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, 1953, and for other purposes
PL 82-453 (H.R.7216), enacted 07/05/1952

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Public Law 453 
CHAPTER 576 
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AN A C T 
July 5, 1952 
[H. R. 7216] 
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, 1953, and for other purposes. 
District of C o -
lumbia Appropria-
t e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That there are appro-
ti'on"/rctri9S3^"^ priated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 
30,1953, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia, here-
inafter 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 $10,000,000, which is hereby appropriated 
for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated (to be advanced July 1,1952), (2) highway funds, established 
by law (D. C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), (3) the water fund, established 
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, 1952), and (4) the 
motor vehicle parking fund, established by law (D. C. Code, title 40, 
ch. 8), 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, Kecreation 
Department, Metropolitan Police, Fire Department, Veterans' Serv-
ices, courts. Health Department, Department of Corrections, 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; 
From the water fund: All sums appropriated under public works 
and Washington aqueduct, designated as payable from the water 
fund;and 
From the motor vehicle parking fund: All sums appropriated under 
public works designated as payable from the motor vehicle parking 
fund; namely: 
GENEEAL ADMINISTEATION 
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 members 
of the Apprenticeship Council and the Redevelopment Land Agency; 
aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on 
Uniform State Laws; general advertising 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 Commissioners, including notices of 
public hearings, publication of orders and regulations, tax and school 
notices, and notices of changes in regulations; and expenses in case 
of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, 
flood, fire, or storm, and for expenses of investigations; $321,800: 
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. 
For ceremony expenses, $7,500. 
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Office of the corporation counsel, including extra compensation for 
the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Public Utilities 
Commission; $10,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of 
claims 
$260 each, approved by the Commissioners in accordance with the Act 
of February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act of June 
5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); and judicial expenses, including witness fees 
and expert services, in District of Columbia cases before the courts 
of the United States and of the District of Columbia; $348,000, of 
which $9,350 shall be payable from the highway fund. 
Purchasing Division, $135,400, of which $4,525 shall be payable 
from the highway fund. 
Board of Tax Appeals, $23,300. 
FISCAL SERVICE 
Salaries and expenses. Fiscal Service: For expenses necessary for 
the Assessor's Office, the Collector's Office, and the Auditor's Office, 
$1,992,000, of which $28,150 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 
penalties and costs, in 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 
EETIEEMENT 
FUND 
EXPENSES 
For compensation and retirement fund expenses, as follows: 
District government employees' compensation, $167,000. 
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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, $175,000. 
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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' 
retirement and annuity fund", and to provide relief and other allow-
ances as authorized by law for policemen and firemen, $8,262,000, 
of which $2,418,000 shall be placed to the credit of the "Civil service 
retirement and disability fund": Provided^ That the Treasury Depart-
ment shall prepare the estimates of the annual appropriations required 
to be made to the teachers' retirement fund, and shall make actuarial 
valuations 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-
pliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
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amended, $500,000. 
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REGULATORY AGENCIES 
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For expenses necessary for agencies named under this general head: 
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, including the purchase of 
samples, $114,100. 
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Board of Parole, $83,600. 
Coroner's office, including juror fees, and repairs to the morgue, 
$64,400. 
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 two passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only, $179,000. 
License Bureau, $86,000. 
Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board, $78,500. 
Office of Recorder of Deeds, including uniforms and caps for 
guards, $253,000. 
Poundmaster's office, including uniforms for dog catchers, $47,000. 
Public Utilities Commission, $147,700. 
Zoning Commission, $38,100. 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
General administration, supervision and instruction: For expenses 
necessary for the administration of and supervision and instruction 
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in the public school system of the District of Columbia including the 
education of foreigners of all ages in the Americanization schools; not 
to exceed $65,000 for the purchase, cleaning, and repair of 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 and relief 
milk to public and charitable institutions, and for the carrying out, 
under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Education, of a 
"penny milk" program for the school children of the District, includ-
ing the purchase and distribution of milk under agreement with the 
United States Department of Agriculture; $19,201,600, 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), 
but at rates not exceeding $50 per diem plus travel expenses for such 
individuals: Provided, 
That the compensation for summer school 
personnel 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. 
