An Act to amend the act entitled ""An Act to provide an immediate revision and equalization of real-estate values in the District of Columbia also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District in the year 1896 and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes"", approved August 14, 1894, as amended.
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"That the Recorder of Deeds is authorized to appoint a second deputy 
recorder" is amended to read: "The Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia are authorized to appoint a second deputy recorder of deeds". 
(b) The third sentence of such Act approved March 3, 1925, as 
amended by such Act approved June 9, 1952, is amended to read: 
"The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall appoint all 
employees in the office of the Recorder of Deeds, except the Recorder, 
in accordance with civil-service laws and fix the compensation of all 
employees in such office in accordance with the Classification Act of 
1949, as amended, and the said Commissioners may delegate to any 
officer subordinate to them the function of appointing any of the 
employees in such office other than the Recorder." 
SEC. 5. Clause (p) of section 2 of the District of Columbia Business 
Corporation Act (68 Stat. 180) is amended by adding thereto the 
following sentence: "It shall be the duty of the Recorder of Deeds and 
of any other officer or agency of the Government of the District of 
Columbia to perform any function delegated to such officer or agency 
by the Commissioners pursuant to this Act." 
Approved August 3, 1954. 
S e c o n d deputy 
recorder of deeds. 
O f f i c e employ-
ees. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
Commissioners. 
Del e g at i o n of 
functions. 
Public Law 564 
CHAPTER 654 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide an immediate revision and equali-
zation of real-estate values in the District of Columbia; also to provide an 
assessment of real estate in said District in the year eighteen hundred and 
ninety-six and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes", approved 
August 14, 1894, as amended. 
August 3, 1954 
[H. R. 7128] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That (a) the first 
sentence of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide an imme-
diate revi^on and equalization of real-estate values in the District of 
Columbia; also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District 
in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and every third year 
thereafter, and for other purposes", approved August 14, 1894 (28 
Stat. 282, as amended; sec. 47-604, D. C. Code, 1951 edition) is 
amended to read as follows: 
"The Commissioners of the District of Columb,ia shall appoint as a 
permanent board of assistant assessors such persons as are conversant 
with real estate values in the District of Columbia and who have been 
bona fide residents of the District for a period of at least five years, 
except that two of such appointees may be persons who have been 
bona fide residents of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Area for 
a per,iod of at least five years." 
(b) Section 2 of such Act of August 14,1894, as amended, is further 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: 
"For the purposes of this Act, the term 'District of Columbia Met-
ropolitan Area' means the District of Columbia, the cities of Alexan-
dria and Falls Church, and the counties of Arlington and Fairfax in 
Virginia, and the counties of Montgomery and Prince Georges in 
Maryland." 
SEC. 2. Where any provision of this Act, or any amendment made 
by this Act, refers to an office or agency abolished by Reorganization 
Plan Numbered 5 of 1952, such reference shall be deemed to be to the 
office, agency, or officer designated by the Commissioners to perform 
the functions of the office or agency so abolished. 
Approved August 3, 1954. 
D. C. assistant 
assessors. 
Appointment. 
"D. C. m e t r o -
politan area". 
66 Stat. 824. 
D.C. Code1-app.