Territory or possession 
thereof: Provided^ That nothing in this section shall make unlawful 
the continuance of the practice heretofore followed of displaying the 
flag of the United Nations in a position of superior prominence or 
honor, and other national flags in positions of equal prominence or 
honor, with that of the flag of the United States at the headquarters 
of the United Nations." 
Approved July 9, 1953. 
July 10, 1953 
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Commission 
o n 
Organization of the 
Executive Branch 
of the Government. 
Public Law 108 
CHAPTER 184 
AN ACT 
For the establishment of a Commission on Governmental Operations. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^semhled., 
DECLARATION OF POLICY 
SECTION 1. It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to 
promote economy, efficiency, and improved service in the transaction 
of the public business in the departments, bureaus, agencies, boards, 
commissions, offices, independent establishments, and instrumentalities 
of the executive branch of the Government by— 
(1) recommending methods and procedures for 
reducing 
expenditures to the lowest amount consistent with the efficient 
performance of essential services, activities, and functions ; 
(2) eliminating duplication and overlapping of services, activi-
ties, and functions; 
(3) consolidating services, activities, and functions of a similar 
nature; 
(4) abolishing services, activities, and functions not necessary 
to the efficient conduct of government; 
(5) eliminating nonessential services, functions, and activities 
which are competitive with private enterprise; 
(6) defining responsibilities of officials; and