Vocational education, George-Barden program: For expenses nec-
20 i^c' i^h^-lsq. cssary for the development of vocational education in the District of 
Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended, 
$254,600. 
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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; pur-
chase of equipment; and operation, repair, maintenance and insurance 
of passenger-carrying motor vehicles, including District-owned or 
borrowed passenger motor vehicles; $4,880,000. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
Public school construction, sites and equipment: For the acquisition 
of sites; for plans and specifications for a new junior high school in the 
vicinity of Fourth Street and Mississippi Avenue, Southeast; for pre-
liminary design studies and surveys for the construction of a new 
administration building and associated facilities; and for the construc-
tion of an elementary school in the vicinity of Ninth and Barnaby 
Streets, Southeast, including treatment of grounds and the purchase of 
equipment; to remain available until expended, $1,051,000, of which 
$122,400 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 $607,000 shall not become avail-
able for expenditure until July 1, 1953; and the unexpended balances 
of the appropriations for the purchase of a site in the vicinity of 
Pomeroy Road, Douglas Place, and Stanton Road, Southeast, for a new 
junior high school and a new twenty-four-room elementary school, 
granted in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts, 1947 and 
1951, are hereby made available for the purchase of a site in the vicinity 
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of Stanton and Elvans Roads, Southeast, for the construction of a new 
elementary-school building, and for school-playground purposes. 
Permanent improvement of public school buildings: For permanent 
improvements and alterations of public school buildings, including the 
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purchase of equipment and the elimination of fire hazards, $400,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 
Act, approved May 10,1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 
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to August 30, 1952, to teachers of the public schools of the District of 
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Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or 
independent establishments of the United States Government. 
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, T^c^^'n^^'od^ 
$1,490,000. 
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RECREATION DEPARTMENT 
Operating expenses: For expenses necessary for operation and 
maintenance of recreation facilities in and for the District of Columbia, 
$1,555,000. 
Capital outlay: For improvement of various recreation units, includ-
ing 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), $125,000. 
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METROPOLITAN POLICE 
Traffic school. 
Prevention 
a n d 
detection of crime. 
Public order, etc. 
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; technicians with basic salary increase of not to 
exceed $361 per annum each; not to exceed one detective in the salary 
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rade of captain; probational detectives with basic salary increase of 
181 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 preven-
tion and detection of crime; expenses of attendance, without loss of pay 
or time, at specialized police training classes and pistol matches, includ-
ing tuition and entrance fees; expenses of the police training school, 
including travel expenses of visiting lecturers or experts in crimin-
ology ; expenses of traffic school; police equipment and repairs to same; 
insignia of office, uniforms, and other official equipment, including 
cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one indi-
vidual to another, or damaged in the performance of duty; purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles; expenses of harbor patrol; and the main-
tenance of a suitable place for the reception 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 witnesses or held pending final investigation or examination, 
or otherwise; $10,050,000, of which amount $1,300,000 sh^ll be payable 
from the highway fund and $25,000 shall be exclusively available for 
expenditure by the Superintendent of Police for prevention and detec-
tion 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. 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to enable the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia to maintain public order 
and protect life and property in said District from January 15 to 
January 26, 1953, including personal services without regard to the 
civil-service and classification laws; travel expenses of enforcement 
personnel from other jurisdictions; hire of means of transportation; 
meals for policemen; cost of removing and relocating streetcar loading 
platforms; construction, rent, maintenance, and expenses incident to 
the operation of temporary public comfort stations, first-aid stations, 
and information booths; ^5,000. 
F I R E DEPARTMENT 
For expenses necessary for the Fire Department, including pay and 
allowances; the first deputy fire marshal with the rank and pay com-
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parable to battalion chief; compensation of civilian trial board mem-
bers 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 per-
formance of duty; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; repairs and 
improvements to buildings and grounds; $5,250,000: Provided^ 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. 
Capital outlay: For repairs and minor additions to firehouses, 
$70,000, to remain available until expended. 
VETERANS' SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to provide services to veterans, $80,000. 
