An Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes
PL 82-106 (H.R.4329), enacted 08/03/1951

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Public Law 106 
CHAPTER 2 9 2 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other 
activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes. 
August 3, 1951 
[H. R. 4329] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there are appro- t,j^|®*^''j^* rlatfon A
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30, 1952, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia, 
hereinafter known as the general fund, such fund being composed of 
the revenues of the District of Columbia other than those applied 
by law to special funds, and $10,400,000, which is hereby appropriated 
for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated (to be advanced July 1,1951), (2) highway funds, established 
by law (D. C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), and (3) the water fund, estab-
lished by law (D. C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,000,000 which is 
hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1951), sums as 
follows: 
From the general fund: All sums appropriated under the following 
heads unless otherwise specifically provided: General administration, 
fiscal service, compensation and retirement fund expenses. District 
debt service, regulatory agencies, public schools. Public Library, 
Recreation Department, Metropolitan Police, Fire Department, Vet-
erans' Services, courts. Health Department, Department of Correc-
tions, public welfare, public works. National Guard, National Capital 
Parks, National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and National 
Zoological Park; 
From the highway fund: 
All sums appropriated under public 
works designated as payable from the highway fund; and 
From the water fund: All sums appropriated under public works 
and Washington aqueduct, designated as payable from the water fund; 
namely: 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses necessary for the offices named under this general head: 
Executive office, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate 
the Engineer Commissioner at a rate equal to each civilian member 
of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, hereafter 
in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; compensation of mem-
bers of the Apprenticeship Council; aid in support of the National 
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; general adver-
tising in newspapers and legal periodicals in the District of Columbia 
but not elsewhere, unless the need for advertising outside the District 
of Columbia shall have been specifically approved by the Commis-
sioners, including notices of public hearings, publication of orders 
and regulations, tax and school notices, and notices of changes in 
regulations; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 
2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); and expenses in case of emergency, such as 
riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, flood, fire, or storm, 
and for expenses of investigations; $296,575: Provided, 
That the 
certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the 
expenditure of $1,500 of this appropriation for such purposes as 
they may deem necessary. 
60 Stat. 810. 
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For ceremony expenses, $10,000. 
Oifice of the corporation counsel, including extra compensation for 
the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Puolic Utilities 
Commission; $20,000 for the settlement of claims; and judicial ex-
penses, including witness fees and expert services, in District of 
Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the 
District of Columbia; $341,000, of which $9,775 shall be payable from 
the highway fund. 
Purchasing Division, $126,300, of which $4,525 shall be payable 
from the highway fund. 
Board of Tax Appeals, $22,000. 
FISCAL SERVICE 
Salaries and expenses, Fiscal Service: For expenses necessary for 
the Assessor's Office, the Collector's Office, and the Auditor's Office, 
$1,900,000, of which $67,036 shall be payable from the highway fund: 
Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for advertising, 
for not more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of 
one newspaper published in the District of Columbia, the list of all 
taxes on real property and all special assessments, together with pen-
alties and costs, m arrears, the cost of such advertising to be reim-
bursed to the general fund by a charge to be fixed annually by the 
Commissioners for each lot or piece of property advertised: 
Provided 
further, 
That this appropriation shall be available for refunding, 
wholly or in part, school tuition, lost library books, building permits, 
and other payments which have been erroneously made during the 
present and past three years. 
COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND E X P E N S E S 
For compensation and retirement fund expenses, as follows: 
District government employees' compensation, $187,000. 
Workmen's compensation, administrative expenses: For transfer 
to the Bureau of Employees' Compensation for administration of 
the law providing compensation for disability or death resulting from 
injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Colum-
bia, $157,000. 
District government retirement and relief funds: For financing the 
liability of the government of the District of Columbia to the "Civil 
service retirement and disability fund" and the "Teachers' retire-
ment and annuity fund", and to provide relief and other allowances 
as authorized by law for policemen and firemen, $8,049,000, of which 
$2,542,000 shall be placed to the credit of the "Civil service retirement 
and disability fund": Provided, That the Treasury Department shall 
prepare the estimates of the annual appropriations required to be 
made to the teachers' retirement fund, and shall make actuarial valua-
tions of such fund at intervals of five years, or oftener if deemed 
necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Commissioners 
are authorized to expend from money to the credit of the "Teachers' 
retirement and annuity fund, District of Columbia" not exceeding 
$5,000 per annum for this purpose, including personal services. 
DISTRICT DEBT SERVICE 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned, in com-
gstat.^^ 
pliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
note. • 
amended, $1,000,000. 
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REGULATORY AGENCIES 
For expenses necessary for agencies named under this general head: 
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, including the purchase of sam-
ples, $106,900. 
Board of Parole, $79,300. 
Coroner's office, including juror fees, and repairs to the morgue, 
$60,100. 
Department of Insurance, $86,500. 
Department of Weights, Measures, and Markets, including mainte-
nance and repairs to markets, purchase of commodities and for per-
sonal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales 
of short weight and measure, purchase of one passenger motor vehicle 
for replacement only, $163,600. 
License Bureau, $78,800. 
Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board, $73,400. 
Office of Recorder of Deeds, including uniforms and caps for 
guards, $240,400. 
Poundmaster's office, including uniforms for dog catchers, $41,900. 
Public Utilities Commission, $148,800. 
Zoning Commission, $36,300. 
PUBLIC 
SCHOOLS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
General administration, supervision and instruction: For expenses 
necessary for the administration of and supervision and instruction 
in the public school system of the District of Columbia including the 
education of foreigners of all ages in the Americanization schools; 
athletic apparel and accessories; subsistence supplies for pupils 
enrolled in classes for crippled children; maintenance and instruction 
of deaf, dumb and blind children of the District of Columbia by 
contract entered into by the Commissioners upon recommendation by 
the Board of Education of the District of Columbia; transportation 
of children attending schools or classes established for physically 
handicapped pupils; for carrying out the provisions of the Act of 
December 16,1944 (58 Stat. 811) ; distribution of surplus commodities ^J^o u. s. c. i ana 
and relief milk to public and charitable institutions, and for the carry-
ing out, under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Education, 
of a "penny milk" program for the school children of the District, 
including the purchase and distribution of milk under agreement with 
the United States Department of Agriculture; $17,315,000, of which 
$3,000 shall be available for the services of experts and consultants as 
authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (60 Stat. 810), 
s u. s. c. 5 55a. 
but at rates not exceeding $50 per diem plus travel expenses for such 
individuals: Provided^ That the compensation for summer school per-
sonnel may be charged to the appropriation for the fiscal year in which 
the pay periods end: Provided 
further^ That collections from the 
milk program shall be paid to the Collector of Taxes, District of 
Columbia, for deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the 
credit of the District: Provided further, That collections from school 
athletic contests shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States 
to the credit of the District of Columbia. 
