An Act to amend the National Science Foundation Act of 1950
PL 83-223 (S.977), enacted 08/08/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 222-AUG. 8, 1953 
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SEC. 2. The amendments made by this Act shall not be construed to 
65 Stat. 44. 
affcct in any way the application of Public Law 38, Eighty-second 
nJte. "^^ ^"^^^ Congress, to copper scrap. 
Approved August 7,1953. 
Public Law 222 
CHAPTER 376 
August 8, 1953 
AN ACT 
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, To amend section 456 of title 28 of the United States Code with respect to the 
official stations of justices and judges. 
J u s t i c e s 
a n d 
judges. 
T r a v e l i n g ex-
pense s. 
62 Stat. 908. 
Be is enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congrefis assembled, That section 456 of 
title 28 of the United States Code is amended to read as follows: 
"§ 456. Traveling expenses of justices and judges 
•'Each justice or judge of the United States and each retired justice 
or judge recalled or designated and assigned to active duty shall, upon 
his certificate, be paid by the Director of the Administrative Office of 
the United States Courts all necessary traveling expenses, and also his 
reasonable maintenance expenses actually incurred, not exceeding $15 
per day, while attending court or transacting official business at a 
place other than his official station. 
Official stations. 
"The official statiou of the tIJhief Justice of the United States, the 
Justices of the Supreme Court and the judges of the Court of Claims, 
the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the United States Court 
of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the United States District 
Court for the District of Columbia, shall be the District of Columbia. 
"The official station of the judges of the Customs Court shall be 
New York City. 
"The official station of each circuit and district judge, including 
each district judge in the Territories and possessions, shall be that 
place where a district court is regularly held and at or near which the 
judge performs a substantial portion of his judicial work, which is 
nearest the place where he maintains an actual abode in which he 
customarily lives. 
"Each circuit judge and each district judge whose official station 
is not fixed expressly in the second paragraph of this section shall 
upon his appointment and from time to time thereafter as his official 
station may change, notify the Director of the Administrative Office 
of the United States Courts in writing of his actual abode and his 
official station." 
Approved August 8, 1953. 
August 8,1953 
[S. 977] 
Public Law 223 
CHAPTER 377 
AN ACT 
To anaend the National Science Foundation Act of 1950. 
64 Stat. 157. 
42 u s e 1875. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hotise of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) 
of section 16 of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 is 
amended by striking out "not to exceed $500,000 for the fiscal year 
ending June 30,1951, and not to exceed $15,000,000 for each fiscal year 
thereafter" and inserting in lieu thereof "such sums as may be neces-
sary to carry out the provisions of this Act". 
Approved August 8, 1953.