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; $1,142,400, of which 
$20,000 shall be available for payment to the United States Public 
Health Service for furnishing psychiatric service to the Juvenile 
Court, including the detail of necessary medical and other personnel: 
Provided^ That deposits made on demands for jury trials in accord-
ance with rules prescribed by the Municipal Court under authority 
granted in section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 
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, Gren-
eral Services Administration, and the Department of Justice, 
$1,760,000, of which $230,000 shall be available for advances on reim-
bursement, to the General Services Administration for one-half of 
the cost of operation, maintenance, and repair of the Federal Courts 
Building, as provided in the Act of May 14, 1948 (62 Stat. 235). 
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H E A L T H 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, housekeeping 
assistance in cases of authentic indigent sick, handicapped and crippled 
children, cancer control, control of heart disease, public health engi-
neering, nursing, 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; 
uniforms; rent; manufacture of serum in indigent cases; and allow- j Automobile ai-
ances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of 
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official duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate of 7 cents per mile 
but not more than $840 per annum for each automobile; $2,800,000: 
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Special services. Providsd^ That amouiits 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 Sanitorium: 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 sani-
torium and as an aid to their rehabilitation at rates and under condi-
tions 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; $2,485,500. 
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 buildi ngs 
and grounds, $5,460,000. 
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 insti-
tutions, as follows: Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital; 
Children's Hospital; Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital; 
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital; Garfield Memorial Hos-
pital; George Washington University Hospital; Georgetown Uni-
versity Hospital; Providence Hospital; and Washington Home for 
Patient rates. 
Incurables; $6t6,875: Provided, That the in-patient rate shall not 
exceed $10 per diem and the out-patient rate shall not exceed $2 per 
visit. 
Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs 
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including labor and material, to be expended under the direction 
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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 Hos-
pital, $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 
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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 trans-
portation of prisoners transferred from the District of Columbia; 
interment or transporting the remains of deceased prisoners to their 
relatives or friends in the United States; electrocutions; identifying, 
pursuing, recapturing (including rewards therefor), and returning 
to institutions, escaped inmates and parole and conditional-release 
violators; and returning released prisoners 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 dis-
cretion of the Director, an amount of money not to exceed $30, regard-
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less of length of sentence, $4,062,500: Provided, That not to exceed 
$50,000 of accumulated profits from operations under the Working 
Capital Fund may be retained in said fund as additional working 
capital. 
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Capital outlay: For the construction of refrigerated food storage 
and ice making facilities at the workhouse, including equipment; 
relocation of the swinery; and acquisition of a tract of land (part 
of Joseph Springman property) ; $85,000 to remain available until 
expended: Provided^ That in the construction work hereby author-
ized and to be done by the Department of Corrections, brick used in 
such construction shall be furnished without charge by the Work-
ing Capital Fund: Provided further^ That the title to said tract of 
land shall be taken directly to and in the name of the United States, 
and in case a clear title cannot be assured through conveyance the 
Attorney General of the United States, at the request of the Com-
missioners, shall institute condemnation proceedings to acquire such 
land in accordance with the laws of the State of Virginia, and 
expenses of procuring evidences of title or of condemnation, or both, 
shall be paid out of the appropriation made for the purchase of said 
land. 
PUBLIC WELFARE 
For expenses necessary for the general administration of public 
welfare in the District of Columbia, including contract investiga-
tional services; $100,000. 
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; assist 
ance 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 persons 
held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital; 
burial of indigent residents of the District of Columbia; for placing 
and visiting children; board and care of all children committed to 
the guardianship of the Board of Public Welfare by the courts of 
the District, including white girls committed to the National Train-
ing School for Girls and all children accepted by said Board for care 
as authorized by law; temporary care of children pending investiga-
tion 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 mainte-
nance 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 Mater-
nity 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 
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building; $4,590,000: Provided^ That no part of this appropriation 
shall be used for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of 
Public Welfare placed 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 employ-
ees using privately owned automobiles for the deportation of non-
resident insane, the transportation of indigent persons, or the placing 
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R e s t r i ction on 
use of funds. 
of children may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 
1949 (63 Stat. 166), 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 be 
held at Gallinger Hospital; 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; $3,140,000: Provided^ That no 
part of this appropriation shall be used for the maintenance of white 
girls in the National Training School for Girls. 
