An Act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for other purposes
PL 83-59 (H.R.4664), enacted 06/15/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 59-JUNE 15, 1953 
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Public Law 59 
CHAPTER 113 
AN ACT 
June 15^ 1953 
Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30,1953, and 
[H. R. 4664] 
for other purposes. 
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mental 
Appropria-
t e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following ^
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sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- uon'Actr^gVs^ 
wise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations for the 
fiscal year ending June 30,1953, and for other purposes, namely: 
CHAPTEE I 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
FISCAL SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses. Fiscal Serv-
ice", $100,000. 
COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND EXPENSES 
DISTRICT G O V E R N M E N T EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION 
For an additional amount for "District government employees' com-
pensation", $41,500. 
REGULATORY AGENCIES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATOR OF RENT CONTROL 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses. Office of 
Administrator of Rent Control", $17,000, and the limitation of $27,000 
for payment of terminal leave only, in the appropriation of $125,000 
for necessary expenses for "Office of Administrator of Rent Control", 
contained in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, is reduced to 
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$5,850. 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
General Administration, Supervision and Instruction 
For an additional amount for "General administration, supervision 
and instruction", $60,000. 
VETERANS' 
SERVICES 
For an additional amount for "Veterans' services", $4,500. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses. Office of Civil 
Defense", $60,000. 
COURTS 
UNITED STATES COURTS 
For an additional amount, fiscal year 1951, for "United States 
courts", $4,764. 
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PUBLIC WELFARE 
SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL 
For an additional amount for "Saint Elizabeths Hospital", $824,243. 
SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS AND SUITS 
For the payment of claims in excess of $250, approved by the 
Commissioners in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Febru-
ary 11, 1929, as amended (45 Stat. 1160; 46 Stat. 500: 65 Stat. 131), 
$45,014. 
JUDGMENTS 
D. C. Code 1-902 
to 1-905. 
58 Stat. 533. 
For the payment of final judgments rendered against the District of 
Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered 106 (Eighty-
third Congress), together with such further sums as may be necessary 
to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such 
judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until 
the date of payment, $527. 
AUDITED CLAIMS 
For an additional amount for the payment of claims, certified to be 
due by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under 
appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or credited 
to the general fund of the District of Columbia as provided by law 
(D. C. Code, Title 47, sec. 130a), being for the service of the fiscal year 
1950 and prior fiscal years, as set forth in House Document Numbered 
106 (Eighty-third Congress),$175,600. 
DIVISION OF EXPENSES 
The sums appropriated in this Act for the District of Columbia shall, 
unless otherwise specifically provided for, be paid out of the general 
fund of the District of Columbia, as defined in the District of Columbia 
Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years involved. 
CHAPTER I I 
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
SENATE 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES or THE SENATE 
Folding documents: The appropriation for folding documents con-
66 Stat. 466. 
taiued in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1953, is hereby 
amended to read "For folding speeches and pamphlets at a gross rate 
not exceeding $2 per thousand or for the employment of personnel at a 
gross rate not exceeding $1.53 per hour per person". 
Motor vehicles: For an additional amount for maintaining, exchang-
ing, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official 
use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $9,331.26, to 
be derived by transfer from the appropriation for "Folding Docu-
ments", fiscal year 1953. 
Miscellaneous items: For an additional amount for "Miscellaneous 
items", exclusive of labor, $55,000. 
Postage stamps: For an additional amount for postage stamps for 
the Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, $175. 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
For the payment to Mabel H. Withers, widow of Garrett L. Withers, 
late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, $12,500. 
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL 
CAPITOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Rotunda frieze, Capitol Building: For cleaning and restoring the 
sections of the Rotunda frieze decorated in fresco by Constantino 
Brumidi and Filippo Costaggini, $15,000, to be expended by the 
Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the Joint Committee on 
the Library for personal and other services and all other necessary 
incidental items, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, 
as amended, and to remain available until June 30, 1954. 
Senate Office Building: For an additional amount for "Senate 
Office Building", $9,200, to remain available until June 30,1954. 
T H E JUDICIARY 
OTHER COURTS AND SERVICES 
FEES OF JURORS 
For an additional amount for "Fees of jurors", $350,000. 
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DEPARTMENT 
OF 
HEALTH, 
EDUCATION, 
AND 
WELFARE 
OFFICE OF EDUCATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", $32,000, 
to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Promotion and 
further development of vocational education", fiscal year 1953. 
