Joint resolution authorizing the President to proclaim January 13 of each year as Stephen Foster Memorial Day
PL 82-225 (H.J.Res.308), enacted 10/27/1951

65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 225—OCT. 27, 1951 
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Public Law 224 
CHAPTER 592 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Authorizing the participation of the United States in the preparation and com-
pletion of plans for the observance and memorialization on April 9, 1952, of 
the one hundredth anniversary of the death of John Howard Payne, author of 
that family hymn of America, "Home Sweet Home". 
October 27,1951 
[H. J. Res. 284] 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That there is hereby estab-
lished a commission to be known as the United States Commission for 
the Observance of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of 
John Howard Payne and to be composed of nineteen commissioners as 
follows: 
The President of the United States; presiding officer of the Senate 
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, ex officio; eight 
persons to be appointed by the President of the United States; four 
Senators by the President pro tempore of the Senate; and four Repre-
sentatives by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
The 
Commissioners shall select a Chairman and a Vice Chairman from 
among their number. 
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, after promulgating 
to the American people an address relative to the reason of its creation 
and of its purpose, to prepare a plan or plans and a program for the 
signalizing of the event, to commemorate which they are brought into 
being; and to give due and proper consideration to any plan or plans 
which may be submitted to them; and to take such steps as may be 
necessary in the coordination and correlation of plans, when, as and 
if such are prepared by State commissions or by bodies created under 
appointment by Governors of the respective States, and by representa-
tive civic bodies. 
SEC. 3. When the Commission shall have approved a plan of observ-
ance, it shall submit it insofar as it may relate to the fine arts, to the 
Commission of Fine Arts, in Washington, for their approval, and in 
accordance with statutory requirements. 
SEC. 4. The Commission hereby created shall expire within one year 
after the expiration of the observance and prior to April 9,195B. 
Approved October 27, 1951. 
John Howard Payrie. 
Commission for an-
niversary observantie. 
Duty of commis-
sioners. 
Public Law 225 
CHAPTER 5 9 3 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Authorizing the President to proclaim January 13 of each year as Stephen 
Foster Memorial Day. 
Wliereas Stephen Collins Foster has become a national expression 
of democracy through his clear and simple embodiment of American 
tradition in his world famous lyrics; and 
Whereas Stephen Collins Foster was signally honored by being the 
first musician elected to the National Hall of Fame in New York 
City; and 
Whereas the following States have honored Stephen Collins Foster in 
the construction of memorials: Pennsylvania—Foster Hall, Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh; Indiana—^Lilly Hall, Indianapolis; Michi-
gan—^Ford Village, Dearborn; Kentucky—Old Kentucky Home, 
Bardstown; and Florida—Stephen Foster Memorial, on the Su-
wannee River at White Springs; and 
Whereas the Songs of Stephen Collins Foster belong to the people 
and are the musical essence of democracy, so that he is now recog-
October 27,1951 
[H. J. Ees. 308] 
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PUBLIC LAW 226—OCT. 29, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Stephen Foster Me-
morial Day. 
nized as the father of American folk music and the true interpreter 
of the fundamental spirit of music; and 
Whereas Stephen Collins Foster symbolizes in his works the unity 
of mankind through music; and 
Whereas the National Federation of Music Clubs at its biennial con-
vention in Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 13, 1951, and the Florida 
Federation of Music Clubs at Miami, Florida, on April 10, 1951, 
have endorsed and joined with the Florida Stephen Foster Memorial 
Corporation's request for the designation of January 13, the day 
on which the spirit of his music became immortal, as Stephen Foster 
Memorial Day: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved 'by the Senate cmd House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the 
United States is authorized to issue a proclamation designating Janu-
ary 13 of each year as Stephen Foster Memorial Day, and calling upon 
the people throughout the United States to observe such day with 
appropriate ceremonies, pil^images to his shrines, and musical pro-
grams featuring his compositions. 
Approved October 27, 1951. 
Public Law 226 
CHAPTER 601 
October 29,1961 
[S. 657] 
AN ACT 
To amend and clarify the District of Columbia Teachers' Leave Act of 1949, and 
for other purposes. 
D. C. T e a c h e r s ' 
Leave Act of 1949, 
amendments. 
63 Stat. 842. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the first section 
of the District of Columbia Teachers' Leave Act of 1949 is amended 
^a) by striking from the last sentence thereof the words "sixty" and 
"ten" and substituting in lieu thereof the words "seventy-five" and 
"twenty", respectively, and (b) by adding at the end thereof the 
following new sentence: "Under such rules and regulations as the 
Board of Education may prescribe any teacher or attendance officer 
may use three days of such cumulative leave with pay in any school 
year for any purpose, upon giving timely notice of intended absence." 
SEC. 2, Section 2 of such Act is amended (a) by striking from the 
proviso of the first sentence thereof the words "total amount to be" and 
inserting in lieu thereof the word "leave" and also by striking from 
such proviso the words "shall not exceed twenty days and" and (b) 
by striking from the last sentence thereof the word "sixty" and insert-
ing in lieu thereof "seventy-five". 
SEC. 3. Section 4 of such Act is amended by striking therefrom the 
word "twenty" and inserting in lieu thereof "twenty-five". 
SEC. 4. When any person occupying a position, the salary of which 
position is fixed by article I, title I, of the District of Columbia Teach-
ers' Salary Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 248), as amended, or a position as 
attendance officer, the salary of which position is fixed in class 32, 
article II, title I, of such Act, is transferred or promoted to any posi-
tion in the schedule in article II, title I, of such Act (other than a 
position in class 32) shall be entitled to have credited to his account 
as accumulated sick leave as provided by the Act entitled "An Act to 
standardize sick leave and extend it to all civilian employees", 
5U.S.C. jsofrfses. approved March 14,1936 (49 Stat. 1162), as amended, the same num-
ber of days as are credited to him as cumulative leave with pay under 
the provisions of the District of Columbia Teachers' Leave Act of 1949.