Capital outlay, protective institutions: For completing construction 
of an infirmary building and a separate laundry building at the Home 
for Aged and Infirm, including improvement of grounds; $810,000; 
and for plans and specifications for an Industrial Home School for 
Colored Girls to replace the National Training School for Girls, 
$86,000; in all, $896,000. 
Saint Elizabeths Hospital: For support of indigent insane, 
$8,687,000. 
PUBLIC WORKS 
Basis of appor 
tionment. 
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; $80,000, of which $4,000 shall be payable from the highway 
fund. 
Office of Municipal Architect, $114,000, of which $5,000 shall be 
exclusively for test borings and soil investigations. 
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-
bursments 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 reimbursment from funds 
loaned by the Administrator of General Services under the provi-
40 use 451-458. gions of the Act of October 13,1949 (63 Stat. 841). 
Operating expenses. Office of Superintendent of District Buildings, 
including rental of postage meter equipment, uniforms and caps for 
Reimbursements. 
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guards and elevator operators, $1,460,000, of which $8,900 shall be 
payable from the highway fund. 
Surveyor's office, $150,000. 
Department of Inspections, including the enforcement of the Act 
Fire escapes, 
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, tw^o 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 build-
ings, while actually employed in surveys of such dangerous and un-
safe buildings, three members of board of special appeal, one mem-
ber of motion-picture operators examining board, two members of 
electrical examining board, and two members of elevator examining 
board; $840,000. 
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, includ-
ing 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 ^^^-.^of""^^ ^-'^^^ 
provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the 
fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat. 181), and other laws applicable thereto; 
D.C.code7-701. 
$1,715,000, of which $2,000 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; $110,500. 
Central garage, including the purchase of passenger motor vehicles, 
work cars, field wagons, ambulances, and busses, $105,000. 
Operating expenses. Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from 
highway fund), including operation, minor construction, maintenance, 
and repair of bridges; repairs to streets, avenues, roads, sidewalks, and 
alleys; reconditioning existing gravel streets and roads; 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; $2,670,003: 
Provided^ That the Commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase 
j^u"}'^ l''^^ ^^" 
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^ That this appropriation shall not 
^ ^^'c!^l' 47-
be available for refunds authorized by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 191b. 
1924. 
Capital outlay, Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from highway 
fund) : For expenses necessary for the grading, surfacing, paving, 
repaving, widening, altering, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, 
roads, and alleys, including curbing and gutters, directional and pedes-
trian islands at various intersections to permit of proper traffic-light 
control and channelization of traffic, drainage structures, culverts, suit-
able connections to storm-water sewer system, retaining walls, 
replacement and relocation of sewers, water mains, fire hydrants, 
traffic lights, street lights, fire-alarm boxes, police-patrol boxes, and 
curb-line trees, when necessary, Federal-aid highway projects under 
section 1 (b) of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, and highway 
^ ^^^ ^f^-
structure projects financed wholly from the highway fund upon the 
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52 Stat. 636; 53 
Stat. 1066. 
52 Stat. 633. 
23 u s e 41b. 
41 use 5. 
60 Stat. 810. 
D.e. eode 7-604 
note. 
20 Stat. 106. 
D. e. eode 7-604. 
58 Stat. 838. 
23 u s e 60-63. 
23 u s e 24a. 
Widths of s i d e -
w a l k s and road-
ways. 
approval of plans for sucli structures by the Commissioners; for carry-
ing out the provisions of existing laws which authorize the Commis-
sioners 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 con-
struction of sidewalks and curbs around public reservations and 
municipal and United States buildings, including purchase or con-
demnation of streets, roads, and alleys, and of areas less than two 
hundred and fifty square feet at the intersection of streets, avenues, or 
roads in the District of Columbia, to be selected by the Commissioners, 
$5,056,000, to remain available until June 30, 1954: 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 exceed-
ing $150,000 for the preparation of the site, including the construction 
of sea walls, dock facilities, and a railroad siding: Provided 
further^ 
That in connection with the highway-planning survey, involving sur-
veys, plans, engineering, and economic investigations of projects for 
future construction in the District of Columbia, as provided for under 
section 10 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, and in connection 
with the construction of Federal-aid highway j)rojects 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 appro-
priation "Operating expenses, Street and Bridge Divisions, highway 
fund", shall be available for the construction and repair of pavements 
of street railways, in accordance 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-railway 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 with 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 authorized 
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 construc-
tion 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 (including 
tree spaces and parking) of all highways that may be improved under 
V e h i c l e s 
and 
traffic. 