CHAPTER IV 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
PRODUCTION AND MARKETING ADMINISTRATION 
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION PROGRAMS 
For an additional amount for formulating acreage-allotment and 
marketing-quota programs on wheat and cotton, to be derived by 
transfer from any other appropriations available to the Department 
of Agriculture, $3,150,000, of which not more than $600,000 shall be 
transferred to the account "Administrative expenses, section 392, 
52 stat. 69. 
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938". 
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FOREST SERVICE 
FOREST ROADS AND TRAILS 
For an additional amount for construction of timber access roads 
to permit removal of insect-infested and insect-killed trees in Montana 
and Idaho, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
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49 Stat. 1363. 
66 Stat. 657. 
Strikes or over-
t h r o w of Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
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RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION 
LOAN AUTHORIZATIONS 
For an additional amount for rural telephone loans in accordance 
with the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 U. S. C. 
901-924), and for carrying out the provisions of section 7 thereof, to 
be borrowed from the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with 
the provisions of section 3 (a) of said Act, $7,500,000. 
CHAPTER V 
INDEPENDENT OFFICES 
ECONOMIC STABILIZATION AGENCY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
The amount made available under this head in the Supplemental 
Appropriation Act, 1953, for the Office of Rent Stabilization is hereby 
increased from "$11,000,000" to "$11,385,000": Provided, That said 
increase of $385,000 shall be available only for terminal leave and shall 
not be used for such payment unless the Administrator shall personally 
certify the payment of such leave. 
VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION 
SERVICEMEN'S INDEMNITIES 
For an additional amount for "Servicemen's indemnities", $650,000, 
to be derived by transfer from the appropriation "Compensation and 
pensions", and to remain available until expended. 
CHAPTER VI 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 601. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, 
or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included 
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 
who is a member of an organization of Government employees that 
asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, 
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 the affidavit 
has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike 
against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an 
organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike 
against the Government of the United States, 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 anj^ person who engages in a strike 
against the Government of the United States 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 who advocates, or who 
is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the 
(lovernment of the United States by force or violence and accepts 
employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any 
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appropriation or fund contained in this or any other Act shall be 
f
uilty of a felon}' 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. 602. This Act may be cited as the "Third Supplemental 
Appropriation Act, 1953". 
Approved June 15, 1953. 
Short title. 
Public Law 60 
CHAPTER 114 
AN ACT 
To amend section 7 of the Flood Control Act of 1941 relating to the apportionment 
of moneys received on account of the leasing of lands acquired by the United 
States for flood control purposes. 
June 16, 1953 
[S. 117] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 7 of the 
Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction of certain public 
works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes", 
approved August 18,1941, as amended (33 U. S. C. 701c-3), is amended 
by striking out "situated:" and inserting in lieu thereof "situated, or 
for defraying any of the expenses of county government in such 
county or counties, including public obligations of levee and drainage 
districts for flood control and drainage improvements:". 
Approved June 16, 1953. 
Flood C o n t r o l 
A c t 
o f 
1 9 4 1, 
amendment. 
55 Stat. 650. 
Public Law 61 
CHAPTER 115 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of December 23, 1944, authorizing certain transactions by 
disbursing officers of the United States, and for other purposes. 
June 16, 1953 
[S. 1307] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled 
"An Act to authorize certain transactions by disbursing ofiicers of the 
United States, and for other purposes", approved December 23, 1944 
(ch. 716, 58 Stat. 921; U. S. C, 1946 edition, title 50 App., sees. 1705-
1707), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SECTION 1. Subject to regulations promulgated pursuant to this 
Act, disbursing officers of the United States are authorized, for official 
purposes, or for the accommodation of members of the Armed Forces 
and civilian personnel of the United States Government, veterans of 
the Armed Forces of the United States hospitalized or domiciled in 
institutions operated by the Veterans' Administration and other insti-
tutions operated by agencies of the United States Government, con-
tractors engaged in United States Government projects and the per-
sonnel of sucli contractors, and personnel of authorized nongovern-
mental agencies operating with agencies of the United States, to cash 
and negotiate checks, drafts, bills of exchange, and other instruments 
payable in United States and foreign currencies, and to conduct 
exchange transactions involving United States and foreign currency 
and coin, checks, drafts, bills of exchange, and other instruments; and 
when satisfactory^ banking facilities are not available, disbursing 
officers of the United States in foreign countries are also authorized, 
for the accommodation of any person who is a United States citizen. 
U. S. disbursing 
officers. 
Check c a s h i n g 
a n d 
e x c h a n g e 
authority. 
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