An Act to authorize an agreement between the United States and Mexico for the joint operation and maintenance by the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, of the Nogales sanitation project, and for other purposes
PL 83-150 (S.498), enacted 07/27/1953

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against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, 
the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or 
violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are 
paid from any appropriation or fund contained in this Act shall be 
guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than 
|l,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided 
further^ That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not 
in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 104. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency 
included in this Act, shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur-
poses designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the 
Congress. 
SEO. 105. This Act may be cited as the "Second Independent Offices 
Appropriation Act, 1954". 
Approved July 27, 1953. 
P u b l i c it y 
propaganda. 
Short title. 
Public Law 150 
CHAPTER 242 
AN ACT 
To authorize an agreement between the United States and Mexico for the joint 
operation and maintenance by the International Boundary and Water Com-
mission, United States and Mexico, of the Nogales sanitation project, and for 
other purposes. 
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[S. 498] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Atnerica in Congress assemhled^ That the Secretary 
of State is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law 
and subject to the conditions provided in this Act, to enter into an 
agreement with the appropriate official or officials of the United 
Mexican States for the operation and maintenance by the Interna-
tional Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, 
of the Nogales sanitation project, located at Nogales, Arizona, and 
Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, heretofore constructed by the said Com-
mission, which agreement shall contain such provisions relating to 
a division between the two Governments of the costs of such operation 
and maintenance, or of the work involved therein, as may be recom-
mended by said Commission and approved by the Government of 
Mexico and by the Secretary of State on behalf of the Government of 
the United States: Provided^ That no such agreement shall be entered 
into until the governing body of the city of Nogales, Arizona, has 
given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of State that it will, 
so long as such agreement remains in force, contribute an equitable 
proportion, as determined by the United States section of said Com-
mission, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, of the costs 
of such operation and maintenance allocated to the United States. 
SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated to the United States 
section, International Boundary and Water Commission, United 
States and Mexico, such sums as may be necessary to defray such costs 
as may accrue to the United States arising out of any such agreement 
for the operation and maintenance of such project: Provided^ That 
funds heretofore appropriated to the Department of State under the 
heading "International Boundary and Water Commission, United 
States and Mexico", shall be available for expenditure for the purposes 
of this Act: Provided further^ That any moneys received from the 
Nogales 
sanita-
tion project. 
U. S.-Mexic an 
agreement. 
Appropriation. 
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United Mexican States under the terms of any such agreement shall 
be available for expenditure in connection with any appropriations 
which may be available or which may be made for the purposes of 
this Act: And provided further., That moneys received from the city 
of Noffales, Arizona, pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be 
available for expenditure in connection with any appropriations which 
may be available or which may be made available for the purposes of 
this Act. 
Approved July 27, 1953. 
Public Law 151 
CHAPTER 243 
July 27, 1953 
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To extend the duration of the Hospital Survey and Construction Act (title VI 
of the Public Health Service Act). 
63 Stat. 898. 
42 u s e 291d. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assewhled^ That the first sen-
tence of section 621 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended, is 
amended by striking out the word "five" and inserting in lieu thereof 
the word "seven". 
Approved July 27, 1953. 
Public Law 152 
CHAPTER 244 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Res. 37j_ rj.^ authorize the erection of a memorial to Sara Louisa Rittenhouse in Montrose 
Park, District of Columbia. 
July 27, 1953 
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Rittenhouse, 
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Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
! States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized and directed to grant to the Georgetown Garden 
Club permission to erect in Montrose Park, in the District of Columbia, 
an appropriate memorial to the memory of Sara Louisa Rittenhouse. 
SEC. 2. The site for the memorial shall be approved by the Secretary 
of the Interior and the National Capital Planning Commission. The 
design of the memorial, its adequacy and propriety for the site desig-
nated, the inscription on the memorial, and the plan for the treatment 
of the grounds connected with the site shall be approved by the 
Commission of Fine Arts, the Secretary of the Interior, and the 
National Capital Planning Commission. 
The memorial shall be 
erected and its site landscaped under the supervision of the Secretary 
of the Interior. 
SEC. 3. All funds necessary to carry out the erection of the memorial 
and the landscaping of its site shall be certified available to the Secre-
tary of the Interior by the Georgetown Garden Club in time to permit 
the completion of such work within not more than four years after 
the exact site has been determined; and the United States shall be put 
to no expense in or by the erection of said memorial and the land-
scaping of its site. 
Approved July 27, 1953.