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385 
appropriations contained in this Act: Promded further^ That no 
appropriation in this Act shall be available for repairing, resurfacing, 
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 Commis-
sioners 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: Provided 
further^ That this appropriation and the 
appropriation "Operating expenses, Street and Bridge Divisions," 
shall be available for advance payments to Federal agencies for work 
to be performed, when ordered by the Commissioners, subject to subse-
quent adjustment. 
Department of Vehicles and Traffic (payable from highway fund), 
including purchase, installation, modification, operation, and main-
tenance 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 refer-
ence to any other law; $200 for membership in the American Associa-
tion of Motor Vehicle Administrators; and uniforms for motor vehicle 
inspectors and permit examiners; $1,220,000: 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 Com-
mission and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic and the street-railway 
company shall after construction maintain, mark, and light the same 
at its expense: Provided further, That the Commissioners are author-
ized and empowered to pay the purchase price and the cost of installa-
tion of new parking meters or devices from fees collected from such new 
meters or devices, which fees are hereby appropriated for such pur-
pose, 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 designate, 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 position of Registrar of 
Titles and Tags, whose duties shall be as prescribed in the District of 
Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945, shall hereafter be continued for 
^ cf* codV 40-
compensation purposes in grade 9 of the general schedule under the eoak. 
Classification Act of 1949. 
Division of Trees and Parking (payable from highway fund), 
63 stat, 954. 
$345,000. 
5 use 1071 note. 
Motor-Vehicle Parking Agency 
(payable from 
motor-vehicle 
parking fund), $105,000. 
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 fencing 
of public and private property designated by the Commissioners as 
public dumps; $4,507,000, of which $97,500 shall be payable from the 
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Collection of ref-
u s e from h o t e l s , 
etc-
60 Stat. 519. 
S e w a g e Treat-
ment Plant. 
highway fund for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross-
walks, and gutters, in the discretion of the Commissioners: 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 apartments having a central heat-
ing system, or from any building or connected group of buildings 
operated as a rooming, boarding, or lodging house having a total of 
more than twenty-five rooms. 
Capital outlay. Division of Sanitation: For an additional amount 
for construction of proposed incinerator numbered 3, $300,000, of 
which $43,000 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 the limit of cost for said incin-
erator, specified in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1948, 
is increased to $2,200,000. 
Operating expenses. Sewer Division, including cleaning and repair-
ing sewers and basins; operation and maintenance of 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 Commis-
sion on the Potomac River Basin; $1,537,000. 
Capital outlay. Sewer Division: For construction of sewers and 
receiving basins; for assessment and permit work; for purchase or 
condemnation of rights-of-way 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, $16,000; for beginning construction on aeration plant and 
secondary sedimentation tanks at the Sewage Treatment Plant, includ-
ing $40,000 for preparation of plans and specifications, $2,000,000, 
to remain available until expended; and for completing construction 
on sludge drying and sewage chlorination facilities at the Sewage 
Treatment Plant, $270,000, to remain available until expended; in all, 
$4,096,000, of which $1,826,000 is to remain available until June 30, 
1954, and $1,270,000 shall not become available for expenditure until 
July 1, 1953. 
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; such expenses to include purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles; purchase and replacement 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; $2,423,000, 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; and pumping facili-
ties at the Anacostia pumping station; $1,330,000, of which not to 
exceed $547,000 for trunk water mains, and $150,000 for pumping 
facilities at the Anacostia pumping station shall remain available 
until expended. 
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387 
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 neces-
sary for the operation, maintenance, repair, and protection of Wash-
ington water supply facilities and their accessories, and maintenance 
of MacArthur Boulevard; including replacement and maintenance 
of water meters on Federal services; purchase of two passenger motor 
vehicles; and fluoridation of water, $1,942,000: Promded^ That trans-
fer 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 Commis-
sioners and the Secretary of the Army. 
