An Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and for other purposes
PL 90-473 (H.R.18706), enacted 08/10/1968

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[82 STAT. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
Funds. 
Expiration date. 
extent to such use and the utility and degree of sophistication of 
such metric standards with those in use in the United States; and 
(3) recoiiunend specific means of meeting the practical diffi-
culties and costs in those areas of the economy where any recom-
mended change in the system of measurement units and related 
dimensional and engineering standards would raise significant 
practical difldculties or entail significant costs of conversion. 
SEC. 4. The Secretary shall submit to the Congress such interim 
reports as he deems desirable, and within three years after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, a full and complete report of the findings 
made under the program authorized by this Act, together with such 
recommendations as he considers to be appropriate and in the best 
interests of the United States. 
SEC. 5. From funds previously appropriated to the Department of 
Commerce, the Secretary is autliorized to utilize such appropriated 
sums as are necessary, but not to exceed $500,000, to carry out the pur-
poses of this Act for the first year of the program. 
SEC. 6. This Act shall expire thirty days after the submission of the 
final report pursuant to section 3. 
Approved August 9, 1968. 
August 10, 1968 
[H. R. 18706] 
District of 
Columbia Appro-
priation Act, 
1969. 
Ante, 
p. 612. 
D.C. Code 43-
1601 note. 
Public Law 90-473 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and 
other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said 
District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Armrica in Congress assembled^ That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1969, and for other purposes, namely: 
FEDEKAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
For payment to the following funds of the District of Columbia 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969: $79,000,000 to the general 
fund; $2,098,000 to the water fund; and $1,184,000 to the sanitary 
sewage works fund, as authorized by the District of Columbia Rev-
enue Act of 1947, as amended (D.C. Code, Sec. 47-2501 (a) ; 81 Stat. 
339), and the Act of May 18,1954 (D.C. Code, Sec. 43-1541 and 1611). 
LOANS TO THE DISTRICT or COLUMBIA FOR CAPITAL OUTLAY 
For loans to the District of Columbia as authorized by the Act of 
May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 101), and the Act of June 6, 1958, as amended 
(D.C. Code, Sec. 9-220(b); 81 Stat. 339), $66,473,000, which together 
with balances of previous appropriations for this purpose, shall remain 
available until expended and be advanced upon request of the Com-
missioner to the following funds: general fund, $57,223,000; highway 
fund, $8,000,000; and water fund, $1,250,000. 
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DIVISION OF EXPENSES 
The following amounts are appropriated for the District of Colum-
bia for the current fiscal year out of the general fund of the District 
of Columbia, except as otherwise specifically provided: 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES 
General operating expenses, $31,770,000, of Avhich $470,500 shall be 
payable from the highway fund (including $59,000 from the motor-
vehicle parking account), $80,000 from the water fund, and $59,000 
from the sanitary sewage works fund: Provided^ That the certificates 
of the Commissioner (for $2,500) and of the Chairman of the City 
Council (for $2,500) shall be sufficient voucher for expenditures from 
this appropriation for such purposes, exclusive of ceremony expenses, 
as they may respectively deem necessary: Provided further^ That, 
for the purpose of assessing and reassessing real property in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, $5,000 of the appropriation shall be available for 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rales for individuals 
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not in excess of $100 per diem: Provided further^ That not to exceed 
$7,500 of this appropriation shall be available for test borings and 
soil investigations: Provided further^ That $675,000 of this appropria-
tion (to remain available until expended) shall be available solely 
for District of Columbia employees' disability compensation. 
PUBLIC SAFETY 
Public safety, including employment of consulting physicians, diag-
nosticians, and therapists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner; cash 
gratuities of not to exceed $75 to each released prisoner; purchase of 
one hundred and eighty-four passenger motor vehicles (including one 
hundred and seventy-five for police-type use and seven for fire-type 
use without regard to the general purchase price limitation for the 
current fiscal year but not in excess of $400 per vehicle for police-type 
and $600 per vehicle for fire-type use above such limitation) of which 
one hundred and eight are for replacement purposes; $104,531,000, of 
which $4,538,000 shall be payable from the highway fund (including 
$112,000 from the motor vehicle parking account), $5,000 from the 
water fund, and $4,000 from the sanitary sewage works fund: Pro-
vided^ That not to exceed $50,000 of any funds from appropriations 
available to the District of Columbia may be used to match financial 
contributions from the Department of Defense to the District of 
Columbia Office of Civil Defense for the purchase of civil defense 
equipment and supplies approved by the Department of Defense, when 
authorized by the Commissioner: Provided further^ That the Police 
Department and Fire Department are each authorized to replace not 
to exceed five passenger carrying vehicles annually whenever the cost 
of repair to any damaged vehicle exceeds three-fourths the cost of the 
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replacement: Provided further^ That not to exceed $25,000 of this 
appropriation shall be available for settlement of claims not in excess 
of $250 each: Provided further^ That $425,000 of this appropriation 
shall be transferred to the judiciary and disbursed by the Administra-
tive Office of the United States Courts for expenses of the Legal Aid 
Agency of the District of Columbia. 
