An Act to extend the time during which the Secretary of the Interior may enter into amendatory repayment contracts under the Federal reclamation laws, and for other purposes
PL 82-273 (H.R.5097), enacted 03/06/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 273-MAR. 6, 1952 
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S T A T . 
Payment. 
Failure to attend, 
etc. 
Exemption from 
arrest. 
Separability. 
material witness in a prosecution pending in a court of record in the 
District of Columbia, or in a grand jury investigation which has 
commenced or is about to commence, a judge of such court may issue a 
certificate under seal of the court stating these facts and specifying 
the number of days the witness will be required. Said certificate may 
include a recommendation that the witness be taken into immediate 
custody and delivered to an officer of the United States or the District 
of Columbia to assure hife attendance in the District of Columbia. 
This certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in 
the county in w^hich the witness is found. 
(b) If the witness is summoned to attend and testify in the District 
of Columbia he shall be tendered the sum of 10 cents a mile for each 
mile by the ordinary traveled route to and from the court where the 
prosecution is pending or where the grand jury investigation has 
commenced or is about to commence, and $5 for each day that he is 
required to travel and attend as a witness. 
A witness who has 
appeared in accordance with the provisions of the summons shall not 
be required to remain within the District of Columbia a longer period 
of time than the period mentioned in the certificate, unless otherwise 
ordered by the court. 
If such witness, after coming into the District 
of Columbia, fails without good cause to attend and testify as directed 
in the summons, he may be punished in the manner provided for the 
punishment of any other witness who disobeys a summons issued from 
the court in the District of Columbia where the prosecution has been 
instituted or the grand jury investigation has commenced or is about 
to commence. 
SEC. 5. (a) If a person comes into the District of Columbia in 
obedience to a summons directing him to attend and testify in the 
District of Columbia he shall not while in the District of Columbia 
pursuant to such summons be subject to arrest or the service of process, 
civil or criminal, in connection with matters which arose before his 
entrance into the District of Columbia under the summons. 
(b) If a person passes through the District of Columbia while going 
to another State in obedience to a summons to attend and testify in 
that State or while returning therefrom, he shall not while so passing 
through the District of Columbia be subject to arrest or the service 
of process, civil or criminal, in connection with matters Avhich arose 
before his entrance into the District of Columbia under the summons. 
SEC. 6. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to 
any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not 
apply to other provisions of this Act. 
Approved March 5, 1952. 
March 6, 1952 
[H.R.5097] 
Public Law 273 
CHAPTER 94 
AN ACT 
To extend the time during which the Secretary of the Interioi- may enter into 
amendatory repayment contracts under the Federal reclamation laws, and 
for other purposes. 
note, 485c, 485f. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amenca in Congress assenibled^ Tliat the authority 
4 3 use 485band vested ill the Secietarv of tlie Interior by sections 8, 4, and 7 of the 
Reclamation Project Act of 1989 (58 Stat. 1187, 1188) and by section 
3 of the Act of Ai)ril 24, 1945 (59 Stat. 75, 76), is hereby extended 
through December 81, 1954. 
Approved March 6, 1952.