Vocational education, George-Barden program: For expenses neces-
sary for the development of vocational education in the District of 
Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended, 
^n?T*Vn^sR,«», 
$243,900. 
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Operation and maintenance of buildings, grounds and equipment: 
For expenses necessary for the operation, repair, maintenance and 
improvement of public school buildings, grounds and equipment; 
purchase of equipment; and purchase, operation, repair, maintenance 
and insurance of passenger-carrying motor vehicles, including Dis-
trict-owned or borrowed passenger motor vehicles; $4,576,500. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
Public school construction, sites and equipment: For the purchase 
of sites; for plans and specifications for the following school build-
ings: Armstrong Senior High School replacement, Dunbar Senior 
High School addition, Health School addition, Phelps Vocational 
High School addition, Randle Highlands Elementary School addition, 
Seaton Elementary School replacement, and Washington Vocational 
High School addition; for completing the construction of the follow-
ing school buildings including building improvements and alterations, 
treatment of grounds, and the purchase of equipment: Browne Junior 
High School addition, Bunker Hill Elementary School addition, Davis 
Elementary School addition, a new extensible junior high school 
building in the vicinity of Pomeroy Road, Douglas Place, and Stanton 
Road Southeast (Douglass Junior High Scnool), Francis Junior 
High School addition, Keene Elementary School addition, Elementary 
school in the vicinity of River Terrace, Northeast, Spingam Senior 
High School, and Terrell Junior High School replacement; and for 
the construction of the following school buildings including building 
improvements and alterations, treatment of grounds, and the purchase 
of equipment: Payne Elementary School addition, Richardson 
Elementary School addition, and Turner Elementary School addition; 
to remain available until expended, $7,027,350, of which $190,000 shall 
be available for the use of the Municipal Architect and shall be 
credited to the appropriation account, "Office of Municipal Architect, 
construction services", and $1,347,260 shall not become available for 
expenditure until July 1, 1952; and the limits of cost contained in 
64 Stat. 351. 
thg. District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1951, for the following 
school buildings, are increased to the following amounts: Bunker 
Hill Elementary School addition, $850,200; Davis Elementary School 
addition, $495,000; Keene Elementary School addition, $660,000; 
Elementary school in the vicinity of River Terrace, Northeast, 
$326,000; Francis Junior High School addition, $534,750; new exten-
sible junior high school building in the vicinity of Pomeroy Road, 
Douglas Place, and Stanton Road Southeast (Douglass Junior High 
School), $1,807,000; and Terrell Junior High School replacement, 
$1,891,500; and the limit of cost contained in the Supplemental 
64 Stat. 1045. 
Appropriation Act, 1951, for the Browne Junior High School addition 
including eighteen classrooms, improvements, and alterations of the 
existing Duilding, and treatment of grounds, but excluding a gymna-
sium, is increased to $975,000. 
Permanent improvement of public school buildings: For permanent 
improvements and alterations of public school buildings, including the 
purchase of equipment and the elimination of fire hazards, $442,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
39°stat^ i2(?™^' 
Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 
5U. s.'c. §§58,59. Act, approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 
1 to September 1,1951, to teachers of the public schools of the District 
of Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or 
independent establishments of the United States Government. 
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PUBLIC LIBRARY 
For expenses necessary for the operation of the Public Library, 
including extra services on Sundays and holidays; music records, 
sound recordings, and educational films; alterations, repairs; fitting up 
buildings; care of grounds; and rent of suitable quarters for branch 
libraries in Anacostia and Woodridge without reference to section 6 
of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945, $1,413,000. 
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Capital outlay: For construction of a branch library building in 
Cleveland Park, including site preparation, and preliminary design 
studies and surveys for the construction of extensions to the central 
library building, $343,500. 
RECREATION DEPARTMENT 
Operating expenses: For expenses necessary for operation and 
maintenance of recreation facilities in and for the District of Colum-
bia, $1,425,000. 
Capital outlay: For improvement of various recreation units, in-
cluding erection of recreation structures, preparation of architectural 
and landscape architectural plans, without regard to the Act of 
August 24, 1912 (40 U. S. C. 68). and reimbursement to the United 
States of funds advanced in compliance with section 501 of the 
Act of October 3, 1944 (58 Stat. 791), $200,000. 
37 Stat. 444. 
50 U. 
S. C. 
app. 
fl671. 
METROPOLITAN POLICE 
For expenses necessary for the Metropolitan Police, including pay 
and allowances; one inspector who shall be property clerk; the lieu-
tenants in command of the homicide squad, robbery squad, general 
assignment squad, special investigation squad, with the rank and pay 
of captain while so assigned; the detective sergeants in command of 
the automobile and bicycle squad, the check and fraud squad, and 
the narcotic squad with the rank and pay of lieutenant while so 
assigned; the detective sergeant assigned as administrative assistant 
to the chief of detectives with the rank and pay of lieutenant while so 
assigned; the present acting sergeant in charge of police automobiles 
with the rank and pay of sergeant; the present sergeant in charge 
of the police radio station with the rank and pay of lieutenant; the 
present sergeant in charge of purchasing and accounts with the rank 
and pay of lieutenant; the lieutenant assigned as harbor master with 
the rank and pay of captain; corporals at $3,669 per annum each; 
technicians with basic salary increase of not to exceed $325 per annum 
Technicians. 
each; not to exceed one detective in the salary grade of captain; pro-
bational detectives with basic salary increase of $163 per annum each; 
compensation of civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by 
the Commissioners; allowances for privately owned automobiles used 
by inspectors in the performance of official duties at $480 per annum 
for each automobile; meals for prisoners; rewards for fugitives; 
medals of award; photographs; rental and maintenance of teletype 
system; travel expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime; 
expenses of attendance, without loss of pay or time, at specialized 
police training classes and pistol matches, including tuition and 
entrance fees; expenses of the police training school, including travel 
expenses of visiting lecturers or experts in criminology; police equip-
ment and repairs to same; insignia of office, uniforms, and other 
official equipment, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles 
transferred from one individual to another, or damaged in the per-
formance of duty; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; expenses of 
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Prevention and de-
tection of crime. 
harbor patrol; and the maintenance of a suitable place for the recep-
tion and detention of girls and women over seventeen years of age, 
arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in 
the District of Columbia, or held as Avitnesses or held pending final 
investigation or examination, or otherwise; $9,390,000, of which 
amount $1,180,000 shall be payable from the highway fund and 
$25,000 shall be exclusively available for expenditure by the Superin-
tendent of Police for prevention and detection of crime, under his 
certificate, approved by the Commissioners and every such certificate 
shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to 
have been expended. 
