An Act to authorize the care and treatment at facilities of the Public Health Service of narcotic addicts committed by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
PL 83-355 (H.R.6702), enacted 05/08/1954

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patents to the State of Idaho for the lands relinquished by the State 
under Carey Act Segregation List Numbered 53 for which State Final 
Certificates have been issued for use only by the State for conveyance 
by deed to the holders of State Final Certificates for such land or to 
their heirs, successors, or assigns for the tract of land covered by such 
final certificate. 
Approved May 7, 1954. 
Public Law 354 
CHAPTER 194 
AN ACT 
To authorize certain members of the Armed Forces to accept and wear decorations 
of certain foreign nations. 
May 8, 1954 
[S« 2247] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to such 
regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, 
Air Force, and Treasury, members and former members of the Armed 
Forces of the United States holding any office of profit or trust under 
the United States who have served, subsequent to June 26, 1950, in 
Korea and such of the waters or lands adjacent thereto as may be des-
ignated as combat zones or areas by the respective Secretaries are 
authorized, during the period of hostilities in Korea in which the 
United States is engaged, and for one year thereafter, to accept from 
the governments of foreign nations whose personnel are participating 
with or under the United Nations Command in Korea such decorations, 
orders, and emblems as may be tendered them, and which are conferred 
by such governments upon members of their own military forces. 
For 
purposes of this Act the consent of the Congress required in accordance 
with clause 8 of section 9, article I of the Constitution is hereby granted. 
Any such member or former member holding any office of profit or 
trust under the United States is authorized to wear any decoration, 
order, or emblem accepted pursuant to authority contained in this Act. 
Approved May 8, 1954. 
Armed Forces 
Decorations. 
Public Law 355 
CHAPTER 195 
AN ACT 
To authorize the care and treatment at facilities of the Public Health Service 
of narcotic addicts committed by the United States District Court for the 
District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 
May 8, 1954 
[H. R. 6702] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, 
DECLARATION OF PURPOSE 
SECTION 1. In order to afford the District of Columbia time to provide 
the facilities required to carry out the Act of June 24, 1953 (Public 
Law 76, Eighty-third Congress), and, in the interim, to help it meet 
its responsibility for the detention, care, and treatment of noncriminal 
narcotic addicts, it is hereby declared to be the purpose of this Act to 
authorize the limited use of suitable Public Health Service facilities 
for a temporary period, at the expense of the District of Columbia, 
for such detention, care, and treatment. 
SEC. 2. The Public Health Service Act (42 U. S. C, ch. 6A) is 
amended by redesignating section 345 as section 346 and by inserting 
after section 344 the following new section: 
Narcotics. 
Tr e a t m e n t of 
users in D. C. 
67 Stat. 77. 
D. C. Code 
601 to 24-612. 
24-
58 Stat. 682, 701. 
42 u s e 261. 
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AT 
(( 
PERSONS COMMITTED FROM DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
"SEC. 345. (a) The Surgeon General is authorized to admit for care 
and treatment in any hospital of the Service suitably equipped there-
for, and thereafter to transfer between hospitals of the Service in ac-
42 use 248(b). 
cordauce with section 321 (b), any addict who is committed, under the 
provisions of the Act of June 24, 1953 (Public Law 76, Eighty-third 
D. c. Code 24- Cougress), to the Service or to a hospital thereof for care and treat-
.01 to 24-612. 
ment and who the Surgeon General determines is a proper subject 
for such care and treatment. 
No such addict shall be admitted unless 
^^1) he is committed prior to July 1, 1956; and (2) at the time of his 
commitment, the number of persons in hospitals of the Service who 
have been admitted pursuant to this subsection is less than fifty; and 
(3) suitable accommodations are available after all eligible addicts 
convicted of offenses against the United States have been admitted. 
"(b) Any person admitted to a hospital of the Service pursuant to 
subsection (a) shall be discharged therefrom (1) upon order of the 
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, or (2) 
when he is found by the Surgeon General to be cured and rehabilitated. 