EDUCATION" 
Education, including purchase of twenty-four passenger motor 
vehicles of which twelve shall be for replacement only, provision of 
insurance, maintenance, and acceptance of not to exceed thirty pas-
senger motor vehicles on a loan basis for exclusive use in the driver 
education program, the development of national defense education 
programs, and matching of Federal grants under the National Defense 
20 use 401 
Education Act of September 2, 1958 (72 Stat. 1580), as amended, 
$108,676,000, of which $125,100 shall be payable from the highway 
fund: Provided^ That the certificates of the Superintendent of Schools, 
the President of the Federal City College, and the President of the 
Washington Technical Institute, shall each be sufficient voucher for 
the expenditure of $1,000 of this appropriation for such purposes as 
they may respectively deem necessary. 
81 Stat. 637. 
Sectiou 5533(c) of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to 
compensation received by teachers of the public schools of the District 
of Columbia for employment in a civilian office during the period 
July 1, 1968, to August 31, 1968. 
PARKS AND RECREATION 
Parks and recreation, including the purchase, acquisition, and 
transportation of specimens for the National Zoological Park, 
$16,983,988, of which $32,000 shall be payable from the highway fund. 
HEALTH AND WELFARE 
Health and welfare, including reimbursement to the United States 
for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hos-
pital; purchase of eight passenger motor vehicles for replacement 
only; and care and treatment of indigent patients in institutions, 
including those under sectarian control, under contracts to be made 
by the Director of Public Health; $121,356,000: Provided, That the 
inpatient rate and outpatient rate under such contracts, with the excep-
tion of Children's Hospital, and for services rendered by Freedmen's 
Hospital shall not exceed $38 per diem and the outpatient rate shall 
not exceed $6 per visit; the inpatient rate and outpatient rate for 
Children's Hospital shall not exceed $40 per diem and $6.75 per visit; 
and the inpatient rate (excluding the proportionate share for repairs 
and construction) for services rendered by Saint Elizabeths Hospital 
for patient care shall be $15.95 per diem: Provided further, That this 
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appropriation shall be available for the furnishing of medical assist-
ance to individuals sixty-five years of age or older who are residing in 
the District of Columbia without regard to the requirement of one-year 
residence contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 
1946, under the heading "Operating Expenses, Gallinger Municipal 
Hospital", and this appropriation shall also be available to render 
o^c^.^c^^dla'a-
assistance to such individuals who are temporarily absent from the 32 li 
District of Columbia: Provided 
further^ 
That the authorization 
included under the heading "Department of Public Health", in the 
District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1961, for compensation of 
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convalescent patients as an aid to their rehabilitation is hereby 
extended to the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation: Provided 
further^ That this appropriation shall be available for the treatment, 
in any institution under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner and 
located either within or without the District of Columbia, of individ-
uals found by a court to be chronic alcoholics. 
HIGHWAYS AND TRAFFIC 
Highways and traffic, including $98,867 for traffic safety education 
without reference to any other law; $400 for membership in the 
American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators and $800 for 
membership in the Vehicle Equipment Safety Commission; rental of 
three passenger-carrying vehicles for use by the Commissioner, Deputy 
Commissioner, and Chairman of the City Council; and purchase of 
fifty-four passenger motor vehicles, of which thirty-four shall be for 
replacement only; $17,621,000, of which $11,963,000 shall be payable 
from the highway fund (including $938,000 from the motor vehicle 
parking account) : Provided^ That this appropriation shall not be 
availa;ble for the purchase of driver-training vehicles. 
SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Sanitar;^^ engineering, including the purchase of fourteen passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only, $30,735,000, of which $8,773,000 
shall be payable from the water fund, $6,310,000 from the sanitary 
sewage works fund, and $107,000 from the metropolitan area sanitary 
sewage works fund. 
