An Act to increase the salaries of the Metropolitan Police, the United States Park Police, the White House Police, members of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia
PL 82-207 (H.R.5329), enacted 10/25/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 207—OCT. 25, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
(b) The National Gallery of Art and its grounds, which shall be 
held to extend to the line of the face of the south curb of Constitution 
Avenue Northwest, between Seventh Street Northwest, and Fourth 
Street Northwest, to the line of the face of the west curb of Fourth 
Street Northwest, between Constitution Avenue Northwest, and Madi-
son Drive Northwest; to the line of the face of the north curb of 
Madison Drive Northwest, between Fourth Street Northwest, and 
Seventh Street Northwest; and to the line of the face of the east 
curb of Seventh Street Northwest, between Madison Drive Northwest, 
and Constitution Avenue Northwest. 
Approved October 24, 1951. 
Public Law 207 
CHAPTER 560 
AN ACT 
October 25,1961 
IH. R. 5329] 
To increase the salaries of tlie Metropolitan Police, the United States Park 
Police, the White House Police, members of the Fire Department of the District 
of Columbia, and employees of the Board of Education of the District of 
Columbia. 
Be it encwted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
nr^o??c'^fnr'*^^r/«?n United States of Ainerica in Congress osemMed, That (a) the annual 
D. c. employees. 
Compensation (including basic salary and additional compensation m 
^Policemen an re- j ^ ^ ^ ^^ overtime pay and night pay differential) of each officer and 
member of the Metropolitan Police, the United States Park Police, the 
White House Police, and the Fire Department of the District of Co-
lumbia, as increased by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for an 
adjustment of salaries of the Metropolitan Police, the United States 
Park Police, the White House Police, and the members of the Fire 
Department of the District of Columbia, to conform with tlie increased 
D.^a*code §
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3 ^^^^t of living in the District of Columbia", approved July 14,1945, as 
to Ao5. 
amended and by the Act entitled "An Act to increase the compensation 
of certain employees of the municipal government of the District of 
63 Stat. 376. 
Columbia, and for other purposes", approved June 30, 1949, shall be 
further increased by 10 per centum, (plus 8 per centum of such 10 
per centum as additional compensation in lieu of overtime pay and 
night pay differential) except that in no case shall such compensation 
be increased by less than $300 per annum or by more than $800 per 
annum. The proviso contained in the first sentence of the first section 
of said Act of June 30,1949, is hereby repealed; but no officer or mem-
bers covered by this section shall, by reason of the enactment of this 
section, be paid with respect to any pay period, basic salary, or basic 
salary plus additional compensation at a rate in excess of $11,130 per 
annum. 
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(^) (1) Each employee of the Board of Education of the District 
of Columbia whose salary is fixed and regulated by the District of 
Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, except the Superintendent of 
Schools, shall receive, in addition to the compensation already pro-
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3 Stat, ^-^j^^ ^^ ^^^Y\ Act and by the Act of June 30,1949, compensation at the 
rate of 10 per centum of the aggregate compensation provided by such 
Acts, except that in no case shall the additional compensation provided 
for in this paragraph be increased by less than $300 per annum or by 
more than $800 per annum. 
(2) The basic and maximum salaries for all salary classes in Title I 
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1 Stat. 248. 
of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, except class 
29, are hereby increased by 10 per centum, except that in no case 
shall any such basic or maximum salary be increased by less than 
$300 per annum or by more than $800 per annum. 
65 STAT.] 
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(c) In the exercise of the authority granted by section 81 of title 2 
of the Canal Zone Code, as amended, the Governor of the Canal Zone 
is authorized and directed to grant additional compensation to police-
men, firemen, and school teachers employed by the Canal Zone Govern-
ment, whenever additional compensation is granted to employees of 
the District of Columbia employed in similar or comparable positions. 
The additional compensation for such Canal Zone employees shall 
be effective as of the date any additional compensation is granted to 
similar or comparable employees of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 2. Authority is hereby granted to the Commissioners and to 
other wage-fixing authorities of the municipal government of the 
District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Interior and the President 
of the United States, in their discretion, to grant additional compen-
sation at rates not to exceed those prevailing without regard to the 
provisions of section 3679 of the Kevised Statutes, as amended (31 
U. S. C. 665), additional compensation at rates not to exceed those 
prevailing in the District of Columbia for similar or comparable 
employment to each employee in or under the municipal government 
of the District of Columbia, National Capital Parks and the Executive 
Mansion Grounds, whose compensation is fixed and adjusted from 
time to time by a wage board, or whose compensation is fixed without 
reference to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, or whose 
compensation is limited or fixed specifically by the provisions of the 
District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1952. 
SEC. 3. (a) Public Law 159, Eighty-second Congress, is hereby 
amended by striking out section 3 thereof. 
(b) This section shall be effective October 8, 1951. 
SEC. 4. (a) This Act shall become effective as of the first day 
of the first pay period which began after June 30, 1951. 
(b) No retroactive compensation or salary shall be payable by 
reason of the enactment of this Act in the case of any individual 
not in the service of the United States (including service in the 
Armed Forces of the United States) or of the municipal govern-
ment of the District of Columbia on the date of enactment of this 
Act, except that such retroactive compensation or salary shall 
be paid a retired officer or employee for services rendered during 
the period beginning with the first day of the first pay period 
which began after June 30, 1951, and ending with the date of his 
retirement. 
Approved October 25, 1951. 
Governor of Canal 
Zone. 
Authority. 
Wage-flxing autlior-
Ities. 
63 Stat. 954. 
6 U. S. C. § 1071 
note. 
Ante, p. 155. 
Ante, p. 368. 
Effective date. 
Retroactive 
pensation. 
Public Law^ 208 
CHAPTER 561 
AN ACT 
To provide for conveyance of certain land to the city of New Orleans. 
October 25,1961 
[3. 1912] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America i/n Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Air Force is authorized and directed to convey to the city of 
New Orleans, without consideration, all of the right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to all land acquired by the United States, 
with funds made available by the city of New Orleans, for the pur-
poses of expansion of and removal of flight hazards at Moisant Inter-
national Airport, consisting of three hundred seventy-six and three 
one-hundredths acres, more or less. 
Approved October 25, 1951, 
New Orleans. 
Conveyance.