FIKE DEPARTMENT 
For expenses necessary for the Fire Department, including pay and 
allowances; the present first deputy fire marshal with the rank and pay 
comparable to battalion chief; compensation of civilian trial board 
members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; uniforms and 
other official equipment, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of 
articles transferred from one individual to another or damaged in 
the performance of duty; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; 
repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $4,695,000: Pro-
mdedn, That the Commissioners, in their discretion may authorize the 
construction, in whole or in part, of fire-fighting apparatus in the 
Fire Department repair shop. 
VETERANS' SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to provide services to veterans, $117,800. 
COURTS 
District of Columbia courts: For expenses of the Juvenile Court, 
the Municipal Court, and the Municipal Court of Appeals, including 
pay of retired judges; lodging and meals for jurors, bailiffs, and 
deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, 
when ordered by the courts; and meals for prisoners; $1,100,300, of 
which $17,100 shall be available for payment to the United States 
Public Health Service for furnishing psychiatric service to the Juve-
nile Court, including the detail of necessary medical and other per-
sonnel : Provided^ That deposits made on demands for jury trials in 
accordance with rules prescribed by the Municipal Court under 
authority granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 
D. c. C
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e §11-722. (41 gtat. 1312), shall be earned unless, prior to three days before the 
time set for such trials, including Sundays and legal holidays, a new 
date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or 
demands for jury trials be waived. 
United States courts: For reimbursement to the United States for 
services rendered to the District of Columbia by the Judiciary and the 
Department of Justice, $1,766,000. 
HEALTH DEPARTMENT 
General administration, Health Department: For expenses neces-
sary for the Health Department (excluding hospitals), including 
services for tuberculosis, venereal disease, hygiene and sanitation 
work in schools, dental health, maternal and child health, house-
keeping assistance in cases of authentic indigent sick, handicapped 
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and crippled children, cancer control, public health engineering, nurs-
ing, psychiatry, ambulances, laboratories, and out-patient relief of the 
poor, including medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs and 
appliances, eyeglasses, and fees to physicians under contracts to be 
made by the Director of Public Health and approved by the Com-
missioners ; such expenses to include contract investigational service; 
services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(5 U. S. C. 55a) ; uniforms; rent; manufacture of serum in indigent 
cases; and allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the 
performance of official duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate of 
7 cents per mile but not more than $840 per annum for each automobile; 
$2,681,500: Provided^ That, hereafter, the Commissioners may, with-
out creating any obligation for the payment of money on account 
thereof, accept such volunteer services as they may deem expedient 
in connection with the maintenance of medical services in the Health 
Department: Provided further^ That amounts to be determined by 
the Commissioners may be expended for special services in detecting 
adulteration of drugs and foods, including candy and milk and other 
products and services subject to inspection by the Health Department. 
Operating expenses, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Sanatorium: For 
expenses necessary, including compensation of consulting physicians 
and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; compensation 
of convalescent patients to be employed in essential work of the 
sanatorium and as an aid to their rehabilitation at rates and under 
conditions to be determined by the Commissioners; but nothing in 
this paragraph shall be construed as conferring employee status 
on patients whose services are so utilized; classroom supplies; and 
repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $2,286,000: 
Provided^ That, hereafter, the Commissioners may, without creating 
any obligation for the payment of money on accoimt thereof, accept 
such volunteer services as they may deem expedient in connection with 
the operation of tliis institution. 
Capital outlay, Glenn Dale Tuberculosis Hospital: For an addition 
to existing pump house for new high tension electrical system, includ-
ing equipment, $58,000. 
Operating expenses, Gallinger Municipal Hospital and the Tuber-
culosis Hospital: For expenses necessary including expenses of the 
training school for nurses and repairs and improvements to buildings 
and grounds, $4,950,000: Provided^ That, hereafter, the Commissioners 
may, without creating any obligation for the payment of money on 
account thereof, accept such volunteer services as they may deem 
expedient in connection with the operation of these hospitals. 
Capital outlay, Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For paving, drain-
age, and correction of odors around Surgical and Medical Buildings, 
and for an additional amount for elevators in the surgical building 
and the storeroom, $197,200, to remain available until expended. The 
unobligated balance of the appropriation of $382,909 for furnishing 
and equipping the combination pediatrics and crippled children's 
building at Gallinger Hospital, contained in the District of Columbia 
Appropriation Act, 1950, shall remain available until June 30, 1952. 
Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients under 
contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health of the District 
of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with institutions, as 
follows: Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital; Children's 
Hospital; Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital; Episcopal Eye, 
Ear, and Throat Hospital; Garfield Memorial Hospital; George 
Washington University Hospital; Georgetown University Hospital; 
Providence 
Hospital; 
and 
Washington 
Home 
for 
Incurables; 
60 Stat. 810. 
Automobile allow-
ances. 
Volunteer service.s. 
Special services. 
63 Stat. 312. 
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Patient rates. 
$600,000: Provided, That the in-patient rate shall not exceed $9 per 
diem and the out-patient rate shall not exceed $2 per visit. 
Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs 
including labor and material, to be expended under the direction of 
the Architect of the Capitol, $5,000. 
Freedmen's Hospital: For reimbursement to the United States for 
services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hospital, 
$300,000: Provided, That the in-patient rate shall not exceed $9 per 
diem and the out-patient rate shall not exceed $2 per visit. 
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 
Operating expenses: For expenses necessary for the Department of 
Corrections, including subsistence of interns; compensation of con-
sulting physicians, dentists, and other specialists at rates to be fixed by 
the Commissioners; attendance of guards at pistol and rifle matches; 
uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary 
for 
employees in the performance of their official duties; rental of motion 
picture films; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; 
purchase of motorbusses; support, maintenance, and transportation 
of prisoners transferred from the District of Columbia; interment 
or transporting the remains of deceased prisoners to their relatives 
or frienas in the United States; electrocutions; identifying, pursuing, 
recapturing (including rewards therefor), and returning to institu-
tions, escaped inmates and parole and conditional-release violators; 
and returning released prioners to their residences, or to such other 
place within the United States as may be authorized by the Director, 
and the furnishing of suitable clothing, and in the discretion of the 
Director, an amount of money not to exceed $30, regardless of length 
of sentence, $3,678,000. 