Capital outlay (payable from water fund) : For continuing con-
struction of new Dalecarlia pumping station and connecting pipe-
lines; continuing construction of a thirty-million-gallon clear water 
basin and connecting conduits and control chamber; construction of 
Little Falls pumping station, dam and rising tunnel; construction of 
new raw-water intakes and conduits at Dalecarlia Reservoir; miscel-
laneous betterments, replacements, and engineering planning, includ-
ing continuing raw-water conduit rehabilitation, continuing repairs 
to culverts and bridges, improvement to McMillan filter plant facili-
ties, and utility relocations and plant and system rearrangements 
of interconnections; acquisition by gift, exchange, purchase, or con-
demnation of supplementary land; and for developing increased 
water supply for the District of Columbia and environs in accordance 
with House Document 480, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session; 
and necessary expenses incident thereto; including services as author-
ized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but 
at rates for individual consultants not in excess of $150 per diem; to 
remain available until expended, $6,986,000, of which $1,138,000 shall 
not become available for expenditure until July 1, 1953; and of the 
total amount appropriated $6,900,000 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 
Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the 
same, and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now 
provided by law. 
NATIONAL GUARD 
Meters on F e d-
eral services. 
Dalecarlia pump-
ing station, etc. 
60 Stat. 810. 
64 Stat. 195. 
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 
encampments; reimbursement to the United States for loss of prop-
erty 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, 
93300 O - 53 - 28 
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[66 STAT. 
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; 
$115,000. 
NATIONAL 
CAPITAL 
PARKS 
For expenses necessary for the National Capital Parks, including 
maintenance, care, and improvement of public parks, grounds, foun-
5 
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 maintaining 
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 func-
tions held in the parks, including the 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 simi-
lar employment in the District of Columbia; uniforming and equip-
ping the United States Park Police Force; the purchase, issue, opera-
tion, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, uniforms, 
ammunition, and radio equipment and the rental of teletype service; 
and the purchase of passenger motor vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, 
and self-propelled machinery; the hire of draft animals with or with-
out drivers at local rates approved by the Secretary of the Interior; 
the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; 
$2,025,000, of which $25,000 shall be payable from the highway fund: 
Provided^ That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appro-
priated may be expended for the erection of minor auxiliary struc-
tures: Provided 
further, 
That funds appropriated under or trans-
ferred to this head for services rendered by the National Park Serv-
ice 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 appropri-
ation concerned not later that 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 
60 Stat. 810. 
of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), health program as authorized by 
60 Stat. 903. 
law (5 U. S. C. 150), and expenses of attendance at meetings of organ-
izations concerned with city planning matters; $98,000: Pro-vided, 
That funds appropriated under this head shall be expended by expen-
diture warrant as an advance to the National Capital Park and Plan-
ning Commission and shall be credited as a repayment and maintained 
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389 
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. 
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; $615,000: 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 
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 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 government of 
the District of Columbia, or who is a member of an organization of 
Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Gov-
ernment 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 by 
force or violence: Provided^ That for the purposes hereof an affidavit 
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making thfe 
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 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 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 
Vouchers. 
Strikes or over-
throw of Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
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S T A T . 
Maximum amount. 
Repairs and im-
provements. 
A u t o m obile al-
lowance. 
A t t e n d a n c e at 
meetings. 
I n v e s t m e n t in 
U. S. securities. 
Personal 
serv-
ices; printing and 
binding. 
Budget Officer. 
60 Stat. 810. 
more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above pen-
alty 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 appro-
priation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such amount, 
unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maximum 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 allowances for privately 
owned automobiles. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized or approved by the Commissioners, for allowances for privately 
owned automobiles 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 lor the deportation of nonresident insane; 
the transportation of indigent persons, and the placing of children 
by the Board of Public Welfare. 
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 $15,000. 
SEC. 8. The Commissioners are hereby authorized in their discre-
tion to invest and reinvest at any time in United States Government 
securities, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, any 
part of the general fund, highw^ay fund, water fund, motor vehicle 
parking 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 when authorized by the Commissioners or by the purchasing 
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, 
and the salary of the Budget Officer of the District of Columbia shall 
be at the rate of Grade GS-16 in the General Schedule established by 
the Classification Act of 1949. 