METROPOLITAN POLICE 
ADDITIONAL MUNICIPAL SERVICES, INAUGURAL CEREMONIES 
Metropolitan Police (additional municipal services, inaugural cere-
monies), including payment at basic salary rates for services per-
formed on the day before Inauguration Day, Inauguration Day, and 
the first day thereafter, by officers and members of the police and fire 
departments in excess of the r e ^ l a r tours of duty (but not to exceed 
a total of sixteen hours overtime pay to any individual officer or 
member performing service on such days) with such overtime to be 
chargeable to this appropriation or to the appropriations of the police 
and fire departments, $440,000. 
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PERSONAL SERVICES, WAGE-BOARD EMPLOYEES 
For pay increases and related retirement costs for wage-board 
employees, to be transferred by the Commissioner of the District of 
Columbia to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1969 from which 
said employees are properly payable, $787,000. 
REPAYMENT OF LOANS AND INTEREST 
For reimbursement to the LTnited States of funds loaned in com-
pliance with sections 108, 217, and 402 of the Act of May 18, 1954 
(68 Stat. 103, 109, and 110), as amended; section 9 of the Act of 
September 7, 1957 (71 Stat. 619), as amended; section 1 of the Act 
of June 6, 1958 (72 Stat. 183); and section 4 of the Act of June 12, 
1960 (74 Stat. 211), including interest as required thereby $8,769,000, 
of which $3,261,077 shall be payable from the highway fund, $1,406,808 
from the water fund, and $497,696 from the sanitary sewage works 
fund. 
CAPITAL OUTIAY 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned in com-
pliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
amended, the Act of August 7,1946 (60 Stat. 896), as amended, the Act 
of May 14,1948 (62 Stat. 2S5), and payments under the Act of July 2, 
1954 (68 Stat. 443); construction projects as authorized by the Acts 
of April 22, 1904 (33 Stat. 244), February 16, 1942 (56* Stat. 91), 
1604', 7-i"32?'7-u3.May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 105, 110), June 6, 1958 (72 Stat. 183), and 
August 20, 1958 (72 Stat. 686); including acquisition of sites; 
preparation of plans and specifications; conducting preliminary sur-
veys; erection of structures, including building improvement and 
alteration and treatment of grounds; to i-emain available until ex-
pended, $98,510,000, of which $10,588,000 shall be payable from the 
highway fund, $2,377,000 from the water fund, and $4,310,000 from 
the sanitary sewage works fund: Provided^ That $44,307,000 of this 
appropriation shall not be available for expenditure until July 1, 
1969: Provided further, That $7,046,020 shall be available for con-
struction services by the Director of Buildings and Grounds or by 
contract for architectural engineering services, as may be determined 
by the Commissioner, and the funds for the use of the Director of 
Buildings and Grounds shall be advanced to the appropriation account, 
"Construction services. Department of Buildings and Grounds": 
Provided further, That the title to a tract of land m Scotland, Mary-
land (Police Boys' Club Camp Number 2) shall be taken directly to 
and in the name of the United States. 
D.C. Code 43-
1540, 43-1616, 
7-133. 
D.C. Code 2-
1727. 
81 Stat. 339, 
340. 
D.C. Code 9-
220. 
81 Stat. 225. 
D.C. Code 43-
1623. 
71 Stat. 611. 
40 u s e 129a-
130a. 
D.C. Code 43-
1510, 40-804, 43 
Vouchers. 
Maximum 
amount. 
Automobile 
allowances. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided herein, all vouchers covering 
expenditures of appropriations contained in this Act shall be audited 
before payment by the designated certifying official and the vouchers 
as approv-ed shall be paid by checks issued by the designated dis-
bursing official without countersignature. 
SEC. 3. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an appro-
priation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such amount, 
unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maximum amount 
Avhich may be expended for said purpose or object rather than an 
amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 4. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized or approved by the Commissioner, for allowances for privately 
owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties at 10 
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c'ents per mile but not to exceed $35 a montli for each automobile, 
unless otherwise therein specifically provided, except that one hun-
dred and sixty-three (fifty for investigators in the Department of 
Public Welfare and eighteen for venereal disease investigators in the 
Department of Public Health) such allowances at not more than 
$550 each per annum may be authorized or approved by the Com-
missioner. 
SEC. 5. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for expenses 
of travel and for the payment of dues of organizations concerned 
with the work of the District of Columbia government, when author-
ized by the Commissioner: Provided^ That the total expenditures for 
this purpose shall not exceed $122,700. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
SEC. 7. The disbursing officials designated by the Commissioner are 
authorized to advance to such officials as may be approved by the Com-
missioner such amounts and for such purposes as he may determine. 
SEC. 8. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in connec-
tion with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any 
regulation or order of the Public Service Commission requiring the 
installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the 
licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation 
in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regula-
tions applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public 
Service Commission. 