Capital outlay: For completing the construction of operational 
control center building at the Reformatory, including equipment and 
roadways, and completing the fencing of portions of the Reformatory, 
$101,000, to remain available until expended. 
PUBLIC W E L F A R E 
For expenses necessary for the general administration of public 
welfare in the District of Columbia, including contract investiga-
tional services; $97,500. 
Agency services: For expenses necessary for certification of persons 
eligible for any public benefits which are or may become available as 
may be approved by the Commissioners; relief and rehabilitation for 
purposes of employment of indigent residents of the District of 
Columbia, to be expended under rules and regulations prescribed by 
the Commissioners or their designated agent or agency; vocational 
rehabilitation of disabled residents; aid to dependent children; assis-
tance against old-age want; aid for needy blind persons; services for 
children in their own homes; maintenance pending transportation, 
and transportation, of indigent persons, including veterans and their 
families; deportation of nonresident insane persons, including per-
sons held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hos-
pital; burial of indigent residents of the District of Columbia; for 
placing and visiting children; board and care of all children com-
mitted to the guardianship of the Board of Public Welfare by the 
courts of the District, including white girls committed to the National 
Training School for Girls and all children accepted by said Board for 
care as authorized by law; temporary care of children pending inves-
63 Stat. 166. 
5U. S. C. §835note. 
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tigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority 
to pay for the care of children in institutions under sectarian control; 
for continuous maintenance of foster homes for temporary or emer-
gency board and care of nondelinquent children; care and main-
tenance of women and children under contracts to be made by the 
Board of Public Welfare and approved by the Commissioners with 
the Florence Crittenton Home, Saint Ann's Infant Asylum and 
Maternity Hospital, the House of Mercy, and other institutions caring 
for unmarried mothers; and for burial of children dying while bene-
ficiaries under this appropriation; including repair and upkeep of 
building; $4,554,000; Provided, That no part of this appropriation 
shall be used for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of 
Public Welfare i)laced outside of the District of Columbia and the 
States of Virginia and Maryland, and a ward placed outside said 
District and the States of Virginia and Maryland shall be visited not 
less than once a year by a voluntary agent or correspondent of said 
Board, and said Board shall have power to discharge from guardian-
ship any child committed to its care: Provided 
further, 
That 
employees using privately owned automobiles for the deportation of 
nonresident insane, the transportation of indigent persons, or the 
placing of children may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of 
June 9, 1949 (Public Law 92), but not to exceed $900 for any one 
individual. 
Operating expenses, protective institutions: For expenses necessary 
for the operation of protective institutions, including the Temporary 
Home for Former Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines; maintenance, under 
jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare, of a suitable place in a 
building entirely separate and apart from the house of detention 
for the reception and detention of children under eighteen years of 
age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in 
force in the District of Columbia or committed to the guardianship 
of the Board, or held as witnesses or held temporarily, or pending 
hearing, or otherwise, and male witnesses eighteen years of age or over 
shall fc^ held at Gallinger Hospital; including subsistence of interns; 
compensation of consulting physicians and veterinarians at rates to 
be fixed by the Commissioners; repairs and improvements to buildings 
and grounds; securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged 
children; and care and maintenance of boys committed to the National 
Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia 
under a contract to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the 
Attorney General at a rate of not to exceed the actual cost for each 
boy so committed; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; $2,943,000: 
Provided, Th&t no part of this appropriation shall be used for the ofS?""" °" "'^ 
maintenance of white girls in the National Training School for Girls. 
Capital outlay, protective institutions: For continuing construction 
of an infirmary building and a separate laundry building at the 
Home for Aged and Infirm, including improvement of grounds; for 
completing construction of new heating plant, sewage-disposal plant, 
water supply and distribution system, sewers, and electrical-distri-
bution system, at the District Training School; for construction of 
new buildings for the Industrial Home School; for an additional 
amount for a new central kitchen at the Industrial Home School for 
Colored Children, including improvement of grounds, and reimburse-
ment to the United States of funds advanced in accordance with 
section 501 of the Act of October 3, 1944 (58 Stat. 791) ; to remain 
so u. s. c. app. 
available until expended, $4,594,000, of which $1,344,000 shall not ^^^^' 
become available for expenditure until July 1, 1952; and the limits 
of cost contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 
1951 for the following projects are increased to the following amounts: 
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Basis of apportion-
ment. 
Reimbursements. 
Advance planning. 
03 Stat. 841. 
40U.S.C.SS 451-458. 
Fire escapes, etc. 
D. C. Code §§7-701 
to 7-705. 
Infirmary building and a separate laundry building at the Home for 
Aged and Infirm, including improvement of grounds, $3,450,000; and 
construction of a new heating plant, sewage disposal plant, water 
supply and distribution system, sewers, and electrical distribution 
system, at the District Training School, $1,390,000. 
" Saint Elizabeths Hospital: For support of indigent insane, 
$8,336,000. 
PUBLIC WORKS 
For expenses necessary for agencies named under this general head: 
Office of chief clerk, including maintenance and repair of wharves; 
and $1,000 for affiliation with the National Safety Council, Incorpo-
rated; $72,400, of which $4,000 shall be payable from the highway 
fund. 
Office of Municipal Architect, $102,825. 
All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the Office of 
Municipal Architect in payment of personal services employed on 
construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based 
on an amount not exceeding 4 per centum of a total of not more than 
$2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and 
not exceeding 3% per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess 
of $2,000,000, and appropriations specifically made in this Act for the 
preparation of plans and specifications shall be deducted from any 
allowances authorized under this paragraph: Provided, That reim-
bursements may be made to this fund from appropriations contained 
in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District gov-
ernment, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appro-
priations: Provided further, That this fund shall be available for 
advance planning subject to subsequent reimbursement from funds 
loaned by the Administrator of General Services under the provisions 
of the Act of October 13, 1949 (Public Law 352, Eighty-first Con-
gress). 
Operating expenses, Office of Superintendent of District Buildings, 
including rental of postage meter equipment, uniforms and caps for 
guards and elevator operators, $1,332,000, of which $8,985 shall be 
payable from the highway fund. 
"Surveyor's office, $155,000. 
Department of Inspections, including the enforcement of the Act 
requiring the erection of fire escapes on certain buildings and the 
removal of dangerous or unsafe and insanitary buildings; compensa-
tion at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of two members of the 
plumbing board, two members of the board of examiners, steam engi-
neers (the inspector of boilers to serve without additional compensa-
tion), members of board of survey, other than the inspector of 
buildings, while actually employed in surveys of such dangerous and 
unsafe buildings, three members of board of special appeal, one 
member of motion-picture operators examining board, two members 
of electrical examining board, and board of examiners, elevator 
licenses; $800,000. 
