An Act to provide for the appointment of a deputy disbursing officer and assistant disbursing officers for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
PL 82-88 (S.494), enacted 07/30/1951

65 STAT. 
PUBLIC LAW 88—JULY 30. 1951 
127 
Public Law 87 
CHAPTER 249 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of podiatry in the 
District of Columbia". 
July 30, 1951 
[S. 490] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of ATnerica in Go7igress assembled^ That section 10 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of podiatry in the 
District of Columbia", approved May 23, 1918, as amended (D. C. 
Code, sec. 2-710), is amended by striking out "$2" wherever it appears 
and inserting in lieu thereof "$5". 
Approved July 30, 1951. 
54 Stat. 700. 
Public Law^ 
CHAPTER 250 
AN ACT 
To provide for the appointment of a deputy disbursing oflScer and assistant 
disbursing officers for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hoinse of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia shall appoint a deputy disbursing 
officer of the District of Columbia and such assistant disbursing officers 
of the District of Columbia as they may, in their discretion and subject 
to available appropriations, consider necessary, at compensation to 
be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, such deputy 
disbursing officer and assistant disbursing officers to be subordinated 
to the Disbursing Officer, District of Columbia. 
SEC. 2. The deputy disbursing officer and the several assistant dis-
bursing officers each shall have authority to make disbursements as 
an agent of the Disbursing Officer, District of Columbia; to sign checks 
drawn against disbursing accounts of the Disbursing Officer, DivStrict 
of Columbia, with the Treasurer of the United States; and to discharge 
all other duties required according to law or regulation to be per-
formed by the Disbursing Officer, District of Columbia. 
SEC. 3. The deputy disbursing officer and the several assistant dis-
bursing officers shall each be subject, for his official misconduct, to 
all liabilities and penalties prescribed by law in like cases for the 
Disbursing Officer, District of Columbia; and the deputy disbursing 
officer and each assistant disbursing officer shall give bond to the 
United States for the benefit of the United States, the District of 
Columbia, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the 
Disbursing Officer, District of Columbia, conditioned for the faithful 
performance of the duties of each of their offices in the disbursing 
and accounting, according to law, for all moneys of the United States 
and of the District of Columbia that may come into his hands, which 
bond shall be in the amount required by the Commissioners of the 
District of Columbia, but to be not less than $25,000, and to be subject 
to approval by the said Commissioners and the Secretary of the 
Treasury and to be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury. 
SEC. 4. There is hereby repealed so much of the first section of the Repeal. 
July 30, 1951 
[S. 494] 
District of Colum-
bia. 
Deputy and assist-
ant disbursing officers. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5U.S.C. §1071 note. 
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PUBLIC LAW 89—JULY 30, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for the 
expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal 
year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other 
D. c. Code §47-113. purposes", approved June 6,1900 (31 Stat. 555), under the subheading 
"For Auditor's Office" under the heading "General Expenses" as 
reads: "deputy disbursing officer, who shall hereafter, in the absence 
of the disbursing officer, be authorized to transact all duties pertaining 
to said disbursing officer, and who shall be required to give bond to 
the said disbursing officer in the sum of $25,000i conditioned on the 
faithful performance of the duties of his office,'but said disbursing 
officer to be responsible to the United States, District of Columbia, 
and the people whom he pays, as now required by law, $1,500;". 
Approved July 30, 1951. 
July 30, 1951 
[S. 573] 
Public Law 89 
CHAPTER 251 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to regulate barbers in the District of Columbia, 
and for other purposes", approved June 7, 1938, and for other purposes. 
District of Colum-
bia Barber Act, amend-
ments. 
D.C. Code §2-1112. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 12 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to regulate barbers in the District of Colum-
bia, and for other purposes'', approved June 7,1938 (52 Stat. 622), be 
amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 12, The Commissioners are authorized and directed to provide 
suitable quarters for the Board. The compensation of each member 
of the Board, other than the secretary-treasurer, shall be fixed by the 
Commissioners at not to exceed $20 for each day actually and neces-
sarily spent in their duties as such members: Provided^ That the total 
compensation payable to each such member shall not exceed $600 per 
annum. 
The Commissioners are also authorized and directed to 
appoint such clerks, inspectors, and other personnel as they deem to 
be necessary to assist the Board in carrying out the provisions of this 
Act: Provided, That such inspectors shall be qualified barbers, each 
of whom shall have been engaged in the practice of barbering in the 
District of ('olumbia for a period of five years immediately prior to 
their appointment and shall be appointed after a competitive exami-
nation held for said positions by the Board. Compensation of such 
clerks, inspectors, and other personnel, including the secretary-
treasurer of the Board, shall be fixed by the Commissioners. 
Pay-
ments for expenses of the Board, including those authorized by this 
section, shall not exceed the amount received from the fees provided 
for in this Act; and if at the close of any fiscal year there be any funds 
unexpended in excess of the sum of $1,000 such excess shall be paid 
into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of 
Columbia: Provided 
further^ That no expense incurred under this 
Act shall be a charge against the funds of the United States or the 
District of Columbia." 
D.C.Code§»-iii4. 
SEC. 2. Subsection (B) of section 14 of such Act is amended by 
striking therefrom "not less than $25" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"not more than $200". 
SEC. 3. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are author-
ized by regulation to require the owner or the manager of every barber 
shop in the District of Columbia to post on a sign or signs the prices 
of services rendered to the public and they may specify in such regu-
lations the sizes of the sign or signs, the lettering thereon, and the 
location thereof upon which prices are required to be posted. 
The