SEC. 10. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for services as authorized by section 15 
of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a). 
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391 
SEO. 11. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is author-
ized to advance to officials upon requisitions previously approved 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, $60 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 expenses 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 pay-
ment of cash gratuities to prisoners on release; 
Director of Public Welfare, $2,000, to be used for placing and visit-
ing children, returning parolees and wards of the Board of Public 
Welfare, and deportation of nonresident insane and indigent persons 
including maintenance pending transportation; 
Superintendent of Schools, $1,000, which shall be used in connection 
with the central food services. 
SEC. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in con-
nection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement 
of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requir-
ing 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-
ized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and for payment for electric 
current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per 
kilowatt-hour for current consumed. 
SEC. 14. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (includ-
ing 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 inter-
changeable use of any of the same by officers and employees of the 
District, except as otherwise provided in this Act. 
"Official pur-
E
oses" shall not apply to the Commissioners of the District of Colum-
ia 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 be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other 
branch of the government of the District of Columbia. 
SEO. 15. Appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sew-
ers, Division of Sanitation, and the Water Division shall be available 
for snow removal when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. 
A d V a n c 
money. 
D,C. Code 8-211., 
Restrictions. 
Electric s t r e e t 
lighting. 
P a s s e n g e r 
h i d e s . 
60 Stat. 810. 
Restriction. 
Snow removal. 
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[66 S T A T . 
Deposit o
f funds. 
§£0. 16. Hereafter, any collection which otherwise would be for 
depositing to the credit of an appropriation made from general, high-
way, water, special, or other funds of the District of Columbia, where 
such appropriation has lapsed, shall be deposited for covering to the 
credit of the appropriate fund of the District of Columbia as miscel-
laneous receipts. 
SEC. 17. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia 
Appropriation Act, 1953". 
Approved July 5, 1952. 
Short title. 
July 5, 1952 
[H.R. 5768] 
Public Law 454 
CHAPTER 577 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate boxing contests and exhibitions 
in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved December 20, 
1944. 
D.C., b o x i n g 
contests. 
P a y m e nts to 
Commission. 
A m a t e u r c o n -
tests. 
Reports. 
Be if eiiacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Vnited States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 4 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to regulate boxing contests and exhibitions 
in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved Decem-
ber 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 823; title 2, ch. 12, D. C. Code, 1940 edition, 
Supp. VII), is amended by inserting between the first and second 
sentences the following: "The Commission is authorized in its sole 
judgment and discretion to assign to licensed professional promoters 
dates on which boxing contests may be held, and no licensed pro-
fessional promoter shall hold any boxing contest on any date unless 
specifically authorized so to do by the Commission. 
When two or 
more promoters make application to hold separate boxing contests on 
an identical date not at the time of such application assigned to either 
or any of the promoters making such applications, the Commission 
shall, at a meeting open to the public, make its determination as to 
Avhether either or any of such applications will be granted, and if so, 
which, and in connection with such determination shall take into 
consideration the public interest, local demand, and the relative rank-
ing of the boxers engaging in the proposed contests." 
SEC. 2. Section 9 of such Act is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 9. Every person holding or conducting any boxing contest 
for which an admission fee is charged or received, or for which revenue 
is received from the sale, lease, or other exploitation of radio, television, 
or motion-picture rights, or from other public presentations of such 
contest, or for which such fee is charged or received and such revenue 
is received, shall pay to the Commission a sum equal to the larger of 
the following: (a) An amount equal to 10 per centum of the gross 
receipts realized by such person as a result of holding or conducting 
such contest, including receipts derived from the sale of admissions 
to the contest, and receipts derived from the sale, leasing, or other 
exploitation of radio, television, or motion-picture rights and from 
other public presentation of such boxing contest, or (b) an amount 
equal to the total actual cost of compensation of personnel assigned 
by the Commission to supervise such contest: Provided, That no 
person holding or conducting any amateur boxing contest under the 
jurisdiction and with the sanction of the District of Columbia Associa-
tion of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States shall be 
required to pay to the Commission any such sum which includes receipts 
derived from the sale, lease, or other exploitation of radio, television, 
or motion-picture rights relating to any such amateur boxing contest. 
Payments of money required by this section shall be accompanied by