Operating expenses. Electrical Division: For expenses necessary 
for the operation and maintenance of the District's communication 
systems, including rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of 
telephone, telegraph, and radio services; and street lighting, including 
the installation and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street 
designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, 
roads, alleys, and public spaces, to be expended in accordance with 
the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appro-
priation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat. 1008), and with the 
provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal 
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165 
year 1913 (37 Stat. 181), and other laws applicable thereto; $1,679,000, 
of which $2,028 shall be payable from the highway fund. 
Capital outlay, Electrical Division, including placing underground, 
relocating, and extending the telephone, police-patrol, and fire-alarm 
cable and circuit distribution systems; installing and extending radio 
systems; and purchase of lampposts, street designations, and fixtures 
of all kinds; $300,300. 
Central garage, including the purchase of passenger motor vehicles, 
work cars, field wagons, ambulances, and busses, $115,600. 
Operating expenses, Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from 
highway fund), including operation, minor construction, mainte-
nance, and repair of bridges; repairs to streets, avenues, roads, side-
walks, and alleys; reconditioning existing gravel streets and roads; 
and cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross walks, and 
gutters, in the discretion of the Commissioners; refunding collections 
erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the highway 
fund during the present and past three fiscal years; such expenses to 
include purchase of passenger motor vehicles; $2,375,000: Provided^ 
That the Commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase and install 
a municipal asphalt plant including all auxiliary plant equipment to 
be paid for from this appropriation at a cost not to exceed $150,000: 
Provided further^ Tliat this appropriation shall not be available for 
refunds authorized by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 1924. 
Capital outlay. Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from high-
way fund) : For expenses necessary for the grading, surfacing, pav-
ing, repaving, widening, altering, and otherwise improving streets, 
avenues, roads, and alleys, including curbing and gutters, directional 
and pedestrian islands at various intersections to permit of proper 
traffic-light control and channelization of traffic, drainage structures, 
culverts, suitable connections to storm-water sewer system, retaining 
walls, replacement and relocation of sewers, w^ater mains, fire 
hydrants, traffic lights, street lights, fire-alarm boxes, police-patrol 
boxes, and curb-line trees, when necessary. Federal-aid highway proj-
ects under section 1 (b) of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, 
and highway structure projects financed wholly from the highway 
fund upon the approval of plans for such structures by the Commis-
sioners ; for carrying out the provisions of existing laws which author-
ize the Commissioners to open, extend, straighten, or widen streets, 
avenues, roads, or highways, in accordance with the plan of the 
permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia, and 
alleys and minor streets, and for the establishment of building lines 
in the District of Columbia, including the procurement of chains of 
title; and for assessment and permit work, paving of roadways under 
the permit system, and construction of sidewalks and curbs around 
public reservations and municipal and United States buildings, 
including purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and 
of areas less than two hundred and fifty square feet at the inter-
section of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, to 
be selected by the Commissioners, $6,900,000, to remain available until 
June '30, 1953: Provided^ That in connection with the purchase and 
installation of a municipal asphalt plant on District-owned property 
the Commissioners are authorized to make expenditures from this 
appropriation in an amount not exceeding $150,000 for the prepara-
tion of the site, including the construction of sea walls, dock facil-
ities, and a railroad siding: Provided 
further^ That in connection 
with the highway-planning survey, involving surveys, plans, engi-
neering, and economic investigations of projects for future construc-
tion in the District of Columbia, as provided for under section 10 
of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, and in connection with 
D. C. Code 5 7-701. 
Municipal asphalt 
plant. 
43 Stat. 108. 
D. C. Code § 47-1910. 
52 Stat. 633. 
23 U. S. C, § 41b. 
52 Stat. 636; 53 Stat. 
1066. 
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[65 STAT. 
52 Stat. 63,3. 
23 U. S. C. §41b. 
41 U. S. C. § 5. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Pavements of street 
railways. 
D. C. Code § 7-604 
note. 
20 Stat. 106. 
D. C. Code § 7-604 
58 Stat. 838. 
23 U. S. C. §§60-63. 
23 U. S. C. §24a. 
Widths of sidewalks 
and roadwavs. 
Open competition 
for street improve-
ment contracts. 
Liability for repairs. 
Parking meters. 
Traffic safety educa-
tion. 
the construction of Federal-aid highway projects under section 1 
(b) of said Act, and highway-structure projects financed wholly 
from the highway fund, this appropriation shall be available for 
the employment of engineering or other professional services by 
contract or otherwise, and without regard to section 3709 of the 
Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classification laws, and 
section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and for 
engineering and incidental expenses: Provided 
further^ That this 
appropriation and the appropriation "Operating expenses, Street 
and Bridge Divisions, highway fund", shall be available for the 
construction and repair of pavements of street railways, in accord-
ance with the provisions of the Merger Act (47 Stat. 752), and the 
proportion of the amount thus expended which under the terms of 
the said Act is required to be paid by the street-raihvay company 
shall be collected, upon the neglect or the refusal of such street-
railway company to make such payment, from the said street-railway 
company in the manner provided by section 5 of the Act of June 11, 
1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for 
the fiscal year in which it is collected: Provided 
further^ That in 
connection w4th projects to be undertaken as Federal-aid projects 
under the provisions of the Federal Aid Highway Act of December 
20, 1944, as amended, the Commissioners are autliorized to enter into 
contract or contracts for those projects in such amounts as shall be 
approved by the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce: 
Provided further^ That the Commissioners are hereby authorized to 
construct grade-crossing elimination and other construction projects 
authorized under section 8 of the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat, 
1521), and section 1 (b) of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, 
as amended, in accordance with the provisions of said Acts, and 
this appropriation may be used for payment to contractors and other 
expenses in connection with the expenses of design, construction and 
inspection pending reimbursement to the District of Columbia by 
the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce, reimburse-
ment to be credited to the appropriation from which payment was 
made: Provided further^ That the Commissioners are authorized to 
fix or alter the respective widths of sidewalks and roadways (includ-
ing tree spaces and parking) of all highways that may be improved 
under appropriations contained in this Act: Provided further^ That 
no appropriation in this Act shall be available for repairing, resur-
facing, or paving any street, avenue, or roadway by private contract 
unless the specifications for such work shall be so prepared as to 
permit of fair and open competition in paving materials as well 
as in price: Provided further^ That in addition to the provision of 
existing law requiring contractors to keep new pavements in repair 
for a period of one year from the date of the completion of the 
work, the Commissioners shall further require that where repairs are 
necessary during the four years following the said one-year period, 
due to inferior work or defective materials, such repairs shall be made 
at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the 
contractor shall be liable for such expense. 