When any such person is so discharged, the Surgeon General shall give 
notice thereof to the United States District Court for the District of 
Columbia and shall deliver such person to such court for such further 
action as such court may deem necessary and proper under the provi-
sions of the Act of June 24, 1953 (Public Law 76, Eighty-third 
Congress). 
"(c) With respect to the detention, transfer, parole, or discharge of 
any person committed to a hospital of the Service in accordance with 
subsection (a), the Surgeon General and the officer in charge of the 
hospital, in addition to authority otherwise vested in them, shall have 
such authority as may be conferred upon them, respectively, by the 
order of the committing court. 
" (d) The cost of providing care and treatment for persons admitted 
to a hospital of the Service pursuant to subsection (a) shall be a charge 
upon the District of Columbia and shall be paid by the District of 
Columbia to the Public Health Service, either in advance or otherwise, 
as may be determined by the Surgeon General. 
Such cost may be 
determined for each addict or on the basis of rates established for all 
or particular classes of patients, and shall include the cost of trans-
portation to and from facilities of the Public Health Service. 
Moneys 
so paid to the Public Health Service shall be covered into the Treasury 
of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. Appropriations avail-
able for the care and treatment of addicts admitted to a hospital of 
the Service under this section shall be available, subject to regulations, 
for paying the cost of transportation to the District of Columbia, 
including subsistence allowance while traveling, for any such addict 
who is discharged." 
42 use 257. 
gj,Q 3 "Yhe, first sentence of section 341 of such Act is amended to 
read: "The Surgeon General is authorized to provide for the confine-
ment, care, protection, treatment, and discipline of persons addicted 
to the use of habit-forming narcotic drugs who voluntarily submit 
themselves for treatment, addicts who have been or are hereafter con-
victed of offenses against the United States, including persons con-
victed by general courts-martial and consular courts, and addicts who 
are committed to the Service or to a hospital thereof pursuant to 
Supra. 
section 345.". 
SEC. 4. Such Act is further amended by adding the following new 
section after the section herein redesignated as section 346: 
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RELEASE or PATIENTS 
"SEC. 347. For purposes of this Act, an individual shall be deemed 
cured of his addiction and rehabilitated if thie Surgeon General deter-
mines that he has received the maximum benefits of treatment and 
care by the Service for his addiction or if the Surgeon General deter-
mines that his further treatment and care for such purpose would be 
detrimental to the interests of the Service." 
Approved May 8, 1954. 
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Public Law 356 
CHAPTER 199 
AN ACT 
To permit review of decisions of the heads of departments, or their representa-
tives or boards, involving questions arising under Government contracts. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of AmeHca in Congress assembled^ That no provision 
of any contract entered into by the United States, relating to the 
iinality or conclusiveness of any decision of the head of any depart-
ment or agency or his duly authorized representative or board in a 
dispute involving a question arising under such contract, shall be 
pleaded in any suit noAv filed or to be filed as limiting judicial review 
of any such decision to cases where fraud by such official or his said 
representative or board is alleged: Provided^ however, That any such 
decision shall be final and conclusive unless the same is fradulent or 
capricious or arbitrary or so grossly erroneous as necessarily to imply 
bad faith, or is not supported by substantial evidence. 
SEC. 2. No Government contract shall contain a provision making 
final on a question of laAv the decision of any administrative official, 
representative, or boArd. 
Approved May 11, 1954. 
May 11, 1954 
[S. 24] 
Government con-
tracts. 
Judicial review. 
Public Law 357 
CHAPTER 200 
AN ACT 
May 11, 1954 
Making supplemental appropriations for the flscal year ending June 30, 1954, 
[H. R. 8481] 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations (this Act 
may be cited as the "Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1954") 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other ])urposes, 
namely: 
CHAPTER I 
Third Supple-
mental ^propria-
tion Act, 1954. 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
COMPENSATION AND RI:TIREMENT FUND EXPENSES 
DISTRICT GOVERNMENT RETIREMENT AND RELIEF FUNDS 
For an additional amount for "District government retirement and 
relief funds", $120,000. 
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