An Act to confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon a certain claim of the Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kans
PL 82-5 (H.R.335), enacted 03/19/1951

65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 6—MAR. 19, 1951 
is authorized to permit the band of the United States Marine Corps 
to attend and give concerts at the celebration of the one hundred and 
seventy-fifth anniversary of the fortification of Dorchester Heights, 
Massachusetts, and the evacuation of Boston, Massachusetts, by the 
British, to be held in South Boston, Massachusetts, on March 17, 1951. 
SEC. 2. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of such band in 
attending and giving concerts at such celebration, there is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated a sufficient sum to cover the cost of 
transportation and pullman accommodations for the leaders and 
members of the Marine Band, and allowance not to exceed $8 per day 
each for additional traveling and living expenses while on duty, such 
allowance to be in addition to the pay and allowance to which they 
would be entitled while serving their permanent station. 
Approved March 14, 1951. 
Appropriation 
thorized. 
Public Law 5 
CHAPTER 8 
AN ACT 
To confer jurisdiction on tlie Court of Claims to liear, determine, and render 
judgment upon a certain claim of the Board of County Commissioners of 
Sedgwick County, Kansas. 
March 19,1951 
[H. R. 335] 
J u r i s d i c t i o n 
Court of Claims. 
of 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That jurisdiction is 
hereby conferred on the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render K^S.^^*"^ county, 
judgment upon, notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the claim 
of the Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, 
against the Government of the United States on account of delinquent 
real-estate taxes for the tax years 1944, 1945, 1946, and 1947 assessed 
and levied against three tracts of land in sections 11 and 14 of town-
ship 28 south, range 1 east, of the sixth principal meridian, in Sedg-
wick County, Kansas, constituting the aircraft factory and grounds 
owned in such years by the Defense Plant Corporation and the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation and leased to the Boeing Airplane 
Company and transferred on or about February 25, 1948, by the 
Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the United States subject to 
unpaid taxes for said four years. 
Such court shall determine the 
amount of said taxes, and render judgment in favor of said Board of 
County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, Kansas, and against the 
United States for the amount of any such taxes which such court may 
find and adjudge to have been lawfully assessed against such real estate 
and remaining due and unpaid: Provided, That nothing herein shall 
be construed as authorizing suit or judgment for interest, penalties or 
charges on, or in connection with said taxes. The court shall have 
such jurisdiction if suit is instituted within sixty days after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
Approved March 19, 1951. 
Time limitation. 
Public Law 6 
CHAPTER 9 
AN ACT 
To extend the period for the admission of alien spouses and minor children of 
citizen members of the United States Armed Forces. 
Be it enaxited hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amei^ca in Congress assembled, That Public Law 
Marcn 19, 1951 
[H. R. 1090] 
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PUBLIC LAW 7—MAR. 19, 1951 
[65 
STAT. 
64 Stat. 464. 
8 U. S. C , Sup. IV, 
§239. 
43 Stat. 162. 
43 Stat. 155. 
8 U. S. C , Sup. IV, 
1204(a). 
717, Eighty-first Congress, is hereby amended to read: "Notwithstand-
ing the provisions of section 13 (c) of the Immigration Act of 1924, 
as amended (8 U. S. C. 213 (c)), alien spouses or unmarried minor 
children of United States citizens serving in, or having an honorable 
discharge certificate from the Armed Forces of the United States 
during World War I I shall, if otherwise admissible under the immi-
gration laws, be eligible to enter the United States with nonquota 
immigration visas issued under the provisions of section 4 (a) of the 
Immigration Act of 1924, as amended (8 U. S. C. 204 (a)) : Provided^ 
That in the cases of such alien spouses of United States citizens serv-
ing in, or having an honorable discharge certificate from the Armed 
Forces of the United States during World War II the marriage shall 
have occurred befoi*e twelve months after the enactment of this Act, 
as hereby amended." 
Approved March 19, 1951. 
Public Law 7 
CHAPTER 10 
March 19, 1951 
[H. J. Res. 195] 
Additional 
appro-
priations, 1951. 
64 Stat. 595. 
64 Stat. 595. 
64 Stat. 598. 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making additional appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year 
1951, and for other purposes. 
Reiiolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That there are hereby appro-
priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951,* the following sums: 
LEGISLATIVE 
BRANCH 
SENATE 
For payment to Mary A. Chapman, widow of Virgil M. Chapman, 
late a Senator from the State of Kentucky, $12,500. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
OFFICE OF THE SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER 
For an additional amount, $16,155. 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
For an additional amount for "Expenses of Inquiries and Investiga-
tions", including an additional $50,000 for the Committee on Appro-
priations for the' objects specified under this heading in Public Law 
759, Eighty-first Congress, $400,000. 
For an additional amount for "Miscellaneous items", $200,000. 
For an additional amount for "Biographical Congressional Direc-
tory", $5,000. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
For payment to Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, widow of John B. Sulli-
van, late a Representative from the State of Missouri, $12,500. 
SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS 
For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, studies and 
examinations, and so forth, $35,000.