Department of Vehicles and Traffic (payable from highway fund), 
including purchase, installation, modification, operation, and mainte-
nance of electric traffic lights, signals, controls, markers, and direc-
tional signs; purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates; 
installation, operation, and maintenance of parking meters in the 
District of Columbia; $20,000 for traffic safety education without 
reference to any other law; $200 for membership in the American 
Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators; for all expenses neces-
sary in carrying out'the provisions of the District of Columbia Motor 
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167 
Vehicle Parking Facility Act of 1942, approved February 16, 1942 
(56 Stat. 90), including personal services (except a director); and 
uniforms for motor vehicle inspectors; $1,250,000: Provided^ That no 
part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be 
expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading 
platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same, 
except that a permanent type of platform may be constructed from 
appropriations contained in this Act for street improvements when 
plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utilities 
Commission and the Director of Vehicles and TraflSc and the street-
railvray company shall after construction maintain, mark, and light 
the same at its expense: Provided further^ That the Commissioners 
are authorized and empowered to pay the purchase price and the cost 
of installation of new parking meters or devices from fees collected 
from such new meters or devices, which fees are hereby appropriated 
for such purpose, until such time as contracts of purchase have been 
paid, and thereafter such new meters or devices shall become the 
property of the government of the District of Columbia: Provided 
further^ That the Commissioners are authorized and directed to desig-
nate, reserve, and properly mark appropriate and sufficient parking 
spaces on the streets adjacent to all public buildings in the District for 
the use of Members of Congress engaged on public business: Provided 
further, That the incumbent on July 1, 1944, of the authorized posi-
tion of Registrar of Titles and Tags, whose duties shall be as pre-
scribed in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945, shall 
hereafter be continued for compensation purposes in grade 9 of the 
general schedule under the Classification Act of 1949. 
Division of Trees and Parking (payable from highway fund) ; 
$297,700. 
Operating expenses, Division of Sanitation: For expenses necessary 
for collection and disposal of refuse and street cleaning, including 
repair and maintenance of plants, buildings, and grounds; and fenc-
ing of public and private property designated by the Commissioners 
as public dumps; $4,155,500, of which $80,000 shall be payable from 
the highway fund: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be 
available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and 
places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apart-
ments having a central heating system, or from any building or con-
nected group of buildings operated as a rooming, boarding, or lodging 
house having a total of more than twenty-five rooms. 
Operating expenses. Sewer Division, including cleaning and repair-
ing sewers and basins; operation and maintenance oi the sewage 
pumping service and sewage-treatment plant, including repairs to 
equipment, machinery, and structures; control and prevention of the 
spread of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia; and for contribution 
of the District of Columbia to the expenses of the Interstate Com-
mission on the Potomac River Basin; $1,446,000. 
Capital outlay. Sewer Division: For construction of sewers and 
receiving basins; for assessment and permit work; for purchase or 
condemnation of rights-of-wav for construction, maintenance, and 
repair of public sewers; for the preparation of surveys, plans, and 
specifications in connection with the construction of storm-water and 
relief sewers, including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act 
of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $16,000; and for continuing 
construction on sludge drying and sewage chlorination facilities at 
the Sewage Treatment Plant, $1,780,000, to remain available until 
expended; in all, $4,603,000, of which $2,823,000 is to remain available 
until June 30, 1953; and the limit of cost contained in the District of 
Columbia Appropriation Act of 1951, for construction of sludge 
D.C. Code §40-801. 
Streetcar loading 
platforms. 
Fees from parking 
meters. 
Parking spaces for 
Members of Congress, 
Registrar of Titlefi 
and Tags. 
58 Stat. 527. 
D.C. Code §40-603a, 
63 Stat. 954. 
5U.S.C.§ 1071 note. 
Collection of refuse 
from hotels, etc. 
Interstate Commis-
sion on the Potomac 
River Basin. 
60 Stat. 810. 
64 Stat. 365. 
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[65 STAT. 
drying and sewage chlorination facilities at the Sewage Treatment 
Plant, is increased to $2,650,000, and not to exceed $162,000 of the 
appropriation for "Capital outlay. Sewer Division," contained in 
61 Stat. 444. 
the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1948, for increasing 
capacity of the sewage treatment plant, including additional sludge 
digestion tanks and additional sedimentation tanks, and not to exceed 
$12,000 of the appropriation for "Capital outlay, Sewer Division," 
60 Stat. 519. 
contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1947, for 
preparation of plans and specifications for constructing chemical 
treatment, sludge drying, and incineration facilities at the sewage 
treatment plant, are continued available for expenditure until 
June 30, 1952. 
Operating expenses. Water Division (payable from water fund) : 
For expenses necessary for operation and maintenance of the District 
of Columbia water distribution system; installing and repairing water 
meters on services to private residences and business places as may not 
be required to install meters under existing regulations, said meters to 
remain the property of the District of Columbia; replacement of old 
mains, service pipes, and divide valves, and repair of reservoirs; water 
waste and leakage survey including services as authorized by section 
6
0 Stat. 810. 
15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 5 5 a ) ; such expenses to 
include purchase of passenger motor vehicles; purchase and replace-
ment of uniforms for water meter inspectors; and refunding of water 
rents and other water charges erroneously paid in the District of 
Columbia, to be refunded in the manner prescribed by law for the 
refunding of erroneously paid taxes; $2,270,000, to be available for 
such refunds of payments made within the present and past three 
years. 
Capital outlay, Water Division (payable from water fund) : For 
extension of the District of Columbia water-distribution system; lay-
ing of such service mains as may be necessary under the assessment 
system; laying mains in advance of paving and installing fire and 
public hydrants; constructing trunk water mains; additional amount 
for rehabilitation of Bryant Street pumping station; and design of 
warehouse and shops building, including services as authorized by 
section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a) ; $1,658,000, 
of which not to exceed $500,000 for trunk water mains, $550,000 for 
Bryant Street pumping station, and $30,000 for warehouse and shops 
building shall remain available until expended, and of which $150,000 
shall not become available for expenditure until July 1, 1952. 
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell United States 
securities now held for and on account of the water fund of the 
District of Columbia in such amounts as may be certified by the 
Commissioners as necessary and credit the proceeds of such sale to 
said water fund. 
