An Act to provide for conveyance of certain land to the city of New Orleans
PL 82-208 (S.1912), enacted 10/25/1951

65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 208—OCT. 25, 1951 
637 
(c) In the exercise of the authority granted by section 81 of title 2 
of the Canal Zone Code, as amended, the Governor of the Canal Zone 
is authorized and directed to grant additional compensation to police-
men, firemen, and school teachers employed by the Canal Zone Govern-
ment, whenever additional compensation is granted to employees of 
the District of Columbia employed in similar or comparable positions. 
The additional compensation for such Canal Zone employees shall 
be effective as of the date any additional compensation is granted to 
similar or comparable employees of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 2. Authority is hereby granted to the Commissioners and to 
other wage-fixing authorities of the municipal government of the 
District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Interior and the President 
of the United States, in their discretion, to grant additional compen-
sation at rates not to exceed those prevailing without regard to the 
provisions of section 3679 of the Kevised Statutes, as amended (31 
U. S. C. 665), additional compensation at rates not to exceed those 
prevailing in the District of Columbia for similar or comparable 
employment to each employee in or under the municipal government 
of the District of Columbia, National Capital Parks and the Executive 
Mansion Grounds, whose compensation is fixed and adjusted from 
time to time by a wage board, or whose compensation is fixed without 
reference to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, or whose 
compensation is limited or fixed specifically by the provisions of the 
District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1952. 
SEC. 3. (a) Public Law 159, Eighty-second Congress, is hereby 
amended by striking out section 3 thereof. 
(b) This section shall be effective October 8, 1951. 
SEC. 4. (a) This Act shall become effective as of the first day 
of the first pay period which began after June 30, 1951. 
(b) No retroactive compensation or salary shall be payable by 
reason of the enactment of this Act in the case of any individual 
not in the service of the United States (including service in the 
Armed Forces of the United States) or of the municipal govern-
ment of the District of Columbia on the date of enactment of this 
Act, except that such retroactive compensation or salary shall 
be paid a retired officer or employee for services rendered during 
the period beginning with the first day of the first pay period 
which began after June 30, 1951, and ending with the date of his 
retirement. 
Approved October 25, 1951. 
Governor of Canal 
Zone. 
Authority. 
Wage-flxing autlior-
Ities. 
63 Stat. 954. 
6 U. S. C. § 1071 
note. 
Ante, p. 155. 
Ante, p. 368. 
Effective date. 
Retroactive 
pensation. 
Public Law^ 208 
CHAPTER 561 
AN ACT 
To provide for conveyance of certain land to the city of New Orleans. 
October 25,1961 
[3. 1912] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America i/n Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Air Force is authorized and directed to convey to the city of 
New Orleans, without consideration, all of the right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to all land acquired by the United States, 
with funds made available by the city of New Orleans, for the pur-
poses of expansion of and removal of flight hazards at Moisant Inter-
national Airport, consisting of three hundred seventy-six and three 
one-hundredths acres, more or less. 
Approved October 25, 1951, 
New Orleans. 
Conveyance.