SEC. 9. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the pay-
ment of rates for electric current for street lighting in excess of 2 cents 
per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. 
SEC. 10. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including 
watercraft) owned by the District of Columbia snail be operated and 
utilized in conformity with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(60 Stat. 810), and shall be under the direction and control of the 
Commissioner, who may from time to time alter or change the assign-
ment for use thereof, or direct the alteration of interchangeable use 
of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, except as 
otherwise provided in this Act. "Official purposes" as used in section 16 
shall not apply to the Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner, and 
the Chairman of the City Council of the District of Columbia or in 
cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes 
such transportation necessary, but only as to such latter cases when 
approved by the Commissioner. 
SEC. 11. Appropriations contained in this Act for highways and 
traffic and sanitary engineering shall be available for snow and ice 
control work when ordered by the Commissioner in writing. 
SEC. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when 
authorized by the Commissioner, for the rental of quarters without 
reference to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 
1945. 
SEC. 13. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the fur-
nishing of uniforms when authorized by the Commissioner. 
SEC. 14. There are hereby appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for making 
refunds and for the payment of judgments which have been entered 
against the government of the District of Columbia, including refunds 
authorized by section 10 of the Act approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat. 
108): Provided^ That nothing contained in this section shall be con-
strued as modifying or affecting the provisions of paragraph 3, sub-
section (c) of section 11 of title X I I of the District of Columbia 
Income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947, as amended. 
Travel ex-
penses. 
Experts and 
consultants. 
80 Stat. 416. 
Advancement of 
funds. 
Restrictions. 
Vehicle use. 
31 u s e 638a. 
Snow and ice 
control. 
Rental of 
quarters. 
58 Stat. 532. 
D.C. Code 1-
243. 
Uniforms. 
Judgment pay-
ments. 
D.C. Code 47-
1910. 
70 Stat. 78. 
D.C. Code 47-
1S86J. 
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74 Stat. 23; 
79 Stat. 242. 
Restriction. 
Short title. 
SEC. 15. Except as otherwise provided herein, limitations and legisla-
tive provisions contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1961, shall be continued for the fiscal year 1969: Provided^ That 
the limitation for "Construction Services, Department of Buildings 
and Grounds" contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1961, as amended by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 
1966, which increased to 8 per centum of appropriations for construc-
tion projects in excess of $500,000 and to 10 per centum of appropria-
tions for construction projects under $500,000 shall be further amended 
to 10 per centum of aj>proj)riations for all construction projects. 
SEC. 16. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the assign-
ment or transportation of students to public schools in the District of 
Columbia in order to overcome racial imbalance. 
SEC. 17. The cost-of-living allowance annualized in the appropria-
tion for the Department of Welfare shall be limited to the "net pay-
ment" in computing the assistance payments for recipients in the five 
regular categories of public assistance. 
SEC. 18. No part of any anj appropriation contained in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1969". 
Approved August 10, 1968. 
August 11, 1968 
[H.R. 18254] 
Public Law 90-474 
AN ACT 
To amend further section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920. 
Vessels. 
Empty cargo 
vans. 
79 Stat. 823-
67 Stat. 516. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the last proviso 
to section 27, Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended (46 U.S.C. 
883), is amended to read as follows: '•'•Provided furtJier^ That upon 
such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury by regula-
tion may prescribe, and, if the transporting vessel is of foreign reg-
istry, upon a finding by the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to 
information obtained and furnished by the Secretary of State, that 
the government of the nation of registry extends reciprocal privileges 
to vessels of the United States, this section shall not apply to the 
transportation by vessels of the United States not qualified to engage 
in the coastwise trade, or by vessels of f o r e i ^ registry, of (a) empty 
cargo vans, empty lift vans, and empty shipping tanks, (b) equipment 
for use with cargo vans, lift vans, or shipping tanks, (c) empty barges 
specifically designed for carriage aboard a vessel, and (d) any empty 
instrument for international traffic exempted from application of the 
customs laws by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the pro-
visions of section 322(a), Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1322(a)), 
if the articles described in clauses (a) through (d) are owned or 
leased by the owner or operator of the transporting vessel and are 
transported for his use in handling his cargo in foreign trade; and (e) 
stevedoring equipment and material, if such equipment and material 
is owned or leased by the owner or operator of the transporting vessel, 
or is owned or leased by the stevedoring company contracting for the 
lading or unlading of that vessel, and is transported without charge 
for use in the handling of cargo in foreign trade." 
Approved August 11, 1968.