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT 
Operating expenses (payable from water fund) : For expenses 
necessary for the operation, maintenance, repair, and protection of 
Washington water supply facilities and their accessories, and main-
s
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^ °" Federal tenaiice of MacArtliur Boulevard; including replacement and main-
tenance of water meters on Federal services; purchase of two passen-
ger motor vehicles; and fluoridation of water, $1,943,000: Provided^ 
That transfer of appropriations for operating expenses and capital 
outlay may be made between the Water Division of the District of 
Columbia and the Washington Aqueduct upon mutual agreement of 
the Commissioners and the Secretary of the Army. 
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169 
64 Stat. 195. 
Capital outlay (payable from water fund) : For continuing con- stittonret"* ^"""^^''^ 
struction of new Dalecarlia pumping station and connecting pipelines; 
continuing construction of a thirty-million-gallon clear water basin 
and connecting conduits and control chamber; continuing new chem-
ical building and operating center at McMillan; construction of third 
high service transmission main; improvement of Great Falls intake; 
miscellaneous betterments, replacements, and engineering planning; 
acquisition by gift, exchange, purchase, or condemnation of supple-
mentary land; and for developing increased water supply for the 
District of Columbia and environs in accordance with House Docu-
ment 480, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session; and necessary 
expenses incident thereto; including services as authorized by section 
15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates for indi- 
«»stat. sio. 
vidual consultants not in excess of $150 per diem; to remain available 
until expended, $5,430,000, of which $1,000,000 shall not become avail-
able for expenditure until July 1, 1952; and of the total amount 
appropriated $5,125,000 is appropriated from any moneys in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced by the Secretary 
of the Treasury pursuant to the provisions of the Act of June 2, 1950 
(Public Law 533, Eighty-first Congress). 
Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence 
and control of the Secretary of the Army over the Washington Aque-
duct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same, 
and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided 
by law. 
NATIONAL GUAED 
For expenses necessary for the National Guard of the District of 
Columbia, including attendance at meetings of associations pertain-
ing to the National Guard; expenses of camps, and for the payment 
of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed 
to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days 
immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encamp-
ments; reimbursement to the United States for loss of property for 
which the District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning 
and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, 
and maintenance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment 
at armory or field encampments; practice marches, drills, and parades; 
rents of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; care and repair of 
armories, offices, storehouses, machinery, and dock, including dredging 
alongside of dock; alterations and additions to present structures; 
construction of buildings for storage and other purposes; $108,100. 
NATIONAL 
CAPITAL 
PARKS 
For expenses necessary for the National Capital Parks, including 
maintenance, care, and improvement of public parks, grounds, foun-
tains, and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses, and 
the tourists' camp on its present site in East Potomac Park under 
the jurisdiction of the National Park Service; placing and maintain-
ing portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, erection of 
stands, furnishing and placing of chairs, and services incident thereto 
in connection with national, patriotic, civic, and recreational functions 
held in the parks, including tlie President's Cup Regatta, and expenses 
incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; such expenses 
to include pay and allowances of the United States Park Police force; 
per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the 
Interior, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in 
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[65 STAT. 
the District of Columbia; uniforming and equipping the United 
States Park Police force; the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, 
repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, uniforms, ammunition, 
and radio equipment and the rental of teletype service; and the pur-
chase of passenger motor vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, and self-
propelled machinery; the hire of draft animals with or without 
drivers at local rates approved by the Secretary of the Interior; the 
purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; 
$1,893,900, of which $25,000 shall be payable from the highway fund: 
Provided^ That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropri-
ated may be expended for the erection of minor auxiliary structures: 
Provided further^ That funds appropriated under or transferred to 
this head for services rendered by the National Park Service shall be 
expended by expenditure warrant as an advance to said service and 
shall be credited as a repayment and maintained in a special account. 
The amounts so advanced will be available for the objects specified 
herein or in the appropriation from which such funds are transferred, 
any unexpended balance to be returned to the appropriation concerned 
not later than two full fiscal years after the close of the current fiscal 
year. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION 
For necessary expenses of the National Capital Park and Planning 
43 Stat. 463. 
Commissiou except the acquisition of land (40 U. S. C. 71), including 
stenographic reporting service as authorized by section 15 of the Act 
60Stat.810. 
of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and expenses of attendance at 
meetings of organizations concerned with city planning matters; 
$96,400: Provided^ That funds appropriated under this head shall 
be expended by expenditure warrant as an advance to the National 
Capital Park and Planning Commission and shall be credited as a 
repayment and maintained in a special account. 
The amounts so 
advanced will be available for the objects herein specified, any unex-
pended balance to be returned to this appropriation not later than 
two full fiscal years after the close of the current fiscal year. 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
For expenses necessary for the National Zoological Park, including 
erecting and repairing buildings; care and improvement of grounds; 
travel, including travel for the procurement of live specimens; pur-
chase, care, and transportation of specimens; purchase of motorcycles 
and passenger motor vehicles; revolvers and ammunition; purchase 
of uniforms and equipment for police, and uniforms for keepers and 
assistant keepers; $591,000: Provided^ That funds appropriated under 
this head shall be expended by expenditure warrant as an advance to 
the National Zoological Park and shall be credited as a repayment 
and maintained in a special account. The amounts so advanced will 
be available for the objects herein specified, any unexpended balance 
to be returned to this appropriation not later than two full fiscal years 
after the close of the current fiscal year. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Vouchers. 
SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided herein, all vouchers covering 
expenditures of appropriations contained in this Act shall be audited 
before payment by or under the jurisdiction only of the Auditor for 
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171 
the District of Columbia and the vouchers as approved shall be paid 
by checks issued by the Disbursing Officer without countersignature. 
SEC. 3. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a 
strike against the Government of the United States or the govern-
ment of the District of Columbia, or who is a member of an organiza-
tion of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against 
the Government of the United States or the government of the District 
of Columbia, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that 
advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States b j 
force or violence: Provided^ That for the purposes hereof an affidavit 
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the 
affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in 
a strike against the Government of the United States or the govern-
ment of the District of Columbia, is not a member of an organization 
of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the 
Government of the United States or the government of the District of 
Columbia, or that such person does not advocate, and is not a member 
of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government 
of the United States by force or violence: Provided further^ That any 
person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United 
States or the government of the District of Columbia or who is a 
member of an organization of Government emplovees that asserts the 
right to strike against the Government of the iJnited States or the 
government of the District of Columbia, or who advocates, 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 appro-
priation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon 
conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 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. 4. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an 
appropriation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such 
amount, unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the max-
imum amount which may be expended for said purpose or object 
rather than an amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 5. Work performed for repairs and improvements under 
appropriations contained in this Act may be by contract or otherwise, 
as determined by the Commissioners; and the Commissioners are 
authorized to establish a working fund for such purposes without 
fiscal year limitation, said fund to be reimbursed for repairs and 
improvements performed under that fund from available appropria-
tions contained in this Act, and payments are authorized to be made 
to said fund in advance if required by the Director of Construction, 
subject to subsequent adjustment, from appropriations contained in 
this Act for repairs and improvements, and such working fund shall 
be available for necessary expenses including personal services, allow-
ances for privately owned automobiles, and printing and binding. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for allowances for privately owned auto-
mobiles used for the performance of official duties at 7 cents per mile 
but not to exceed $22 a month for each automobile, unless otherwise 
therein specifically provided: Provided^ That the total expenditures 
for this purpose shall not exceed $55,000, excluding the automobile 
allowances for the deportation of nonresident insane, the transporta-
tion of indigent persons, and the placing of children by the feoard 
of Public Welfare. 
Persons engaging, 
etc., in strikes against 
or advocating over-
throw of U. S. Gov-
ernment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Maximum amount. 
R e p a i r s and im-
provements. 
Allowances for priv-
ately owned a u t o -
mobiles. 
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[65 STAT. 
Attendance at meet-
ings. 
Investment in U. S. 
securities. 
Funds for personal 
services; printing and 
binding. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Advance of money. 
D. C. Code § 8-211. 
Restrictions. 
E l e c t r i c street 
lighting. 
SEC. 7. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the pay-
ment of dues and expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations 
concerned with the work of the District of Columbia government, 
when authorized by the Commissioners: Provided^ That the total 
expenditures for this purpose shall not exceed $14,200. 
SEC. 8. The Commissioners are hereby authorized in their discretion 
to invest and-reinvest at any time in United States Government secu-
rities, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, any part 
of the general fund, highway fund, water fund, or trust funds, of 
the District of Columbia, not needed to meet current expenses, to 
deposit the interest accruing from such investments to the credit of 
the fund from which the investment was made, and the Secretary 
of the Treasury is authorized to sell or exchange such securities for 
other Government securities, and deposit the proceeds to the credit 
of the appropriate fund. 
SEC. 9. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for personal 
services including under the Executive Office the Budget Officer in 
GS-16 and, when authorized by the Commissioners or by the purchas-
ing officer and the auditor, acting for the Commissioners, printing and 
binding may be performed by the District of Columbia Division of 
Printing and Publications without reference to fiscal-year limitations. 
SEC. 10. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for stenographic reporting service as 
authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 IT. S. C. 65a). 
SEC. 11. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is 
authorized to advance to officials upon requisitions previously ap-
proved by the Auditor of the District of Columbia, not to exceed at 
any one time sums of money as follows: 
Director of Weights, Measures, and Markets, $400, to be used 
exclusively in connection with investigation of short weights and 
measures. 
Librarian of the Public Library, $50 at the first of each month, for 
the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, 
or other printed materials. 
Superintendent of recreation, $4,000, to be used for the expense of 
conducting activities of the Recreation Board under the trust fund 
created by the Act of April 29,1942 (56 Stat. 261). 
Superintendent of Police, $5,000, to be used in the prevention and 
detection of crime. 
Chief probation officer of the juvenile court, $50, upon requisition 
previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court, to be expended 
for travel exi>enses to secure the return of absconding probationers. 
Director, Department of Corrections, $750, to be used only in return-
ing escaped prisoners, conditional releasees, parolees, and for the 
payment of cash gratuities to prisoners on release. 
Director of Public Welfare, $2,000, to be used for placing and 
visiting children, returning parolees and wards of the Board of 
Public Welfare, and deportation of nonresident insane and indigent 
persons including maintenance pending transportation. 
SEC. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in 
connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforce-
ment of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission 
requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection 
with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except 
for operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and 
rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed 
by the Public Utilities Commission. 
* SEC. 13. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the 
payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those author-
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ized to be paid in the fiscal year 19-27, and for payment for electric 
current for new forms of street lighting sliall not exceed 2 cents per 
kilowatt-houi- for current consumed. 
SEC. 14. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including 
Passenger vehicles. 
watercraft) owned by the District of Columbia shall be operated and 
utilized in conformity with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(5 U. S. C. 77, 78), and shall be under the direction and control of 
the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the 
assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration or interchange-
able use of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, 
except as otherwise provided in this Act. 
"Official purposes" shall 
not apply to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or in 
cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes 
such transportation necessary, but only as to such latter cases when 
the same is approved by the Commissioners. 
No motor vehicles shall 
Restriction. 
be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch 
of the government of the District of Columbia, 
SEC. 15. Appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, 
^^^o^' removal. 
Division of Sanitation, and the Water Division shall be available for 
snow removal when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. 
SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appro- 
short title. 
priation Act of 1952". 
Approved August 3, 1951. 
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emergency. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 8 (b) (2) of the o k'/fi?om'-^Vi'ood" 
National Housing Act, as amended, is hereby amended (1) oy insert- disaster. 
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therein the words "or reconstruction" and (2) by striking out the 
words '"''And provided further'^'' in the last proviso thereof and insert-
ing in lieu thereof the words ^''Provided further'''' and by inserting at 
the end of said last proviso a colon and the following: ^''And provided 
further^ That, where the mortgagor is the owner and occupant of the 
property and establishes (to the satisfaction of the Commissioner) 
that his home, which he occupied as an owner or as a tenant, was 
destroyed or darr^aged to such an extent that reconstruction is required 
as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm or other catas-
trophe, which the President pursuant to section 2 (a) of the Act 
entitled 'An Act to authorize Federal assistance to States and local 
governments in major disasters, and for other purposes' (Public Law 
875, Eighty-first Congress, approved September 30, 1950), has deter- 
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mined to be a major disaster, such maximum dollar limitations may 
be increased by the Commissioner from $4,750 to $7,000, and from 
$5,600 to $8,000, respectively, and the percentage limitation may be 
increased by the Commissioner from 95 per centum to 100 per centum 
of the appraised value". 
SEC. 2. Section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize Federal 
assistance to States and local governments in major disasters, and for 
other purposes" (Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, approved 
September 30, 1950), is amended by inserting in clause (d) of the first 
sentence thereof after the words "in such major disaster" the follow-
ing: "providing temporary housing or other emergency shelter for